Understanding

My jaw ticked as I stared at the two detectives who had gone rather silent or should I say, they were silently communicating.

Ethan and I sat side by side in Detective Wallice’s office at the NYPD wondering in silence why the two detectives who had watched the security footage suddenly went silent.

“Can someone please say something?” I finally snapped in frustration causing them to snap their gazes at me before Wallice sighed and sat down.

“This isn’t enough incriminating evidence, she,” he started.

“What do you mean there's not enough evidence? We can both clearly see that she’s blackmailing and threatening the only lead we had who ended up giving us wrong information,” I said or rather yelled until I felt a hand on my back making me turn my head to Ethan incredulously as I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

The footage clearly showed Mr. Philips talking to this woman, who I thought had finally been by my side and she was threatening him, to give us false information. What coul