Cold Case

Chapter 22: Who's who!

“What do you want to ask?” The person on the other line asked. Lorente could feel the nervousness in the tone of the woman. “Is there something wrong with our food, Mr. Officer? If yes, we can change it right away,” she added.

Cornel glanced at Lorente, he clicked the speaker to let him hear what the person on the other line was saying and put in on the top of the table, he asking Lorente what will he say.

“Uhm, well there is some incident and the delivery boy who delivered our foods; we need to talk to him.” Cornel said, making Lorente to thumps up.

“Oh, but he has still not returned yet. I am also curious if he had an accident on the way to you but the foods have already arrived at your place, I see. Can I ask, what the reason why you want to talk to him?” The woman asks.

“Nothing we just want to ask him regarding the foods we order, but do you have some time to spare to us if we to go your restaurant now?” Cornel, answered the woman with the question too.

The woman on the other line become silent, maybe thinking about what is really going on.

“Sure, Mr. Officer I can give time for you now. Just tell my staff to guide you in my office.” The men bid goodbye to the woman and hung up the call.

They did not waste any more minutes, they immediately went outside and drove to where the restaurant was. The traffic and the heat of the sun make them more eager to arrive at the restaurant as early as possible.

“Why is there always traffic here? The sun's rays make our lives miserable? After this case I will definitely take a long break.” Cornel sighed and drank his cola, they are now eating some snacks.

“Should we just walk?” Lorente suggested, making Cornel to almost choke from the snack he was eating, he was shock to hear the words come out from the mouth of hid friend.

“Are you f*****g serious suggests that, in this heat you want us to walk around like a mad man?”

“Woah, why do you have to react like that, I’m just joking. I just want to arrive at the restaurant sooner.” Lorente chuckled, but in his mind he half serious about what he suggested, it is more convenient to them to walk than to use the police car. “If we just walk, it will take us at least 15-20 minutes and us already there but here we are, sitting and waiting.”

“Why do you think that now, we already waste that minutes here waiting for this traffic to end.” Cornel said while continued eating his snack.

After half an hour, they finally reach the destination. People inside the restaurant glanced at them, who would not?

“Excuse me?” Lorente approach one of the staffs, “we are from xxx police, we already talk your boss about this can you guide us to her office?” He politely asks.

First the man was hesitant but later on he just nodded and sign that Lorente and Cornel should follow him, he lead the way where the office of his boss where.

He knocks on the door 5 times before someone inside answer.

“Yes, come in.” They heard the familiar voice of the woman from earlier.

They walk inside the room, Lorente sees a woman busy checking all the paper on the table.

“Hmm, Ma’am, I think these officers here have an appointment for you.” The man said, and finally, they have the attention of the owner of the restaurant.

“Oh, good day Officers, are you guys the one who call me earlier? So what is the real problem to you guys had to gone hear?” The tone of the woman is more far different in the call they had earlier, what is this?

Lorente was confused but just ignored it.

“Well you see, we order foods and we are happy that it delivers on time, but the thing is we need to know the name of your employee who delivers it.” Lorente casually says but the woman in front of them frowns to what she heard.

“Excuse, but I don’t think I can’t do that for you. As their boss I can’t give their personal information to anyone easily even if you say you guys are police. First you need to tell me what the reason is,” She seriously said.

The two men can help but to grunt at the woman in front of them is cunning and know what she is doing.

“Well, are you still not going to tell us the information of him when I will say that someone died because of the foods from your restaurant?” Lorente cleared his throat, “to be exact, be also need to interview you as the owner of this restaurant, he deliver a poisoned foods in police station really, what a confident man he is.” He smirks.

The woman confident shattered, they can see how the woman suddenly become silent and look problematic.

“Are you guys telling the truth that someone died because of the foods from my restaurant?” She looks so disappointed and unhappy to what she heard. “ To be honest, the person who delivers the food you order is just a newly hired delivery man. He said he needed money for school, food and rent.”

“So are you telling us that the person who delivers the foods is a student? So is he going to school and where he is right now?” Cornel excitedly asks.

But the woman just shook her head, “I don’t know where he is, he still hasn’t returned yet.”

“It’s okay, just give us the personal information of your employee and we will handle it in our own.” Cornel again said.

She stares first to them but she looks to her drawer and take some piles of paper, “here is his personal information, he started just last week and no issue happened that time so I was shock right now to know that someone died because of the foods he deliver but why he the first you investigate?”

“What do you mean why, because he’s the one who deliver the foods to us?” Lorente revoked.

“Because I am sure that someone also touch the food before that person died, right? First the one who chopped the vegetable? Two, the one who cooks it, third, the person who pack it, fourth is him while the fifth is you or him because I am sure you also touch the food.”

“So are you saying, someone here is the culprit?” Lorente, whispered.