Partners in Crime

Chapter seven

"Williams, Bennett, we need you in the conference room asap." Clare says, mid shift on Monday.

We cast each other a suspicious look, but get up nonetheless. When we get to the conference room all the seats around the table are taken up by people in higher places. I end up leaning against the wall at the back of the room, with Theo standing beside me.

"I'm not sure if you two heard yet, but last night Jack Daniels was found with no pulse outside his recently blown up drug warehouse." Clare looks at us from the top of the table. "The doctors tried to revive him, but unfortunately it didn't help."

"So we've got a murder case?"

Clare shakes her head at my question. "We got CCTV of the murderer, he's already in custody."

"Who was it?" Theo asks.

"The person that you two suspected of planting the bomb."

"What an anticlimactic ending." Theo mutters.

"Moving on." A man that I don't recognise, who's sitting beside Clare speaks up. He's wearing a suit that looks like it cost more than a month of my wages. "You've got a new case and this one is a big one." He turns toward the projector behind him, and hits a button which causes a photo of a man that looks around my age to pop up on the screen. "This is Dylan Bishop, previously known as the owner of Bishop HQ, a well known magazine company."

Clare stands from her seat and presses her own button. "Dylan was murdered last month, but no ones been able to catch any of the suspects. That's why I suggested you two."

"You did?"

"The best in the business is were Clares' exact words." The man interrupts. "Hopefully you two can get justice for Dylan, and that this one will hold up in court."

"Do you guys have any suspects?" Theo asks.

Carol shakes her head. "Unfortunately no, they all fell through."

"We're going to let you guys do some research, but it will be an undercover op." The man also stands up, straightening his suit jacket out.

"When does it start?" I raise a questioning eyebrow.

"Your first day is Wednesday. I'll be telling you what your roles are later on today, but until then just do some research." Clare informs us.

Once we get back to our office, we get straight to work with our research.

"You got anything yet?" Theo asks me after an hour.

"Potential suspect, Max Bishop aka Dylan's brother and business partner. Motive could be greed. What about you?"

Theo glances back at his computer. "Larissa Reed, Dylan's high school sweetheart and Lena Daily his girlfriend, both work at the HQ and motive could be jealousy in both cases."

I nod. "Hopefully this is an open and closed case, I hate undercover ops with unknown timings."

Theo leans back in his chair. "Tell me about it. My last one ended up lasting for almost three months. Then there was a three week court case."

"Hell."

My phone beeps beside me, and I pick it. It's a message from Tammy.

Tam: wanna go for a run in the morning, let's say around 5:30?

I type a response before putting my phone back down.

Me: Sounds like a plan.

Clare walks in a few minutes later. "You guys get anything?"