The Detective Story by Hanna Khodasevych

The total chaos was in the office.
Everyone was very nervous and flustered around. It was for the first time, when someone from the company was murdered. In fact, it wasn’t just someone. It was the guy, who was in charge. It was Patrick. The closest to him people gathered at the conference room. In the following few hours police was going to interrogate them all. They all were extremely nervous, but only one of them looked calmer than the others.
“Hey, Jim”, one of those guys called another one. “You don’t look very worried, do you?”
“Why should I?” asked Jim.
“Well, maybe because you had a motive to kill Patrick. You wanted to take his place for last few years”, answered Jordan.
“Oh, come on! Everyone in this room wanted his chair, including you, by the way. Anyone might have done it,” said Jim.
“Yes, but only you have lost him, when you both presented your projects to become in charge of this company. Just admit that you’ve been jealous to him all these years, because he turned to be smarter and luckier”, replied Jordan.

“Jordan, I am the vice president of this company. Do you really think that I need more power, than
I have now?” asked Jim.
“Who knows, power is a kind of things that could never be enough,” answered Jordan.
“Don’t you think that even if I really have killed Patrick, I would sit here instead of flying to a secret
place?” asked Jim.
“Well, your international passport, which sticks from your pocket, says that you’ve prepared the way out”, replied Jordan.
“Jordan, I can’t hear that bullshit anymore. I’ll better go to smoke”, said Jim irritatedly and went out of the room.
Just as he came into the elevator, his behavior changed completely. His hands started to tremble and he began to sweat. He tried to calm down and take a deep breath, but there was bare enough air. He took a cellphone out of his pocket to make a call, but his trembled fingers barely listened to him. Only after five minutes did he succeed.
“Jim? What happened?” a female voice answered the phone.
“I need your help. Did you delete all the fails connected with that story?”
“About which story, Jim?”
“About THAT story!!!”
“Of course, I did. Calm down and tell me what is going on.”
“I can’t do it right now. We’ll talk about it later. I have to go.”
“Jim?.. Jim?!... JIM!!!”