KENT

DANTE'S POV

"Detective Kent." I say angrily. "What the fuck is he doing here?"

"I'm sorry, did you just say detective Kent? Nah, we have to hide man." Headshot says referring to him and the other guys and I completely understand him. They're all criminals and an FBI agent is breaking into my house.

"He's alone." I notice on the screen and squint my eyes as he succeeds to go past my gate.

"He might have a team not very far away." Headshot says.

"I don't think so." I say with a smirk as I pounce towards my front door. Once I reach there, I deactivate the lock and pull my door open.

"And what are you doing here?" Kent's eyes widen when I grab him by the collar and easily drag him into the house and to where my other men are. They widen their eyes at me when they see me walk in with Kent. I shove him onto a chair and take his gun away from him in a swift motion. He tries to get himself off the chair but I push him back down and point his own gun at him.

"Don't move." I say slowly. His nostrils flare as he stares at me. He glances around the room and squints his eyes in recognition when he notices the criminals in the room with us. His gaze averts to a dumbfounded Liam. Liam looks speechless as he looks at detective Kent on the chair.

"What is this place?" Kent asks as he stares straight at Liam.

"Detective. What are you doing here?" Liam asks him as he walks towards me and lowers the gun I have in my hands. He gives me a distasteful look and stoops in front of the detective.

"I started keeping tabs on you the second you left my office. Your story is legit, I know but a lot of things didn't add up and I needed to find out for myself. So do you mind explaining to me what the hell this place is and why you're in the same room with a bunch of wanted criminals?" Kent asks and I let out a sigh at the irritation of the situation.

"What's it going to be Liam? Do we let him in on it or do we kill him?" I ask with a smirk and both Liam and Kent widen their eyes at me as if I just dropped an atomic bomb.

"Relax..." I laugh. "I'm not going to kill him." I say giving detective Kent a death stare. He might want to help us find Adeline and take down erotica but it doesn't change the fact that he's one of the good ones and as he said, we're all a bunch of criminals in here.

"I'm just going to ask him a couple of questions." I say.

"Ironic…" Kent laughs. "Because I'm the detective here and not you." He stares at me curiously.

"You were able to take me down and disarm me in seconds. It takes a very skilled man to be able to do something like that to me and you don't particularly have a face I recognize so who are you and what is this place?" He asks.

"What exactly were you hoping to find by breaking into my house all by yourself. I could have easily killed you. You took a great risk coming here. You weren't supposed to get suspicious. You were supposed to take the evidence and work with Liam to help us in any way you can. But I guess they don't call you the best detective because you stick to the rules. Sometimes you break a few of them, don't you?" I throw my question at him with a smirk on my face.

"You're the one who sent me the evidence." He says with realization. "You're tracking erotica too?"

"Yes." I answer simply. "And seeing as you threw yourself right at us, I suppose your part of the team now." I say and I wasn't even asking.

"Why would I want to partner up with you? Why don't I just lock you all up and do this all by myself?" He asks but I know he's bluffing. If he wanted to bust us, he would have come here with backup. But Kent didn't come here looking for a fight. He came here looking for answers.

"Because you don't know where to start with this case and you came here looking for answers. Because you want to bring down erotica as much as I want to and I want to believe you would do everything to get your hands on the information that you know I have." I answer him.

"You need me too." He says when I point the gun back at his forehead. I don't plan on killing him. I don't even plan on hurting him. if he ends up joining our side, the FBI resources he has his hands us could help us a long way. I just want to scare him in case he has any weird ideas.

"I have the resources to help ease whatever plan you're cooking up here and you know it. I don't know who you are and I'm willing to turn a blind eye to the criminals you have with you. We want the same thing. We want to see erotica burn." He says.

We stare at each other for a few more seconds before I finally drop my gun.

"Then you should know. Something is going down in a few days. I was going to anonymously let you in on it anyway but no need to hide now that you're already here. We're going to have our hands on the location of erotica soon. We'll break in there and since you want to help so bad, start putting together a team."

"And what happens after?" Headshot asks him.

"I forget I ever met any of you and we all go our separate ways…" Kent answers.

"And how do we now we can trust you." Shadow asks him. "How do we know you wont just throw us in cells after all this?"

"You don't." Kent answers with a light smirk. "You'll just have to trust me." He says and stands up from the chair, confident that no one in the room will do anything to him.

"Why don't I take that back…" He gently takes his gun from my grasp and I let him. he could shoot me now if he wanted to but all he does is safely place the gun behind him.

"Now…" Kent says. "Tell me everything and give a damn good reason why I should put my trust in any of you."