The Girlfriend

Cathy left a note on the table saying that she had already prepared breakfast. She did not bother to wake her mother up, because she slept late the night before. When she opened the door, Jon was waiting outside and smiled at her. "Hey," she said, "Hi," he immediately held her hands. "How's my girlfriend?" he asked her. She tried not to show her emotions, and asked him back, "Girlfriend?" He took her hand, pulled her and closed the house door behind them. Holding hands, they ran to his car, Jon opened the door for her and Cathy got in. He quickly went to the driver's seat. "Doors locked, and seatbelts." he lifted his arm and grabbed the belt over Cathy and locked hers. Their faces so close to each other, he said, "Who could ever resist your beautiful face, Catie? From the first time that I saw you, I wanted you to be mine." Before she could say a word, he tried to kiss her, but she pushed him away. "Jon, stop." She looked at his eyes, "We need to go to work." He laughed, stroked her hair and told her, "You're right." and they drove away, not realizing that Evan is already waiting in the car next to Jon's.

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Lee meets with the police inspector of St. Vincent, he walks into the office, and greets him. "Good morning officer," The man replied, "Good morning. Please, call me Henry." The two men shook hands and took their seats. "The reason for this meeting is to let you know that the missing security footage had been surrendered by an anonymous person. The copy was sent as an encrypted file, to which the password was provided in a separate email." Lee was surprised, the team had been in search of it for more than a week now, and still they got no clue. He said in reply," Who could it be, Henry?" The inspector inserted a flash drive onto a port in his laptop," You might want to take a look." They watched the footage, which was a bit blurry, but it can be noticed that a car stopped in front of a house, a woman got out from the driver's side and a man from the passenger's. The man with his hands in his pockets, rushed and got to the front door, tried to peek through the glass windows, and then went on trying to open them. He tried to open the knob but couldn't, and the woman came towards him, but the man must have told her to go back to the car, using his arms as signals. The woman got in, and after a few minutes, the man grew tired of trying to get in. He knocked instead, fortunately, the woman inside let him in, as if they knew each other. "Do we have a clue of who these people are?" Lee answered, "Mrs. Mills must know him." "No forced entry, and it was obvious that she let him in," Henry insisted. "What's weird is that," he continued, "Mrs. Mills does not remember what had happened, and the escape vehicle.." Lee cut him off. "Was it even registered?" "Yup!" Henry said immediately. "It's a Ferrari G63, owned by Sergius Desmonde." Lee's eyes enlarged at the moment, he could not imagine what had happened. He tried to call Jon but he was not answering, he had no other choice but to take the evidence with him. "I better get going," Lee said. The two men got up, shook hands, and Henry said in reply, "If you need back up, please give me a call." "I sure will," Lee said and went off. Lee sent a voicemail to Jon. "Sir, we need to talk. There is something you need to know about the break in at the Mills' residence."

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Jon and Cathy went to the hotel together, Cathy was wearing the receptionist's uniform, Jon in his usual business suit. They came in, holding hands, Cathy trying to get his hand off hers. "Don't," he said to her, and held her hand much tighter. They got in, and as everyone saw them, the staff all went in shock. "Good morning," Jon greeted the people in the reception. Cathy took her hand off his, went to her post, Jon followed her. The staff were in awe, he said "I'll pick you up in the afternoon." He kissed her on the cheek, and there was silence for some time until Jon went to his office at the top floor. Cathy was looking at the desk, she was trying to divert her attention away from all the people who were looking, until she heard a voice near her, "So, is this the girlfriend?" Cathy looked up, a woman looked closely at her, with arms crossed and eyebrows raised. To her surprise, it was Vivian Desmonde, who looked at her from head to toe.