"I'm Zane."
Elvis couldn't deny but his voice was so melodious, anyone would like to hear his voice all day and night. Elvis shaked hands with him with a small closed lips smile for his reply.
He wanted to break Zane's hand right there, that was the same hand with which he tried to kill Elvis's sister. He didn't even want to shake hands with his disgusting hands. He took his hand back after the handshake.
"What are you doing here?" Elvis already knew why he was there but still despite knowing it he still asked him.
"Actually I was going home but after seeing the police here, I stopped to see what was happening." Zane replied with a quick answer and Elvis nodded, hearing his reply.
Liar! He was lying, wherever that unknown Killer kills a criminal and leaves XO mark on their foreheads, he always goes to that place to see as soon as he gets the news. Elvis knew very well why he came to see these crime scenes.
Because Zane himself was the XO, the psycho criminal, who was roaming around openly despite committing such heinous crimes.
Elvis had all the evidence and proof against him that he was the XO, if he wanted, he could have revealed to the world that he was the most infamous psycho criminal XO right now. But he didn't want this, he had his own different plan. It took him a month to find out XO's real identity and almost 6 months to collect all the proof against him. Elvis had to accept that XO was hella good at hiding and dodging.
When he was done with gathering all the evidence against Zane, which was enough to expose him, then at that time, it had been almost a month since the news of the new Killer killing only the most wanted criminals and leaving XO mark on their foreheads. He was fully aware that the Killer was searching for XO and wanted to kill him. Elvis even had some suspects who were matches with the Killer, so Elvis decided not to expose XO at that time so that the Killer will continue to kill other criminals.
Elvis didn't care about those criminals' lives, he thought if those criminals were eliminated from their roots then there wouldn't be much effort to catch them, because that Killer was enough to find them and make them enjoy their deaths before making an easy way for the police and detectives to reach the dead bodies of those criminals. And a special thing Elvis liked in that Killer was that the Killer always left evidence against those criminals by revealing that the dead bodies belonged to those criminals who were a threat to innocent people.
Elvis had a plan to expose XO but not at that time, he wanted more criminals to be killed by the Killer and in the end he would use XO to reach the Killer. And even if the Killer finally reaches XO and kills him before Elvis reaches Killer, still Elvis's plan won't be affected much because he knew that he would eventually find the Killer too.
Even though these two cases weren't under Elvis at that time, he wasn't officially handling these cases, it was his personal will to investigate them.
But now, these two cases were finally under him, now he was handling them officially.
He was given one case (Criminals dying case) to handle officially in front of everyone, and another case (XO's case) was also given to handle officially but the difference was that this case has to be kept secret from everyone for now that he was handling this case until he almost solves this case.
What a genius he was, he had already solved the case (XO's case) which had just been assigned to him to solve.
The person beside Elvis was doing heinous crimes for almost a year, but still look at how he was standing comfortably alive right now. Only Elvis knew better how he was controlling himself from burning him alive right there.
Today was 20th november and it had been 9 months since Elvis and Soyi got married and on the same day this psycho tried to kill Elvis's sister. His sister escaped from being killed by this c0ck but maybe her luck wanted something else because on the same day, in the end she got killed by Elvis's own so-called wife. It was still aching his heart to even think about that he lost his only family, his dear younger sister.
And the first reason for his sister's death was this b@stard, and he suspected this on his wedding night itself and his suspicion turned into belief when he personally investigated XO's case to find out that this psycho used to stalk his sister to get a good opportunity so that he could r@pe and kill her. Although, on his wedding night Elvis only suspected, he wasn't completely sure that XO had tried to kill his sister. But his suspicion was so strong that he thought of investigating XO only.
When he started investigating XO at that time, he was thinking that his purpose was to only catch XO and to immediately stop him from committing his heinous crimes because at that time, there was fear of this psycho in the hearts of people. But deep down Elvis knew his main purpose was, he wanted to find the person who tried to kill his sister. And at that time, Elvis didn't have even the slightest doubt about anyone other than XO.
That stupid XO, he didn't even think twice before trying to kill Elvis's sister because now Elvis was standing like Zane's unimaginable brutal death and Zane wasn't even aware of it.
During Elvis's investigation on XO, the way XO was hiding all the proof against himself, Elvis was aware that XO knew that an unknown person was personally investigating him but despite trying hard to hide the evidence against himself, he failed to hide it from Elvis. Besides, he also failed to realise that the unknown person who was investigating him was none other than Elvis.
