When We Were Perfect - Chapter 127

These strings of life have gone and tangled in your fingers

I can’t find a solution to untangle this knot

Every cell of mine is like a star

Which is passing through the skies

You must be a little crazy as you have chosen me

How did you hear the words I never spoke

You are like the day and I am like the night

So, let’s meet like an evening…….

★★★★★★★★

Amy placed the receiver back on the phone, infuriated. There was only a day left before she had to sign the court orders and submit them back meaning the permanent closure of this case along with the internment of her sister’s sacrifice for her.

She rubbed her temples trying to ease the ache that was forming but it wasn’t of any use.

“Amy, do you want something?” Talia asked, peeking her head inside the office. Amy stared at her and then outside the window, the sun was setting, she had been working for hours now. Calling senior lawyers and members of the board but the result was the same, so was the solution which was to confront Kevin and ask his reasons for the damn decision he took.

“I didn’t find the initial reports of this case, where are they?”

“Uhm, they must be in the record room. I can get it for you,” Talia replied after making a thinking face.

“No, I will get it myself. Can you please make me a cup of coffee, my head is pounding terribly!”

“Of course,” Talia nodded with a concerned face stepping back from the door.

Amy pulled open one of her drawers and grabbed the record room files which were given to every lawyer in the firm.

Just as she steps into the corridor leading towards the basement, a prickling sensation runs over her skin like someone was watching her. She turned her head to the sides observing the place but there was not a single living creature around.

She shook her head thinking of it as her paranoia, walking towards the record room. Opening the lock, she entered inside and switched on the lights searching for her desired document just when a rough hand clamps around her mouth and slams her against the file stand causing the documents to fall on the floor.

A chill runs down her spine seeing the all too familiar face of Kevin who was looking at her with a rigorous expression. She tried to fight against his hold but it was of no use as he pinned her against the stand, his one arm pressed against her arms in a death grip while the other one clamped around her mouth, preventing her from any speech.

“Surprised aren’t we, Amy?” He spoke in a low voice, his face set into a grim.

Amy only sent a murderous glare his way, the doubt’s and suspicions she had against him were now cementing.

“Now, we are going to have a little chat here, that will stay between us and you aren’t going to shout. Are we clear?” He said but the only response from Amy was her heavy breathing and her murderous glare.

“ARE WE CLEAR!” This time he shouted, applying pressure on her wrists making her yelp as she nodded begrudgingly. He slowly removed her fingers from her mouth,

“WHY THE HELL ARE YOU DOING THIS?” She sneered, trying to push him away.

He chuckled at her,

“Do you seriously think I have been helping you along and serving as a loyal officer huh?”

Her mind went into a flashback, vetting all the times he had been with her. Everything started to fall in another perspective, the times they would reach so close to getting a hold of any evidence or reaching Gonsalez and how at the last moment he would make excuses that Gonalez wiped out the evidence at the last moment now the person standing in front of her seemed to be a part of this game.

“Who are you?” She muttered with clenched jaws, her eyes asking a whirlwind of questions.

“That’s a very good question, well….for you it will be enough to know that I have been working as an undercover man disguised as an officer for Gonsalez. It was all going smoothly, he would do frauds and I would wipe them away until you and your sister came, determined to get the boss behind the bars,” He revealed causing a gasp of disbelief to release from Amy’s lips but she hurriedly covered it by clenching her jaws.

It was a game, a trap all along and like a fool, she fell into it.

He saw the rage burning in her eyes causing a small smile to appear on his face.

“I sometimes wonder who made you a criminal lawyer, for me you are an absolute fool. Didn’t you see how he silenced your sister, now it’s your turn dear? Because that husband of yours has taken a wrong step and this time you will have to face the wrath of Gonsalez”

“You are a bastard, a snake, you and that Gonsalez deserve to rot in the deepest pits of hell, wait till the investigation gets to know about your true face!” She spat in frantic rage, hauling up her knee and hitting it against his groin making him yelp and fall on the ground.

Taking that chance, she ran towards the door but before her hand could reach the doorknob, he grabbed her hair and yanked her on the nearest wall. The pain radiating off her body from the impact,

“Not so easily Amy,” He snarled, gripping her hair making her whimper. He took his phone out from the back and flashed it in front of her face.

“Watch it carefully!” He said, making her begrudgingly look at it only to have her eyes bulge out of her sockets and a fearful shiver ripple through her body. It was live footage of her mother working in her office, engrossed in arranging the beads around some dresses. Then he tapped the screen and another footage appeared, this time it was Ozan playing with Martha in their garden.

“You see, this is the live recording made by a sniper hidden near your loved ones. One signal from me and they will blow their brains out. Do you want the same fate for them as your sister!” His voice was deep and words methodical.

The flashback of Ayla’s cold body lying lifeless on the marble table started to appear before her eyes, shuddering every fibre of her body.

“No!! what do you want?” Amy rushed out the words in a breath.

He smiled seeing the terrifying look on her face,

“Now we are coming to something, aren’t we?” He released his grip from her, letting her free knowing this time she wasn’t going to do anything.

“Let’s cut the crap and get straight to the point. Gonsalez has a little deal for you that will make your life better…..if not in this world then next. You are to sneak out of your house at midnight from the back door without catching the sight of any of the minions hired by your husband. I will be there to pick you up and take you to Gonsalez.”

Her mind started reeling, going to Gonsalez meant only one thing and that was her end. Could she do that leaving behind all her loved ones, all the affection and relations?

“You have ten seconds to decide otherwise I will ask the sniper to shoot.” He threatened in a malicious tone, stepping back from her and showing her the phone screen where her mother and Ozan could be seen. She couldn’t believe that he trusted this snake so easily, endangering the lives around her.

“One!” He started counting.

She gulped the knot formed in her throat, she could feel her heart hammering against her chest. Her mind getting close to malfunctioning trying to figure out what to do.

“Two!”

The affectionate face of her mother, the struggles she had endured for them started to flow in a film before her eyes.

“Three!”

Ozan caressing her cheeks, grinning at her with a toothy grin, his giggling voice calling her mother as he ran behind her mother playing hide and seek with her.

“Four!”

No, she couldn’t let that happen again, she couldn’t let her loved ones die because of her, because of her foolish mistakes. She couldn’t bear that, her instincts started to kick in.

“Five!”

There was no way out of it, she was trapped. She knew what Gonsalez was capable of, it was either her or her mother and Ozan.

“Six!” Kevin started to get irritated.

She made her decision if she had to go through thousands of hell just to save them, she will. She will do it every time without a complaint.

“Sev….”

“I will go with you!” A year of defeat falls from her eye as she lets out her decision.

He chuckles at her tears, placing the phone back in his pocket. Thanking God that he made this task easier for him.

“You made a good decision, be ready at 12!” He mutters with a malicious face that only showed her doom.

He walked towards the door, unlocking it.

“Don’t try to act smart Amy, the snipers will be there till you come with me.. One wrong move and you would already be digging their graves!” And with that, he walked out.