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As she glanced around at the horrified stares she was grateful for the Ray Ban's perched on her nose, hiding her glittering brown eyes. No one could see that she didn't share the horror in their expressions but rather that there was amusement as she was led through the upper crust dinner with a cop on either side of her and her hands cuffed at the wrists. She was careful to walk slowly in her stiletto heels as her gown was a little long and she could easily have tripped. She bit her lips to keep from laughing, smiling, or showing emotion in any way, most thought she was biting them to keep from crying.
Most people would have been embarrassed, humiliated, horrified to be led out of a formal dinner party for 100 of your closest friends like this. No one could imagine what Ashley Bingham-Bentley had done that would warrant this kind of treatment. They could only stand in absolute silence as the officers pushed their way through the masses to take Ms. Bingham Bentley into custody before nasty little whispers broke out all over the room.
"Excuse me, EXCUSE ME" a pompous rotund little man blocked their way and they halted. "I am one of Ms. Bingham-Bentley's lawyer's and I demand to know what this is about" he said condescendingly with all the upper crust hauteur that he could muster.
The taller of the two cops looked at him interested, as you would a bug that was writhing on the end of a pin. Her bored green eyes were barely open under her sleepy eyelids as she looked him up and down as though she couldn't believe what was before them. He flushed under her scrutiny. The two cops attempted to take their prisoner around the little man but he stepped into their path again and halted their progress. An eyebrow raised at his audacity.
"Didn't you hear me..." he began in his arrogant tones as though speaking to an inferior which he felt he was.
She interrupted him as she pushed him aside rudely "you can come down to the station house where she will be booked and find out then." Despite his protestations the three of them proceeded out the door of the elegant ballroom where the party had been going full swing before their entrance and the subsequent arrest of one Ms. Bingham-Bentley.
His protests of "I know the mayor, he won't like this..." went unheeded as they made their way out.
Several elegant couples were attempting to enter as they made their way down the steps and they stopped to stare in wonder as she was escorted outside to a waiting patrol car, it's lights flashing red and blue, and unceremoniously thrown into the backseat. One of the cops threw the train of her gown in before slamming the door.
As the two cops got into the car, the one in uniform behind the wheel, the one in a trenchcoat in the passenger seat, she attempted to speak from the back seat but the trenchcoat wearing cop raised her finger to her lips and then pointed at the camera placed strategically on the dash. Ms. Bingham-Bentley nodded once to show she understood as she looked around at interested bystanders as they drove away.
"Bravo 671 to base, suspect in custody" the uniformed driver called into the radio.
"10-4 671" a disinterested voice droned back.