The confusion of who the suspect would be leads to an drug dealer encounter. After the arrest the secret that was hidden for years is being revealed. What could Eric do?

2. Chapter Four
Luke and Carrera
Mark’s murder news shook the city into silence. Police patrol
strengthened. Vehicles were inspected in every corners. No one was
allowed to walk past midnight on the streets alone.
A week later, things rolled back to the way they were. Gun
shots were not heard any more. Patrolling stopped. And the
atmosphere was clear for the beast to act. Farra was warned to stay
alert until the killer is arrested. They hadn’t reached any closer
except assuming Liam Ruth as the suspect. The police contacted
him and found him innocent. Eric and Phil went to Hassan’s. He
was on his phone talking on the backyard. They went and sat near
the pool. Hassan brought a bottle of wine and poured two glasses
for the visitors. He sat ending the call and went for another glass.
Eric gazed at Hassan frowning. It was too sunny out there.
‘how you doing Hassan? We got another victim too. Farra’s
student, Mark Winston’ Hassan looked frightened.
‘is he coming for us? Our family has nothing to with anything in
this city’
‘I don’t think he’s after you. I think he’s after all of us’
‘What do you mean all of us?’
‘Mark is Martha’s son. And she’s Cat’s childhood friend. She was
also married to Liam. I think It’s someone who knows us better
than others’
‘Who could be it? And why? What did anyone do to him to be so
cunningly mad?’ Hassan bottomed-up the wine and poured some
more. Phil raised for another drink.
‘Are you guys sure there’s nothing cruel you’ve done before? I
mean there’s no reason to come this far to killing people unless
you’ve done something serious to him’ Phil pointed out to Mark
and Hassan. ‘You guys are 40, all these years, look, just try to
remember any invasions that angered the person’
‘I better look into my past records. I might find a location for this
bastard’ Eric stood up to go.

3. ‘Look mine too. I can’t come for two more weeks’ Hassan wasn’t
allowed in the department until his suspension expires. Smith is
very strict about that.
‘Fine then, we’ll see you soon. Be safe’ Eric and Phil left the house.
They drove through the streets as usual. Patrolling the city.
Just when the radio started calling out ‘shots fired, shots fired. We
got a suspect on the run, middle town 24th
’. Phil turned the car
around, the tyres squeaked on the road. ‘copy that’ Eric responded.
As they reached middle town, an old ware house surrounded by
cops were already in position.
‘what do we got here?’ Eric enquired.
‘fired three shots and ran inside there, he’s still in there’
‘what happened?’
‘he’s found handing drugs to that girl over there. When we saw
him, he took the gun from behind and shot’
‘Where’s the girl?’ Eric went straight to the girl and asked ‘what is
he like?’ she was frightened by the guns and cops. She was
trembling ‘tall... white... slim. Had tattoos on his shoulders’
‘what were they?’ Eric pushed more.
‘it was some letters, I.. I.. didn’t see exactly’ she started to cry in
fear.
‘Take her to the office. See if she had some of it’ Eric ordered a
female cop and she was taken away from there.
‘Phil, and you two, come’ He held his gun on a side and swiftly
went back to the back door. Entered the warehouse and moved
crouching. The man was pointing his gun towards the front gate.
He was holding a phone in one hand trying to contact someone.
The other two officers with Phil jumped on him just when Eric
showed himself on a corner. He shot in the air aimlessly.
‘Got him guys’ Eric said through the radio.
‘He will come for you suckers’ He yelled at the officers ‘He will kill
y’all and your children and your whole family’
‘Luke Rampart, 28. Two homicide, five attempted murder, one
kidnap and juvenile records’ Phil read and folded the files. He
looked at Eric. He wasn’t interested in this convict. His phone
number seemed familiar to him. Eric went through his contact

4. numbers; 312-452-453-7. he stopped scrolling and looked at Luke’s
number. It’s the same. But Eric had no idea how it got there.
‘where is John?’ He asked Phil.
‘He’s right over there; coffee’ He raised his jaw.
He gave the number to John and said ‘No one should know, find
out who’s number actually is this’
‘OK, sir’ He finished his coffee and went to his desk.
Eric went to the girl and enquired her past informations. Her
name was Carrera, she had done drugs before. Her parents were
divorced and they both got married to other people. She was left in
the middle of nowhere and she went straight to her aunt’s and lived
there since. Her uncle was a sweet person. One day while they were
watching football and her aunt was out for food, he grabbed on her
thighs and began feeling her. She didn’t bother stopping it and let
him in her. When her aunt found out about them, her uncle hit her
head with an extinguisher. She fell fainted and lost conscious. It
wasn’t late when they realized she was dead. They buried her body
in the backyard and left the story unknown for weeks. When the
grocery man noticed the absence of her, he informed the cops. They
searched the house and found the ruined body under 5 feet in the
backyard. The judge plead him guilty of the murder and declared
her five months in prison for hiding the felony. She began using
drugs from the prison squads and made friends with some people
in White Field. She hasn’t even tried to quit them.
‘Sir’ John whispered. ‘I think we have a problem’
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