"Hello, Maldonado."
"Director, I'm literally like fifty steps from you."
"Fifty too many. Paul Grunwald, he's 55 and.."
"Cause of death?"
"Well, this is actually kind of interesting."
"Spit it out, Esther."
"Well. His head was chopped off."
"Excuse me?"
"We haven't had anyone investigate it yet, so we don't know if that was the cause of death for certain.. but there's a decent amount of blood, I hear."
"Chopped off?"
"Chopped off."
"Like, chop chop?"
"Chop chop. I suggest you get the boys before I chop your head off."
"Uh, will do?"
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"Special Agents! Gear up!"
"What is it now?" Scott asks me.
"Paul Grunwald. Cause of death is... a surprise. Happy birthday."
"It's not my birthday."
"Well, happy early birthday."
"My birthday was in September."
"Happy belated birthday!"
"Why, thank you."
We arrive at the crime scene, which isn't far from the building, to see police officers surrounding the house. I get out of the car and the others follow suit, and we head into the house. I don't really know what to look for except a chopped off head, and the guys don't know what to look for at all.
"Is it a body?" Mitch asks me after wandering around the house a little. I mean, we could've asked an officer where the body is, but that'd be boring.
"The dead kind."
After checking most of the main floor, we find Paul sprawled out on the living room floor. Sure enough, he has no head.
"Oh my gosh! What happened?" Avi asks, surprised.
"Well, his head was cut off."
"I can see that, thank you very much Kirstie."
"Machete, axe, I don't really know to be honest. You know about as much as I do."
Kevin walks forward to investigate the body.
"Oh definitely a machete," he announces.
"How can you even tell?" Mitch asks.
"Well, the cut is more of a slice than a chop. Machete's are like swords and an axe is, well, an axe. And, the spinal cord isn't chopped. It's kind of like he sawed it off."
"So it was a serrated machete?" I ask.
"No.. just a normal machete."
"How is anything about this normal? His head is clean off," Scott states.
"True."
We look around the house and Kevin does whatever he does with dead bodies. For some reason, Avi never seems to leave my side.
"I'm not 3, I can handle a crime scene by myself, thank you very much," I mutter when we're out of earshot to everyone else.
"Maybe you're just going everywhere I want to look?"
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The Special Agents
Fiksi Penggemar"Special Agent Maldonado?" "Yes, Director?" "We've got a case." "Cause of death?" "Not sure yet." "I'll tell my team." "Okay." "Oh, and Kirstin?" "Yes, Director?" "I'm assigning you a partner." "A what?!" --- Honestly this whole book is a giant t/w...
