Chapter 9
"Is Diane alive at least?" Liv asks a moment later, still hopeful.
Nick shook his head no, Olivia's heart sank into the pit of her stomach.
"I... I'll do the notification, Nick, let me know when Amanda and the others get back." the brunette says, sagging down into her chair, her face the picture of defeat.
"Did you know that Diane's body was here!?" Monique yelled at Zoe, causing her and Annabelle to jump in fear.
"N-no I didn't know, I swear." Zoe sobbed, burying her face in her hands tearfully while Annabelle hugged her Aunt.
Monique could see how distraught this was making Zoe,
"I'm sorry, that wasn't professional of me ma'am, please forgive me," Monique says before getting up to leave with Amanda.
Alex has Noah outside, she is sitting in the shallow end of Olivia's pool wearing a red two-piece bikini. Noah giggles as the blonde raised him up in the air and put him down, only letting his tiny feet touch the water.
"Wee!" Alex exclaimed as she plays with Noah.
"I thought you hated kids?" an all too familiar voice said from behind Alex, the blonde's eyes darken and her smile evaporated instantly.
"What do you want, Marlene?" Alex growled without turning around.
"Isn't it obvious doll? I want you." the platinum blonde says in a sultry tone.
"Why? So you can rip my heart out again?" Alex asked, turning around and leveling a loaded glance at her former lover.
"Come on Alex doll, we were in high school," Marlene said teasingly.
"You asked me to marry you when we were 16! You pursued me! And then on our prom night not only did you break my heart by dumping me in front of the entire school, you completely humiliated me by outing me!"
"Come on Alex doll, I was so young and confused back then," Marlene said.
"Whatever, now, if that's all you have to say, you need to leave." Alex snapped.
"Alex, I'm sorry if I hurt you-," Marlene said before Alex cut her off.
"Stop it, Marlene, your apology is too late.
"I'll never forgive you. Now, leave."
Olivia stepped outside her car after parking behind Bethany's car. The seasoned brunette was really dreading this, just then Liv got a text from Fin.
Really bad Liv... Diane's remains were dismembered... On the way to the Morgue now, everyone is taking this really hard.
'What kind of monsters are we dealing with?' Olivia thought to herself.
Fin and Amaro are working with TARU, they're searching Rick Castillo's desktop, his laptop, and his tablet, they find over six thousand photos of Diane, along with a file labeled "Orders From N. Hubert." Amaro raised an eyebrow.
"N. Hubert? Who is?-" Nick said, turning to Fin, only to find the veteran Sergeant running down the hallway with his phone up to his right ear.
"Benson," Olivia said.
"Liv, it's Fin, I think there's a lot more to this case than we thought."