p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c06d2ba18f1e5b8f81028e200110f31d"Seven in the morning when Drea drove to the precinct with the files ready on the passenger seat. She got there and instead of going to her own table, she went to Michaela's and plugged in the flash drive which contains a copy of the data she studied last night. Better be ready with backup./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2438a2713e48235044c783dd1c0a0573"Stuff were already at Michaela's table. Her jacket is already hanging on the chair and a half empty coffee cup is beside the keyboard. While the file is transferring, Drea looked everywhere, looking for Mick. And at one point, she saw Captain Bowers' door open and that's where Michaela came from. She's holding a case folder./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4cf5fb5f883749fdbc918dbef59b5f9f"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Whatcha doing?" /spanThe blonde asked, picking up her coffee./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2221a7903eca9de4d5bda8c6b75cebd0"Drea kept her eyes locked on the style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""We have a lead but I still need you to check on it. See if you can identify anyone."/span Then the file transfer concluded. She checked on it and finally looked at Michaela who's also looking at her./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1b28bad261c4e8c307ef2cad26e505aa"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Where the hell did you get a lead?" /spanShe was laughing in amusement./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="991582084aa80255cae1bef403d078ff"Drea confidently shrugged. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Well, you said the vessel was unidentified and no witness will talk so I figured out they were all paid. I gathered information about the giants of New York and narrowed them down to four. I think we just have to dig a little deeper."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e1a3e1ef9c4256173f0e21e4bc83ac65"Mick gave her a sincere smile. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Thank you, Drea. Really."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="31d6290f5dfb57ce348343ac8a32ca2a"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""No prob," /spanshe winked./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="42c9dfb1d0e2f8f90fcaa07e55b633e3"Right when they're in the middle of a conversation, Jared Vasquez entered the space, holding a coffee cup in his right hand and a case file in the left. Sadly, when Michaela and Drea turned around, he saw that Mick is already having her coffee./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8020b5e322158ef10867918ae516ce4c"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Why didn't you just give it to me? I hate you," /spanshe snatched Jared's case file and used it to hit his arm. Mick laughed./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="335cdc00030422e4c5601fae0a1aac19"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Yeah, really. If you're gonna buy coffee for two, give the other one to Drea because Zeke fetches me one every morning."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="f6da0b0c493d113de05c6285e7a411f5"Jared scowled, but Drea smirked. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2918125b78f3ee8d0d00af90821bb0b4"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Anyway, we'll get going. Still got a robbery case to work on."/span Michaela says again as she grabbed her jacket. Even when they're heading away, Drea still stuck her tongue out to anger Jared until she was out of sight./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4d8ad48b3a92c00b9aba72e3db28e892"The two girls went for the car. Drea took the driver's seat and Mick the passenger seat so she can read the data that Drea worked on last night. While examining these names, Drea was talking beside her for some extra information./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9bffd0ce9b20e2de47370fd494544697"Michaela, however, can't recognize anyone in these people. It's not like she saw them anywhere or that they're involved in the flight. Their profiles are actually quite promising and by the 828 additional information that Drea talks about beside her, they can really be suspicious. But there was a catch, in the middle of flipping through the pages, she suddenly just stopped as if she's been attacked by something./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c0147511d0b56ebf358fe54d8d1f689b"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""You okay, Mick?"/span She asked, but Michaela won't answer. It's like she's stuck inside her own bubble. Drea finally puled over, seeing that Michaela's not okay. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Hey, Mick."/span She touched her shoulder and that's when Michaela went back to earth as she inhaled heavily./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="feaeb25d4906dec0a6045adc4f244c84"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay."/span She replies but Drea doesn't buy it. Michaela told her to keep driving and she pulled her phone out to take pictures of the file she holds. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e009e8af2f31abbdc2cbc9c784a48db3"Drea's eyebrows furrowed. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Why take pictures of it? We can print another copy."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d647e1c17b79acd30be0f11d74f74b72"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""I'm sending it to Jared."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2b6dee8ef4aac4e387738d4de700a145"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""I already sent it to him last night."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8377bff741c3717544c6080674478eb0"Michaela paused at what she's doing and looked at Drea. At first it was a surprised stare but slowly faded into a teasing grin that Drea didn't understand./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6fcb5022257ca7b020923bfbbfca2498"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""What?"/span She asked./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1a6ecc6e88a6906e0a34b50fb8c57fbb"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""You and Jared are something else," /spanMick's grin turned into a wide smile. