The Secret Admiral (#2 The Secret Series)
Chapter 37
From the morning Daniel sat in the editing room checking the incoming news that would be aired later that night, his eyes focused on the screen in front of him, occasionally he would tell the editor, which would be shown, a man in his early 30s who was sitting next to him to cut off the parts he thought were unnecessary. I don't know how many hours they've been sitting in that cramped room, they've even had lunch in there, and now it's just a touch before it's all done. Daniel patted his partner on the shoulder and praised his work before leaving the room. He felt very tired even though he just sat all day in front of the screen, different when he worked in the field as a cameraman or photographer he never felt tired because it was his hobby, because it was his hobby, he never considered it a job because he enjoyed it. But he must not be selfish and only think of his own pleasure, he must think of his family, he must be near them when they need it, the pursuit that befell Emily and Alexa gave him many lessons.
He had just stretched his body when he felt the phone in his pants pocket vibrate, he reached out to pick it up and received the call after seeing Alex's name on his posel screen.
“Hallo.”
“D, we managed to catch the person who stole your car.”
A moment of anger made him excited when he heard Alex's words.
“Good! I'll be there now.” Daniel said as he hung up his phone then walked quickly out of the office, impatiently he waited for a passing taxi and finally a taxi approached him and after stopping the yellow car he immediately went up and asked his driver to speed to the NYPD.
Upon arrival at the police station, Daniel goes straight into looking for Alex, he is already looking forward to meeting the man who has made his beloved car shapeless again, his hands were already itching to hit him even though it was unlikely because the police would have banned him.
“D!”
Daniel looked around looking for Alex's voice and he found him standing near the table of one of the police officers who was interrogating a man in his early 20s with a thin body, his hair was looking messy, he was wearing a white T-shirt with the words ‘Police is a LOSER’ with a bright red color and just below the writing there was a caricature of a policeman complete with his uniform and his gun was running because it was chased a punk kid with sharp mohak hair and a club in his hand. The man's hands were cuffed back and he could see some wounds on his body.
“What is he?” daniel asked with emotion so he had to be held back by Alex.
“Man, relax first.”
“Quiet? ******** that has left my car shapelessly destroyed. Now let go of me,” Daniel said as he again advanced toward the man who was the suspect of the theft of his car, and this time Alex had to be helped by his colleagues to hold Daniel who looked very angry.
“Wow, man, listen to the detective, you have to calm down,” the man said as he stood back and looked back at the furious Daniel
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“You told me to calm down! Look, I'll finish you!” Daniel growled while looking at the man sharply.
“Hey, don't blame me if your car is destroyed. I almost died because of your ugly car.”
“Come car! You said my car was ugly!” Daniel's anger was again ignited after the person who made his car destroyed even insulted the vehicle he cared for like his own son.
“Hey, it's a fact the car is ugly, you should have taken care of the car like that properly. You saw my body hurt when I had to jump out to save my life because the brakes weren't working. Ah shit! I shouldn't have stolen such an ugly car,” he said, which again caused Daniel's anger to ignite until Alex dragged him out of the room to calm him down.
“You heard that, A?” daniel asked fieryly looking at his best friend who was just looking at him casually.
“I can't believe this.. ****** it stole my car then destroyed it and now he says that my car is ugly!” Daniel exclaimed as he walked back and forth on the sidewalk of the NYPD office channeling his anger.
Alex nodded before asking, “Did you feel something was wrong when driving it yesterday?”
“You trust him?” Daniel asked as he looked at Alex with a look of disbelief.
“No, not like that.. He said that the brakes were blong, did you not feel any weirdness that night?”
Daniel shook his head confidently, “If there is something wrong with the car do you think I would dare to take Kerelyn to the supermarket by driving it?”
He knows very well how Daniel loves the blue Mustang car, he will not let it blister even if only a little especially if it reaches fatal damage such as a blong brake. But something disturbed Alex's mind, some time he just fell silent before finally walking towards the parking lot.
“Come, D,” he said while coding with his head for Daniel to follow.
“Where are we going?” daniel asked, trailing behind Alex.
“Finding out if he's lying isn't.” Alex said as he started his car and started leaving the NYPD parking lot.
Before long they reached the dumping ground of used cars and then destroyed, they get out of the car and search for Daniel's car accompanied by one of the officers there after Alex previously showed him his police badge.
“I can't believe you believe ******* that,” Daniel asked as he continued to walk into the place where his left right was a pile of destroyed cars.
“I believe that you take very good care of your car, but there is something that strikes my mind,” said Alex trying to calm his best friend, usually Daniel who can always think clearly in any condition, but now it seems he can't do that.
“What is it?”
“Do you think he'll hurt himself by jumping out of the car and letting the car he painstakingly stole crumble?” Daniel was silent about what Alex said was right, “I know that you love your car like a lover, but maybe he has a point, and we'll find out now" Alex continued, they turned to the right where parked cars were about to be destroyed after the destruction warrant came.
“You must believe me, I will not let anything happen to my lover. If Gerard loves computers, then I love my car.”.
Alex snorted laughing at Daniel's words, and indeed that was the fact that they both loved the two things like his own lover, “In retrospect only I was normal between the two of you.” Daniel looked at Alex while raising his eyebrows cluelessly, “Because I am the only one who loves women,” Alex continued with a slanted smile, making Daniel laugh while shaking his head.
“Well, here comes your lover,” said Alex as he stared at the blue Mustang car with two white vertical lines on its dented front hood, similarly, the roof because it looks like the thief was driving at full speed before finally hitting the shoulder of the road and then overturned and had dragged several meters before finally stopping by hitting the power pole.
Daniel could only stare dejectedly as he took a deep breath staring at his beloved object dejectedly, Alex ordered the attendant to check the brake wires to see if there was any discrepancy or not. Daniel looked in from the window and he breathed heavily when he saw the interior of his vehicle was a mess, but then he furrowed his eyebrows when he saw the white tulip petals tucked under the driver's seat, curious he opened the car door despite his difficulty but finally the door was open as well.
“What did you find?” asked Alex was curious to see Daniel who was reaching for something under the chair, his eyebrows shot up when he saw Daniel pulling a sprig of tulips with only a few crushed petals stuck there.
“What's that flower you're going to give Kerelyn?”
Daniel shook his head in response to Alex's question, he fell silent in thought before he finally said, “I remember seeing Kerelyn multiple times receiving flowers like this, he said, but I'm sure that night this flower wasn't in here.”
Some moments they just look at each other with various thoughts running through each other's heads, “You mean someone deliberately put it in your car?”
Daniel will open his mouth to answer Alex's question when the officer assigned Alex to check the brake cable called both, now they both face the officer who then showed something.
“It looks like someone has cut the brake cable.”
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Well it turns out there was sabotage, someone cut Daniel's car brake cord!
Can anyone guess who? 😉
Uh! in the next episode it looks like there will be some clue. actually anyway, from the initial eps of his clue sdh scattered 🤭 origin carefully must be guessed 😉
