Revenge Of The Hidden Boss

Chapter 6

Two weeks after the incident, Bruce was discharged from the hospital. “I'm truly glad you survived this.” Jonathan Gusman said, taking a spoonful of rice into his mouth.

They were having dinner at his house where Bruce had been living for a while after being discharged from the hospital. Jonathan insisted that “ Hey Bruce, you gotta stay at my house for a while now cos your home ain't safe. Who knows when the assassin might come again looking for you after knowing you survived the attack.”

“Thank you so much for everything Mr. Jonathan.” Bruce smiled carefully as though too much of it would break his weak ribs. He still didn't know why Jonathan picked interest in him. Why he was nice to him despite having no connection with him. It was all so strange, and the super rich Jonathan Gusman was yet to tell him the business proposal he wanted to make on that day Bruce got shot.

“How are you feeling now?” Jonathan asked.

“I'm all good I think.”

“Can you kick a soccer ball?”

“Aha ha… I can even throw a javelin.” Bruce joked before taking a sip from the cup or coffee Jonathan had made for him. It was even more confusing that Jonathan specifically made that coffee himself despite having a chef who could do it.

“The cops have found out who sent an assassin to kill you.”

Bruce's eyes opened wide “Who the hell is that?”

“Who else if not your ex father in law, Forbes Salvator?”

“Shit!”

Mr Forbes Salvator was at the airport, holding a briefcase after arriving back to the country from France. “Bonjour” He said to a woman passing by. He didn't know his name was in a police case.

He wasn't in the country when Bruce got shot. He flew out of the country in search of an Alibi, he hired an assassin to eliminate Bruce, knowing that he wouldn't be a suspect if he wasn't in the country when the shooting happened.

From nowhere, two police officers appeared before him.

“Good day officer.” He greeted with a smile.

“Are you Mr. Forbes Salvator?” The officers ignored his greetings.

“Yes I'm Forbes. Is there a problem?”

“You're under arrest Mr Forbes, for being involved in the shooting of Bruce Ortiz, your ex son in law.”

Forbes looked around trying to look confused “What? What the hell are you talking about? You must be mistaken. I don't know what you're talking about.”

As the handcuffs hurt his wrists behind him, Forbes couldn't help but think that Bruce must have felt the same pain when he falsely accused him of stealing his money.

In police custody, Forbes had already broken. “Please I'll confess everything. But leave my daughter out of this” He sounded weak and exhausted after being questioned for over one hour.

“Who did you hire to assassinate Bruce Ortiz?” The officer asked about the hundredth time.

Forbes looked around, shaking uncontrollably because he knew what he was about to say would sound extremely stupid “I don't know who I hired.” He said putting his head down.

“What? What the hell did you mean you don't know?”

“I swear to God I don't know.”

“So you carefully plan to eliminate Bruce, you set an amount to pay a hitman to do it, you meet with the hitman, pay him and give them an assignment. But you claim you don't know who the hitman is?”

“I just saw them online I swear to God. I saw the hitman online on a website that claim to offer hitman services and I decided to chat with him.”

Forbes spoke really fast and at the same time, he couldn't help but wonder how the police were able to find out so quick “How did they know I hired someone to do it?” He asked himself. But little did he know that it was Gernacho, the janitor in his house that told the police everything.

The officers looked Forbes deep in the eyes, they could tell that Forbes was a corny businessman and not trustworthy. But Detective Martinez had a feeling Forbes might be saying the truth.

“I think the man is saying the truth.” Detective Martinez said to the other police officer after they stepped aside from Forbes.

“Are you sure? This man is a Big fat liar!”

“Yeah there's been other cases of people hiring hitmen online. And I think this might just be one of those cases.” Martinez was confident.

“So how are we gonna find out who did this?”

“We're gonna have to visit that crime scene again. Let's go visit Bruce's house and take a closer look at things. It's a good thing that Bruce hasn't gone back to the house after leaving the hospital. So everything is still the same as it was when the shooting occurred.”

“Good idea.”

The police pulled up to the house of Bruce for another round of investigation, they spoke to the neighbours again but still couldn't find any more useful information.

“Let's go inside the house.” The cops went into Bruce's room, took a closer look at things and they spent time examining closely at the spot Bruce was shot. “Look at that.” An officer said pointing to a smoked cigar on the ground.

“Does Bruce smoke? I don't think so. Put that cigar in the evidence bag.”

An officer carefully took the cigar and they walked into the bedroom “Look right there, that window is open and it looked to be forcefully opened. It's broken.”

“I think that's where the shooter came in to ambush Bruce.”

“No I think that's where the shooter jumped off when he heard us coming.”

“He used the window as an escape route.”

“Which means his fingerprints are on that window.”

“Perfect!”

“We need to get the fingerprints on that window and the fingerprints on that cigar.”

“If the fingerprints on either the cigar or window don't belong to Bruce, they definitely belong to the shooter.”

“So whoever his fingerprint matches with the one on either the cigar or the window is the prime suspect.”

“I think we've got our man. We've got the shooter!”