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""You've been closer since the 'Tour guide at Japan' thing together."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a584cbfd54e4c9d00d90299f0a2acc15"She chuckled, butting it off. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""He's not my type. We're just friends."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="763f94f05054e57bb8ad102c366473b7"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Best friends at that."/span Mick clicked her tongue. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Jay's not good in the friendship thing, you know? If he becomes friends with a girl, it ends up being something more than that."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e71ad2897b6cc6e5272c0277ab7e9a19"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""The expert is talking,"/span Drea laughed. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""But make me the exception, Michaela Beth. I'm committed."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4c0c5b88559144b943a45b50beaef6d2"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""You are? To who? Why didn't you tell me?"/span Her eyes bugged out./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="651d33198df2f63fb852f2fcad99e42c"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""No way! Come on, I'm interested."/span /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d14a460a395ac95c67d930852042ca7f"Drea bit her lower lip. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""I'm getting married."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="41add2b4f91b59e4552912b5aff2cb07"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""WHAT?"/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3ee81b10e45dfc579dfba07154d91c79"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""See? Violent reaction."/span She rolled her eyes but Michaela still won't move on from the shock that she almost sprang from her seat to look at Drea's left hand. It's true, she saw a diamond ring in there./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6e0c3887f1098c1b43aef296fa6ecde8"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""I just got married and you're getting married after me and I didn't even know you had a boyfriend!"/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d49519f0fa005d07c2d7f873d7c3e9bc"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Chill. It's a little complicated. He wasn't my boyfriend."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="0f047772c7b5ad73343734a2e6ee47bb"Mick's face lost color after what she just said. For a moment, the blonde detective beside her was speechless./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d9a40d28ff6d5a43392467576fcfe3db"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Yeah, I know, weird. When we got engaged, that's the first time I saw him,"/span she added, just to kill the silence and encourage Michaela to speak./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8385f3e4c7f93a388c80c3f905e55e09"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Is it an arranged marriage?"/span Mick asked weakly./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="13f8f407c77759bd5749518af7023c98"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Uh-huh."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bee5d4ebd85edb13981ee9490f05af8b"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""And you don't feel bad about it?"/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="658cdc10b4b6e8a48ec17306f35598ca"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Of course I do. Who wouldn't? Maybe I'm just a little too used of being manipulated."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5ff52e452cfae4561611cdd17dfec8fb"The drive was long, but it wasn't enough for them to finish their conversation. Up until they reach the crime scene, they were still talking about Drea's surprise engagement./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a33fc44c45316a2f098e053a14041b37"For Drea, it was the first time she has ever talked about something to someone this long. Aside from Jared whom she had a few long chats with, Mick right here is the listening ear and even an advice giver. She's indeed very clever, obviously raised well by her parents. Something that she envies of Mick: Her family. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e1bacca076b64c432b19deb9db02be8e"She's not even affected of getting married to a person she just met, probably because all her life has been chaos and it's not gonna get better, at least she's not expecting. What's important for her are the few good things that happened. The new people she already sees as family./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a630f08f1a433073bdade020efcada13"It would suck so much if she's not going to see them again after her marriage./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7bf1b5cbd2cd131cfaa1a3e748b9d85f"It would suck to not be able to taunt Jared ever again./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="67e3c31d4f9b1b064ed7761b7c8b7abf"As usual, Michaela did the talking and the questioning while she just stood there, observing the place. Music is playing from the speakers and when "More Than Words" came next, both her and Michaela raised their heads up and met each other's gazes. They were just about to laugh but Mick's phone ringed all of a sudden./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="abc8f590933b623887f7e60bb4ef704e"The person they remembered when the song came on is calling. Drea immediately came back beside Mick and Mick put her phone on loud speaker so they could both hear Jared./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bf20ed291c57239562345bc9984637b2"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Bayside. You have to come here right now."/span Jared says, sounding urgent./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9b9bd508a08d6eda837fc457e7d26df5"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Why? What happened?" /spanMick asks and Drea seconds. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Are you safe?"