FOUR
THIRD PERSON’S POV
The female officer standing in the front of the building saluted as detective Green, coffee in hand approached the yellow taped area.
“Good morning officer” Detective Green said
“Beautiful morning to you too, detective; I hope you had a good night’s rest?”
“I was just about to get started on the sleeping thing when I got the call; so what do we have?”
“I haven’t seen a crime scene this gruesome in a long time sir and I do not have words to quite describe it…you will have to see it yourself” the officer said as she lifted the tape for Green to proceed into the building.
“What do you think happened here?” He asked as they entered into the elevator
“Probably a gang war or something you know how it goes with these guys they are always killing each other for one reason or the other.”
“Who is on the scene?”
“The question should be who isn’t” she replied as the elevator doors opened to a crowded hallway filled with different uniformed personnel moving around taking pictures and asking questions to the people in the other rooms of the hotel.
“You have got to be kidding me?” Green swore as he stepped out of the elevator and made his way to the third room on the floor; the room with the most cops at the door.
As he finally got through, the stench of the bodies hit him.
He had been to many crime scenes in his four years as an officer but he would never get used to the smell of rotten corpses. His eyes surveyed the room as he took in the crime scene, searching for every detail he could find in the room.
There were four bodies; three in the center of the room and one smashed through a glass table in the corner. No signs of forced entry on the door that means they willingly let whoever did this into the hotel room themselves or maybe the perpetrators let themselves in on their own.
He took a couple of steps into the room turning around so his eyes could take in more.
“No CCTV camera in the room, if that is what you are looking for…hotel policy” his partner who was looking at a glass cup on the table close to the window said… “Very nice of you to finally grace us with your presence” she murmured, her head bent
“I got the call barely 2 hours ago”
“So did we all” Analisse muttered, grabbing the coffee from his hand
That is not yours; he started to say and then stopped as she took a huge gulp of it while he watched. She did it all the time and it wasn’t just worth it to humor her anymore.
“So what do we have here?”
“A crime scene” Analisse responded, her words dripping sarcasm
Michael Green had worked with Analisse as his partner for the two years, he had been a detective and he had not still gotten used to her sarcastic responses.
He rolled his eyes at her and bent down beside the three bodies, poking gently
“He is definitely dead if that is what you are trying to determine”
“Not a word from you, Analisse” Michael growled
She makes a zipping motion with her fingers to her mouth but kept silent
“Do we know who these guys are?” Michael asked, sighing as he turned another body over
“Nope, not yet; the forensics team was here earlier and took their fingerprints but they are yet to get back to us” she responded
“By the look of their bodies they have been dead for some days now”
“Yeah, the hotel employees reported it in when the cleaner came for her morning rounds and the stench was unbearable and no one opened the door when she knocked”
Michael lifted the hands of one of the bodies and rolled down the sleeves to reveal a snake tattoo.
“They are definitely not from around here that is for sure” he said showing the tattoo to Analisse.
“I didn’t think so too and they also had no IDs on them. I don’t recognize anyone of them from the database we have on the criminals in this city and hotel staff confirmed that they checked in some days ago and their suitcases had plane tickets on it”
“Fantastic so we are dealing with new players that most likely just got into town and now they are dead; that is not good for anybody” Michael commented
“Exactly and what bothers me though is that there was no buzz about this on the streets, nothing at all”
“So no one knew they were in town and no one knows they are dead?”
“Maybe they are not big players here”
“Someone went through the trouble of killing them, they must be relevant to something and whoever did this is highly skilled”
“How do you know that?”
“For one; the way this hit was carried out, it was very precise no wasted motions or bullets. See how every body has just one bullet in it?” he asked, pointing at the bodies… “They have mostly headshot wounds, making sure that none of them would survive. I do not think this hit was carried out by a group of persons; I think only one man killed them all”
“That is a really farfetched theory” His partner muttered skeptically
“It is a theory but when have I ever been wrong?”
She stared at him as he walked around taking in the crime scene. He had definitely grown into this detective role over the years. She remembered the first time they met and how timid he had been; look at him now, prancing around having theories of his own.
A slight smile grew on her face as she shook her head.
She turned to address the young officer that was just entering the room.
“Have you been able to access the security footage for the hotel lobby and corridors?”
“No ma’am, there was nothing to check in the footage.”
“What do you mean by nothing to check?”
“There is no footage for the week on the servers.”
“Hey Michael, come and hear this” she called out.
Michael crossed over to where she stood
“Repeat what you said to me” she said
“All the footage for the week has been wiped clean and the security officer claims he has no idea of what happened” the officer repeated
“I want to talk to that security guard, get him here now” Michael snapped
They both watched the officer leave right before Michael turned, pinning his partner with a wide grin
“Still think that theory is farfetched?”
