James ran over to his partner's as soon as he told him about the drugs in the flower pot. When he arrived, the place was already filled with agents. As soon as he walked in, Doneld ran to him.
"What happened?" James asked. "When the pot fail on the floor, it broke and two bags just sliped right out from the pot." "Does this mean the lady from the shop is the supplier?" James asked. They both looked at eachother with confussion. First thing in the morning, they got a warrant and stormed down at the shop. The lady from the shop got under arrest. Every single flower was confiscated by the DEA and as they were examined, almost more than half had two bags of drugs inside the pots. So now, it was time for interogation.James and Doneld walked in and stared at the lady from the shop. As soon as she saw them, she broke down in tears. "I swear... Detectives. I didn't do anything. I don't know anything." Her accent made it even harder to understand her with her crying."Calm down!" Said Doneld. "If you don't know anything, then how come half the flower you sell have drugs in them?" He asked in a firm tone after they sat infront of her.
Once again she told them, crying that she doesn't know a thing. They were getting nothing out of her and now they started getting fruatrated.James slamed in hand on the desk and starteld the woman out of her sob. As soon as she stopped he started talking and this time he had anger in his voice. "You are the owner of the flower shop. Do you really think that we would believe that you know nothing when infact one of the best drug dealer had been working for you at that shop. Tell me, did you put the drugs in the pots before planting the flowers? How long have you been doing this?" "I didn't." The woman screamed her answer amd explained. "I don't grow the flowers myself. I have different distributers that sell me flowers at a reasonable price. I tell my custmers that i grow them just for marketing. I just buy and sell."Finally something useful, James sighed to himself. They looked at eachother and turned back to her. "We are going to need to see the list of all your distributers."They looked through the list for days keeping an eye on them one by one. They still found nothing. But then they got to a name Robel Petro. He was a very rich man in the stock market. What buisness does he have selling flowers.
They went over to his house to ask him a few questions. His mansion was so big that you might get lost without assistance. As soon as they tell the guards upfront that they were DEA agents and that they had to speak to Robel petro. One of the men spoke in to his left arm sleeve and listened to his left ear. Then shortly after he told them to go in. They followed the men in and met the man.
Robel Petro looked so classy that you can tell he was swimming in money. As soon as he saw them, he welcome them with a gesture of his arms and pointed at chairs for them to sit. "How may i be a help for you gentlmen?" Asked."We have been on an investigation that involves one of your clients. A flower shop." As Doneld spoke, James kept studying Robels face but his expression never changed. "What is a stock manager doing selling flowers?" He finished his question. "Well" Robel finally spoke "the flower buisness is a side thing really. But i don't grow my own flowers. I buy them from a distributer. I wanted to make more profite but was too lazy to plant them myself." He laughed. James sat at the edge of his seat and asked"how many people do you buy these flowers from." "One!" Robel answered shortly. "Who" Doneld asked this time.Robel rocked his eyes back and forth between the two and answered them. "Carella Mink.""Carella Mink."As soon as they got the name of Robel Petros' supplier, James and Doneld got her address and rushed over to her place.When they reached their destination they were amazed. The house was not just big but also beautiful. From the special curve like gate to the front door and the green garden that surrounded the mansion was mind blowing. They collected their jaws and walked to the gate to ring the bell. A womans voice answered their call and asked them who they are and what their business was. After they told the lady through the speaker that they were DEA Agents and that they had a couple of questions for Carella Mink, it became quite. They stood there for a while and decided to ring the bell one more time. This time it was not a lady in a speaker that greeted them but a man in a suit from the front door.The man in the black suit opened the front gates, "Follow me please detectives." he said in a commanding tone."We're
James and Doneld went back to their office and pulled out everything they could find on Carella Mink. Most of her file just says that she has been in the flower buisness for about six years, that she has a son of age 6 called Brian Mink, that her husband died a couple of years back but that was it. There was no more data on Carella Mink before seven years back. And that rose some suspision in both the agents eyes.Doneld still can't shack the fact that he knows her somewhere. He kept staring at her picture that was displayed on his monetor.Doneld and James seemed to be lost. James is almost convinced that Carella is behind all of this and that she is some how related to the Kazel case. And Doneld hasn't said a word as he kept looking at her photo as he moves his head from side to side. "I am almost positive i know her." Doneld commented to his partner that was sitting next to him. After a few minutes though, all his questions were answered as one of the agents
