Chapter 6 - POLICE ENFORCEMENT
The police arrived within three minutes.
My security system was directly linked to the local precinct’s panic protocol, activated the second the back door latch had been forced. Two armed officers walked through the shattered sliding glass door, their flashlights sweeping the room before locking onto Sergio standing in the center of my living room.
"Sir, put your hands behind your back," the lead officer commanded, his hand resting on his holster.
"Wait, wait! I live here! This is my wife's house!" Sergio protested, stepping back, but the officers didn't hesitate. They pushed him against the living room wall, patting him down swiftly and snapping the steel handcuffs around his wrists.
"You're in violation of an active temporary restraining order filed six hours ago," the officer stated coldly as he read Sergio his rights. "And you're being booked for attempted burglary and criminal trespassing."
As they dragged him toward the back patio and down the steps toward the patrol cars waiting in the alley, Sergio looked back at me through the shattered glass door. His eyes were wide with sheer disbelief, begging for mercy that I simply did not possess.
I watched them put him into the back of the cruiser.
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I didn't feel sad. I didn't feel angry. I just felt a profound, beautiful sense of weightlessness.
The parasite was finally out of my system.
