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Losing Everything

Author: Henrietta Otu
last update Last Updated: 2022-02-22 19:26:07

Lian drove in his car trying endlessly to reach Riley and the others on phone but it proved futile. He tossed the phone on the seat and sped up. After about 20mins of driving, he got to the FBI office. 

 He parked his car, glided out of it, and rushed into the office. He met with one of the officers on his way and he directed him to the detective in charge of criminal investigations.

"Thank you." he murmured and dashed over to the desk of the detective "Good evening detective, I'm  Lian and I'm here to report a case." He spat as he took his seat in front of the detective who was busily working on some papers.

"Good evening Lian," he dropped the pen on his desk as he lifted his head to face the person sitting in front of him. "Detective Robert here, how may I help you?" he clasped his hands on the table.

"I'm here to file a case," said Lian as he reached out for his phone from his pocket. He searched for the video sent to him, clicked on it fo

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