Olivia was watching the nightly news when her house phone rang, groaning she picked it up. "Yea?" she spoke into the receiver.
"Good evening is the Detective Benson?" Shanice spoke nervously into the phone.
"Yes"
"The Captain says that there some development and you need to come in"
"Is this Shanice?" she asked catching the faint accent in her tones
"Yes, why?" she replied a smile forming to her lips.
"Nothing I'll be in softly" Olivia said and put the receiver back on its cradle.
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Shanice smiled and held on to the necklace hoping it would bring her luck like always.
"What's up with you and that thing?" she heard a follow detective ask.
"With what?" Shanice asked and for the first time she notice the man sitting around the next desk, his shoulders were so broad it made the room look small and those brown eyes just drank her in and his hair, his skin tone. He looked like a man from her Mills and Boons novels.
"Each time you get nervous you hold unto it, why?" Chester asked.
"So you've been watching me?" Shanice said with a smile as she tucked the chain under collar.
"It's hard not to watch a beauty such as you" Chester said walking over to her desk.
Shanice blushed and pushed her reading glass securely on her nose.
"Oh" Shanice said turning away from Chester and back to the file.
"I never got your name but I think I'll call you Pretty"
"Oh I'm Shanice Valentine and you?
"I'm Chester Lake"
"I'm glad you're all acquainted but Lake don't you have work to do?" Olivia said sneaking up on them.
"Liv!" Chester shrieked with embarrassment.
Shanice smiled as she watched his handsome face go white with embarrassment.
"I heard there was some development" she stated waving off Chester.
"Yes the skin under Maria's nails isn't Kevin's" Shanice said handing her the file.
Kevin Mark was the prime suspect in the rape and murder of 12 year old Maria Smith.
Maria Smith had gone missing from school only to be found beaten to death naked in an alley.
Olivia ran her fingers through her hair and groaned aloud as she sat down and went over the case files.
Two hours had past and nothing new then the phone rang. "Special Victims Unit, Detective Benson"
"Liv its Melinda I got a match on the skin"
"Okay I'm on my way" Olivia said putting the phone down.
"Shanice come on we are going to the ME's Lab." They grab there coats and headed out in the night.
20 minutes later.
"Okay so are you telling me that her mother did this to her?" Olivia asked
Melinda sighed "That's how it looks, I took a deeper look and I found this," Melinda said holding up a little bottle.
"What's that?" Shanice asked.
"It's a drug given to person with Heart Disease, I can't tell you the name of the drug but if you find it I can match" Melinda said putting the drug back in the safe.
"Oh and the if the beating didn't kill her the drug would have"