"Doctor are you sure you want the cuffs off. He is a nice guy but protocol says he has to be cuffed. If there is an issue, I will lose my job"

"Officer, I am the doctor here. I want him off the cuffs and you out of this room" I told him firmly. I saw Steve looking confused with a frown.

Officer Harry looked confused but then agreed. He took off the cuffs and turned to leave.

"Doctor keep the door open at least. I don't want to take any risk"

"Officer, if you don't let me do my job the way I want, there is no point me wasting my time in here. I will gladly go to a place where they will oblige me" and that did the trick. He knows well that if I back off stating reasons he will loose his job.

Reluctantly he left while Steve took the chair.

"You should have listened to him"

"Why is it?" I asked him.

"I am a killer. A dangerous criminal. You are not safe with me" - avoiding my eyes, body language rigid.

"Tell me about yourself Steve. Your childhood, adulthood, crime you committed and the life here. Everything"

"There is nothing much. What ever there to say is in that file"

I am not a fool. He wants to get away from this room as soon as possible. So, he is not comfortable. And that stem from may be the desire to hide something. But what can he hide?

"I want to hear from you. Your parents are alive? I asked him.

"Mom died when I was 8. Never knew dad"

"Siblings?"

"None" he replied.

"How was the life with your mother? Were you close to her? Any fond memories of her?" I asked him. And I can see him loosing his temper a little. But I was surprised when he replied me with so much control.

"Life was good with mom and I was just 8. so I don't remember if I was close to her or not. I am too young to have remember anything"

I took down the note - childhood mystery. Need more information of mother and her death. More details on life with mother and feelings of mother.

"What happened after she died?" I asked him.

"Didn't you read the bloody file doctor. Everything is there. I don't think I need to answer all these questions" he slashed at me.

"Steve, I am here to help. In case if you don't know, let me tell you. My recommendations can make a hell of a lot difference in your life. If I am persuasive enough, even a leniency is possible. But to do that, I need you to speak to me. Tell me the truth"

"F*ck off" he said surprising me. I looked at him and studied him further.

He has a very intelligent look about him which I know doesn't come from nothing. I wish I had read his file. But no, I will not read it. I will listen to him, then make the comparison. There is something going on here. And my instincts never failed me, Alhamdulillah and it will never does Inshallah.

"Why? Why do you refuse what I can offer?" I asked him curious.

"What you can offer? Only thing you can offer right now for someone who didn't have a woman in approximately 3 years is yourself. So unless you are willing to f*ck me, let the guards come in and take me. If you read the file, you would know I have killed 3 people cold blooded, mercilessly and brutally. Adding another to the file will not make a difference" he said.

This is very interesting. I know, I ought to be scared but I took down the notes - Fail to look comfortable when threating. Most of the people who are accused of murder and, then confess of it has anger. And they do threaten, but carry on. That's how their brains most of the time wired. They can be impulsive as well. But someone who threaten very uncomfortably is a novelty even for me.

"Okay. Let me be very clear Steve. If I want to f*ck you, like you eloquently put it, then I want to do it with a man who is free to live. Not with someone who is going to face his death and leave me devastated. Let's face it, you are good looking man and I might fall in love with you. So, f*cking option is off the table - at least for now" yes, I said all that. And the look on Steve's face was priceless. He genuinely looked shocked. And he literally shook his head to process what I said.

"And you can kill me. And it wont be help your case as you are anyway not helping yourself. But you know what, I am here for a reason. People pay me minimum $ 5,000 an hour when I do private consulting and it is for a reason. And the reason is, I am good at what I am doing. Now, you have an option. Fight me until you realize you don't have an option but to continue corporation or willing to cooperate. Either way, you will speak to me" I told him and my threatening weren't empty unlike his. I meant every word I said.

"Bitch" he said and I can see him controlling again his temper. And I took down the note - Ability to control himself.

"How are you going to make me cooperate?" he asked. Well, he wants it the hard way, then he gets it.

"Officer Harry" I called him. And the officer came in.

"Yes doctor, are we done here?" he asked me.

"No, not really. I want an alteration to my schedule here. I have been allocated 10 people. I want them all to be moved to week days. Two a day. But my weekends, I want to only Steve. And of course you may sit with us while I do my work. I will give 16 hours , which is 8 hours a day with for Steve"

Officer Harry dropped his jaws. And Steve imitated officer Harry.

"Doctor, please. You cant be serious"

"Officer Harry, Steve here refuses to help himself. So, I am forced to help him. I will give two weeks with you, then I will ask the senior jail officer to come the week after that, and then the commissioner of prison the week after that. After 4 weeks, I will get the other departments involved. Interrogation is one of them" and Steve went white as a paper and Officer Harry couldn't believe what he heard.

"Doctor, please. I know Steve since he came here first. He is a decent guy, who isn't any trouble at all. He keeps to himself. Speak only when spoken. Never gotten in to any fight. He is not someone who should be here. Please don't torture him. He will comply. Wont you Steve?"

Interrogation will use torture techniques. I am not sure if I meant it. But when I want something, and feel something, it is often the right thing. I looked at Steve for his answer. All I saw was hatred oozing from his eyes.

"Officer, who the f*ck is she?" he asked him. Officer Harry almost looked apologetic towards me.

"Someone who can make your sorry self even more sorrier. So, do as she says man"

"Okay" he said but I saw the resentment. He is not going to cooperate. A man, whose potential freedom is in my hand is not willing to cooperate. That is very interesting.

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Manipulative women have been the cause of my destruction and I thought I am done with them, but here she is. For a beautiful woman she is incarnation of devil himself. I manage to go through every interrogation and psychological profiling without failing. And this woman just speak to me for less than 5 minutes and think she figure it all by herself. Well, lets see. I am made of tougher things. A man knowing he is in the death row and accepting it has more sterner stuff than a doctor catering to upper class of the society.

She is a mean little thing. Interrogation. I am able to take pain - physical pain. Little does she knew such threats will hardly work on me. But it surprised me to the extend she is willing to go but what scared me the most is, she feels something is not right. That made me almost scared to death than any of her other threats. I need time to work this out.

"I'll cooperate. But I am not in a mood today. Let me go" I asked her. For a moment I thought she wouldn't agree.

"You can go. Officer, get the others lined up today. I need to see Steve tomorrow at 10. Only if and when I am done with him, I will take the rest. Get my schedule email to prison commissioner and district attorney" she ordered Officer Harry like a queen. So, she knows high profile people and does have influence. I better give her what she wants, but I need to go to the gym and release my anger right now.

"You may go" she said, and I did go.