She was the best of the best. Everyone in the precinct wanted to be her and those who had worked with her were proud to be by her side. It was unusual for a woman as young as her to make detective but she had. At 24, she had advanced through the ranks fairly quickly and within a year she was solving the biggest crimes in L.A. The city that never slept was unforgiving at times but she had an untouchable record. After 15 cases, she had made fourteen arrests and one kill. Not only was she great at her job but she was also drop dead gorgeous. Long brown curly hair fell wildly to her shoulders and her dark eyes could pierce a hole straight through someone. She was not tall by any means and she had a delicate slender frame, which was not to be mistaken for weakness. Ashley Davies seemed to have it all.

Ashley breezed into her office, plopping down in the large leather chair behind her cherry oak desk. The place was a mess and case files were piled in every corner of the room. She flipped on her computer and ran her hand through her curls. The chief wanted to see her in twenty minutes and she could only imagine what it was for. After last week’s operation she’d had at least twenty consults with various upper level employees. She’d been on a serial case, and they’d finally had a breakthrough with a partial fingerprint but the guy had been smart. He’d known they were coming before they even got there. The jackass had barricaded himself inside of his house with three hostages. They were children. Ashley and her team had constructed a plan to isolate the hostages from the killer and all had gone according to plan.

Unfortunately at the last minute as they were swarming to arrest him the perp pulled a small handgun from a hidden holster on his ankle. Ashley had reacted quickly telling him to drop the weapon and when he refused she’d opened fire. Two shots in the chest later, the man was dead and it was all over. After it had happened, she’d been required to sit through several psych evaluations and she’d been over the details of the kill with almost every single head of department. As soon as she’d arrived in the office today, her secretary Jessica had given her the message from the chief.