PREYS AND PREDATORS

Chapter 11

A more inviting young woman with beauty on a whole new level. Due to the innocency detected on her face she could be taken for a nineteen year old but I wasn't taken in by that. Sincerely speaking I had no idea how I was reacting at the moment but I was stunned for sure.

Her buttery blonde hair was curly and since I pinned my eyes on hers where it stopped was unknown to me. The unsettled breezy blew a few strands of hair on the smooth curves of her glossy face. The sun,her blinks and the tears in her blue eyes made it as though her eyes sparkled.

Her nose was pointed and her lips small. There was a touch of natural pink on the outward part of her lips. Also she was bearing puny golden earrings fixed on her ears, fair on the face and neck and conceivably her entire body.

Perhaps she concluded that in that state of whatever I wasn't going to utter a word and said."I'm sorry."

I was the one who wasn't looking therefore I was undoubtedly at fault but she took it upon herself to apologise and I kept mute still without good reason. After blinking a few times she moved aside and passed by. I turned my face to the back and the loose gown she wore thwarted me from eyeing her figure.

Her beauty got me gaping and it was when she had gone that I discerned this.

A smile played across the corners of my lips. She was worth bumping into,I thought. Afterwards I purchased few bites from the bakery,retraced my steps to my car and zoomed off to my workplace. The lady's face still lingering in my mind.

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A glass door swung open and I entered. To those who would retort I gave my greetings and made energetically straight to my office, somewhat late to work. And that wasn't larger than life. My workplace was a private detective organization, owned by my boss, Boris. On many occasions I and my partner, likewise our colleagues had help from the police department for the completion of a case and getting justice.

I took a sharp glance at my side before thrusting my way through a doorway. As soon as I stepped into the office I saw Wick sight me. He was my partner and shared the office with me and must have been getting sick of awaiting my arrival as habitual.

At the moment he was seated on a chair, where he hung his suit and wore a blue shirt and trousers with a healthy appearance and I suspected he might have been here for a while. By his side a female teenager also sat with both hands ensconced between her thighs. She wore jeans trousers and a pullover and her teary righteous eyes watched me move. We had an eye contact for a wink and I couldn't help but show my inquitiveness.

To my agemate and partner who went by the name,Wick Lodge,I enunciated."Hey bud,wassup?"

"Nasty case that's what's up. So allow me to introduce Marion to you. Marion,"he extended a hand towards me who already found myself a chair making myself comfy,"meet Detective Berenson."

She uttered her 'hi' coldly and I mimicked her.

Without squandering time any further I switched into business mode and sounded very business-like when I asked my all important question."What went down?"

Wick sat up and parted his lips as he quickly thought of a way to sum it up for me."Well Marion's mom was a very affluent woman,I mean scary rich with the Lamborghini, multi-million dollar mansion,sports cars and all that. She tied the knot with Jimmy Jordan, Marion's stepfather,a guy totally unlike her. Black, penniless,bum and drug peddler. Two years of marriage elasped and bad luck happened. Jimmy copped all her liquid cash for himself some way and murdered her with a jackknife stabbing her on the belly and ghost off to God knows where."

"Out of the country?"I needed to ensure if our chances of catching him wasn't slim.

"Conceivably yes, but no one knows for sure,"was his reply.

"Alright, I need you to tell me everything you know and notice, starting from the start of their marriage."I informed the girl.

"it's a long story,"she forewarned me and I had a brief mocking expression on my face.

"Trust me kid, I can handle it."

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