In love with his own killer

XI

Chapter 11
Elizabeth pov:

"Just go make my damn coffee." I ordered, aggravated at the employee. "And who are you to be ordering me around?" She fired back.

"Uh, a person who's trying to order coffee." I said in a 'duh' tone.

"With the way you're speaking to me, you're not getting shit."

"You got my order wrong, so go make me another one. Talkin bout "you're not getting shit" the fuck." I said mocking her now annoying voice.

"That'll be $10.99 plus tax $13.50." She said with a smile on her face. She better put that smile away before I punch it away.

I looked up at the menu on the screen above. "Bitch a cup of coffee is $5 and 25 fucking cents. Not you tryna steal from me too. MANAGER!" I yelled out in the almost empty coffee place. I know it seems like I'm doing too much for a coffee, but it is 6 in the morning and a bitch already playing in my face. Like it's too early for bullshit like this.

A few seconds later a manager ran out of where he came from standing next to the worker. "Yes Ms. What seems to be the issue. "A mid aged man spoke.

"Your worker."

"What happened?" He turned to her giving her a face. Ouu someone's in trouble.

"No let me tell you what happened." I put my hand out making her not talking. "I ordered a simple apple crisp oat milk Frappuccino with cocoa instead of caramel drizzle. I seen the caramel and that's not what I asked for. I handed it back to her and told her to fix it. She told me no and I said it again because I'm a customer who just wants her coffee then she starts talking to me with an attitude, so I started talking to her with an attitude.

Then she over here saying the coffee is $10.99 when a coffee is $5.25. She basically tried to steal from me. I could sue but I'm not because that's doing too much."

He took a minute and looked at the girl. "I didn't even do that. She's lying." I pulled out my phone and started playing the voice record of her saying all the things she claimed she didn't say. "You could do anything but lie right now." I just want my coffee.

"I'm so sorry for the inconvenience I promise you it'll never happen again." I gave him a tight smile not wanting to be in here anymore. He gave her another look, moving his head in my direction.

The girl stepped up, rolled her eyes and apologized. I nodded, turning to the manager not saying anything, hoping he got what I was trying to say. He left and came back with my coffee and before he could say the price I said thank you and almost took my leave. Key word 'almost'.

"You can't just let her do that, she has to pay." The girl spoke. I took a sip of my coffee, turning around facing their way. I sent the girl a wink, turned back around and got out the coffee shop.

And there you go guys. That's how you get a free coffee. I know it's a lot but it was totally worth it.

I don't think we formally met. I'm Elizabeth Peterson aka Liz aka Bri. I'm 25 but undercover I'm 23 years old. A lot of people know me as chill but a little fire inside. That fire only comes when needed. Like the coffee situation just now. And that was barely any fire.

I've been close friends with Treasure ever since the end of college then went training together. Same with the guys.

"Las perras siempre quieren probar algo." I muttered to myself. I just finished my morning run, I know coffee shouldn't be my first choice as to after a run but I'm in need.
{Bitches always wanna try something.}

Obviously if that's how my day gonna start Imma need more than just the coffee. Does a Frappuccino even have coffee? Is that why I'm still tired even after I drink it? I don't know but I need it.

It's currently Saturday and after me and T went over our files, I've been thinking of reasons why Greene would close those cases. Or thinking of why we have 2 cases on our files when we wasn't even hired officially yet. So i'm going to visit one of my favorite hackers.

A few minutes later of driving. I stopped at an abandon street. "What is this place?" I mumbled to myself. Because of us being undercover James sent an address to a place to meet up.

I stepped out the car walking to the house with the numbers he'd told me it has on it. Knocking on the door it automatically opened making me take out my gun. "James." I shouted his name.

Opening the door wider, I looked seeing if the coast was clear to continue walking. "James." I said one more time. Me now further walking into the house, I turned a corner making my gun be face to face with a person.

"Woah Liz, put that down."

"Amari? What are you doing here? Where's James?"

"You wanna put the gun down first."

"Oh shit, sorry." I said putting the gun back.

"But hey Amari." I said happily, going up to him, giving him a hug. "Hey Liz." He said hugging me back. Letting go I asked where James was.

"He's upstairs. Come on." He led the way upstairs and to the room that was full of computers. Computers and sensors everywhere. "Liz." James said standing up coming to me for a hug.

