Crossroads

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

After a fretful night's sleep, during which I did nothing but toss and turn, I got up and looked at the clock on my bedside table. 6 a.m.

A groan left my mouth as I tried to snuggle into the blankets and drift back to sleep. No such luck. This officially makes it fifth night in a row when sleep has evaded me yet again. If this keeps going on, I'll find myself falling seriously ill and that is unacceptable. I'll take sleeping pills if I have to but from tonight I am sleeping for at least six hours.

Now since I'm awake, I might as well finish my home work and dig up every connection between the lying snake and his friends and the Senator. I started with their phone call records- Highlighting the calls between the Senator and Raul, Daniel, Nate and Lucas. Then I checked the bank statements and what I saw made my brows touch my forehead and a short whistle left my mouth.

That combined with the calls and the moments when the Senator would disappear for a few hours and not tell anyone where he went, which we got from the secretary, smells like a lot of trouble for the four best friends. The fact that Lucas lied to me during the interrogation really didn't help the matters. But what it does strengthen is the fact that he know more regarding the Senator's death than he lead us to believe. He lied to me. And just for that you, Lucas Cross, are going down.

I am so gonna enjoy this.

After dropping the kids at school I drove towards the Bureau and parked my car at the parking lot. Before heading up to my office I walked towards the Starbucks nearby and bought a large Vanilla Latte and a large Café Americano. I smiled at the salesman and turned to walk out.

"Ma'am! Your change." He called out to me.

"Keep it." I yelled it over my shoulder.

While walking back towards my office I kept thinking about how Lucas had lied to me. The bastard actually, for a moment, made me believe that he was innocent. I knew he was hiding something but this is taking it to another level. And then he had the bloody balls to join my team and act as if he wants to find the culprit. Asshat.

The elevator doors opened and I walked in. I looked at myself at the mirror- at the back of the elevator- and stabbed my finger at the 18 floor button. I chose my outfit with utmost care in the morning. I wanted to look intimidating yet sexy. Hence the black pencil skirt which started from just above my navel and ended up at just above my knee. For sexiness, I wore blue silk top with ruffles down my chest. My make up was light- only mascara and eye liner. And my hair was up in a severe pony tail. The extra added 4 feet gave me confidence and made me look formidable.

Good.

Sexy.

I exited the elevator and walked towards Davis's office. I knew that Mike was there as we were suppose to brief him about everything before we leave for the interrogation. I knocked once and walked in before Davis could say anything.

"Come on in, why don't you?" Davis said sarcastically.

"Hello to you to, sunshine." I replied.

"You sound cheery." Mike commented from the chair across Davis, where he was slumped. I gave him his coffee. That would cheer him up.

"Well, I am finally making some progress. I want to get this case over with before my cousins start pouring back in New York."

"Manyata is coming back?" Mike asked, sitting up in his chair. He almost sloshed his coffee all over Davis's desk.

"Sakahit and Rahul are." I replied nonchalantly.

Mike slumped again. With a scowl this time.

Mike and Manyata has this on-again-off- again kind of a relationship going on. Whenever they meet they hook up and then shrug it off saying that it was just them letting off some steam. Possible, only if they didn't look ready to commit murder when they see the other talking to someone of the opposite sex. They met through me and instantly hit it off. Once I suggested that they make their relationship official. I got my ass handed to me on a silver platter. They go to extreme lengths to prevent taking their relationship to the next stage.