Confrontation ll
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Yasmeen slammed her feet on the brakes. The car screeched to halt by the Jack Blake's gate . She could smell the burned rubber of the tyres skidding on the asphalt.
Yasmeen pushed the car door opened and picked up her gun along with her. She swept her eyes towards the dark mansion. "Power breakage?".she thought and walked to the gate. The place seemed deserted and quiet. 'There is nobody here?"
With the presence of moonlight she peeped through the designs of the gate and her eyes suddenly caught the outline of a human body slumped on the ground. She pressed the bell on the gate but it's not working because of the absence of power.
"How I am going to get in?". She asked herself and her eyes trailed to the fence.
"Ha!"she chuckled slowly and stuffed her gun inside her pajamas pocket. 'Since there's no power the electric wires won't shock me'. Her thoughts as she started climbing to the fence.
Not some minutes she jumped into the mansion ground looking like some baddest ninja assassin.
Her eyes observed the surroundings and she saw all the police officers,including the guards slumped down either on the chair or on the ground. 'UNCONSCIOUS'
"What happened here?". Yasmeen squatted down beside a particular police officer and search his duty belt where she fished out the touch light she's looking for . She on it and flashed over his face to observe his features. She used her two fingers to feel his pulse.
"He's alive But He's deep asleep,what caused that?." She flashed the light around and she caught sight of a cup. She picked it and smelled it.
"Ahh so now I got it, they're drugged .with sedatives perhaps?".
What a clever move !!
He limited the killings by putting sedative in their meal,how did he do that,it most be his alley. What's this supposed to mean?her brows scrunched together.
Has he already imprinted a spy in the mansion without our knowledge?. "Indeed we're always too late!".
She baulked at the idea of trailing around the area of the mansion. So she quickly and quietly sneaked into the house and there again she saw many slumped bodies. After finishing checking the downstairs rooms she trailed to upstairs and started entering different rooms till she came across the largest door in the hall way. 'This must be Jack Blake's room.'
Yasmeen banged the door of the room opened and suddenly fired a bullet at the ceiling when she found Aryan tying a rope by the window lid.
"Come back!,I won't let you get away after what you just did" Her eyes looked wearily to the lifeless body of Jack Blake on the sofa. He had a bullet hole on his forehead and blood stained his face and his white bathing robe.
'Huh?How did she get here?,how did she know I'll be here..'Aryan questioned himself and his eyes spectate to the dead man's hands,to his left pinky finger.
'Ahh!so now I get it,earlier he was struggling to touch that ring before I killed him,so that's an alarm that will send a signal to her whenever pressed,as expected of my wife to be!'.
A meticulous smile adorned his lips that was under a mask. He pressed the device of voice changer near his mask and looked back to her.
"What? you have something to say?" He nonchalantly asked looking over to where she stood readying her gun ,pointed at him.
"I know you're not afraid of this because you'll effortlessly dodge it" she slightly raised her gun.
"And from your nonchalant behavior you found me weak as your opponent".
He amber eyes contracted and become fierce as she added
"but even so.,even if I am not enough to catch you,even if I am not enough to this task...there are times when I just can't back down..".
"Because in this world there are those who lack human hearts!!killing for no reason without a second thought!!without any hint of remorse."
He didn't say anything but allow her to finish her talks.
"I won't allow that kind of tyranny no matter what ,surrender yourself in peace Phanthom".
"And who told you I'll just back down without a fight." He clicked his tongue and continued
"Inspector Azan this is just the beginning of the game".
Her eyes dimmed and she placed her finger on the trigger.
'So I got no choice but to immobilize him' she quickly clicked the trigger but nothing came out.
Aryan chuckled then said
"You've exhausted your bullets that moment you fired it at the ceiling,you must have missed the smell of the gunshot, remember it smells different when it's the last bullet".
Fury blazed in Yasmeen's eyes. But the anger was not fully directed at Aryan . Most of her rage was actually directed towards herself. her for being forgetful. She forgot to reload her gun when leaving home. And here she's now putty in the hands of an assassin.
"Don't worry I won't kill ya now,the chase won't be thrilling without the great Inspector". He lazily smiled as she looked at her pale face.
"And one kill is enough for today" he added and gestured his head towards the Jack Blake corpse.
He turned and firmly grabbed the rope readying to jump out when Yasmeen voice resounded around the room.
"What do you take life for,exactly?" She questioned and that halted his moves.
"What do you find so entertaining,what's so amusing about this?". Yasmeen gritted her teeth and clenched her fists into tight balls when she heard no response.
But what she didn't know was that his whole demeanor had changed the moment he heard her words and those words shook him to the core that he clenched his fists tightly to the rope.
"Those lost lives will never return, they can never come back. We're given only one chance to live, then why would you rob them,why would trample over their lives?like nothing!". His enigmatic gaze was now looking back at her, meeting her eyes straight on.but the lack of enough light deprived her to witness the look in his eyes.
Deafening silence crept over the floor and up to all four corners of the walls when her words finished reverberating . Tension rose between them. One pair of eyes blazing with anger and the other one as calm as a tranquil lake at night.
Yasmeen was glaring at him, not hiding the rage in her eyes, while Aryan maintained his passive expression, his gaze seemed to be observing Yasmeen's raging features.
"You know nothing Inspector Azan". He paused .
"So don't judge someone when you know nothing"
And with this statement he slide down the rope and slipped into the dark night. Yasmeen helplessly banged her gun on the desk.
Her guts however, had already told her since the beginning that Aryan would escape effortlessly like any other time . But she idiotically had chosen not to believe it. Maybe because she was just too desperate that she ended up being too stupidly optimistic about this matter.
Now he was gone. He had gotten rid of her so easily just like that. And that was what had angered her the most.
"Stupid! So stupid!" she scolded herself. This was the first time she was this mad at herself to the point that she was calling herself that word. She had always been confident of her judgements on things. She knew her own abilities. She was not stupid. In fact, she was far from it, and that was not her being conceited. She knew that she was one of the smartest chief inspector that had ever existed.
But right now, just based on the fact that she had let Aryan escaped just like that was enough to crush her ego 'why haven't she called the police the moment she got that signal from Jack Blake.Ohh!! she must have believed that she can catch him herself 'what a fool?'she thought to herself . And she could only resort to anger to cover up her embarrassment. And no matter how much she tried to think on how to resolve it, nothing of any relevance was coming to her mind.
Throwing her head back, she laughed. If that could be called a laugh. One would say he had never heard such a broken and tormented laugh before..
"You're indeed a classical fool Yasmeen!".
Her hand reached to her pajamas pocket to fish out her phone but found it empty. She most have left in the car. 'Another stupid move?'she scoffed.
She looked around and finally found Jack Blake's phone on the bedside drawer. Yasmeen punched a number then dialed,not a moment the person picked it.
"Officer Rio?. It's inspector Azan...".