Criminal Detective

The Delivery Guy And A Fence

Claire waited in silence for the next thing to happen. Her eyes were shut as she slowly anticipated the loud sound of the Glock and probably darkness afterwards.

But, nothing happened.

Her eyes opened to the sound of loud laughter and she raised her head to find Roberto chortling.

She arched an eyebrow.

Why was he laughing?

"Probably finds ending my life amusing"
She thought to herself.

"Wow, I wish you could see the look on her face, Samuel. She was petrified"

Claire arched an eyebrow "What?"

"Get her up, Samuel" Roberto said as he walked back to his chair "You too, Daniel. Get up"

The guard lifted Claire and Daniel got up on his feet. Roberto gestured for them to come to him which they did, with Claire walking towards, him completely stumped.

"Your reaction was priceless, Miss Williams. And, good acting by the way, Daniel"

"Acting?" Claire stared bewildered "Wait? All of that was just-"

"Me goofing around. I wasn't actually going to kill you, c'mon. Isn't it too soon? And also completely pointless?" He asked while Claire continued to stare at him in disbelief.

"Wait?" Claire turned to Daniel "What the hell is going on?"

Daniel looked away from her while he rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

"Seat and I'll explain" Roberto said and gestured towards the free chair. Claire stared at it skeptically then stared back at a smiling Roberto.

Despite how fast her heart was still beating, a part of her seemed to no longer fear the man sitting before her. Instead, she felt completely infuriated and agitated at him.

"Miss Williams?" Claire came back to reality and met with Roberto's eyes who was staring expectantly for her to follow suite with his previous instruction. She looked down to the chair, then him, then the chair again before she placed herself on top of it, as angrily as she could.

"I'm often not one to play games but I find messing with you quite intriguing to say the least" Claire remained silent before Roberto's eyes landed on the nylon bag which sat on his table, he arched an eyebrow then gestured towards it.

"What's that?"

Claire's eyes remained locked on him, her entire being burnt with rage but despite that, she was still able to confer a response.

"Candy"

"Msomar's?" Roberto asked but Claire remained silent. He reached for the nylon, pulled it closer to him, then opened it up. Once he did, his eyes beamed at the different flavors of candy seated inside the nylon. He looked up to Claire as he tore one of out of its wrapper with a smile.

"Imagine if I had killed you... I would've been highly disappointed in myself finding out you had brought this to me" He began to chew slowly on the taffy with closed eyes while Claire stared at him. Her eyes remained on him for a brief amount of time before she spoke.

"Why did you do it?"

"The not killing you or the messing with you?"

Claire only stared. He breathed in deeply then smirked.

"The messing with you is simply me fulfilling my end of the bargain of wanting to make you hate yourself while we still work with each other" He said which made her ball her fist