Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“N..n..n..no, S..S..S..Sir, I..I didn’t. I..I didn’t d..do anything wr..wrong.”
“Then you will be free to go. After I check on one other thing. And someone will drive you home.”
“Th..th..thank you. Thank y..you s..so much.” I swear he was already crying. “Th..th..this is g..going to b..be a gr..great a..addition to my b..book.” He was crying yet smiling. What a weird kid.
Riviana and I left that room and walked over to Chris. He was standing across the hall, waiting for us.
“He is innocent. Just a scared introvert. When the files get here, double check that he doesn’t have a criminal record and send him on his way.”
“Sure thing.” Chris smiled and nodded. “In the next room is Nathan Michaels. He is clearly a junkie. That is easy to see in his eyes and the needle marks on his arms. He is thirty-one and ornery.”
“Sounds fun.” Riviana giggled. “I can just imagine how that ornery attitude will hold up against my stubborn ass of a husband.”
“Hey! That wasn’t nice.” I tried to sound offended, but the laughter coming from me negated that almost immediately.
When I went into the room, I saw a human man that was supposed to be thirty-one but looked like he was fifty-one. The years of drug abuse had taken their toll on him. His hair was thin, stringy, and greasy looking. It literally looked like slippery black wires that were brushed back over his head. And why he didn’t just shave them off and go bald I would never know. That would have improved his looks immensely.
His complexion was pallid, his face was full of pockmarks and scars, he was thin to the extreme, and he looked like he only had about eight teeth in his entire head. I wouldn’t have wanted to be the one to catch him and touch him if I didn’t have to be. I was glad that someone else took care of that for me.
“Explain yourself.” I said as I sat at the table. It was just what I had said to the kid in the other room.
“Who the fuck do you think you’re talking to, asshole? Just because you’re some King Kong looking mother fucker that thinks he can intimidate me with his size, don’t mean that I got to listen to you. I know my rights. I know what I am entitled to. And I ain’t saying a fucking word to you. So, fuck off!” I mentally counted the words that he just said as I smiled at him. It only took me a second to have the total.
“So, you’re not going to say a word to me? That’s good. I need more than one word anyway. And I need something other than the seventy words that you already gave me.” I smirked at him as I watched him try to figure out if that was really how many words that he had said. “Now Nathan, tell me what you were doing at the beach. And why did you run?”
“I ain’t talking to no pig. I don’t need to talk to you. I ain’t going to incriminate myself.”
“I am not a cop. And you will talk to me.” I lowered my voice as I spoke. I darkened my eyes. And I took on more animalist features that wouldn’t show to the naked eye. He wouldn’t be able to tell that something was different, but he would be able to sense it. And it would terrify him.
Just judging by the way that his face looked, I could see that he was feeling a lot less confident and a lot more willing to cooperate, with just that little adjustment. Still, he looked like he was going to give me just a little bit more trouble.
“I..I’m not talking to you.” He was looking around the room and saw Riviana. “I’ll talk to her, not you. Lady, get this pig under control.”
“He isn’t a cop, Nathan, and neither am I. Also, you’re better off talking to him. I’m the meaner one.” She made her voice as menacing as I had. Combined with me in front of the man, it was working wonders.
“Fuck it. I’ll talk.” His will snapped in an instant. I swear I could hear the sound of it like a rubber band that was stretched too tightly. “I didn’t do anything. I didn’t. I just saw the cop that busted me last month and got scared. I didn’t hurt anybody. I just didn’t want to get another drug pop. I’m carrying, dammit. Arrest me for that. I don’t care. But I didn’t kill anybody.” He was terrified, he reeked of the drugs that he mentioned, and he was telling the truth. Dammit. This one was another bust.
“I don’t care about the drugs. Though I will be confiscating them and destroying them. You need to stop that shit, or it will kill you one day.”
“Yeah, sure man, I’ll go clean. I swear it. Just don’t hurt me. I don’t want to do any more drugs. Nothing is scarier than that woman over there in the corner. Her alone will make me go straight.
“Her?” I asked in confusion. “Not me?”
“Fuck no, man. She’s the scariest thing I ever saw.”
“I told you I was the meaner of us. I meant it.” Riviana giggled from the corner and that seemed to drain the druggie of the last remaining color in his face.
“I will check your file and if all is fine, you’ll be free to go. After you hand over the drugs.”
“TAKE’EM!” He yelled in fear as he emptied his pockets onto the table. “Taken’em. She’s worse than the fears of being sober. Don’t let her hurt me, man.”
“Come on, scary one. We got more work to do.” I told Riviana as I gathered up the drug. Internally, I was laughing and crying about the fact that Riviana was the reason he was so scared.
“He’s not the guy we’re looking for either.” Riviana told Chris when we made it outside the room. “Check his file and then let him go.”
“It just came in.” He handed the folder to Riviana.”
“Hmm. Some drug possessions, but nothing else. No theft, no B&E. He seems to be an honorable addict at the very least. Cut him loose, Chris.” She handed the file back to him. “What about our friend Jared?”
“Squeaky clean. Never even been arrested. He has some stellar grades in school, but seems to stay away from most people.”
“Have someone take him home. And Mr. Michaels in there. They’re free to go.”
“Understood.” Chris set aside the files. Hopefully, the last man would give us something.
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Joaquin
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“Who is our last friend over here?” I asked Chris as I waited for a file. “What do we know about him?”
“He said that his name is Angus Jaegan. He seems to be about twenty. He didn’t say much. And he smells funny.” Chris was shaking his head like he was trying to figure out what was going on with the man.