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A Touch of Memory and Revenge 20. The case takes a new turn
Erik passed the paper over to the man and woman sitting on the other side of the table in the room. They picked it up and he could see the satisfaction in their eyes but then, their attorney took the paper from them, checked it and scoffed.“ I think you can do more than this Storm. You’re insulting us here…”, he said dropping the paper and pushing it back to him. Erik looked at Brandon, who was only sitting in just so he would have another legal counsel in the room.“ actually, that’s the most we can do, my hands are tied…”, he admitted.The lawyer defending the family snorted, “ you’re joking if you think this offer would get us to drop the lawsuit…”, he said.Erik smirked, already getting the reaction he wanted, “ no, I know it wouldn’t, I just wanted to see what you guys were after and it turns out that you were after money… ”, he concluded, turning to face the man and his wife.“ Did he tell you that he was going to help you get money if you filed a lawsuit, well he lied because a
A Touch of Memory and Revenge 21. Brothers and the case
Johan woke up to the sound of his phone ringing. He groaned as he rolled over, trying to find the annoying device with his eyes closed. When he couldn’t find it, he groaned, grateful that it had stopped ringing. So he continued to sleep. His ringtone blared again, this time louder than before as if it knew that he was intentionally refusing to pick it up.“ Damn!, Who’s calling this early in the morning…”, he whined, turning around so he could properly find the phone with his eyes opened.He saw the phone on the floor beside his shoes and wondered when and how it got there.He knew that he had been so tired the previous day after his reading and had failed to keep track of his activities and mouth, by the way.Johan winced when he remembered what he had said to Isabella, ' your eyes are beautiful', he groaned, answering the call.“ hello…”, he answered. Whoever the person was, he hoped it was not that urgent.“ Hello Johan…”, Isabella’s voice sounded from the other end of the call. S
A Touch of Memory and Revenge 22. The case briefing (2)
Johan walked into the station with Erik trudging behind him. He had somehow convinced his brother to follow him to the station with the help of Lucas. Of course, Lucas was not going to let this opportunity of gathering more information about the case pass him by.“ I don’t like being here”, Erik grumbled as they crossed the front entrance.Johan rolled his eyes, ignoring his brother. He had been whining since Johan learnt of the matter. Johan had called Lucas immediately and told him of the recent development and Lucas had asked him to bring Erik to the police station and if possible, he should drag the guy to the station.Johan led the way to the crime investigation division with Erik trolling behind him. They were waiting for them for the meeting they were supposed to have that morning.“ this place is too crowded, how do you guys work here?, Everybody is doing one thing or the other“, Erik asked him as they entered the office.“ How do we work here?, You mind your business. That is
A Touch of Memory and Revenge 23. Under threat
Erik sighed, something he has been doing since that morning when he woke up. He had not expected for the case to turn out like this, it should have been something simple. As simple as convincing the families to sign the settlement agreement and give his client the promised result. Yet now, he was sitting down in the police station, trying to figure out if his client was responsible for their deaths or not.He sighed, “ I can’t believe this is happening!”, he spoke out.Honestly, if he could turn back the hands of time, he would take time back to the day he signed Mancap foods as a client. Representing them was starting to look like his worst mistake.“ You usually have better luck when it comes to the clients you take on. What happened here?”, Lucas asked him in a whisper.Erik turned to face him, the only person in the room with him. Yes, before he took a case, he would always do a background check but this time, his private investigator had been out of the country and he had simply
A Touch of Memory and Revenge 24. "Open up or I'm going to force the door open! "
Isabella parked her black Mercedes Benz along the road rather than driving into the parking space in front of the house. There was a reason she did that, it was so that their flight would be easy. She turned off the ignition and climbed out of the car. Johan followed her out too, shutting the door behind him and walking around to meet her on her side.“ This his house?”, Johan asked her.Isabella nodded, “ yes, that’s what the address says”, she replied looking at the paper in her hands. The house looked desolate and she doubt that someone was living there. She led the way to the front porch, kicking things out of the way.“ I don’t think someone is living here. They probably left or something”, Johan voiced.Ignoring him, she raised up her knuckles and knocked on the door. She was starting to regret letting him tag along with her. That is what you get when you investigate a case with a rookie, they question your every move. For all she knows, the owners of the house could have been p
A Touch of Memory and Revenge 25. The attack!
