Criminal Detective

He's A Very Dangerous Guy

Claire stepped into her apartment, completely exhausted. Cat who was snuggled on top of a sofa, raised his head at the sound of the door then turned to find Claire seated on the ground. It hopped down, ran towards his owner, then, rubbed himself on her leg. Claire looked down to him with a smile and caressed his head.

"Miss me?" The cat meowed in response and Claire chuckled while she continued to rub his head. He walked out of Claire's hand, hopped onto her lap, then rested himself. Claire caressed him further while she looked up at her ceiling in exasperation.

Her mind was clouded.

No matter how much she tried to ignore it, she still felt quite heavy whenever she recalled that Amy would be dead by the end of the day.

"Oh, Amy" Claire muttered and sighed.

Sure Amy was unhinged and a little psychotic. Psychotic enough that she would probably treat her execution as some kind of pleasure party,

But, she was still Claire's pretty close friend, so it was a bit hard to come to terms with it.

Cat raised his head and meowed. Claire stared at him with a toothy grin.

"What's up?"

He meowed loudly.

"You're hungry, aren't you?"

He meowed again.

"Alright" Claire said, set cat aside, then stood to her feet. She walked into the kitchen with cat trailing behind her. As Claire dished something for her feline friend to eat, the familiar sound of her ringtone poured from her pocket.

She pulled her phone out and stared at the contact ID with dread.

Dickhead.

"Roberto Gonzales? How the hell did you get involved with someone like that?" Susana asked in stupefaction.

That name was the last thing Susana had expected to hear after asking about Claire's life outside the prison's walls.

Claire arched an eyebrow "You know him? How?"

"I killed one of his staff. The dude was a pedophile. After that, Roberto and his gang members came for me but let me go when they found out why I did it"

"Small word" Claire scoffed "You never mentioned that, though"

"That information would have had no value to you if you didn't know him"

Claire nodded "True"

"So, why the hell are you involved with Roberto?"

Claire sighed then slumped into her seat.
"I laundered money from him"

Susana's pupils widened "You what? Why would you do that?"

"It was when I was working with Adkins, okay? It's not like I did it on purpose or something" Claire paused in thought "Well, I did do it on purpose but not with the intention of directly targeting Roberto"

"Damn" Susana said "That's a big problem. How much money?"

"He never mentioned. He just said I took a whole lot of money from him"

"That doesn't answer how you're involved with him though"

"I'm trying to pay my debt. He told me that I could choose between helping him find the answers behind the death of a superstar and also get dirt on Adkins or get killed. Obviously, I chose the former"

"Who's the superstar?"

"Amanda Todd, ChickLit member"

"Was she murdered?"