Looking at the half-filled box of doughnuts and the special blueberry cheese doughnut in her hand, Elsa hesitated for a moment. "Forget it. Dustin doesn't like doughnuts anyway. I'll just give him the half-filled box."
Blueberry cheese flavor, I'll keep it for myself.
…
After they sat down in a corner of the hall, Luke gave the dossiers to Selina as usual.
Y'lisabet had also returned. She waved at Luke, indicating that she had something to say. Luke nodded and told her to come over.
When he came over, she said a few words, and he found out that Samantha had already taken Ashley and Mike back home to Arizona. Chris had also taken his aunt back with him.
Jenny, Bobby, and Chris had been talking about the mine, and Luke hadn't paid much attention to it recently. Hearing that, he simply asked, "Is your mother alright?"
Y'lisabet hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "Everything was done as you said. But … "
Luke nodded. "That's good. Focus on your work and don't worry about your family. It's a good thing to be rich. "
Y'lisabet nodded with a bitter smile. Having money was better than having to struggle for years to pay off her college loans.
At this point, she lowered her voice and said, "The Elsworths have been on the news quite frequently in the past two days. You can pay more attention to them."
Luke nodded. "Okay, got it."
Y'lisabet had a lot of things she wanted to say, but she felt that it was inappropriate. In the end, she could only thank him again and go back to work.
He turned around and looked at Selina. "Have you chosen a case?"
Selina didn't even look up as she continued reading the dossier. "It's about the same. The weather has been pretty good these past two days. If you want to see some pretty girls in bikinis, there's a case of female corpses on the beach. Nothing else is out of the ordinary. "
Luke was slightly interested. "What kind of female corpse?"
Selina said, "It should be what you're thinking. Do you want to take a look?"
Luke got up. "Let's go. I'll take you to the sun …"
The landline on the desk suddenly rang.
Luke picked up the phone. "Hello? Okay, coming."
He put down the phone and looked at Selina, who shrugged. "Dustin asked us to go to his office."
Selina said, "I hope it won't delay our investigation."
Luke said, "You want to sunbathe, don't you? Now that the sun is setting, you won't be able to bask in the sun even if you go. "
Selina said, "Can't we scout the location in advance so that we don't have to delay our next trip?"
Luke gave her a thumbs-up to show that he had nothing to say.
Soon, the two of them came out of Dustin's office, each with a promotion document.
Luke said with a smile, "Alright, I still have time to get my ID and badge changed today."
Selina sighed. "Well, it's not bad to get a promotion and a raise. It's not a big deal to be out in the sun."
Only then did the two of them go through the various procedures.
Although Luke didn't care much about credit, he had handled a lot of cases, especially some of the more troublesome ones. Not only had he handled them quickly, he had also made a huge donation to Westside Precinct.
Then, a promotion was inevitable.
Now, he and Selina were both rank three detectives.
Under Jenny's recommendation, the two of them enrolled at a local community college in Los Angeles and began their university careers.
This community college was a legitimate school. At the very least, it had been certified by the US Department of Education.
Apart from the fact that the exams were less difficult and the scope of the exam was more detailed, this community college was similar to other universities.
Luke had also checked up on this college before he signed them up, so that they could graduate in two years.
Of course, a two-year community college's degree certificate could not be compared to a four-year university.
But on one hand, they could apply to other universities after they graduated.
On the other hand, the degree would be recognized by LAPD.
The crime rate in Los Angeles was on the rise, but the number of new police officers recruited each year kept dropping. More and more young people didn't want to be police officers anymore.
As one of the top three crime cities in America, Los Angeles definitely deserved its reputation. Thus, being a police officer in Los Angeles was indeed a highly dangerous job.
Most of the four-year university students did not want to engage in this kind of dangerous, manual labor.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) had to start lowering their hiring requirements.
For example, the age was lowered from 21 to 19, and the diploma was changed from a four-year university to a two-year diploma from a community college.
Luke estimated that the age would drop to 17 and a half in two years. Because the police academy training and pre-service training took half a year, the minimum age for a new recruit to join the force was 18.
Luke and Selina's annual salary was also raised to the level of a veteran officer, which was almost 90,000 before taxes.
This time, Dustin gave Luke and Selina everything in one go, and converted their previous achievements into the treatment they deserved.
After a few months, his promotion was only natural, and nobody dared to say anything about it.
It wasn't because of his achievements in Houston, or in Shackelford, or because of the confidentiality agreement that couldn't be exposed. This was a meritorious deed that was done right under everyone's noses.
Luke gladly accepted it.
In the Major Crimes Division, including Elsa, there were only four first- and level-two sheriffs who were higher than him, and Dustin was their boss.
Now, he could be considered a "veteran" detective.
There was no need for a celebration. Many people in the Major Crimes Division were only level 2 detectives in their late twenties. Luke and Selina's celebration would only make them jealous.
Luke made Selina a promotion dinner after he returned home, and left at ten o 'clock.
Selina snorted. "You're going to see Secretary Jenny again?"
Luke said with a smile, "Of course. Don't forget about Chris's mine."
Selina was lost for words. That was definitely an important matter related to the gold mine.
Luke went to Jenny's villa to pick her up, and they went out together.
Jenny didn't mind, but Luke rarely went to her villa, nor did he stay the night here. They usually spent the night in a hotel.
Jenny had tested him before.
Luke's answer was very practical: to avoid putting Jenny in danger.
After all, meeting at a hotel and staying the night were two different things.
The more cases Luke worked on, the more dangerous people he would encounter.
He always disguised himself when he saw Jenny to make sure that nobody was following him.
Of course, he often went out to earn experience and credit points at night after he met Jenny.
If he stayed at Jenny's villa, he would have to hide from the security guards, which was much more convenient than the hotel he had chosen.
In the hotel, the two of them leaned against the floor-to-ceiling window, and Jenny told him about what she had just finished.
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