FIVETHIRD PERSON’S POVAlejandro’s car had just pulled up to the cabin in the middle of nowhere; he had not stopped driving since he got into the car because for some reason, he thought better on the road and this was definitely the time for thinking.He had come up with the semblance of a sane plan although he did not quite have all the details yet but he knew he needed the one man he could trust the most by his side again.He stepped out of his black Rover and walked towards the cabin looking around carefully as he did; memories of what had happened there flooding inThis is not the time, he thoughtClearing his head strengthening his resolve, Alejandro got to the door and knocked a couple of times without getting any response; he knew he was inside the house and he was definitely getting ignored.Finally he heard someone walking towards the door and then a voice he had missed came through“You really should not be her, man; what do you want from me?”“We need to talk, right now!”
After a short period of silence Mateo spoke three words that left his brother in shock“I don’t care.”“You don’t what?”“Yes Alejandro, I do not care that Diego is coming back.” He said it so calmly this time as Alejandro watched the hate he had just seen in his eyes a couple of seconds ago completely vanish. “I have nothing to do with him and as long as he does not bother me on my island of solitude I am fine, I do not want to get dragged in again.”It had just dawned on Alejandro that he had been totally wrong on the prediction of his brothers reaction to the news, he had expected him to be more angry maybe throw some furniture or at least put up a significant fight in the matter but he sat right there in front of him as calm as a body of water that had not just been troubled.Mateo’s calmness made Alejandro extremely uncomfortable“So in essence what you are telling me is you will not be taking my side in this fight against our brother.”As Alejandro kept on talking about how the
IRENE“I do not want his attention it feels like he is all over me some times it is exhausting.”I said into the phone as I came out of my building and got into the Taxi that would take me to the office, I had been on the call with Carla, my roommate for over 2 hours now. She had gone on a little vacation with her man for the past week and had left me with nobody to talk to so these morning sessions of exchanging gossip and new information was everything to me.“He is just trying to be supportive, I get that you are new to that so you do not really understand how to react to being loved.” She replied me but I could see her laughing through my minds eye.“Fuck you.” I said laughing out loud. “Danny is not it, he is too sweet it is getting really annoying.”“What do women want?” I heard Roddy; Carla’s boyfriend say, I hadn’t realized he was actually listening to our conversation.“Hi Roderick” I replied in the most sarcastic voice I could musterI wasn’t really a fan of Rody when we fir
IRENE There he was standing in front of me, it had almost been two weeks but his face was tattooed in my mind's eye, his perfectly sculpted face and dark eyes that gazed deep into your soul as if looking to drag out every inner secret you have ever had. The black shirt and trouser he had on complemented his chiseled body beautifully and I kept looking at his chest through the space left by the two unbuttoned buttons For a second I was frozen as I kept looking at his face in shock, so many questions kept racing in my mind. Who was he? Why was he here? Why was I here? I couldn’t think of an actual answer to all these questions so I just stood there staring as all the naughty thoughts I had been having with this guy in my mind for the past days came flooding in. I was helpless. “Earth to Irene, why are you just standing there?” I heard Tony say as I snapped back to reality finally averting my gaz
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DIEGOI couldn’t shake off the ringing sensation in my ear no matter how much I tried. My head felt like it was about to split through the middle as it rested on the roof of the car. It took a few seconds for my brain to fully process what had happened and accept the fact that we were upside down in the car. We had been run over and I could hear the faint voices of the men talking outside as they seemed to walk towards us. I looked to my front to check on Pietro my driver and it was obvious just by looking that he was in worse shape than I was. “Pietro wake the fuck up.” I shouted while unhooking the seat belt I had on, I was fond of wearing the belt no matter where I sat this might have just been what had saved me from certain death. The belt hook finally came down and I dropped to the roof of the car which was now on the ground, I reached out to where Pietro was and finally realized why he wasn’t answering m
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IRENEI couldn’t help but think of what an idiot I was, I mean I had just made up my mind not to think about him again this was barely 6 hours ago but that was all I could think of for the past 6 hours at work and even now that I was in the cab on my way back home. If I didn’t know better I would have felt this was a spell.The conversation we had kept replaying in my head and everytime it did I analyzed every aspect of it. The words that came out of his mouth, the tone of his voice that soothing baritone voice of his, every slight pause he took in the buildup to what he was about to say. He talked so slowly like the world was at his fingertips and he had no reason to rush because it would slow down for him, I have to admit sometimes it felt like it actually did slow down. Those dark eyes of his were so peculiar I don’t think I have ever seen eyes as dark as those before on any human, coupled with how his gaze bounced off every aspect of yo