/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4a2ee1b92b4bccd5bdd92f8be3cfa389"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""One of the men in your lead. Garrett Mason? He's dead. He was stabbed multiple times and shot in the head."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bf8e2f192dd4847fed96793d187f75b8"Mick and Drea's eyes met, holding the same expression in them./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="665ba2ee69c5ed2fbf3cc7963109be55"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""We're coming there, wait for us."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2438a2713e48235044c783dd1c0a0573"Stuff were already at Michaela's table. Her jacket is already hanging on the chair and a half empty coffee cup is beside the keyboard. While the file is transferring, Drea looked everywhere, looking for Mick. And at one point, she saw Captain Bowers' door open and that's where Michaela came from. She's holding a case folder./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2221a7903eca9de4d5bda8c6b75cebd0"Drea kept her eyes locked on the style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""We have a lead but I still need you to check on it. See if you can identify anyone."/span Then the file transfer concluded. She checked on it and finally looked at Michaela who's also looking at her./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1b28bad261c4e8c307ef2cad26e505aa"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Where the hell did you get a lead?" /spanShe was laughing in amusement./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="991582084aa80255cae1bef403d078ff"Drea confidently shrugged. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Well, you said the vessel was unidentified and no witness will talk so I figured out they were all paid. I gathered information about the giants of New York and narrowed them down to four. I think we just have to dig a little deeper."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e1a3e1ef9c4256173f0e21e4bc83ac65"Mick gave her a sincere smile. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Thank you, Drea. Really."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="31d6290f5dfb57ce348343ac8a32ca2a"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""No prob," /spanshe winked./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="42c9dfb1d0e2f8f90fcaa07e55b633e3"Right when they're in the middle of a conversation, Jared Vasquez entered the space, holding a coffee cup in his right hand and a case file in the left. Sadly, when Michaela and Drea turned around, he saw that Mick is already having her coffee./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a64588ffc46b706ca3322f436c409245"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""I guess this is gonna have to be mine again."/span He raised the cup and sipped from it. Drea's face crumpled./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8020b5e322158ef10867918ae516ce4c"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Why didn't you just give it to me? I hate you," /spanshe snatched Jared's case file and used it to hit his arm. Mick laughed./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="335cdc00030422e4c5601fae0a1aac19"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Yeah, really. If you're gonna buy coffee for two, give the other one to Drea because Zeke fetches me one every morning."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="f6da0b0c493d113de05c6285e7a411f5"Jared scowled, but Drea smirked. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2918125b78f3ee8d0d00af90821bb0b4"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Anyway, we'll get going. Still got a robbery case to work on."/span Michaela says again as she grabbed her jacket. Even when they're heading away, Drea still stuck her tongue out to anger Jared until she was out of sight./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4d8ad48b3a92c00b9aba72e3db28e892"The two girls went for the car. Drea took the driver's seat and Mick the passenger seat so she can read the data that Drea worked on last night. While examining these names, Drea was talking beside her for some extra information./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9bffd0ce9b20e2de47370fd494544697"Michaela, however, can't recognize anyone in these people. It's not like she saw them anywhere or that they're involved in the flight. Their profiles are actually quite promising and by the 828 additional information that Drea talks about beside her, they can really be suspicious. But there was a catch, in the middle of flipping through the pages, she suddenly just stopped as if she's been attacked by something./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c0147511d0b56ebf358fe54d8d1f689b"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""You okay, Mick?"/span She asked, but Michaela won't answer. It's like she's stuck inside her own bubble. Drea finally puled over, seeing that Michaela's not okay. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Hey, Mick."/span She touched her shoulder and that's when Michaela went back to earth as she inhaled heavily./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="feaeb25d4906dec0a6045adc4f244c84"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay."/span She replies but Drea doesn't buy it. Michaela told her to keep driving and she pulled her phone out to take pictures of the file she holds. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e009e8af2f31abbdc2cbc9c784a48db3"Drea's eyebrows furrowed. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Why take pictures of it? We can print another copy."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d647e1c17b79acd30be0f11d74f74b72"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""I'm sending it to Jared."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2b6dee8ef4aac4e387738d4de700a145"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""I already sent it to him last night."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8377bff741c3717544c6080674478eb0"Michaela paused at what she's doing and looked at Drea. At first it was a surprised stare but slowly faded into a teasing grin that Drea didn't understand./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6fcb5022257ca7b020923bfbbfca2498"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""What?"