Chapter 15: Describe the couple
After the two other men searched the apartment they asked Mike if they could have a word with him at his place. They left Mike in apartment with the pictures he had and followed the old fart back to his place. Mike's place was not fancy or anything but it was clean and had a faint of old people scent in it. He was a heavy cigarette smoker and he'd often sit by the balcony in his rocking chair to watch the streets.
"I'd offer you my whiskey but I'm a stingy man when comes to alcohol, you may take a seat" said the old fart motioning to a two seater couch for the men in Black to sit. The two men sat down as asked and took the brief case they had and put it on the table "Describe the couple" one of the man said while opening the case that was full of money. Mike almost choked on his saliva and coughed for quite a while before composing himself, he walked closer to the money and ran his fingers over the bills, he could remember during his policing days when he'd make drug busts and recover millions and millions of dollars from them. "Was there to say" Mike said stroking his beard, he started to narrate a few stories to them but made sure to fill in a lot lies with dead ends, lies that came from truth but with no way of moving forward with them. He told them how in love they were and Chris would buy gifts for his girlfriend every now and then, he told them how dedicated to school they both were and would study through the night for their exams. He even added a story about the pressure cooker just to make his stories with them even more believable. "Sir are there any friends or family you could remember visiting them" the man in Black asked. Mike didn't take long to whip up another story, he had been a cop for many years he learned to how to lie through his front teeth without letting out a single fart in the process. He said they never had family over because they were both from country D, they had not been able to go back home because of money and school issues but planned to go for a visit in the following year, according to Mike, Chris had a brother and a mom named Stacy and brother named Robert lily was an only child who took Robert as her only brother the old cop said with smiles on his face. He told them the stories as if they had actually happened, it was like had gone to a university of lies and obtained the highest degree there, in short the old men had a PHD in making up believable stories that would make anyone would bet on him.
The two men saw no faults in his stories and bought every bit of like the idiots they were, to them he was just an old men who was fond of the couple and he himself had been lied to by "Reggie and Jane", 'poor man' they thought to themselves. Just when they were about to finish their talk Eric walked in to find his subordinates that were taking too long. "Done yet?" Eric asked as he sat down on one of the couches. The men gave him a nod and stood up to leave, however Eric gave the old fart Mike a deep look like he was trying to familiarize him with someone he knew, but then he got up abruptly following his men out and to their cars waiting outside.
They drove off slowly and in the car one of the men that was questioning Mike started reporting what the old man had to say about how in love the couple was in love and how they lived, Eric did not need to hear the report because he had been standing outside the entire time Mike was having a conversation with his men. Every time he mentioned how in love the couple was his heart would crack and turn black with jealousy. In his mind he knew that there was no way in hell that Chris was just some security detail, they were actually dating and he saw pictures of them to prove it, in that moment he felt like running up to Richard Duke and throttling him to death with his bare hands. Richard dared to lie to him in his face like he was some child that needed to be pacified with little white lies. Eric raised his hand to the air to stop the reporter and shut his mouth, at that time he was deep in his thought, he took the pictures he found and looked through them again and again and with each round his heart grew thorns and would spit daggers at the pictures. Someone had been touching his woman and loving her in a way that only he was allowed to love her. She had grown guts, he wanted to find her more than anything at that now and punish her to death. Her soft skin had been tainted just like that, and how dare she be happy without him? He could not bare those thoughts as they were shooting into his mind like bullets, just when he was keeping himself together he snapped into a terrifying rage and took out his gun pointed to the man next to him, he then shot him 7times in his head without even thinking about his actions. The driver was instantly startled and lost control of the car for some few moments but managed to get back on the road, he kept quiet, he did not want to get the boss even more pissed that day. Brains were splattered all over the window and on the seat, Eric looked into the road like nothing had happened it was like he didn't notice the dead body beside him, it was like air to him. He was a pure psychopath and death to Chris was on his mind.
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