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Chapter 12 - The commissioner

He looked at me with a questioning look.

"Sir, I know this seems perplexing. But every single name there on the paper are people who worked for the boss or came and brought their own fighters, or betted and watched the fights."

"What's your name, young lady?" I give a slight smile "Nicky, Nicky Green sir." I say and he seemed to remember that last name.

"Green you say, I remember that case, the daughter was not found and after three years was presumed dead." he looked at me with recognition and he stood up.

"I am so sorry about your family miss green. I tried my hardest to solve that case," he says while apologizing. "No sir it's fine, it is not your fault. Daniel had inside men in the government and the police force. And if you let me, I want to take down every single person on that list. With your help sir, I can do that." He gives me a small smile.

"We need more proof," he says while turning and walking back and forth. "At least to put the mayor away."

"If you hand me a computer then I give you what you need," I say with a smirk and he nods. He presses the intercom button,

"Lily can you get me a computer," he says into it and a minute later the secretary walks in holding one looking very confused why he would need one. She says to me and she jumps to action.

"I'm so sorry sir, I have no clue how she got past me," she says trying to grab my arm. I look into her eyes and give her a hard look and she pauses in fear. "It's okay Lily, I am meeting with her, thank you for the computer." She walks out hesitantly. I open the computer and start my magic. I hack the mayor's laptop and download his files and find offshore accounts. While I was at it. I took out the hard drive, that I used to download the files from my master's computer, which I did the day before I left.

I was amazed I never got caught.

It had video surveillance, and there were photos and videos, proof of every single person that has come and gone in that hell hole. I downloaded all the video evidence on the hard drive, and hand it to the commissioner. He plugs it into his computer and scrolls through it. He looks at the videos and notices it showed all my fights too. He noticed my nervousness and skipped those videos, and he got to the one with the mayor on it. "It's all there," I say. "Please keep this a secret sir and only receive help from people you trust. I heard a faint click and I knew my suspicions were right. When lily came in and I got a good look at her, I noticed I have seen her there too. She was one of the girls slung over my master. She was wearing a wig and so I didn't make a connection. "Don't trust your secretary." is all I say to the man when his office door flies open and I shove the hard drive into the commissioner's pocket and run towards his windows. I bring my fist back and smash the window. I heard a gunshot and felt the sting in my side. I was 25 stories up, I knew this was going to hurt.

I flew down until I saw the fifth floor come out and I hit the slanted glass roof and was sliding down. I took my knife and broke the glass underneath me. I fell through, and fell another story and landed on my back.

The wind was knocked out of me, and I groaned, that hurt.

I got up quickly and ran to the stairwell and ran down the rest of the floors. When I got to the 1st-floor police were running everywhere and were ruining up the stairs past me and to the elevator to probably go to the commissioner's office. I walked calmly with the exciting crowd. I smirked on my epic escape but then remembered I was shot. I had to hide the blood. It took me a while but I got to the bus. Lucky my sweatshirt is black so it's hard to see the blood. I put pressure on my wound and had some issues that I got from a nice lady. I stuffed it in the bullet hole and realized the bullet was still in and I would have to get it out later. I woke up from my nap at the bus stop. I got off and walked the mile and a half to my old house. I started to get dizzy, and I stumbled towards my tree, I stumbled past to go to the river. I finally make it to the river and quickly and clumsily start a fire. I put my knife in the fire and wait for it to heat up. I dug my fingers in the wound and I dug out the bullet. I used my water bottle and wiped the blood away, I finally grabbed the knife and took a deep breath. I put it against my wound and I felt my skin burn, and I heard it sizzle. The smell of burning flesh assaulted my nose.

I huffed in relief, and sat back and tried to relax my body. I cleaned my knife and the bullet. I took my sweatshirt off cause it was ruined now. I need new clothes. I went to the treehouse and noticed an old jacket. It has probably been in the dust for 5 years. I shook it out and walked my way to the nearest store. I grabbed a water filter for my water bottle. A new sweatshirt, and new leggings. I grabbed some black combat boots too. So I don't have to wear flip-flops.

I grabbed a box of granola bars, some rubbing alcohol, and some rope. I paid for the stuff then walked back to the river. I climbed the big oak and made a small platform with some branches and the rope. I put all my stuff there and my new clothes too. I climbed down and sat near the fire.

My body was cold, probably from losing a lot of blood. I was getting dizzy too, but I needed to stay near the fire. Suddenly I heard footsteps, and it was too late to jump up and hide.

My senses have dulled.

I put my hood up and hid my hair in it. I also hid my face. "So you are the one living out here?" I heard a smooth low voice, and I immediately knew it was Seth.

Well, here we go.