9 The Unintentional Bluff

"Take this piece of trash into custody." The waiter held Tyler's arm behind him in a tight grip and pulled him towards the stairs. "HEY WAIT YOU FUCKING OLD TURD. ISABELLA WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS! WHAT DO YOU WANT? MONEY? FAME?? I CAN GIVE YOU EVERYTHING SO LET'S CALM DOWN AND THINK RATIONALLY SHALL WE?" Tyler cries out screams of desperate anguish as Isabella walks up to him and shoves the phone she was holding in his face. "You know it's still recording right? "

Tyler went dead silent realizing he just added a few more years to his jail period. "You won't get away with this so easily.....My dad will-" Tyler's attempt to threaten Isabella was cut short by a swift chop to the neck by the waiter. "I'll take him to the police station in the car, ma'am. Should I pick you on my way back?" The waiter lifts the knocked out Tyler on his shoulder. "I'll be fine, If I need you I'll give you a call." The waiter gave an honest smile and turned back but his path was blocked by what seemed to be the Owner of the restaurant.

"What is this illicit behavior Marcus? What are you doing to our customer? The other guests are worried as well." The Waiter puts Tyler flat on the ground, "I quit." The Owner started trembling from shock as the waiter took out a badge from his back pocket. "You were an undercover agent all along? Hmm what a waste. So I assume this was a mission as well. Okay then you are good to go." The owner goes to the other tables and clears their confusion one by one while 'Marcus' the waiter grabs Tyler downstairs.

Isabella gives a deep sigh and walks to my table. "It won't hurt to sit down Xain." Do you really think I am in a position to be calm after what just happened? "Oh right sorry." Isabella takes a seat in front of me as we both settle down. "Okay so.... I messed up." Messed up..?The only thing you messed up was Tyler's career I think. What could she possibly be talking about? "I forgot.. to hit 'record'. I just realized this a while ago. I got him bribing me in the recording but all the stuff he explained about Samantha....It's not here."

So all of the things she said to Tyler were a bluff? Well that bluff certainly worked, for a little while that is. "I am sorry for including you in this Xain. My father is a detective and he has been working on pinning Tyler for a long time. He wasn't able to find any evidence for all the illegal stuff he was into as all the databases were either "lost" or "corrupted" out of the blue. Tyler definitely played a hand in this; his parents have a high reach in the government so they can get stuff done with just an order."

Oh so that's why she went through all of this act, her dad probably asked her to. "Oh so you're doing this for your dad. How did including me give you a better chance at success though?" I asked Isabella as I sipped the cold tea served to me 10 minutes ago. "I am not doing this entirely for my dad actually. Samantha was my classmate and when I heard she was a victim to Tyler's play as well, I myself volunteered to help in this case. And As for where you step in this plan, well my bodyguard Marcus wasn't supposed to be here today, so I thought you would be able to take care of Tyler when the time came, but thankfully Marcus arrived in time and took care of the situation.

"What made you think a person you haven't interacted with much would be the best choice here, what if I sided with Tyler and Marcus wasn't around?" I took another sip yet again as I saw Isabella smirk. "You're different. I haven't known you for a long time but I don't need to. All the boys who I met for the first time either asked for my number or wished I was in bed with them. Remember when you slammed the door at my face? Someone normal would go on their knees apologizing and I say that cause it has happened before. Actually that's how I got my first apology letter; I may have kicked him in the gut. But anyways, you looked like someone I can trust, someone responsible, and someone who sides with logic rather than emotions."

She got so much Intel about me in just 20 minutes? No wonder she's a detective's daughter. "Oh and why did you call me when I was going to the bathroom?" I looked in the tea cup to have another sip but it ran out earlier than expected."Oh I was going to tell you that you can go if you wanted as Marcus was here, but it seems you wanted to stay anyways."

I took out the phone after feeling a faint "boop" in my pocket. It was a message from Mark asking me how long it will take for me to reach home. As I scrolled down the notifications the corner of my eye caught a diamond, the notification said "Your recording file has been saved. Tap to view." Wait which recording file...? Oh right I set my call settings to auto record because of all the prank calls I was getting. Oh so the call was recorded when Isabella called me while I was in the bathroom. WAIT SO DOES THIS MEAN....

I quickly tapped on the notification and it redirected me to the recording. Placing the phone in the center of the table I tapped the 'play' option. "You owe me one, Isabella." Everything from adding something to the beef wellington to what he did with Samantha was recorded. Tears from her red crimson eyes fell over her pink puffed cheeks like a fretful stream over boulders, she was smiling....

"All my hard work up to this point didn't go in vain...it didn't, just because you were there, Xain."

--CHP CONCLUDES--