They couldn't believe it. There was nothing, not even a single drop of drugs in the flower pots. They distroyed her entire garden, hoping to finally catch Kanzel. But all they accomplished was to break every thing in her garden.James and Doneld sent the rest of their team away and asked the maid to take them to carella.Carella was sitting on her arm chair sipping tea through a beautiful golden cup. She still wore her sun glasses which now makes sence to both the agents as she was blind.When she heard foot steps coming to her direction, she pulled up her tea cup for Mark to place it down on the coffee table.When they finally reached the living room, Mark gestured with his hand for them to sit as far as possible from Carella.The room broke in silence. James and Doneld looked around to the result of their investigation. The once beautiful and sparkly living room was covered with soil that was spilled out of the
James was beyond annoyed. He sat at his desk next to his partner and looked at the closed file of carella Mink- Carella Jones- on his desk. How could everything be clean. Maybe someone tiped her off. Maybe she had everything cleaned before they went to her house.James couldn't let go of the fact that she bothered him too much. He had always been the one to listen to his guts. And his guts has never been wrong. But this time, it's as if, that gut feeling doesn't quite know what to process.Doneld on the other hand seemed to think that Carella was not guilty but that doesn't mean she was not connected some how.As he was roaming the files he could find on the so called best hostage negotiator, he came across a paper. It was her birth certificate. Finally. He thought to himself. It was impossible to find anything on Carella Jones. All there was publicaly was few articles that were written seven years ago. Most of the magezines at that time
"It's going to be okay. They will never know." Mark kept assuring Carella that the agent or anyone for that matter will never find out about her secret.Carella had once again asked him if the agent would find out and every time she did, mark would tell her that they couldn't know. But the more she thought about it, the tighter her chest gets.But it seems like Carella was not the only one who was loseing sleep. James had been laying awake almost every night, unable to get that woman out of his head.Carella Jones...he thought to himself 'why do you bother me so much?'He wanted to prove her guilty. But every time he thinks about her being apart of Kanzel's crew, he feels sick. And the need to prove her innocent grows every minute.James has never had this kind of reaction towards a criminal, If she is a criminal. And that some how upsets him. He has never met someone harder to read than Carella and the need to break down
Carella decided to go out with Maria to get more pots for her flowers and new seeds to grow because the agents destroied hers.But because of the feer of being recognized, she barely makes it out of her car.So while Mark and her waited in the car, Maria would go in to buy the kind of pots Carella likes.Carella leans her head against the car seat and sighs heavy. Her lips were pressed tightly against eachother.Her mind rides back to Kalven. Her late husband who was taken from her by a drunk driver. How unluck her life has been.Everytime she finds a way to be happy, the univers takes it from her.She doesn't allow herself to think of him though. Because it made her feel like her scars are being cut open in to a fresher wounds, making her bleed until she feels light headed.How much she misses him. A smile ghosts her lips as she remembers him. The man that playfuly warmed her stiff and cold self. The man who loved her nomatter what. The man who never judged her
" well, well, well,...look who we have here...The moment Agent James Walker said the name Kanzel, Carella was swollowed in to ger memory.She barely heard a word after the name was mentioned in the interogation room. All she heard was the cruel voice of that drug lord she met seven years ago."Mrs. Mink..."They called out her name but she didn't answer.Instead, she sat there and remenesed about that faithful day where she had lost her job, her faith and her confidence in her abilities.The way he took her glassess off, the roughness of his hand when her touched her right arm to return the glass...she was scared and rightfuly so.But that was not all she felt. She remembers correctly feeling like she had met him before. Like a distant memory that she can't quite reach.Maybe it was because she had met many powerful drug lords during her time as a hostage negotiator, but for a very long time, she was unable to forget that sence of famil
Carella tried to control her breath that was coming out very shallow.The folded white cane drops from her hands as she placed one on her chest and the other at the back of the front seat to help herself sit up.She was shaking terriblly and she feared she would never calm down.The feeling was intence. Tears where streaming down her cheeks and her sweat made the bridge of her nose very uncomfortable, so she removed the glasses her trew them on the other side of the seat.Her hands back on her chest, she sobbed like there was no yesterday and there will be no tomorrow.She felt so scared. She closed her eyes shut to prevent the memory of the explosion. It had left her with a truman she didn't dare tell anyone other than her late husband. Not even Mark. But today, he saw her at her lowest.Mark was flustered by the situation. He has never once seen his madam break down like this infront of him. If she wanted to cry and let her fears get the best of her,