Jain could feel her heart throbbing as she knelt beside the body of Jacob. She held his hands and realized they were ice cold. He wasn’t breathing, and there was blood all over his shirt which was oozing out of holes that were bored on several spots on his torso. Jain’s hands were shivering as she touched his cheeks. His body was hard and cold. She couldn’t believe this was happening again. It couldn’t be. She couldn’t lose another partner. Not this time, but she knew it was already too late. Jacob was gone, and he wasn’t coming back. Jain stopped touching him and looked at her hands. They were trembling and were stained with his blood. All of a sudden, Jacob’s body was gone and she was alone in the parking lot. The street lamp above her flickered and went off making everywhere dark. A few moments later it came back on and Jain could see another body lying before her on the tarmac. It was hers, and there were multiple gunshot wounds on her torso just like Jacob’s corpse. Jain looke
“Cheers!” The sound of glass clinking was heard next. Seth was all smiles as he sipped his champagne. He couldn’t believe it. It worked. They had successfully made Rylan pay for one of his crimes. Seth never knew that it would be that easy. All they had to do was to join forces together and it was successful. When he had first heard Carlos’s plan, he thought it was going to be like the rest of the ones they had come up with. Their plans were usually futile and never made it to Rylan. But this one was different. This time they had been able to get the better of Rylan Daystar, and they owed it to all themselves. Carlos was smiling as he sipped his champagne. They were all in his huge living room. Frederick, Karen, and Seth. He was amazed that he had been able to assemble all of them. The unstoppable Rylan Daystar had been halted just for a brief moment. But it was worth it. They had done their best to come up with that plan. Karen had been the instigator. She had mapped it out and it
Dr. Mathew Meyers walked through the underground parking lot of the hospital as he headed toward his vehicle. It was quiet and he could hear the sound of his footsteps echoing through the parking lot. His heart was thumping hard against his ribs. He wasn’t supposed to be here, but here he was. In his hands was a black briefcase which seemed important to him because he held it tight against his chest. His eyes caught something a few feet away from him; his vehicle. He smiled and approached it. Dr. Meyers jammed the key into the lock and opened the door, stepping into the car hurriedly. He couldn’t get caught here. If he did, he would be in so much trouble. He ignited his car and reversed out of his parking space. As he looked up at his rear mirror, he caught a figure standing behind his vehicle. The figure was dressed in a black suit and had a black mask concealing his identity. His heart squeezed in fright as the realization hit him. He had been caught!Dr. Meyers switched the gear
Williams had found him. The Doctor who had been in charge of his mother’s postnatal care. He was the man Rylan blamed for killing his mother. Rylan was in his study room looking into his mother’s death when he got the call from Williams. He hadn’t seen Williams since last night and thought he had gone back to New York for a few days to stay with Arlene. Rylan and her hadn’t spoken much even after they had made up. He was focused on finding his parents, and she had given him the space that he needed. Now, he was stuck in a dilemma. “Where are you?” Rylan asked. Williams told him the location, and he rose from the desk immediately. There was no way he was going to let him get away. Williams had sworn to find him, and he did. Rylan had thought he had said it that night to make him feel better, but it had been a promise. A promise he had kept. “I’m on my way,” Rylan said and hung up the phone. He looked at the files on his desk and closed them. When it was time he understood everythi
SOLANA BEACH, SAN DIEGO. Detective Jain Reynolds watched the water splurge onto the beach stopping a few inches from her feet. She was standing on the beach with her hands shoved in the pockets of her brown leather jacket. The sunset looked beautiful as she watched it through the shades she wore. Her platinum blonde hair was pulled back neatly into a ponytail making her look gorgeous. Jain wondered why she was there. She had come for one purpose alone—Nostalgia. It wasn’t the next emotion to hold on to. After having a series of nightmares, she felt it was next she came back to make peace with herself. A lot was going on in her mind, and she didn’t know what else to do. Maybe it was best, she came back here. But that was a terrible idea for her. As the waves came crashing towards the beach once more, a warm memory sparked her mind. Jain could remember bringing Hope here on weekends to play. This used to be one of her favorite spots, and that was why she was here. She was hoping to a
As Rylan gazed at the man tied to a chair, he could feel the anger rushing through his veins. He had never felt this way before. He was convinced that his man here was the one who had murdered his mother, and he was going to make sure that he was going to pay for that. “They say that doctors are healers,” Rylan said as he walked towards. “In earlier days of man, people thought that illness was a punishment from God and that Doctors were angels sent from God himself to redeem them.”Dr. Meyers was trembling as he watched Rylan walk towards him. This was the man he feared because of Arlene. They had ruined his life. From having a good job, a stable income, and a loving family, he became jobless, broke, and lost his family. And he owed that all to Arlene. She had made his life terrible and unbearable. Only because of a small misunderstanding. That had taught him a lesson—Never mess with a Daystar. “Isn’t that right, Doctor?” Rylan asked. Dr. Meyers didn’t know what to say. He was tre
The sound of the doorbell made Rylan nervous. He walked towards it rubbing his hands in the hope that it would wash away the anxiety he felt also. The phone call he had gotten after finding out that his mother was dead and that his father had taken her body away made him feel this way. Rylan didn’t even have the file to process the news he had gotten. Things were moving too fast just like this one. There was a feeling like lingering around which made him uncomfortable. He felt like something bad was about to happen—something terrible, but he didn’t care. As long as he had his team with him, there was nothing to be afraid of. The doorbell went again and Rylan rushed to the door. He knew who that was. So when he held the doorknob, he sighed before swinging it open. The door revealed Detective Reynolds. Rylan flashed her a smile. Jain was feeling nervous about this. She felt she was making a bad idea, but there was nothing wrong with that. Going back to San Diego had turned out to be
Rylan didn’t know that Jain would be willing to let him know the truth. He had done his research on her. Her daughter had been murdered by the Valdez cartel, and the suspect she had proposed was Carlos Borges who was now in town. He wondered how she had felt when she heard the news. Carlos Borges was after him now, and it came as a surprise that he was working with the McCulloughs. It was something he had never expected. They had teamed up to take him, and so far they had been successful—maybe a little. He understood why Jain wanted to work with him. They all had a common enemy—Carlos Borges and also the serial killer. If the McCulloughs could work together with Borges and be successful, then there was a possibility of both of them getting the case solved. “It all started five years ago,” Jain began as she sipped her cup. “I was simply an officer who had a daughter when I was younger. Just before I joined the academy. My mother wasn’t particularly happy with the fact that I ha