Charged

Farewell 9

Chapter 9.

"I thought I said not to leave my sights." The person fully entered the room holding a gun while loosening his tie. "Tom?" María said in relief. "And Greg and the others are here too." He pointed behind him as Greg entered with Hernandez and Leonardo. "Put down your guns." Greg said pointing the gun at Samuel. Tina relieved, held the gun softly. She sighed and smirked at Samuel. "Now drop it." She held the gun tight with more confidence than before.

Samuel's men wouldn't drop their gun even after noticing they were outnumbered.

Tom let out a long sigh with a little laugh then pointed the gun to the ceiling shooting into the roof twice before aiming it at them. "Drop the guns or the next bullet will be in your heads." Tom said slightly opening his mouth and raising his head in superiority.

It didn't look like he was bluffing, so they placed their guns slowly on the floor and raised their hand above their heads, kneeling to the ground.

To be safe, Tom used a silencer so he wouldn't disturb the party downstairs.

"You may have lots of resources but you are nothing compared to me. Drop the gun." She held the gun with two hands now, feeling a little more confident. "Sure." He mischervously smiled as well and lowered the gun.

"I got Benjamin." María went down to untie the rope on Benjamin's hands.

They were just beneath Samuel and Tina, giving Samuel an idea. A stupid one. "If you won't do it, then I will." Samuel said raising the gun high enough to put a quick bullet into Benjamin's head, right in front of María. Splashing his blood all over her and getting some on Tina as well. It happened so fast Tina froze by the shock but slowly looked down, hoping it wasn't María who got shot. Samuel laughed and dropped the gun finally, raising his hands up in the air like what he just did was worth it. He was proud after that absurdity act. The smirk on his face made the grip on the trigger tight. She used every vigor strength she had to hold herself back from shooting him.

"Shit. You little—Maria!" Tom went closer and picked María up by her arm, from the horrifying view before her. Tina still wasn't responding. Her face was full of anger and her eyes burn red with rage. Her grip become shaky and unstable and all she wanted to do was kill the bastard.

"See, killing isn't that hard." Samuel grinned at her intentionally trying to piss her off. "Tina?" Greg held her shoulders as a way of telling her to lower her weapon. She slowly lowered it and turned to Greg and the others with her head lowered. "At least I got one thing right. You are as pathetic and weak as Jerome and your worthless father. It's in your blood." Tina turned back to Samuel and shot him in his testicles without hesitation but with a precise aim. "Ahhh!!" He fell to the floor. He screamed in pain. "Now you can be a whore just like your mother." Tina finally spoke. She glared at the floor and looked at the man she used to call her friend dead on the floor. She knew it was her fault and that killed her inside.

"You bitch...ahhh!!" He held his manhood and cried in pain. "Never compare Jerome to my father or me ever again. Forget the proposal. I don't need you, all I need are your resources and assets, and I can get them without you. You'll go to jail for a very long time and I want you to keep it in your head that I put you there. Say hi to my brother for me." She dropped the gun and walked out of the room still with a blank face.

"Tina," Greg held her hand stopping her from taking another step. They stood alone in the hallway as Tom and the others took care of the mess inside. "Arrest him. He killed one of his people and Benjamin too. Hernandez will help cover up my involvement in this," it may have sounded like an order but she wasn't ordering him but asking if he would. And he knew that.

"Tina, are you okay?" She smiled lightly.

"I am not. Don't worry about the threats. I already found who bombed Tom's car so you both are safe."

Behind that light smile was a woman crying in pain. She must've been very close to Benjamin for it to hurt this much. "You know I can't let you go. You're still a fugitive," Tina lowered her head in acceptance of what she was to him. A fugitive. "But," he wasn't done talking yet, so she raised her head up to listen to what he had to say. "I will forget everything that happened tonight and us ever meeting in Vegas. But you can never show yourself around here again. Don't contact me or Tom. For your own good. Remember, the next time we meet, I'll have to arrest you. So just make sure we don't meet again." He let go of her hand and waited for her to leave. She stared at him bewildered and grateful. "Tina," María called from behind Greg, standing next to Tom. "Let's go through the back door. Zeke will be there to pick us up." María said to Tina who had her eyes fixated at Greg trying to read him or figure out the reason he could be doing this. "Okay," she turned to leave when Greg spoke for the last time, "Tina, I remember. The night of the accident. I remember it all." She had her back facing him so he couldn't see the expression on her face. It was a happy one.

"Thank you." María held Tom by the collar and pulled him closer for a short and surprising kiss. From a slap to a kiss. She was sending him mixed feelings and he didn't care. He found it hot actually.

She smiled at him then held her sister by the hand, dragging her out of there.

That seemed to be the last time they would see each other, but something tells them that another day would come when they would meet again.

They can't hide the fact that they had open a new chapter of their lives with the sisters and that chapter wasn't over yet.

Two months had passed since the incident with Samuel and Tina. Tina had followed Greg's deal and since then had no contact with them. Hernandez silenced Samuel and got rid of all evidence of the sisters ever being at the party or involved in the case. Everything went back to how it was eventually. Tom gloated to Greg for having kissed María before they parted. They were back to normal and working on cases to distract themselves from last month's mess. Even if the plan didn't go as planned, Tina still got her way. She got rid of Samuel and after the Ball she became more confident than the first. She got more clients and opened up a winery in Italy. All of Samuel's associates became hers in due time, some didn't like her but she wasn't doing this to be liked. Tom's ridiculous plan actually went through for her. She became an innovator of her family's business.

"I miss them." María said looking at her German shepherds play in the garden and run on the field. She would throw a ball and they would chase it. She did it continuously as she spoke to Tina, entertaining herself with her dogs. "Me too. Greg was the real definition of a gallant, while Tom is...something else." They both laughed at the genuine truth that statement had. "Detective Gordon, is someone you can't read, or is hard to read. He may not show it but he has a heart." María said what she thought about him, or what she studied about him. "I wonder what they are up to these days." Tina said as she threw a ball far into the field for the dogs to chase.

Back in California, the guys had been assigned to another case. Greg took any case he could get his hand on. He used the cases as a way of occupying himself and as a distraction.

"Her name is Nicky. Twenty six. Accountant. She lives alone with her dog. Seems like a normal life with no problems." Catherine, a cop, tells them as they walked upstairs.

She was a friend of theirs but was closer to Tom since they joined the police force together and worked on cases together sometimes. To top it all of they even went to High School together. She's a brunette with fringes over her eyebrows. She was tall and thin with a curvy body. In short, she was drop-dead gorgeous.

"Does she have a boyfriend or girlfriend?" Greg asked. "No." Catherine responded opening the door to Nicky's room upstairs. "She was strangled to death." Tom knelt to the floor and noticed the dirty footprints of a shoe in the bedroom. It was muddy. "What time does she normally get back from work?" Greg notices Tom's observation. "At eight. But yesterday her neighbour said she saw her come in late last night. At ten. Her co-workers said she left right at eight and it only takes fifteen to twenty minutes to get home from her work. So what could have been the reason for her delay from her normal routine?" Catherine rhetorically asked as Tom stood back up.

"Who's this?" Greg took out a photo hidden in Nicky's drawer under her cosmetics and other stuff women normally put in there.

It was a photo of Nicky and a man. "Probably her brother or ex. I'll find out." Catherine asked for the photo and went out to ask the other investigators to find out who the man was.