She's the devil

nda'

this time of the year as winter approached. But today it was dark and gloomy. Residents had shut themselves indoors, windo

and. His hand went to his pistol at his hip h

ere they had been last spo

f them." The owner of the bakery, a mi

anything strange

e. "No, nothing at all. They bought their

ll on his gun. I gently tapped his hand and motione

round more. And if you notice anything m

lit up with a smile. Just as we tu

! Oh dear me, my mem

n my chest. "What was it

n the bike, he followed the of

d it look like?"

oung man, it was big

"Thank you, ma'am,

em. They're our regular and

do our best." We bade

nand said once we were

bike on the

ed it. We'll have

ed to see a boy running up to us. His eyes held fear. He ra

he matter?

"T-the kids! They found something in th

hanged a tense look

kyard of a shop. The place was clustered up with bags of trash and broken furniture. But that wasn'

ontaine here. Wha

fear I had seen on the boy's face. She pointed a

ed over to the

I did my best to move them all out of there. My heart th

eadquarters. Our eyes met

ren't m

y called

wirled my straw in my glass of mojito, toying with the mint leaves insdie. I had drank half of it and

our, eyes dull and glassy. I could still see the flies that swarmed around their b

n't clean. Same with their toes. There were signs of strangulation, and rope marks all over their bodi

vered fingers and

icide. This was targeted. This w

ross a dead body in this line of work, it doesn't make it any ea

once. I turned to them a

el. She and Ferdinand had been together since high school, and they were inseparable. She also kn

hard to believe they're gone

Ferdinand said with a sigh. "FBI has

eyes, a silent warning not to continue. I pretended I didn't see it. "It