Criminal Detective

Jackpot

"I know where they are" Claire said as she set her laptop on Roberto's table. Roberto rubbed his eyes tiredly and yawned as he and the rest of the team tried to match Claire's energy.

After Claire had found the one thing they needed she wasted no time to bring that to everyone's knowledge. She had continued to scream at the top of her voice despite it being so late at night. Everyone groaned and muttered cusses as they found their way downstairs where she waited. Each person swore that if it was no good, she would get what was coming to her.

But fortunately for Claire, it was good.

Too good even.

"Know where who are?" Natasha asked through a yawn which made Claire smile.

"The girls. I know where the ChickLit members are"

At the mention of the girl band, everyone seemed to no longer feel sleepy.

"What? How?" Roberto asked, almost every trace of sleep gone from his eyes. Claire turned the laptop to face her, clicked it a couple times then faced the laptop towards a direction everyone could see from.

"Adkins has always had a chain of warehouses, apparently. Doing all this illegal shit ever since I worked for him. He didn't just start trafficking girls, he has just been able to hide it really well. You see this..." Claire said then pointed at the three buildings, one of which was the dilapidated one they found the other girls they rescued.

"Isn't that..."

"The house we searched, yup. And look..." She pointed at the detailed writing which showed the code name for each building, their locations, and the procedure each detective was supposed to follow to ensure that if any of the locations ever got compromised they could quickly cover his tracks "That was just one out of the three that he has under his wing"

"So, you're saying..."

"Not just saying. I know for a fact that the girls will be in one of these two"

"This is good news" Roberto said as he sank into his chair, a small smile on his face "How did you get this?"

"Everyone who did stuff for Adkins had to have it on them to be able to know what procedures to follow for each task we were assigned to do. I always had it on me, but I totally forgot about it because my laptop was locked out. Daniel solved that problem, though"

Roberto stared at the laptop while he rubbed his hands against each other. The room went silent until Roberto sighed then stood to his feet.

"There's no time to waste. Samuel..,"

"Sir"

"Rally up the boys in two groups. We're storming each building as quickly as we can"

"You got it" Samuel dashed out of the room before Roberto turned to the others in the room.

"If we do end up finding the girls in one of these buildings then we already know that's checkmate and no matter what happens from here. We have already won. I want you all to keep that in mind as we do this" He turned to Claire who nodded at him "After tonight, we might just be able to finally give Adkins what he deserves"

Everyone looked between themselves as adrenaline flowed through their veins.

"Let's not screw it up"

They all acknowledged Roberto and walked away to prepare one way or another. As everyone left, Claire walked up to Roberto and tapped the laptop.

"You might want to go through that file while we're gone. It contains a whole lot of shit that is more than enough evidence for you"