Now the time had come to use XO to catch the Killer. But before that, Elvis wanted to know whether Zane was suspicious of Elvis at this time or not that Elvis might doubt Zane for something. Because definitely Zane must have seen Elvis the night he tried to kill Elvis's sister and it was certain that he must have learned by now that Elvis was a Detective. Besides, he must have also known that Elvis had a wife and he was a married man, and the person who killed Elvis's sister was his own wife.
Elvis's blood always started boiling just by thinking about how no one had known about Elvis's personal relationships, but this despicable person knew it.
'B@stard!'...he thought.
He felt an itch in his hands, wanting to hit Zane harder. While he was a walking death for Zane who could take out his soul at any moment whenever he wanted, and Zane stood beside him oblivious to it. What an eye catchy view?
Controlling his inner rage, Elvis turned his head towards Zane whose eyes were looking everywhere except Elvis. But Elvis knew Zane was noticing his every gesture and expression. They both were silent, standing next to each other without exchanging more words but their silence was too noisy.
"Elvis!" A voice came from their front, drawing their all attention.
Elvis smirked innerly when he saw officer Nate coming towards him holding an umbrella over his head and with Elvis's car key. He was patiently waiting for it, now just give it to him, officer Nate.
Standing right in front of them, officer Nate looked at Zane, wondering who he was before turning his eyes at Elvis.
"You accidentally dropped your car key." he spoke, forwarding the car key towards Elvis.
Elvis moved his hand to take the car key and as soon as he held the key lightly, it slipped from his fingers, rolled on the up and down wet road ground and stopped under the car, the car, near which they were standing. Officer Nate was about to bend down to take out the key from under the car when Elvis stopped him and he himself quickly sat down in a squat position before putting his hand under the car.
He started searching for the key and he didn't have to wait much because he found it immediately. But instead of picking up his key, he stuck an advanced mini GPS tracker on the bottom of the car which was about the size of a pea.
That was unbelievable how he kept the tracker hidden in his hands, how he even deliberately dropped the car key in that room so that the officer Nate would come and return the key to him, how he pretended to slip the key from his fingers so that somehow the key goes under the car and he could stick the tracker in the car under the pretext of picking up the key. He knew that car was Zane's car.
That was the mastermind, he did even the smallest thing with great planning.
He finally picked up the key and took his hand out from under the car before standing properly on his feet. He showed them the key for a second in the gesture of that he got it before putting it inside his coat pocket. Elvis noticed that Zane was staring at him with suspicious eyes from the time Elvis dropped the key until he picked it up. And that was what Elvis wanted.
It was just a small curiosity of Elvis that he wanted to know if Zane doubted him or not, that Elvis could doubt him. And only after knowing this, Elvis was immediately going to use Zane to catch the Killer.
"I should go now," Zane said, moving forward, looking at Elvis, while Elvis slightly nodded. "See you again." saying his last sentence, Zane passed by them before closing his umbrella and sitting in his black Mercedes car, he immediately disappeared from their sight.
"Looks like you both are friends." Officer Nate uttered in inquisitive, standing beside Elvis who was staring in the direction where Zane's car had just disappeared from his sight. There was an impassive expression on Elvis's face.
"No." he simply cleared without even glancing at Officer Nate.
Now what should officer Nate say? Well, nothing!
There was no need to question anything from Detective Elvis. Why was he even asking about his personal life, when no one knew about it. But he was a human, right? It was natural that a desire to know about someone's personal life could have arisen in his mind. Anyway, it was about Detective Elvis, about whom people were always excited to know. So if Officer Nate asked Just one small thing, then what big deal would it be?
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The road was full of silence, empty and filled with darkness, only the heavy rain sound was audible. His car stopped in the middle of the road and the car door opened, he opened his umbrella out of the car then stepped out of the car, holding his umbrella over his head. Despite the deep darkness, his face was still slightly visible, that was his charm like a full moon, and that moon faced person was Zane.
That road was completely empty and deserted, not even a human or vehicle to be seen except him and his car.
He made his way towards the backside of his car after closing the door. Standing right in front of his backside of the car, he looked down before squatting and immediately putting his hand under the car, searching for something. After moving his hand for some time, his eyes slightly widened because he finally touched that thing which he suspected to be the bottom of his car. That thing was stuck on the bottom of his car. He grabbed that thing and got it released from the skin of his car before taking his hand out from under the car.
