CHAPTER 4

It came again, the attacker, the loud grunts, the pains, and the eyes, hopeless and painful eyes, the explosives.....

Jerking up from my bed, I panted heavily wiping the sweat buds from my head. After some minutes, I finally managed to get up and live through the day. Before I headed to work, I plead with myself to try and put up with a normal façade throughout the day. I had been lost to myself which wasn't good to myself, I don't want anyone trying to find out more about me but it looks like Mel is giving me too much attention that isn't healthy. I signed- I really didn't want that, but it was so hard for me. I was dealing with the same bas... jerk that murdered John. All I wanted was to find him and make him regret the existence of his fore fathers that led to his existence.

"BANG!!" I sneakily shouted into Mel's ear making her to jump in fear and me to laugh. After realizing it was just me,

"Damn" I said holding my leg up as she kicked my shin forcefully, looking at me with daggers

"Seriously, Mel, can't you have a little bit of fun" I said still in pain

"Fun? A little bit of fun? You call almost making die of shock little bit of fun, you...you useless gorilla?" she asked. Thankfully, we weren't in the office so my ears were relieved.

"Shock? Don't you think you're exaggerating?" Seeing as she was serious, I decided to go with her flow; I cannot be kicked again

"Okay, fine. You could have died of shock" I tried my best not to laugh

"I know that, continue" she urged me. I raised one brow,

"Am I meant to say something else?" Judging from her expression, I have a feeling I shouldn't have said that sentence

"You haven't apologized" she said and I could see how she was trying her very best to calm down. Once again, thanks for not being in the office and I decided to use it for my benefit

"Apologize? Why should I? No offence but I don't see why I should apologize, after all, I've already acknowledged that you could have died of shock. Excuse me, I have to use the rest room, but you can follow me, if you like" I said the last sentence with a wink and rushed away seeing that she was going to explode

MEL'S P.O.V.

I splashed more cold water on my face; I was so close to ripping down the whole building with a toothpick. More cold water met my face. Not able to hold it in anymore, I angrily and forcefully slammed my fist on the sink slab.

"Jesus, Mel!! What's tickling your insides?" Olive asked coming out of a cubicle

"I don't know but I hope it's a tornado. One which will swing the living soul of Jace away from this world" I said still angry

"Wow! I sure will like to see that. Do you mind telling me when that will happen? I can bring a popcorn for you also" A deaf man could hear the sarcasm but thanks to the sarcasm, a smile made way to my face despite my anger.

"He's just so annoying, rude, egoistic, uncultured and....and...I don't know"

"He doesn't seem like that to me"

"Well, you aren't in the same office with him"

"You have a point there. Just try coping with him"

"Trust me, I am. If not, you would all be visiting me behind bars right now". Although, I was serious, she just laughed and I followed

"Anyways, just do what you can to keep you out of bars. See ya" she said and left. After splashing more water on my face, I went to our office but what I didn't expect to see was a serious Jace putting his complete focus on his system- he didn't even know I came in. Thirty minutes, one hour, one hour and forty five minutes, two hours. Jace was still focused on his laptop.

"Jace" I called but as expected, no reply

"Jace" I called again

"Jace!!" I after extra effort this time

"Yeah" he replied but didn't look up

"Did Alex give us something new to do?" I asked him

"No"

"Then did he give you some thing to do alone?"

"No"

"I see" I said but he didn't reply- well, i wasn't even expecting an answer this time. I walked to his side

"What is it that you are doing?" I asked him. Startled, he quickly closed the page he was working on.

"Jesus, Mel, you almost gave me a heart attack"

"Well, I wouldn't have had to give you a heart attack if you answered me" I defended myself crossing my arms

"Oh, I see"

Then a smirk came to his face, " You were jealous that I wasn't giving you my whole attention. Just admit it, you are completely in love with me, right?"

"Continue what you were doing and forget I'm here" I said going back to my seat. As something came to my mind, I quickly turned around,

"Don't tell me" I gasped

"What?" he asked

"Are you by chance....?" I stopped. I didn't want to say the word

"What?" he was now confused

"You know. The stuff men look at with a laptop"

"Oh, that. Come on, Mel, why would I want to look at other girls when I have you in front of me. And they don't even compare to you" he said with all seriousness

"Continue working hard" I went to my seat

"Oh, come on baby. I'm giving you my whole attention now" he said and I ignored him. After a while, his attention went back to his system once again. Not that I'm complaining, it's just rare seeing him like this, but again, I haven't even known him for a week.

Fifteen minutes till work is over. I'm so relieved. Don't get me wrong, I love my work but since we didn't do anything today apart from Jace being obsessed with his laptop, I just wanted to go home. Just as I was parking my things, a knock came from the door. After that, Olive entered,

"Hey guys, just wanted to tell you that we've gotten the body. You can check it tomorrow but I just wanted to tell you today in case you wanted to check it today" she said

"Thanks, Olive, but I think we would check it tomorrow. Right Ja..?" I was interrupted before I could finish

"Have you started checking the body?" Jace asked

"Not yet, we just got the body like seven minutes ago. Just wanted to let you guys know" Olive responded

"Okay" he said, then picked his things up.

"Are you going off work now?" I asked him

"No, to the lab"

"Now? But we can check it tomorrow"

"Even though it pains me that you won't have any one to cling to when seeing the body tomorrow, you will have to go along" he said with a wink

"Excuse you, you may not know this but this is not my first time seeing a dead body therefore I don't need anyone's support. And even if I did, you would be the last person" I said folding my hands

"Hmm, are you sure?" he asked raising an eyebrow. I was about to respond but was stopped by a clearing of throat.

"I guess we will have to continue our lovers argument later" Jace said as he headed to the door, but before he left, he turned back to me,

"See you later, belle". Then he and Olive went out the door, but not before I saw a smile on Olive's face. That rubbish gorilla, I though before I set to go off work.

JACE'S P.O.V.

I couldn't wait till tomorrow. Even if the result is the same as what Olive told us before, I just couldn't wait- I had to see it now. Maybe, I could find something that wasn't mentioned, but may not be there tomorrow. It may seem useless to them, but to me, every thing, every single detail is important. Every second we got nearer to the corpse, I had to deal with an excessive beating heart. Although we were told about the body and I didn't even know what I was expecting, I was still 'excited'. As I got to the corpse, I held my breath for a few seconds; only the face was shown and it was white along with a few cuts.

"Brace yourself" Olive warned as she took the cover off the body holding her nose from the stench. Along with the face, the whole body was white.

"Apart from the cuts on the face, there are 4 stabbing marks along with two cuts on his right arm" she explained

"How do you think he got them?" I asked

"Well, I think the cuts on his arm was gotten from resistance, but I will have it checked properly" she answered

"Did the FBI not tell you anything?" I didn't want her to sense anything but I couldn't wait till tomorrow

"No"

"I see" I guess I have no choice

"Do you mind if I keep looking?" I asked her. Maybe I could find something, any clue

"Sure, but I have to go now. Do you mind locking up when you are done?"

"Sure"

"Thanks" she said then left after shutting everything else off while I stayed behind.

I groaned as I sat on my bed. There was nothing else on the body apart from the original cuts and marks. If there are no fingerprints after tomorrow's check, it's going to be very hard finding him. With someone like him on the road, I'm....

My thoughts were interrupted by the ringing noise coming from my phone. Not in the mood to talk or do anything, I ignored the call and went to bed.