Jack In The Box

“FBI Agent Flint Knight.” The tall handsome man introduced himself. “I’d like to start the interrogation now, I prefer to question you alone, Ms. Frazer without having your colleagues in the same room. If you can ask Dr. Shaw to wait outside.”

“Aaron...”

“I can hear you just fine, Agent Knight. I’ll be in the other room.” To me, Aaron said. “If there’s anything you need, don’t hesitate to call me.”

I nodded. The door of the room closed. Agent Knight was blond, emerald eyes and clean-shaven. He also had a sharp jawline, and although he wasn’t movie star handsome, there was something so attractive about him that would bring any woman to her knees. Probably the way he carried himself and the radiating power of authority. The room was also occupied by two other men. An equally attractive African-American and another Hispanic. Detectives Scott and Sanchez respectively. They were watching me intently, like hawks.

Agent Scott was poised with an iPad, typing away. He’d given me what was a hint of a smiled once and then he was all official and business like.

“Would you care for some water, tea or coffee?” Knight asked me.

“Thanks, but I’m fine.” I said. I knew how they would bring any amount of liquid I requested and then when I wanted to take a bathroom break, they’d deny until they had the truth tumbling out of my mouth. I wasn’t going to let them use “a bathroom” as a bait.

Also, I had nothing to hide.

“Ms. Frazer, what’s your relationship with Jackson Wolfe?”

“He was my patient and I was his assigned nurse.” I answered.

“Nothing more than that?” He inquired.

“No.” I said.

Jack had said he’d loved me, it was an all too consuming attraction from both sides but I couldn’t be sure what Jack could be thinking because he was highly manipulative and he could have said it for personal gain. He was smart enough to know that as soon as I left the cabin, I’d be here surrounded by marshals being questioned and analyzed.

Agent Scott continued to type on the device frantically.

“After you were kidnapped, Ms. Frazer, where did he take you?”

“I couldn’t be sure of the location because I wasn’t conscious. When I woke up, I noticed I was in a cabin, a very modest one surrounded by mountains and forest.”

He nodded slowly. “He didn’t hurt you?”

“He didn’t. Jack would go on with his business during the day, and return at the cabin at night.”

I could tell they were not believing a word I said. Eyes not wavering off mine, I continued to maintain eye-contact. If they thought I would be intimidated and confess to things that didn’t

mention where he was going,

his business,

you telling

“Yes.” I said.

when Nurse

cabin.” I

Knight’s brow shot up, “Are you sure? Think hard. Every little detail helps us,

was out until afternoon and he came back to the cabin that evening.”

but the post-Mortem reports tell us she died the same day you

“Are you insinuating that

gem like eyes glistening with amusement. “I like how you made your own assumption about what we think, but you’re smart, you know exactly what

did not. And you’re foolish

please tell me if I’m wrong here, that you took a fascination for Wolfe like a child taking interest in beetles and butterflies, that fascination might

I couldn’t believe this was happening to me. “If you

department about my reputation to pin down a case with my logic. I’m right eighty percent of the time and manage to get a confession out soon, the other twenty percent are either lying or are already

“I’m not Jackson’s accomplice.”

do obsess over serial

fingers with that speed. His dark eyes met mine for a second before jerking back

in studying them. Nothing more than that and it has nothing to do

stolen from the operation theater and handed

me to do it!”

there’s nothing between

times am I supposed

told me that you confessed to having consensual sex with Jack and retrieving these pills for personal use.” He propped himself at the edge of the table, looking everything like a wild cat. “Your sexual endeavors is none of my business, Ms. Frazer, but you denied to having any other relationship with Jack and that directly makes you a suspect

over for me. They were going to give me jail time

first thing I would do when I was out of the interrogation room

will not speak without

didn’t rape

not talk another word without my

Frazer. We will give you time to make arrangements for a legal counsel and we will resume our interrogation following that,

if I was nervous and I could bet they suspected me for it. As soon as I was out of the station, I felt like