He took a hard look at the thing he was holding in his hand and his eyes darkened more than the darkness that covered the road. That was what he was expecting, a GPS tracker.
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Elvis's phone vibrated two times in his pants pocket, attracting his attention, who was standing with his back against his car door while holding his umbrella over his head. Taking his phone out of his pocket, he took a look at his phone screen. There was an important notification that had come on his phone.
Seeing the slight victorious smirk on his face, it could be assumed that he was definitely expecting this notification. He clicked on the notification and that notification brought him inside an application which was connected with that GPS tracker, which he had stuck in Zane's car.
That GPS tracker wasn't just a GPS tracker because it also worked as a touch sensor and whichever person touched the tracker at any time and place, its notification would come to the next person, whose phone the GPS tracker was connected to. Zane touched the tracker exactly 19 minutes after Elvis stuck it in Zane's car, and he touched the tracker by stopping at such a place where there was no point in stopping. A deserted road where no people were seen and no car stopped there, but Zane did it, he stopped the car there just to check the tracker. Now because of that GPS tracker with touch sensor, Elvis was finally confirmed that Zane doubted that Elvis could suspect him of anything. And now Elvis's last curiosity about Zane had also ended, now there was nothing left for him to know about Zane.
Elvis turned off his phone screen before putting his phone back in his pocket.
'Now the story of your painful life will end with your own destruction, you're going to get the relief from your life that you deserve, you f*cking psycho!'.....he thought in determination. The words contained a secret within themselves, he knew something else about Zane that no one else probably knew.
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Zane stood properly on his feet. The noise of rain around him and over his umbrella was adding fuel to the fire of his anger. His eyes were shining like hellfire in the darkness which were glued on the thing which was resting on his palm.
He already suspected that Elvis had come to him for some reason and his suspicion was completely correct.
He didn't want to deny the fact that seeing Elvis so closely had taken his breath away because Elvis was absolutely extremely handsome. It was unbelievable that he himself was a man, but he felt attraction towards another man, but that doesn't mean he was a g@y or something. Perhaps, finding the same gender more attractive than themselves was really appreciative. He himself was a beauty who could not be compared to anyone but he found Elvis more beautiful than himself.
He knew very well who was detective Elvis, he knew who killed Elvis's sister, and he still couldn't digest the fact that his prey had been hunted by someone else whom he knew very closely.
How does a hungry lion feel when his meal is taken away from him?
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9 months ago
It was a deeply dark night of 20th February when he was walking on an empty road covered in a gray baggy trouser and a hoodie while smoking. His hard, perfect jaw, lips, and the tip of nose were the only things which were clearly visible from his hood, while his eyes were barely visible. His one hand was inside his trouser's pocket while the other one was busy helping him in smoking.
Damn, his walking style was dashing just like him.
There was his white car standing far away from him. He was alone, indicating he was on a hunt…..hunt for women. Cruel! How casually he was walking despite the fact that he was going to grab a woman.
No one can tell by looking at him that there was anything strange about him or that he could have done some disgusting wrong things. It wasn't his acting, he was normally like this, walking like a normal, looking like a normal but his cruelty wasn't normal.
And the truth was, from inside he wasn't a normal person. He was a Psycho, a rare psycho to be seen, who looked like an angel and talked like a mature but from inside, an insane person. He was such a danger that no one could predict his psychotic mind by looking at him from outside. It was his natural personality, neither does he pretend to be a normal nor a psycho. Because he was natural, he just pretends to be 1 percent out of 100 only to hide his crimes.
What an intelligent deranged person!
He knew that his prey was going to pass through the same road, and for this he had made all the preparations.
The cold chilling wind was running around the entire area, cooling his countable bare body parts. Suddenly he was hearing a sound but it was a very faint sound which was gradually getting louder...it was some vehicle sound.
He heard the sound of a car coming from behind, he had just turned his head back to look when that car passed in front of him at a high speed and stopped suddenly in the middle of the road after some distance, making an irritating sliding friction noise. This wasn't an intentional braking noise, as if the car had come to a forced stop on its own. He could hear the noise of the car engine turning on and off again and again, indicating that there was some fault in the car and the person sitting inside the car was trying to start the engine.
Just 30 long steps, and he could have reached close to that car but he was taking very small and slow steps. Curious to know who was the owner of that car, his eyes were glued on the car. And after a few moments, a woman came out of the car angrily and closed the door of the car, making a loud thud noise before kicking on the car door a few times.
