Mexican Sniper (Kellic)

Chapter 20: I Wanna Fall So In Love With You And No One Else

"So, why go for her?" I asked. "Why is she so special?"

Jaime shrugged. "That's the thing. We don't know what the hell connects her to all of this."

"She's a small time drug dealer," Tony explained, sitting at my coffee table and peering into the screen of his laptop. He paused, reading something before adding, "actually she deals at your campus, Kellin."

"Really?" I didn't really know any of the dealers, so I wasn't sure why this shocked me. I already knew that pot was being dealt at my University, it was hard not to. Brendon got most of his weed from people on campus. Luckily, I had an apartment which meant that I didn't have to run into any of the deals that went wrong in the dorms.

A lot of the students who attended were from wealthy families. They hardly went to lectures and were pretty much just there so they could claim they have had a college education before taking on their family's business.
Incidentally, a lot of them were addicts, whether it be alcohol or drugs.

"Okay, but she's small, isn't she?" Vic chimed in. "Why waste time on small backdoor deals, when there's much larger shit to go for?"

Jaime and Tony hadn't minded in letting me sit in on their discussion as they figured out their next moves.
Tony was sitting at the table on his computer and Jaime was lying back on the couch, rifling through papers.

The fact that they weren't paying attention to us and the distraction of thinking about the case, meant that Vic was unknowingly showing me small amounts of affection. Such as the way he had let me put my head in his lap and was absentmindedly brushing his fingers through my hair.

"Well, it's definitely not for competition," Jaime muttered. "Assuming these guys work for the guy you offed."

Vic hesitated but spoke quickly. "He hasn't come yet, I'm still waiting on him."

Jaime raised his eyebrows but said nothing, averting his gaze down onto the papers again. Tony shifted in his seat, glanced at Vic and sighed.

"They don't work for Frank," Tony said instead. "Forensics came back to us a couple days ago. They don't match up with any of the guys in Frank's group."

"Wait, you already know everyone who works for him?" I asked, amazed at how much I underestimated what they were capable of.

"Yeah?" Jaime said looking up at me.

"Then why don't you just arrest them?" I was so confused as to how they were handling this.

Vic smiled down at me, running his thumb over my cheek. "It's not that simple. Frank will keep finding a way wiggle out of being arrested. I mean we've managed to arrest most of his group but they were like useless pawns.
The ones that are still doing shit, like selling out to huge corporations, are still continuing to do that. It's harder to get them down whilst Frank still continues to defend them.
That's when our department gets the final call and we well... y'know."

To be honest instead of his job freaking me the fuck out, which is the appropriate response, I found I didn't care about it. I mean obviously murder was wrong, his job was horribly unethical, but he only reminded me of comic book characters.

"So you're going to kill them all?" I said, shocked.

Vic laughed as if I had just told him a joke. "No of course not, but with Frank out of the way-"