/span She asked./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="1a6ecc6e88a6906e0a34b50fb8c57fbb"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""You and Jared are something else," /spanMick's grin turned into a wide smile. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""You've been closer since the 'Tour guide at Japan' thing together."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a584cbfd54e4c9d00d90299f0a2acc15"She chuckled, butting it off. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""He's not my type. We're just friends."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="763f94f05054e57bb8ad102c366473b7"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Best friends at that."/span Mick clicked her tongue. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Jay's not good in the friendship thing, you know? If he becomes friends with a girl, it ends up being something more than that."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e71ad2897b6cc6e5272c0277ab7e9a19"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""The expert is talking,"/span Drea laughed. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""But make me the exception, Michaela Beth. I'm committed."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4c0c5b88559144b943a45b50beaef6d2"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""You are? To who? Why didn't you tell me?"/span Her eyes bugged out./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="651d33198df2f63fb852f2fcad99e42c"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""No way! Come on, I'm interested."/span /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d14a460a395ac95c67d930852042ca7f"Drea bit her lower lip. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""I'm getting married."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="41add2b4f91b59e4552912b5aff2cb07"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""WHAT?"/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3ee81b10e45dfc579dfba07154d91c79"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""See? Violent reaction."/span She rolled her eyes but Michaela still won't move on from the shock that she almost sprang from her seat to look at Drea's left hand. It's true, she saw a diamond ring in there./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6e0c3887f1098c1b43aef296fa6ecde8"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""I just got married and you're getting married after me and I didn't even know you had a boyfriend!"/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="d49519f0fa005d07c2d7f873d7c3e9bc"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Chill. It's a little complicated. He wasn't my boyfriend."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="0f047772c7b5ad73343734a2e6ee47bb"Mick's face lost color after what she just said. For a moment, the blonde detective beside her was speechless./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8385f3e4c7f93a388c80c3f905e55e09"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Is it an arranged marriage?"/span Mick asked weakly./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="13f8f407c77759bd5749518af7023c98"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Uh-huh."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bee5d4ebd85edb13981ee9490f05af8b"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""And you don't feel bad about it?"/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="658cdc10b4b6e8a48ec17306f35598ca"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Of course I do. Who wouldn't? Maybe I'm just a little too used of being manipulated."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5ff52e452cfae4561611cdd17dfec8fb"The drive was long, but it wasn't enough for them to finish their conversation. Up until they reach the crime scene, they were still talking about Drea's surprise engagement./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a33fc44c45316a2f098e053a14041b37"For Drea, it was the first time she has ever talked about something to someone this long. Aside from Jared whom she had a few long chats with, Mick right here is the listening ear and even an advice giver. She's indeed very clever, obviously raised well by her parents. Something that she envies of Mick: Her family. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a630f08f1a433073bdade020efcada13"It would suck so much if she's not going to see them again after her marriage./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7bf1b5cbd2cd131cfaa1a3e748b9d85f"It would suck to not be able to taunt Jared ever again./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="67e3c31d4f9b1b064ed7761b7c8b7abf"As usual, Michaela did the talking and the questioning while she just stood there, observing the place. Music is playing from the speakers and when "More Than Words" came next, both her and Michaela raised their heads up and met each other's gazes. They were just about to laugh but Mick's phone ringed all of a sudden./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="abc8f590933b623887f7e60bb4ef704e"The person they remembered when the song came on is calling. Drea immediately came back beside Mick and Mick put her phone on loud speaker so they could both hear Jared./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bf20ed291c57239562345bc9984637b2"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Bayside. You have to come here right now."/span Jared says, sounding urgent./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9b9bd508a08d6eda837fc457e7d26df5"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Why? What happened?" /spanMick asks and Drea seconds. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Are you safe?"/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4a2ee1b92b4bccd5bdd92f8be3cfa389"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""One of the men in your lead. Garrett Mason? He's dead. He was stabbed multiple times and shot in the head."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bf8e2f192dd4847fed96793d187f75b8"Mick and Drea's eyes met, holding the same expression in them./p
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