Criminal Detective

The Tales Of Broken Stars

At around 11:30pm, the festivities had died down. At the main entrance before Roberto's room, bodies of drunk or completely wasted guards lay on every available piece of furniture.

While inside the room, Roberto along with everyone who was actively involved in the mission (Except for Claire and Samantha)
were seated along with the ChickLit members and their relatives.

The room was silent but despite that and the reason for why they were gathered, the atmosphere was surprisingly not tense.

The door to Roberto's room swung open and Claire along with Samantha stepped inside. Before the arrangements to start the meeting were made, Claire along with Samantha had informed Roberto they needed to clean up which he permitted them to do.

All eyes landed on the ladies as Claire shut the door close. Some of the ChickLit members had their eyes trail Samantha as both her and Claire walked towards Roberto. Once they were seated, Roberto took a deep breath then stood to his feet with a small smile.

"Now that we are all here. Please allow to me to introduce myself. My name is Roberto Gonzales and the people behind me are my business associates" He said with a gesture to his back "I want you all to know that you have my best interest at heart and you don't need to worry about your security in this place. I assure you, nothing and no one can hurt you here"

Most of the relatives straightened themselves on their seat and peered closer to show Roberto that he had their undivided attention.

"I'm pretty sure you guys..." Roberto said then gestured to the relatives "...are wondering why you're here"

They muttered in agreement

The relatives of the girls had arrived much later after the party had ended. So, they were not completely caught up with all that was going on.

"Well, it's strictly because of your own protection and unfinished business. Unfortunately, I do not possess the information that will make this all make sense to you. But, these girls..." He gestured to the ladies "...They do. One of them, Maria Herrera was strong enough to volunteer to share her story with us for you to know what has truly been happening with your relatives and siblings who seem to have it easy in life and also, to give us a brief answer behind an important question we have" Roberto said then turned to Samantha who nodded.

"You all should please be aware that I did not force them to do this. They insisted that if we needed to know now that they would provide us with the information. I personally would have preferred if the ladies rested a bit more but they are quite the strong senoritas" Roberto said which caused a few of the ladies to gush over him.

"I will not waste your time any further with pointless rants. So, I'll let Maria come up and speak to us all. Maria" He said and a black haired lady stood to her feet.

It was the girl who Claire had rescued from Adkins. Claire's eyes followed the beautiful damsel as she headed to the front. Her eyes landed on Claire and a small smile played on her face which Claire returned.

She walked next to Roberto who inched closer to her then asked.

"Are you sure?"

She paused, inhaled deeply, then nodded her head. Roberto gave a curt nod, patted her on the shoulder with a smile, then inched away from her. She shuffled with her feet on the floor while her eyes danced to her other members who nodded for her to continue. She exhaled deeply then nodded.

"We all had joined Adkins camp with the hopes of becoming ChickLit members which as all of you know has been one of the most popular female music group for the past decade. Everything started so well but eventually it went downhill quick"