Chapter 10

     HAILEN'S CONFESSIONS (1)

    It was very early on that Friday, Hailen was presented to the judge of criminal cases, and

unsurprisingly, she found herself in detention in the most secure prison in which criminals of her category were held. A security device was erected to thwart any attempt to escape. She was placed in solitary confinement and under surveillance. Hailen, sitting on the bed looked around her, the room was very small, and, pensive, she saw the film of her whole life scrolling through her head. After an hour, three guards came to fetch her for questioning. Once in this room, seated in front of her, a man of about forty, with a closed face, looking at her straight in the eyes with an indescribable air, said to her in a dry tone: 

               "START TALKING"

The man was  Detective Maxwell, an investigator with unorthodox methods to make you confess your crimes, very feared in mafia circles, no one walks past him without spitting it out, he has the reputation of a particular man, he happened to interrogate a group of mafia's men for three days and three nights without getting tired. Hailen knew him by name, and when he introduced himself, she understood that she had to cooperate in order not to have to test  his methods. 

"I want to know everything from beginning to end, I have plenty of time," 

Detective Maxwell said, lighting a cigarette. 

Hailen, after a long sigh, began to speak:

   She had started to stray from the right path at the age of 16. One evening, she had had a bad encounter with Pedro, 22-year-old young man who looked like a well-educated young man, nothing in him showed his criminal side. 

She had fallen under his spell and had fallen madly in love with him. 

For her, he was the man of her life! She was ready to do anything to be with him, even to leave the family home. This relationship, without knowing it, was going to change his life. After 6 months, she became pregnant, which her angry parents threw her out of the house, to keep their reputation. She had nowhere to go, there was only Pedro's apartment. The latter did not close the door to her but accepted her with open arms.  Hailen was sad for the separation with her family, she was their only child, her mother had told her that she would have liked to have other children, but her state of health did not allow it. But then, why not accept this child she was carrying in her womb? 

To make her forget her worries a little, Pedro served her a glass of alcohol and it was the beginning of a succession. After alcohol, it was cigarettes, after drugs. She ends up having a miscarriage. She spent all her days in the house without going out, Pedro took great care her, he gave her everything she needed, then one evening she told him she wanted to look for a job. 

Pedro tells him that there is a scooter parcel delivery station that pays well. Without asking too many questions, she accepted and thus became a drug delivery girl. Hailen worked like this for a while, she became very popular with everyone, Pedro's friends said she was very efficient. 

Then one evening, after a night out with his friends Pedro did not return to the apartment. She tried to reach him by phone, nothing. She looked for him everywhere, but no one told her anything! No one knows where he was. After a week, Pedro's body was found in a field with a bullet in the head!  She was sitting on the bed, thinking about Pedro when the bell of  the entrance to the apartment rang, Hailen rushed to open it, thinking it was Pedro, but in front of her it was three policemen. She realized that something serious had happened. She will thus learn that Pedro had been killed by a bullet in the head, and it is from that moment , she had decided to avenge him.