The King of Sin {Complete}

{24}

Cedric's pov

"Someone please tell me how the hell this is possible!" I roar as I smack my hand against the projected picture of Bear's ransacked apartment on the wall. Bear has been in tears when I returned home from work yesterday. Link told me all about the ransacking of Bear's apartment. My security team swallows, one looking at the other, not too sure about speaking up. I was ready to blow a fuse when Ramses decided to speak up.

"It seems that after he escaped police custody, he disappeared into the woods surrounding the border on the West side." He looked down at his paper, checking the facts. "As the police was combing that area, he managed to slip back into our territory; he has been spotted several times on the CCTV images all around town. The timing is so close I assume that there is more than one "Charles Rains or Reagan Black's active. I have the police officers who escorted him to the station check the feed on which he appeared and they all agree that although they look quite alike, there are different persons impersonating Charles Rains/ Reagan Black." As he sat down a police officer from the team that is responsible for tracking Reagan down stood up from his seat.

"I am Officer Thomas, leader of the team tracking Reagan Black down. We are a team consisting of officers from all the towns surrounding the Pleasure District." Several people nodded their heads in greeting. "What Ramses said is true, there are several males of Reagan's height running in and out of the borders to confuse the police and distract them." A muttered 'they are doing a damn good job then.' was heard. Officer Thomas glared in the general direction of the muttered words. "Several men who have been caught on the CCTV have been apprehended and they all said that they were promised either money or hard core drugs. This leads me to believe they are not from around the Pleasure District, they don't know the first thing about the District or the fact you can't just walk in and out without an form stating your business and what not. They are being charged for trespassing and impersonating another person." Here he takes a light sip from his water bottle. "The real Reagan has also been caught on CCTV footage."

You could hear a pin drop as the word leave his lips. Everybody tenses, shift in their seats. "My guess is that he forgot the fact that the landing on Patrick's floor has a CCTV camera hanging in a corner you wouldn't expect a CCTV camera. However, this is the footage from that particular camera." Officer Thomas walks up to the beamer and after a few clicks the picture of Bear's ransacked apartment is replaced with a black and white grainy shot of a man standing in front of Bear's apartment door. He looks agitated as he jerks at the doorknob. Obviously it's locked, not that the man cares. He lifts his leg and hammers a few well-placed kicks to the door, which cracks and splits in half. Smirking the man enters the apartment. Here the view shifts and we see him stand in the living room, taking in everything that is in the room. He rummages through Bear's cupboards and drawers. Then he opens the door to the bedroom and his smirk turn sicking. Only he leaves the bedroom within minutes, looking outraged. We watch in silence as he tears up the apartment. Once he finally calms down he pulls out his phone and makes a call. Finishing the call he nods his head once and heads out.

"Reagan called his accomplice Mickey Rock. They both are employed at the same gas station supermarket." Officer Thomas continues. I frown; I never knew he was employed at a gas station. He must be high ranking if he can afford to pay for all the crap like membership for a dungeon master. That is quite a pricey hobby to have for someone who works at a gas station. "If we play our cards right we can not only put Reagan behind bars for breaking and entering Patrick's apartment, we can also charge him for the arson that killed his parents, laundering dirty money through the gas station."

At the end of the meeting I grab my phone and call the house, after a few minutes Link picks up the phone. "Hello pet, how is he doing?" I sit down on my desk chair and turn on my computer. Link tells me Bear is fast asleep, obviously stressed about the Reagan situation. I can also hear the disappointment that he couldn't be at the meeting. "Well, the security has several persons in custody that impersonated Reagan so he could escape and ransack Bear's apartment." I state before logging in on my computer. "We are just waiting on the right time to catch Reagan so he can be charged with the arson that killed their parents, breaking and entering Bear's apartment and laundering dirty money at his current job at a gas station on the West highway."