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CHAPTER ELEVEN

DOINK-DOINK

"You're screwed, Steve!"

Elliot had just burst into the interrogation room where Steve Maddox, Antonia's boss from Fluffy's Bakery sat nervously.

"I don't know what you're talking about. I never touched Antonia!"

"No, you didn't. But you touched Stephanie O'Neil and Hayley Wernberg. You tried to frame an innocent guy in your bakery – did you really think we wouldn't have found out?" said Olivia. "You threatened to tell everyone about Stephanie's caffeine addiction if she sold you out. You forced illegal stimulants down her throat in order to make it look like a junkie OD when she's really just a scared young woman whose only addiction is Starbucks."

"She's a bitch."

"Oh, really, Steve? A bitch? I was under the impression she was a nice Catholic girl who volunteers at an ESL school. Was Antonia a bitch, too?"

"I told you, I never touched Antonia!"

"No…was that Adam?"

Steve sat in silence, arms folded, glaring at Olivia. Elliot got in front of her and glared right back at Steve, trying hard to control his rage.

"We know about your little contest with Adam. How you tried to see who could have the most virgins in one night, right? What happened? You got a little drunk, made your bet, and went to it. You knew exactly where to find these girls. You targeted them. You couldn't get them out of your head, could you?" Elliot whispered.

"Their innocence. You just had to be the one to take it, didn't you?" said Olivia. "You couldn't stand the thought of someone else having those nice girls before you, could you? You or Adam."

"No," said Steve.

"No? Well, we know this for a fact, Steve. You were sloppy. You didn't use condoms. You pissed all over their apartments. You left your fingerprints on the syringe you used to inject Antonia Mendez with heroine –"

"I never did that!" Steve shouted.

"Then who did?" Elliot yelled back.

"Adam! Adam – Adam did Antonia."

"So who did Stephanie and Hayley?"

Steve went silent again. Elliot grabbed his shirt collar and pulled him close.

"You son of a bitch," he growled. "You tell me what you did."

"Okay," said Steve. "Okay. Fine. I…I didn't even know these girls. I knew that Stephanie came into the bakery a lot and I had seen Hayley there before. They were so…pretty. And sweet. And innocent. I just wanted to be the first one to touch them. Adam and I are friends and we were out. He knew Antonia from that ESL place and he said the others had volunteered there before. He said he could just tell they were virgins."

"So you placed a bet?" Olivia prompted.

"Yes. I even said I'd give him a head start."

"How's that?"

"I gave him Antonia's address," said Steve, now truly scared.

"You gave him her address?" repeated Elliot.

"Yes. I knew I'd win the contest. I just knew, so I got cocky and said he could just have her address. I had to find the other two. It was easy. But I knew I'd win the contest even though Adam had Antonia's address. I knew it."

"Then as soon as they've sentenced you to life in prison, I'll bring you a little blue ribbon," Olivia spat.

Elliot and Olivia stormed out, both disgusted and enraged at what they'd just heard, but relieved to have gotten a confession. Cragen, Novak, Caroline, Munch, and Fin met up with them outside the interrogation room.

"Marcella gave himself up, too," said Caroline. "Didn't take long."

"Can you believe this was a game for them?" said Olivia.

"Yeah. A game with no winners."