Dead By Night Time - [ENGLISH]

43. Important Arrest.

Pov Wyatt Edwards
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Going to a police gathering in the morning to discuss a woman who's been murdered when you only had three hours of sleep because your daughter wanted to watch movies till two AM in the morning with you and your wife needed affection till three AM in the morning was hard. Fucking hard. 

I didn't like these kinds of gatherings anyway because it was a serious subject and there weren't any donuts like there would be if we gathered in the afternoon. 

With a grumpy face, I entered the large room and reluctantly trudged to my usual seat, slumping down on it while Jimmy and David were already sitting on each side of me. The other officers came in as well and it didn't take long before we had everyone. It must be a record for how quick we did this. 

For a minute I forgot I was the one who would lead this discussion, and when I remembered it again I wished I didn't take this job, like I wished often. I just loved and hated my job at the same time, couldn't help that either. Or I was just sleep deprived at the time. As I cleared my throat, I waited for everyone to become silent.

'Alright, it's seven fucking AM and I don't want anyone to scream at each other like the last time we had a gathering this early in the morning, because I will personally slam your head against the table, we all got that?' I began, watching how everyone just nodded their heads. Seemed like I wasn't the only one who was tired.

'We are here together today to discuss the murder of Edith Rodriguez, also known as Edith Wilson since she was married. If you all did your job right, you read the mail with information about the murder and the crime scene, so I don't want any questions about that.' I followed up, trying to remember what we had to talk about again.

'Now, we will discuss the following things; The division of labor for finding the brutal, sickening guy who did this, someone will have to keep the newspaper and journalists updated and know which questions he can and cannot answer, it's also part of the division of labor that we will talk about shortly.' I started, continuing with the next subjects that had to be discussed.

'We will also discuss how we will prevent this from happening again as long as the guilty party has not yet been arrested. We, the police, have a job to keep this city safe, and we failed at that job, so we have to make sure that doesn't happen again or people won't appreciate and respect us anymore. And I also want to talk about Edith's son, Asher Wilson. I think we all agree that something went wrong in the investigation of which he is a part, we are going to do it all over again, that is what I demand.' I tapped my finger on the table as I talked, moving my gaze to David who was going to lead the talk about the division of labor. 

I sat back in my chair as I listened to the voices that spoke through the room, knowing I didn't have a task other than being the head of Edith's case and making sure everything goes quick and well, with no mistakes. 

My mind drifted off slightly, not paying attention to the talk anymore. Everything would be written down anyway, so I could read it over again. I had nothing to worry about. Yeah, I was such a good officer, people would definitely appreciate and respect me with this sarcastic and lazy behavior. 

My phone pinging for three times after each other caught my attention as David was doing his talk about the measures that had to be taken to keep the rest of the city safe. I silently took my phone out of my pocket and held it under the table to shoot a glance at who was chatting with me. 

It wouldn't surprise me if it was Billie asking me for money so she could buy clothes, using those puppy eyes emojis thinking she'd be cute, but it wasn't her. 

My tiredness disappeared in a second as I saw the email that Tony had forwarded me, followed by two chat messages containing two nagging sentences that I had to urgently open the email to check the fingerprint results.