For the next 3 weeks, everything went smoothly for Alex. The lead investigator seems more and more smitten at her. She kept her act up and made the man continue his advances. She is also well versed in working at purple rose now. Catherine taught her all the basics of the massage and she can handle it with ease after multiple tries. She remembered back to the first time she tried giving the massage and almost broke Catherine's back for it. Luckily she tried it out on Catherine first before the actual customers. Poor Catherine though, the blonde woman had her back aching for the next week after that.
Today Alex is in charge of the massage room and the lead investigator will be the one Alex is massaging next. He remembered Alex's shift by now and knew on what days he should be requesting her for a massage. Talking in the massage room is the most convenient for him as they will be alone. He is more free to do and talk about anything.
Alex smiled looking at the officer coming in. She already knew the man never misses a chance to get a massage from her. She mustered her strength and massaged him with precision to get his fatigues out. The man purposefully talked through the massage and boasted about his muscles and strength. Alex gave out her best fake laughter and empty praises to make the man happy.
"With your manly muscles you must be very strong!" Alex spoke in a dreamy tone in her voice. She tries her best to sound like an empty headed woman who loves man for their looks and muscles. The investigator seemed more and more smug the more she praised him.
"Of course! I am a lead investigator! We handled all kinds of cases that required my strength and resolved many cases thanks to my brains!" the man said smugly. "Oh! How wonderful! Strong and also smart!" Alex replied with another dreamy tone to the man. Truthfully she wanted to vomit at how shamelessly the man has been promoting himself.
"I am seeked by many right now to resolve many mysterious cases with no leads. I am a very busy man but I still try to find time to visit you, my darling" he said to her. Alex put up her best smile when she heard this.
"You know the slaughter that happened last month? The investigators working on that are so stupid that they had to get my help" he boasted to her smugly. The slaughter? He must be referring to her house. So this man knows something after all!
"How wonderful! You must be the number one investigator in the kingdom! Did you manage to crack the case?" she asked him trying to get him to spill some news.
"Hahahaha!" the man suddenly laughed loudly. Alex doesn't know what's so funny about her question, she looked confused and stopped her massaging hands. "Oh dear, you actually asked the funny part about this case." he said that made her even more confused, but she started massaging him again.
"Those good for nothing nobles, they are only good to give out their money, if anything I'm happy there's less of them now" he added which made Alex's head twitched. What the hell is this man talking about now, he's practically insulting her family while laughing!
"I'll tell you a secret dear, but don't tell anyone else okay? You're my favourite so I'm telling this to you. The investigation is futile, no one will find out anything from it yet they pay us with so much money! hahahaha" he added again. Alex's heart stopped beating for a second when he heard his words.
"Why won't you find out anything?" she asked while trying her best to keep the tone in her voice. She is honestly ticked off by this man and she's confused as well now.
"Dear, it's because the investigators are all bribed to not show any findings! So funny right?" the man answered again and laughed even harder.
Someone bribed all the investigators? How corrupt! They are supposed to be neutral and fought for justice yet they are all so easily bribed, how despicable. Alex felt her anger burst forth and she put a lot of pressure on the investigator's back. The man let out a painful cry because of it. She immediately apologized with her sweetest smile and the man forgave her for it. The woman is a bit clumsy which he liked, it doesn't hurt that much so he didn't mind. He didn't think that the woman was actually mad at him and purposefully put more pressure to hurt him a little.
Alex wondered who bribed the man and all the other investigators. It must be the same person who arranged the assassination. The one arranging this really thought things through and not leave any tracks behind. She wondered if there was any truth poison or something that would make the investigator speak more about it to her. She believed the man knew more than what he revealed so far. He might be able to point out the person responsible.
The next day was Alex's day off for the week. She went to town and went to the medicine dealer. Catherine told her where the shop was located back when she first arrived because she had bruises all over her body. She went to buy medicine before but she's looking for other drugs today. Madam Garnet didn't give her much since she had her debts to pay out, but she's generous enough to not take all the money so Alex can still go out and shop in town with ease.
After being here for a month, she found out that she can get anything in this town as long as she had the money to pay for it. The red light district was where the black market is located as well so all kinds of things can be found here as long as you know where to look. She never thought of it back when she's living in the noble house, but it's quite scary what things she can find in this part of the kingdom.
The medicine dealer is a magician who specializes in working with plants. All kinds of medicine can be bought, from pills to ointments. Alex specifically came today to found something that can make someone talk more.
"Hahahaha you would want the chatterbox powder. Just dissolve it in a drink and the man would talk about all sorts of things for hours. One powder would make the mouth loose for 1 hour" the woman running the shop told her and gave her a small bag of powder.
Alex took it and spotted bottles with all sorts of liquids in different colours in one corner of the room. "What is that?" she asked curiously. "Poison" the woman answered with a smile on her face. Alex paused for a moment, her gaze seems fixated on the colorful liquids.