Part VI

Dom walks into the hotel room of their murder victim. His name was David Polario.

Brian looks him over and notices the smile that Dom covers once he's fully inside the room. Brian had questions about where Dom had disappeared to for the past couple hours. He'd call him on it when this was done.

"What do we have?"

"Housekeeping called it in. The vic had requested clean towels and when she arrived the maid found this." Brian gestures to the body. "They were behind on delivering them because surveillance in this part of the hotel went down for about 15 minutes. They wouldn't send maids into these areas without working security cameras for their safety."

Dom takes the gloves that Brian hands to him and pulls them on before touching anything in the suite.

"Just this part of the hotel?" Dom asks.

Brian nods, "Yep, the casinos and shops were working fine."

"Because if the casino went down the hotel would have been locked down," Dom follows Brian's thoughts.

He walks over to the corpse on the bed.

"We were so fucking close." Price complains. "I mean we caught up to the man he was meeting, he obviously didn't know the other victims were dead or he wouldn't have come here. So these guys aren't in each other's inner circles."

Dom walks over to the body and looks at him. He never wanted anyone to die. However, having the body in front of him always helped him with thinking more clearly.

David Polario was a broker and had come to Vegas for some R&R. Apparently, with a bunch of little girls. Dom wasn't able to feel sorry for this piece of shit.

Who had he and his friends done this to in the past? It was coming back to kick their asses now. As much as he hated what they were doing, he had to stop them from getting murdered. It was his job. He had to let the system work.

Dom walks around the bed and sees the flower on the pillow. The aroma of the flower and Letty fills his nostrils.

He had the urge to sniff himself. Had she left that much of her scent on him? She smelled, tasted and felt amazing. He hadn't thought about her lingering on his skin.

He comes back into the room from his thoughts of Letty. She was fogging his mind.

He'd been searching for these flowers. No one had repeatedly ordered them anywhere in the country. Local shops near the murders hadn't received orders around the times of the killings.

Dom turns away from the bed and looks around the floor and along the walls. Then he turns to the medical examiner.

"Time of death?"

"I'd put it at two to three hours ago based on the body temperature."

Dom nods.

"Right when the cameras were out," Robert says. "How the hell did this person get all this done in 14 minutes?"

"She didn't. She just needed to be off this floor before the cameras came back on." Dom says focusing his attention around the room. "She could have come and gone anytime throughout the day. She just needed the cameras off during her time on this floor."

Back at home Letty walks through the front door and goes into the bathroom and vomits the entire contents of her stomach.

For the first time in fifteen years she hadn't felt dead inside. She felt alive and could see beyond her despair with him. Other than Shiloh she rarely even spoke to another human being unless it was necessity. Now she was in love with a man whose purpose in life was to take her down. If he was in Vegas he was working her crimes.

He had left their bed to go examine the body of a man she had killed only minutes before having sex with him. This was all kinds of twisted.

He was probably working her and she had invited him into her home.

Did she secretly want to get caught?

No, she secretly wished he loved her as much as she loved him. Whether or not he did or didn't wouldn't matter. This ended one of two ways. She went to jail or one of them died by the other's hand.

So what! She had made sure Shiloh was more than taken care of financially. All she had to do was finish Barnes and then the chips could fall wherever they fell.

Dom landed back in Los Angeles to regroup with the team. He couldn't pin the killer down and that bugged the shit out of him. He was usually much more focused than this.

He had a motive, a profile, a calling card, even a future victim.

Barnes couldn't be charged with anything. The girls had been taken from foster homes all over the country. Not one of them would say anything about Barnes they were all terrified and none of them had the security of a loving home to make them willing to talk.

He was a high level business man who hadn't been in those states when the girls were taken and hadn't traveled to Vegas with them. They had nothing!

Brian hadn't come home with him. He had personally gone to make sure that every single one of the little girls had made it back to the state they'd been taken from and into the arms of a family that would truly care for them.

He couldn't want anyone better for his baby sister and her children.

Barnes was put under around the clock observation. They wanted to collect the evidence to stop his disgusting business and they hoped to catch the killer that Dom was sure was targeting Barnes.

Just before the meeting Dom finds information that he had been hoping to find. The connection.

Dom takes over the meeting and pulls his notes and pictures up on the flat screen for the room to see.

"Fifteen years ago. There was a conference here in Los Angeles. Held by Stanley and Cooper holdings, which both Wright and Moore worked for at that time."

The room nods and agrees with the information they already knew.

"This conference was a week long. It was bringing together clergy, sports players, business owners and working class men to figure out what they could do to establish to national program to help kids get into college who wouldn't have the means to pay for it."

"I've heard of that," Price says, tapping his pen on his notepad. "That's a big program now. Shining Stars or Shining Lights or something like that."

"Yep. Well, this is where it all started. At the conference here all those years ago. Polario was there."

Dom starts to clicks through the pictures of the victims.

"Wright. Madison. James. Every one of our victims."

The murmur in the room becomes an uproar. Finally the pieces were coming together.

"Barnes was there too. He probably supplied these men with some underage entertainment."

"Wait. You think these men got together at a conference and talked about their attraction to little girls?"

"I don't know how it got started. I do know that someone got hurt that week and wants their revenge."

Letty hadn't told Shiloh about what happened in Vegas after she'd murdered Polario. She hadn't told her about Dom working her case. Shiloh was completely in the dark. Now she was thinking about how she would tell her what came next.

Letty is standing in the kitchen and Shiloh is sitting up on the counter swinging her legs back and forth.

Letty looks up at her from her empty plate.

"Things are getting too dangerous Shy. I want you to go to Paris to wait for me. I know where Barnes is and I think I can get to him."

Shiloh studies Letty's features trying to figure her out. She knew there was more to this than Letty was saying.

"What's going on with that Toretto guy?"

"I uh…I saw him in Vegas." Letty admits.

Shiloh's eyes bulge.

"This is over! He's on to you. We're both going to Paris. We can be out of here and in the clear in less than twelve hours."

Letty puts her plate in the dishwasher and turns back to her sister.

"I'm not leaving this country until Barnes is dead. Once that's done I'll come."

Shiloh hops down from the counter. "I'm not leaving you."

"I've worked too hard to keep you alive and safe for the past fifteen years. You're going."

"Letty!"

Letty slams her fist on the counter.

"No! Lily died for both of us. Don't waste her sacrifice. Pack up and get on a plane."

Letty turns her back on Shiloh and heads for the kitchen door.

"Don't you waste it either. Stop fucking that cop."

Letty walks out of the kitchen and doesn't look back at her. She should have known better than to think Shiloh was in the dark.

A/N - Thanks so much for continuing to read this story. I really appreciate it and the reviews!