Norman squinted his eyes, “ if you’re here, I know that you are aware that someone is targeting us and burning our houses”, he grunted.Isabella bit her cheeks, good, he was up to date with the case, now they were good to go.“ why is that? Why is this person targeting you guys and why is he targeting just a specific set of persons?...” Johan asked him.“ I don’t know…, if I do, I wouldn’t be running away. They just sent a message to us to withdraw from the case. Not everyone though, a specific set of persons. And at first, we thought that it was a joke until they burnt someone’s house. I thought it was too much of a coincidence to just happen..”, Norman told them.So they were threatened, that was why they pulled out of the case. A question popped up in her mind, who would their action favor. With them pulling out of the case, it would only favor Mancap, except someone was pulling the strings behind the scene.“ Is the message coming from Mancap?”, Johan asked.Norman shook his head,
A Touch of Memory and Revenge 26. Johan goes into the burning house
Johan sniffed the air, “ do you smell that?”, he asked her.Isabella frowned, “ smell what…”, she said looking at him.He closed his eyes as if he was trying to remember what the smell was. He knew it was a chemical but he couldn’t pinpoint what exactly it was. There was no industry around the area, so it was abnormal for that kind of smell to be perceived in the area.Moving slowly towards Norman’s house and following the smell, he stopped when someone held him back.“ what the hell!”, Isabella shouted, pulling him out of his dreamy state. He snapped, Turning, he saw that it was Isabella gripping his cloth. Good thing she had not touched his bare skin, it wasn’t like he could see or read her Memories. He arched his brows at her.Even though they had been able to be civil with each other today, it doesn’t mean she should go around touching him, though he had thought that her touch would irritate him, he didn’t feel irritated, he actually feels like he wanted her to keep touching him
A Touch of Memory and Revenge 27. Where is Johan?
Mr. Benson sighed, looking around like he was being watched, “ I don’t know…”, he lied, Erik noticed.“ All I know is that I don’t want to end up like the other families, so leave me alone please and don’t come back here”, he spoke abruptly, slamming the door at their faces.What just happened, Erik arched a brow at Lucas who was also as stupefied as he was. One thing was clear though, Mr. Benson was scared, and the only reason was because he was under threat and someone was watching him.They were on their way to the next house, since Mr. Benson had provided them with little or no information about what was happening because he didn’t want to die, then they had better check in with the other families, if they were acting the same too.“ I need to check in with the guys to know what they’ve gathered so far”, Lucas said beside him, making the call. Erik was less interested in the call Lucas was making and more interested in how to make this case less complicated.With what he knows now,
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34. Headway
“The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.” ~ Billy Wilder Isabella walked into the forensic department of the police force with renewed zeal and focus. She moved with a strong and firm desire to catch the arsonist. After hitting a head block for weeks, she was hoping for a miracle.She has left the hospital after Johan had woken up and even though she had seen him briefly, they had not spoken to each other. What was she supposed to say, ' hey, I’m sorry for not backing you up', ' I’m sorry you got hurt while I was being a mess', ' I’m your partner and I suck'.She sighed, pushing the doors to the lab where the evidence from the crime scene was being analyzed. She spotted Hayden before he saw her.“ Hey” Hayden called with a wave.She went to stand next to him, looking through the transparent glass separating them from the lab.“ hey, what’s the news.?” She asked Hayden.The man flicked his gaze briefly to her before he sighed.“ you know
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33. Shit!, he knows
“ Mikael!, Wake up.” Someone called him, shaking his shoulders.He frowned, who the hell was Mikael, he thought as he forced his eyes open to look into the green eyes of the familiar man that now frequently appeared in his dreams.“ C’mon son, you’ll be late for school if you don’t get up, plus your mom would eat my head if you’re late…” the familiar man said.Johan’s frown deepened, what the hell was going on. The man was calling him Mikael. Was he hallucinating or something, and school?, What school was he talking about, he thought.“Get moving son” the man said, as he dragged Johan out of the bed. He wanted to ask the man who he was, but his mouth couldn’t utter a word even as he was dragged out of bed into a familiar hallway. He tried to remember where he had seen this hallway before, but his memory was coming up short.The man led him to the table and sat him down, before he went about doing other things in the kitchen; making breakfast perhaps.This certainly was not
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32. Isabella's dilemma
Isabella stood fixed by the door. She could see Johan clearly from where she was standing, though the door was closed, she could look through the glass opening on the door and see him. He was lying on the bed with an oxygen mask on his face, he had tubes and wires connected to his body that she couldn’t even trace what each was for. Her eyes settled on the monitor where she could see his heart rate. He was alive, that was all that mattered. He was alive.She caught Erik, Johan’s brother staring at her from inside the room, but he turned back to look at Johan as if she was not there. She had a feeling that he understood to a certain degree how she felt and was giving her time to organize her thoughts.The explosion at Norman’s house had shook her. It had triggered another traumatic experience for her where she had to remember her past Memories that she would rather forget totally. Of all the recent episodes that she had experienced, this one was the worse. It had taken her a while be
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31. How is he?