She was familiar to him, who was she? He narrowed his eyes to see her clearly and after scanning her face properly, his eyes turned slightly surprised with a frown on his face. She was extremely beautiful, the way she brushed her hair upwards with the help of her fingers in frustration was making her more gorgeous to his eyes. Her mesmerizing blue eyes under her long eyelashes were shining like a blue diamond. Her slim and high bridged nose, her heavy upper shaped lips featured on her pale skin was like a nena rose. And her body shape could only be compared with a model, her body was perfect, any woman can wish for.
She looked around her only to find an empty road with no humans except him. As soon as her eyes fell on him, she felt fear rising inside her despite him being so handsome. He was extremely attractive, but she couldn't deny the fact that he was intimidating too. Every woman always wished for an extremely charming man like him as their boyfriend or husband and she was one of them. But at the moment, despite seeing a man exactly the same as her fictional man she ever fantasized about, she was not feeling good. She didn't know why but maybe because of this empty road or perhaps that 'XO' news?
A criminal who first kidnaps a woman with complete preparation so that no one can find them alive then he kills them after r@ping them brutally. Yeah,....this was the reason she wasn't getting a good vibe from him because she definitely was afraid from inside. And knowing the XO news, she couldn't take him as a normal person, she had to take care. She was already in rage because of something and was in a hurry too, but now doesn't know what problem was happening with her car that the engine was not turning on, fueling her anger.
She was getting even more frustrated because she was feeling anger and fear at the same time. But thinking that it would take her only 10 minutes to reach the place by foot where she wanted to reach, she tried to decrease her fear instead of her anger and immediately turned her gaze away from him. She couldn't take any risk as she opened the door of her car and grabbed a stun gun for her safety and her handbag before trying to hide it so that that person couldn't notice it. Without even looking at him, she could sense him walking gradually closer.
It was making her anxious because she didn't know whether that man was coming closer to her or was simply going his own way. Without wasting any time, she made her way to the direction from where there was a way to reach her destination.
He didn't expect her to choose this route to go somewhere because as much as he had stalked her for the past month, he had come to know that this route would neither take her to her home nor to her place of work as she lived somewhere else. Then why did she choose this route?
Wait! She has an elder brother, he knew it but he didn't know who her brother was yet nor had he ever seen him and his living place. So it could be possible that she was going to meet her brother, choosing this route.
Now he was finding this day as his lucky day. Although he was waiting for some other woman but now when his biggest prey herself had come to him with a good opportunity for him then why would he choose a woman with a lower level than her. It was really a great opportunity for him to grab her, to devour her. He was not completely sure whether it would be right to do this right now or not, but he also didn't want to lose this opportunity.
There were CCTV cameras installed on that road but he wasn't bothered at all by them because he had already hacked all those cameras.
Seeing her walking very quickly more like running, he threw his cigarette before quickly taking his long steps to reach her. As soon as he reached close enough to her, he took out a small bottle of chl0r0form from his trouser's pocket and applied it on his white handkerchief.
Her heartbeat increased and in horror her eyes slightly widened as by his shadow behind her, she could see him applying something on a handkerchief from a small bottle, no doubt that it was none other than chl0r0form. Without thinking much and wasting no time, she immediately held her handbag tightly and turned her body back side a little before swinging her handbag hard and hitting him on the head, knocking him off balance and making the handkerchief fall on the ground with the bottle of chl0r0form.
Thanks to the pole light of the road because of which she was able to see his shadow. He was shocked, balancing himself, he didn't expect it. How did she even dare to hit him when no women ever did. His eyes turned bloodshot, he reached the peak of extreme rage.
Seeing him controlling his anger, it could be assumed that she had hit him quite hard. At the moment, all he was able to think and imagine was her painful death by his own hands. He was not able to digest the fact that she hit him. How can a woman hit him? He was feeling itching in his hands to twist her skull at that very moment.
Clenching his jaw, he moved towards her but she was quick fast as she started running away from him with all her might. He was not able to tolerate that his meal was running away from him as he also ran fast after her. He felt frustrated as he knew she was a marathon runner and he couldn't run faster than her but he couldn't let her escape like this.
While she was cursing today in her mind while running. How did her fear come true?
She didn't know whether he was XO or any other criminal but considering XO's terror at that time, she was only able to guess that it was him. She kept running away without turning back even for once, but she could sense that he was still after her. She started searching for her phone inside her handbag to call someone for help but unfortunately she was not able to get her phone on time. God what was happening with her?
