Sinful Confessions
"New York’s biggest crime lord? I’ll catch him without your pathetic little department. And when I do, you’ll wish you never did this in the first place!
I slammed his office door so hard the glass, even my hand trembled.
My boots slammed hard against the floor as I walked away, not bothering to look a single one of my battered squad in the eye.
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Hours later, I sat in the suffocating corner of a low lit club in Manhattan, four shots of cheap bourbon in my system and a fifth sitting right in front of my trembling hands.
I couldn’t believe it.
In just one day, I had lost the opportunity to to catch a high profile crime lord and then lost my job in the process.