Gilbert

Pre-word.

Not many know, that before Victoria disappeared out of public sight and from newspaper front titles, she used to keep a rigorous diary. Detectives found it in the basement of the residence of Pierrot - the infamous terrorist, who vanished at the same time as his girlfriend in crime. The diary started with the first mentioning of Victoria's promising career ambitions as a psychologist, and also of her beloved brother, who was kidnapped soon after his wedding. As it turned out - and it helped to understand next step of a few key participants of the case - Victoria soon quitted her job and joined the criminal world not out of her professional interest to psychopaths, but because it was her plan to become one of them in order to find her brother, from the start.

CHAPTER 1

GILBERT

Ash-blonde hair and spinning stare of brown eyes.

Marble-pale shade of skin.

Low baritone, which dropped to bass when he talked, usually about his startups or upcoming corporative events.

Always warm, welcoming gestures and attitudes.

Those, almost inborn, qualities of the finance director of psychiatric hospital "Atlanta" soon became professional.

His name was Gilbert, although for some reason his younger sister Victoria called him Ghosty.

The hospital was located afar from the urban rush of Wyse, in deserted woods. Nevertheless, the major troubles of this peculiar city could not began anywhere else but inside the walls of the quiet, distant wards. A few patients, who had a history of government offenses, ran away from the guarded section.

Despite of the problems at work, Gilbert never cancelled his wedding with a quite and modest girl, whom he met at high school and never left since then. The wedding was planned for upcoming summer, but yet it was not supposed to happen.

Just a week before the ceremony, the bride left their little cozy flat in the center of Wyse and never came back home.

He could never find her, he was deeply shoked, and he could never understand why she would leave all of a sudden.

Everybody knew, that Gilbert was far from being a domestic monster.