It can’t be her.. Right?
She speaks again, but it’s quieter so all I hear are simple words like yes, or no. But it’s all I need to confirm who it is…
I stare down at the floor for a few more seconds trying to listen in, and when I hear shuffling I bolt out the doorway and head straight for my office. I quickly get in shutting the door behind me, and start pacing across the span of my office.
“What the hell is going on here?” I ask aloud, throwing my towel in the trash bucket.
Was it Claudia and that Axe guy who killed Greyson? Why did they do it? And how? Claudia is best at research, she’s never had to kill. Wait. One year ago Chadwick told us that everyone was to work on their defense skills, …show more content…
1. If she really is that good, there’s no way Dean Chadwick would keep letting her be a desk worker.
2. I’m sure that I would have heard bragging.
And most importantly of all… She could have been the one to murder Greyson.
The pounding in my head seems to get louder and louder, it seems like I can feel the blood flow in my ears and like my chest is going to concave. I breathe deeply in, then slowly out, watching my chest rise and fall as I focus on calming down. The time it takes seems to take hours even though it’s surely only been minutes.
The pounding isn’t as loud anymore because now I can at least focus on rationalizing things… Focus on the facts and on the fiction.
First off I don’t even know if it was her; it could’ve been someone entirely different. Second off, it’s possible that there was a ranking mistake—although that’s highly unlikely. Third… I just don’t want to believe anything that is happening right now. But the facts are there! Claudia says she is all business, but yet she just so happens to go over to Greyson’s and he is murdered. It fits perfectly. Her and that Axe guy could have gone over, done the deed and Claudia calls to cover herself