"Hey James, how's it going?" I asked after we departed from the hug.

"I'm good, what about you, how's the job going?"

"It's going, that's literally all I can say. It's difficult but not too difficult for me and T to not solve."

"Speaking of T, how is she?" He asked taking a seat, now facing the computer.

"She's good. Still feisty." I said making us laugh.

"Okay, what you needed help with?" He offered a chair next to his.

"I need you to see when a file was placed and by who." He gave me a confused face. Maybe because I never asked for anything like this.

He made me sign into my account and asked which file it was that I wanted to see. I'm glad he's not asking any questions. Better for me. Wouldn't want to have to explain all of it.

"I don't wanna know why but can I at least ask why we're hacking your account?"

"You just said you don't wanna know."

"I don't wanna know what any of this is about, just specifically yours if that makes sense."

"I get what you're trying to say. We're hacking mine because we didn't put those files and I wanna know who put it there." He nodded his head and turned back facing the computers.

While the file was downloading, he was teaching me how to do it in case I needed to do it again. He's taught me everything I know about hacking. He was teaching Treasure too before we got assigned.

"What is this place?" I said looking around.

"This is our batman cave." Amari said excitedly, coming into the conversation. "How did y'all find this?"

"We found it last year, when we got lost. It was totally abandoned, no one lived in any of these houses."

"So we turned it into our own little city." Amari said finishing James sentence.

"All those houses outside are yours?" I pointed to both of them. "You're telling me you brought all those houses, to do what with exactly?"

"Hack, Hide, it's like our own witness protection program. They may look ugly on the outside-," I cutted him off. "No, they look ugly on the inside too." I said looking around in disgust making them laugh. I'm deadass this shit looks like it's on its last straw. One push against the wall and it's knocked down.

"This and another house look like this. The others actually have furniture and other good stuff."

"Does anybody else know about this."

"Some people in the department but other than that no." Wrong mistake. Without responding, the computer dinged making all our attention go to the computer.

"All right this file was put in on... October 14th, 2021, on a Thursday." I wrote it on my phone then asking him if he seen who put the file in. "No, I could go in deeper but that could take days. 3 max."

"Can you, please?"

"Yea of course."

"What about the other one?" He moved to the other computer he was working on, moving his fingers as fast as he could. "This one... June 5th, 2022, on a Sunday." I pulled out my phone writing this one in my phone underneath the other date.

"I'm guessing you don't see who put it in there either." He shook his head no. I let out a sigh not knowing where to go from here.

"Amari." I yelled out his name making him poke his head into the room. "You and james were working the times of 2016 and 2018. What was going on back then?"

"You're saying back then like we're that old." James turned his head having a defended look.

"Cause you guys are old, y'all almost 30."

"Okay let's not hurt my ego here." Amari said. James is 28 turning 29 and Amari is already 29 turning 30 next year. Both have kids and wives. Already living the life. They're both good looking black, lean men. If you'd look at them, you'd never expect them to look the way they look. If that makes sense. "But you can't lie, we look good."

"Whatever." I said with a small laugh. "But back then it was real hectic. Like murder cases everyday but we weren't in the field to get into action. Just tryna find answers behind a computer." Amari said and James nodding his head, agreeing.

"Did you see the murder cases, like how did they look like?"

"Horrifying. That shit was nasty." The way James explained it making it seem like the picture me and T looked at the other day.

"Knife work, stabs and long stretched out stabs?" I questioned seeing if he'd seen the same thing.

"Yea how you know?" James sat up with a worried expression on his face.

"That's one of the cases." I pointed at the screen. "But y'all wasn't even there when that happened." Amari said stepping into the room more than he was before. Leaning on the door frame.

"Exactly. And now we can't even find out who put the case in our files."

"We'll find out."

"Be careful though. I don't need you or T to end up like them." Amari said putting his hand on my shoulder giving me a little squeeze.

"Always." We changed the subject not wanting to talk about the case or work anymore. They caught me up on both of their kids. They both have 1 but Amari's wife is pregnant with another. They ended up giving me a city tour of their bat caves. Eventually I had to say my byes making them both promise they'd find out who it was.

Driving home I knew what me and Treasure could do next. Hopefully she's home.

Turning into the apartment's garage I seen someone leaning on their car. "Oh god." I muttered once I noticed who it was.
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