8. Crisis

One day, while Rose was out running errands, she received a call from Alex. He sounded frantic and told her to come to his office immediately. When she arrived, she saw that his office was in disarray, with papers and files scattered everywhere.

"What happened?" Rose asked her heart racing, feeling something was off.

"We've been robbed," Alex said, his face grim. "They took everything - money, drugs, weapons, everything."

Rose was shocked. She had never seen Alex so vulnerable and scared. She knew that this was serious and that they were in danger.

"We have to do something," Rose said, her mind racing. "We can't just sit here and do nothing."

Alex nodded. "I know. But we have to be careful. We can't just go after them without a plan."

Together, they began to strategize on how to get back what they had lost. They reached out to their contacts and informants, trying to gather as much information as they could about the robbers.

As they dug deeper, they discovered that the robbers were pa