Chapter 37
Alex and Ryan left home half an hour earlier than usual, because they took a detour to a warehouse to collect some boxes, since they'll be moving in a few days. Stuck in traffic in their way to work Alex leaned with her head against the window looking out at the rows of cars hooting for no reason. "I am so excited about today." Alex said turning to face her husband. "Me too. We'll be buying our fist house together. Such a grown up thing to do." Ryan said looking at her smiling. "Yeah. Because we're adults, right?" Alex laughed as he joined her as they pulled into the parking lot at work. Since she felt like she missed a tutorial somewhere in her life on how to be an adult and skipped right into game mode not quite sure of how to play the game.
Alex didn't even make it to her desk when Maranda called all of them to the boardroom for a briefing on the case she told them about yesterday. "Good morning guys, we don't have any time to waste so let's get right into it." Maranda said as all of them took seats and get out their notepads. "Based on DEA Intel, there is a new gang, called K-Town that sits at the top of the pyramid controlling the new fishscale in the city, and we need to find a way inside their operation. The leader of the K-Town gang is called Jarrod Khalifah. " Maranda said leaning against the table. "To get an informant inside K-Town is basically impossible." Shelby answer not sure how they could get someone in the gang to split on one the whereabouts of their leaders. "Nothing's impossible but until we do, we need to find alternative means of entry." Liam said glancing over his employees.
"Well, K-Town recently made deals with the Skins, the Jamaican Order and the Lasotas to help move their fishcale." Ryan said waling over to the monitor to show them some mugshots of some of the gang members. If we can turn some gangs' foot soldiers into informants, we can get a clearer understanding of how the pyramid's operation work and we can start tearing them down." Ryan concluded and left the screen on the five mugshots of the different gangs he just informed them about. " Of these five guys, we think this one is more likely to flip." He said pointing to a light skinned black haired, Chinese looking guy. "His name is Bryan Lin. Two strike loser affiliated with K-Town. Now he has been trafficking a new designer drug called Butter. This stuff is becoming very popular on the club scene, it's like Molly or GHB but twice the potency. Users say they high is so god that it melts your mind, hence the name Butter." Ryan said glancing at the agents who's busy scribbling down notes and information that was just given to them. "I want all the information you can get on this guy and the K-Town gang by tomorrow." Ryan concluded and all of them groaned in unison. "Come on, it's not that bad guys." He said laughing as he walked out of the room towards his office to begin his day.
"I used to like Ryan, but now he's really being heartless." Shelby said as they walked towards the office. "Seems like we'll be working through lunch if he wants the info by tomorrow." Natalie answered taking a seat and switching on her computer. "Uuuhhhm, I won't be here during lunch guys" Alex said trying to let her comment slide as if it's not that big of a deal, which it isn't but knowing her friends they'll make it a big deal. "And why not?" Nimah asked glancing over at the brunette. "See what special treatment you get when you're screwing one of the Special Agents." Shelby said smiling slightly at Alex. "And, speaking of screwing how was the wedding night and did you wear that lingerie you got at the bachelorette party?" Nimah asked, at this point non of them were busy working anymore but turned to Alex to answer the question that was just raised. "Why are we discussing my bedroom life when we're supposed to be working?" Alex answered trying hard not blush, and looking around the room to see if anyone can hear their conversation, but the rest of the team were too busy with their own things. "All I'm gonna say is that it wasn't necessary to wear it." Alex said and turned away from them to start working, more so that they wouldn't see her bright red face. "Kinky Alex Booth!" Nimah said and Natalie high fived her, before they also started working on the K-Town case.
"You ready to go?" Ryan asked leaning on Alex's desk and she jumped a little not realizing that it's lunch time already. "What are you doing here? Didn't we say we're leaving at 12:00?" Alex questioned looking at the clock to see that it's 12:15 already. "Oh I didn't notice the time, we can go." She said grabbing her bag and her phone from the desk. "Ryan!" Shelby said looking up and Nimah and Natalie followed her lead by greeting their superior. Alex shot them a look and they smiled at her slyly. "Come on let's go, leave theses bunch of weirdo's." Alex said pushing him in the direction of the door. "Stop it." She mouthed to them which only made them laugh more. "What was that all about?" Ryan asked as they got to the car. "Nothing, they're just having a moment again." She said hoping he wouldn't ask any more questions, which luckily he didn't.
They got to the bank and luckily it wasn't as full as they though it would be. The real estate agent showed up a few minutes after them and they went inside to fill out the loads of paperwork and sign some forms. "Well, that's it. The two of you are officially the new owners of the house." The bank manager said and the estate agent handed over the house key. It all still felt so unreal to Alex that they just bought a house that she told Ryan they had to go look at the house now. They went to buy pizza and some drinks first before heading towards the house.
Stopping outside Alex took a few pictures that she sent to her mom and Theresa before unlocking the door and entering the house. She stood in the doorway for some time before walking inside further. "Can you believe it?" She asked Ryan because she was still overwhelmed. "It all still feels unreal." He said looking around. After walking and checking up on all the rooms once again they sat down in the empty house in the middle of the living room floor eating the pizza. This was weird since there were four chairs at the kitchen counter yet they sat on the floor but they really didn't mind. They got up after they were done eating, locking the door and walking to the car parked in the driveway looking back at their house. Ryan spun Alex around and kissed her passionately right there in the open. "I love you, sweetheart." Ryan whispered in her ear hugging her tightly. "I love you too." She said smiling into his shoulder, and she couldn't help but think about what they said in the office. Kinky Alex Booth echoed through her mind, as they walked back to the car to go back to the office.
Hey guys! There it is. I felt guilty for not updating this weekend. Hope you enjoy. I had to do some research on this new drug case I'm working on not sure if that info is correct, so please don't sue me. And the names of the gangs are completely fictional they're not real, hey. Enjoy the read and let me know what y'all think. Lovies-S