The Guilty Mind

Chapter-23

Alexander's pov:

"He did not steal my dad's watch; I gave it to him I thought I was in love him" the girl said sighing

"but you didn't tell anybody? You mom didn't know, she thinks you have a boyfriend."

"Sean Hyland? Yeah, she has us walking down the aisle in her imagination, but I broke up with him like three months ago" she said patting the horse nearby her. "look Bryan was part of the program, I guess I just felt like everyone would have disapproved. I mean, he has a lot of baggage and a record, I just did not want to hear about it from everyone over again".

"you said you were in love with Bryan... past tense, what happened?" Josh asked

"what happened is, a tiger doesn't change their stripes, turns out that he was doping the horses."

"what do you mean?" I asked confused

"Turns out that he was doping horses, he was injecting them with steroids and then betting on polo matches"

"did anyone know about it?"

"I don't know, I mean I was oblivious until I found out he had done it to Whiskers" she said pointing to the horse standing next to her.

"when was that?"

"like... a week ago"

"That's a pretty recent betrayal, where were you two days ago?" Josh asked with his eyebrows arched

"at home, weeping into a bowl of ice cream, I just feel so stupid "achieve to ride for troubled teens" he came with his own warning label how did I not see it?" and she sighs

"I think most of us can relate to that" I said and walked away with Josh, I keep looking around the grounds and Josh walk back to me after he finished a call.

"so, listen to this not only is Sean Hyland a scorned ex whose family is worth millions, he's also the president of the clubs disciplinary committee".

"they have a disciplinary committee?" I asked

"yeah, they have entire meetings devoted to gambling, maybe he caught Bryan violating his "rich boy" code, and took discipline in his own hands?"

"well, let's find out from him"

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"what? No, but had I known, I would have taken the authority" Sean said with a slight laugh

"doesn't sound like you're too fond of him. Was it because he was with your ex- girlfriend?" I asked

"was he? I guess that's why she didn't text me back this weekend"

"texting her? Does that mean you wanted to get back together?"

Sean halted on his steps and looked at us, "look even if I did, I wouldn't have to try and kill Bryan to get him out of the picture"

"what do you mean?"

"he was leaving, decided to move to Florida"

"how do you know?"

"he gave me his polo Jersey, old me to find someone else" Sean said with a shrug like he really doesn't care.

We leave the place and head back to the precinct, I was already exhausted with not sufficient sleep, and I have another case in hand wow I think to myself and relax myself on the chair in my room, after sometime Josh walks in

"The horse Whiskers is clean, no drugs found in his system, but the girlfriend said Bryan was doping him"

"well, the girlfriend was mistaken or lying, and I was looking into Bryan's financials there's no money and there's no big purchases, not much of a gambler, besides he booked an e-ticket to Florida so Sean wasn't lying"