Chapter 51 - Chapter 50

# Chapter 50
CAPTAIN CUPIDO

The station commander, Colonel Olifant, is a weathered man in his fifties with a severe face and bushy white eyebrows. When he is leaning back in his seat like he is now, his podgy gut provides the perfect support for his clasped hands. His eyes swing between me and Warrant Officer Bester and back. "The search revealed nothing?"

"Ja, that's correct," Bester speaks up in his barely used rumbly voice, making me wince.

Olifant pins his beady dark eyes on me, his expression grim, patience hanging on by a thin thread. "Let me get this straight. You pushed for a search warrant, convinced me it would be a good decision that would lead us somewhere, and now here we are, no closer to hauling Hadebe's ass back to prison. Not only that, but now we have a media frenzy on our hands. Reporters camping outside that poor reporter's gate. And you have the audacity to come in here and ask me for permission to bring her in for questioning?" His stern dark eyes make me feel five years old. I open my mouth to plead my case, but Olifant cuts me off, "Based on what grounds? It requires an arrest warrant, Captain Cupido. Let me remind you, the search warrant found nothing. We don't have anything to go by, no grounds to serve Miss Mabandla with an arrest warrant, and she isn't going to willingly agree to come in for a friendly chat. Not if she's smart."

I clear my throat. "I know she's been seeing him."

Olifant says nothing, just glares at me.

"If I can only get her to agree to a polygraph."

"Absolutely not." He shakes his head. "They don't hold up in court."