Along with the sound of their running feet, the sound of her increasing heartbeat and breathing could also be heard in her own ears. She was feeling sheer terror, she wanted to cry, but apart from fear, no other expression could be seen on her face nor were tears able to come out. Her mind was only filled with fear just by thinking about the kind of brutal death she would face if she were to fall into his hands even by mistake.
Running continuously for 5 minutes, she had entered the area of her destination, she should be relieved that she had entered the area of her destination but she wasn't able to relieve by knowing that he was still after her and wasn't even giving her a chance to dodge him, even for once.
After all, what had he eaten that he was running like a leopard?
He was fueled by rage, lu$t and an urge to kill her, due to which he was able to run after her with such intensity and speed.
He was finding it difficult from inside to control his anger because that woman had taken him to a place where hidden CCTV cameras were installed everywhere. It was just a matter of pinch for him that he could find the hidden camera just by smelling it. What a weird creature! But it doesn't matter for him, because he will hack these cameras easily.
But he was wondering, which area was this like a maze and whose house was in this area, that so many hidden cameras were installed here. Perhaps, her brother? And if yes then who was her brother? Was he making any mistake trying to catch her without knowing about her brother? But whatever happens now, he couldn't back down, he couldn't let her loose.
How stubborn person he was!
Stubborn???
Stupid and psycho!
She glanced at the place where her car was supposed to be parked or at least her car was supposed to break down here and not on that road. Her breathing was increasing rapidly as if she would stop breathing within some time. While climbing the stairs, she was repeating to herself that "Just a few more steps and I'll be saved." But right at that moment, her hope was dashed because she stumbled and hardly collided with the stairs and fell back four flights of stairs on her face. No god! Why did this sh!t happen to her at the wrong time?
Her heart and mind were bursting with fear. She felt warm liquid start running out of her nose. It was blood. She could feel some more fresh wounds on her body parts like jaw, knees and wrist. Courageously, she got back on her feet and she moved her step back forward to run as soon as quickly, but right at that moment, she felt his arm wrapped around her waist tightly because of which, in terror, her eyes widened in double size. Her whole body started to tremble. Sh!t, he caught her. No, she has to escape from him.
Before she could do anything, he immediately turned her around and took both of her hands behind her back and held them tightly before pinning her against the railing attached with stairs. Their front bodies were brushing against each other as he was so close to her. They could feel their heavy breath on their faces.
She couldn't believe that a person with a face like an angel was trying to kidnap her so that he could do something disgusting to her and kill her. Actually, she didn't want to believe that the extremely handsome man, standing in front of her, wasn't a good person. Even after knowing he was going to make her smell chl0r0form if she hadn't hit him at the right moment, she was still hoping that he wasn't trying to catch her with some bad Intentions. Brainless human!
"Wh….who are you?" her voice was sweet as sugar but her stuttering words made it a little bit annoying. She had doubts that he was XO but still she asked to confirm it.
Looking at her beautiful face, lu$t was dripping from his eyes. Although, he was angry and wanted to kill her but at that time he was thinking of k!ssing her. He wasn't able to resist her beauty. Even sometimes, when he was stalking her, he thought that he should not kill her but keep her with him for the rest of his life like a piece of art.
"What do you think I am?" His voice was low and deep.
Was this a question or a test of her guessing ability? Don't know, but his words also seemed like a threat to her, she was afraid, even of his words. What was she thinking he was? XO! Right?
"XO." she replied with her trembling lips, looking up into his eyes, her tone wasn't like an answer but like a question, because she didn't know herself whether he was XO or not.
While hearing her answer, his one side lips corner curved upward, confirming her that she was correct. Now, her little hope that he wouldn't be bad was shattered. She wanted to cry, and she started to cry before trying to release herself from his grip but his grip was so tight that she wasn't even able to make him loose his grip on her even a little bit. She wanted to use her stun gun which was resting in her handbag, but how when her hands were not able to take out the stun gun from her handbag only because of him. She was feeling helpless, struggling under him, her both cheeks were getting wet due to her tears.
"Leave me,.....why are you only after me?.....why do you want to kill me after all!?" What a stupid question but while lowering her head, shutting her eyes, and letting her tears flow freely, trying to free herself from him lazily, only these words came to her mind to uttered.
"It Is better not to be born than to survive in this world with the desire to never exist."
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