𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 (𝟏𝟖+) 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 ✓

Chapter 4

"I always forget how long it takes to plan an undercover mission," I say aloud as I throw myself back in my chair, my head tilted up as I stare at the ceiling. Felix lets out a quiet chuckle as he goes back to whatever shit he's doing on his computer. It's only one more day until we go undercover and there was so much to go over. How many security guards are at the club, possible ways to exit the club if things go wrong, and planning my outfit for Friday though that's more of a personal thing.

I still feel exhausted from yesterday, my one day off to sleep but I got called in. When I was leaving to go home yesterday Nash asked me to come over to his, obviously to have sex but I wasn't in the mood for it considering my feelings were all weird after the last time. I'm startled out of my thinking when my radio crackles and a voice comes through.

"Officer Sanchez, could you make your way to the front of the precinct, there is someone here to see you." Someone here to see me? But who the hell do I know except for Victoria and Haruto? Plus I'm pretty sure Haruto is at the hospital working and if Victoria is not working she's with Oli. I stand up and walk out past Aurora who's talking with Nash and as soon as I turn to the entrance my eyes widen in surprise.

"Jade, hi, what are you doing here?" I ask in confusion as I walk towards her.

"I wanted to know if we could play together again?" she asks in a quiet voice. My face softens when I hear her say that and I take a look at the time on the wall and figure there's no harm in taking an early break.

"Sure, why don't I grab my jacket and then we can go outside," I say with a smile. Her face brightens and my grin gets wider as I quickly rush back to grab my jacket and head back to where she's waiting. "What did you want to do today?" I ask her as we walk outside. "And did you ask your mom if you could come here?"

"Yeah, she said it was okay and she will come to pick me up later," she answers. "And she said you're a nice lady for playing with me." I'm surprised I made such an impact on her mom for keeping her company the other day.

"I'm happy she said that," I tell her as we stop at the same spot we met the other day.

"Can we make more snowmen?" she asks me. 

"Of course, we can make an even bigger one than last time," I chuckle softly. She starts gathering snow rolling it around until it gets bigger in size. "Let me take over," I tell her as I pull my mittens out of my pocket putting them on.

"Thank you," she says with a grin. I roll the snowball down the sidewalk, we're lucky it's been snowing pretty heavily the past week and it's been slowly piling up. 

"Are you excited to go back to school next week?" I ask her.

"Yes, I love school and getting homework. Grade four is a lot of fun," she tells me as she brings the next ball of snow next to me. So I was right, nine years old; I love it when I'm right.

"That's great, I used to love school too when I was your age," I tell her as she rolls her snowball towards me, too big for her to carry but not big enough that I wouldn't be able to lift it.

"But I really want to make friends but I get scared," she tells me in a quiet voice. I pause in lifting the snowball and place it back on the ground.

"You have one friend right here," I say crouching down. "Would you like to be friends?" I ask with a smile. 

"Really?" she asks in excitement, her eyes wide as she looks at me waiting for me to laugh it off as a joke.

"Really really," I chuckle. She nods her head eagerly before giving me a wide smile. "Maybe you can tell your classmates when you go back to school you know a really cool police officer." She lets out a small giggle as I lift the snowball to the base.