****XANDER*****

"Detective Kim is on leave. This is your chance to get promoted to detective. Don’t blow it." My boss said over the phone, as I stood outside the strip club waiting in line as I listened to him.

"I won’t mess it up, boss. You can count on me." I assured.

"Alright Xander, if you find the culprit, consider yourself promoted," he said and hung up. I sighed. We had been talking on the phone for hours on my way to the strip club. I was expected to catch a criminal in the strip club that had been abducting desperate girls for sex trafficking.

I looked behind me. I...