The cramped room was cold, the air overwhelming with the fragrance of anxiety and fear. The dim light from a single bulb glinted overhead, casting faint shadows on the broken concrete dividers. Tyrone couldn’t really see his spouse, but he could listen to her laboured breathing from over the room. He strained against the ropes that bound his wrists to the chair, his muscles throbbing from hours of battle. His eyes looked around the room, looking for any sign of an escape. "Matthew, what the hell is going on?" Tyrone's voice was blunt, filled with outrage and perplexity. Matthew ventured forward, his face in part lit up. He had a bizarre, nearly fulfilled see in his eyes, a smile playing at the corners of his mouth. “You don’t get it, do you, Tyrone? You never did.” She blended in her chair, lifting her head somewhat. “Why are you doing this?” she inquired, her voice trembling. Matthew walked closer, his look settled on her. “Because, I've continuously loved you always and forever.
The night discuss was thick and chilly, its coolness doing little to soothe the choking pressure that held Tyrone and his spouse. Their breaths came in shallow, frozen wheezes, the cold moist of fear clinging to their skin like a moment layer. The rough earth street extended unendingly ahead, gulped by the darkness on both sides, the only source of light coming from the dim shine of the moon that looked through holes within the clouds. They had been running for what felt like hours, the adrenaline in their veins was their fuel. Behind them, the unmissable, but unmistakable yells of Matthew and Damon echoed through the forest, a consistent reminder that the dangers were still exceptionally much in sight. "Keep moving," Tyrone encouraged, his voice low but firm, looking over his shoulder each few steps. His grasp on her hand was tight, nearly agonizing, as if he letting go would mean losing her to the void behind them. “I’m trying,” she wheezed, her breath coming out in worn out sequ
Tyrone's breath came in sharp, irregular bursts as he sprinted through the back road, his wife's hand held firmly in his. His heart beat against his ribs like a drumbeat of fear. Each step on the ground felt like a little victory—a reminder that they were still alive. The old woman’s house, their brief sanctuary, was presently blurring behind them, and each step forward was another step away from the peril that had haunted them for days. "Quicker, Tyrone!" his wife encouraged her voice with a sharp whisper of freeze. The dim street lights cast long, spooky shadows that moved before them, and the muggy night air clung to their skin like a cover. Tyrone held her hand more tightly. "I'm trying, babe," he answered, his voice a blend of assurance and fear. "We ought to get to the police station. We can’t let them capture us once more." Her face was pale, her shining eyes presently shadowed with depletion and stress. She gestured, gulping her fear. "Do you think the police will listen to
The precinct was buzzing with movement as Detective Harris arrived at his work area. A cold, gray light sifted through the blinds, casting long shadows over the room. He tasted his coffee, trusting the caffeine would kick in before long. The past few weeks had been tenacious, ever since the endeavoured kidnapping of Tyrone and Judy. But nowadays, there was a distinctive vitality within the air, a sense of looming determination. “Harris,” his Partner, Detective Sam, called from over the room. He was holding a file in one hand and his phone within the other, his expression a blend of horrid assurance and expectation. “They’ve got them.” Harris’s heart skipped a beat. “Matthew and Damon?” Sam gestured. “Both of them. SWAT picked them up around an hour before. They're holding them now.” Harris put down her coffee and got her coat. “Let’s go.” The drive to the station where Matthew and Damon were being held was tense. Sam explored the roads with the ease of somebody who’d done it a th
The house was covered in the stillness of early morning, the kind that clung to the air like a thick haze, wrapping the rooms in an overwhelming hush. Tyrone sat on the edge of their bed, his shoulders drooped forward, his head held in his hands. The black out light inching in through the splits of the drawn shades scarcely touched him. He hadn’t rested much again, and the weight of weariness pulled at his movements. Bad dreams had clung to him like a moment's skin ever since that day. No matter how difficult he tried to shake them off, they continuously found their way back into his mind, inching into his dreams and turning them into unending, choking circles of fear. Behind him, Judy mixed, her eyes shuddering open. She comes to her impulses, her hand brushing against the empty space adjacent to her. The coldness there made her scowl, and she sat up, her look settling on Tyrone’s slouched figure. She observed him for a minute, taking in the way his shoulders trembled with each shal
Tyrone stood by the room window, peering through the sheer shades as the sun started rising over the city horizon. He had continuously adored the calm of the early morning, a time when the world appeared to hold its breath before the chaos of the day set in.Nowadays, be that as it may, he felt a strange greatness in his chest—a tie of uneasiness that had been developing ever since he got the welcome to talk at the conference in Chicago. It wasn't the occasion itself that disturbed him; he had given presentations endless times before. It was the thought of leaving his wife alone for a week. He turned away from the window and looked at her. Judy was still sleeping, her dim hair spread over the pillow, her breathing relentless and calm. He knew she would never concede it, but she despised it when he travelled. It wasn’t that she couldn’t handle things on her own; she was furiously autonomous, more than competent of running the family and overseeing her own active career. But Tyrone det
Tyrone stood at the altar, his face beaming with smiles expecting his bride to walk up to him with her father any moment from now. He took a deep breath for the umpteenth time that day and adjusted his stance as he continued to wait. He couldn't believe that the day when he'd finally get married to the love of his life had finally come. The woman who he had secretly sacrificed all his life earnings for just so she could get the leading role she had dreamed of having in the movie industry. He adjusted his blue pocket filler and kept his eyes on the door up ahead, the smile still evident on his face. This day was the second happiest moment of his life, the first had been when he proposed to Judy and she immediately agreed to marry him. "The hell, it's almost an hour now, and the bride hasn't shown up yet, are you sure she's going to come." A guest I'm the crowd said, loud enough for Tyrone to hear her. A frown settled on Tyrone's face as soon as he heard that but he tried as much as
"Are you crazy, Tyrone?" Fred bellowed, running after Tyrone to stop him in his tracks. Fred barely called Tyrone by his full name unless he was about to do something and he needed to calm him to order, and right now, Tyrone was about to do something completely outrageous by crashing the movie premiere. "Tyrone... Ty. Tyrone, can you just stop and listen to me for a moment?" Fred yelled as he continued to run after Tyrone. "Going to that premier is a bad idea, Ty, why don't you take a moment and think about it," Fred said again but Tyrone wasn't listening, instead, he kept running as fast as his legs could carry him. "...at least take a taxi, instead of running and save your strength," Fred suggested and stopped running, Tyrone had already ran out of his reach. Fred cupped his hand around his mouth and screamed at the top of his lungs. "Tyrone!!" "Aw, screw it!" Fred cursed under his breath and threw his hand down in resignation and headed back to the church to quench his parched