Erik knew that he was doomed, the moment his father turned to glare at him, he knew that their lies had finally caught up with them. His father smiled as he turned to look at a confused Lucas.“ oh, you’re Lucas?, Johan had mentioned you before…”, his father muttered. Really? Erik wanted to ask, because he highly doubt that his brother had mentioned Lucas to the man before. Erik blinked, what was his father playing at here. There was no way Johan would have mentioned Lucas to their father. He had been hiding the fact that he was working for the police force, so he couldn’t possibly tell his father about Lucas, who is a detective.Lucas smiled with a nod, “ he did?”, he asked surprised. “ that’s surprising …” Lucas muttered as he flicked his gaze to stare at Erik with an arched brow. Erik looked away though, after giving him the ' cut it' sign.“ Yes...so my son was caught in an explosion. I want to know why my son was even in the building in the first place?”, Geoffrey asked. “ I
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30. The Shocking revelation
Geoffrey cannot remember the last time he had driven this fast before, ignoring all traffic rules. He was shocked that a police van had not started following him and asked him to pull over for breaking traffic rules. He was a father who needed to get to his son one way or the other and if getting a speeding ticket would get him to Johan, then fine, he would get one.Geoffrey cut a vehicle that was about to cross into the other lane, he knew he was driving recklessly and could even hear curses from the other drivers.“ How long before I can get to the hospital, Jane?”, he asked the AI system installed in his car.“ at this rate Geoffrey, in five minutes…”, the AI replied.“ let’s make it three minutes then…”, he muttered, stepping on the paddle. “ I would advice against that as it breaks road regulations and can put you in danger…” Jane the AI answered.Geoffrey rolled his eyes, well, good thing he could over look that advice. Different thoughts ran through his mind about Johan. What
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29. Missing vials
“ What?!, Someone got there before you?”, Geoffrey storm bellowed.The man standing before him took a step back and gave a Curt nod, “ yes sir. When I got there, the house had already exploded. I just merely escaped without being noticed.” He explained.Geoffrey ran a hand through his hair, cursing under his breath. Who the hell was doing this and why were they making it look like it was Mancap. This was the fourth time the house with the victims suing Mancap was exploding. It was either someone was intentionally killing them or they were looking for something.Or… The System, it couldn’t be right?. The last time the System surfaced, that was years ago. Years that he had put behind him. He shook his head. There’s no way they were back.“ if this keeps happening, then we’ll have to shift to plan b. For now, stay underground and well hidden. Your face might show up in the CCTV footage near the explosion, stay hidden. I’ll call you when it’s all cleared”, Geoffrey told the man in front o
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28. Succumb to darkness
Deciding to go in, a child needed to be saved first, he stood up, ran over to someone and pulled the thick blanket she was carrying over his shoulder. He briefly saw a memory of the person he had collected the blanket from. She had been drinking earlier, he scoffed.Johan approached the house, he could feel the heat from the fire. He hoped that he would come out of this ordeal alive. He thought about the boy in the fire, if he was feeling this hot, he wondered what the child was going through in the house.He silently said a prayer and entered what was left of the house.“ shit!”, Johan cursed as he touched something that was hot. He has to refrain from touching things. The house was already burning and the fire was spreading to the other side of the house, he needed to be very fast or else he was not going to loose his life, but also that of the child.The decision to go in had been a split second Decision that he made irrespective of whether he found the child or not. There was a fi
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27. Where is Johan?
Mr. Benson sighed, looking around like he was being watched, “ I don’t know…”, he lied, Erik noticed.“ All I know is that I don’t want to end up like the other families, so leave me alone please and don’t come back here”, he spoke abruptly, slamming the door at their faces.What just happened, Erik arched a brow at Lucas who was also as stupefied as he was. One thing was clear though, Mr. Benson was scared, and the only reason was because he was under threat and someone was watching him.They were on their way to the next house, since Mr. Benson had provided them with little or no information about what was happening because he didn’t want to die, then they had better check in with the other families, if they were acting the same too.“ I need to check in with the guys to know what they’ve gathered so far”, Lucas said beside him, making the call. Erik was less interested in the call Lucas was making and more interested in how to make this case less complicated.With what he knows now,
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26. Johan goes into the burning house
Johan sniffed the air, “ do you smell that?”, he asked her.Isabella frowned, “ smell what…”, she said looking at him.He closed his eyes as if he was trying to remember what the smell was. He knew it was a chemical but he couldn’t pinpoint what exactly it was. There was no industry around the area, so it was abnormal for that kind of smell to be perceived in the area.Moving slowly towards Norman’s house and following the smell, he stopped when someone held him back.“ what the hell!”, Isabella shouted, pulling him out of his dreamy state. He snapped, Turning, he saw that it was Isabella gripping his cloth. Good thing she had not touched his bare skin, it wasn’t like he could see or read her Memories. He arched his brows at her.Even though they had been able to be civil with each other today, it doesn’t mean she should go around touching him, though he had thought that her touch would irritate him, he didn’t feel irritated, he actually feels like he wanted her to keep touching him
