Chapter 11: Breaking News
Next Morning Thursday
“Lily! Eric! I am back home” Anna sashayed through the entrance of her sitting room screaming in her soft girly girl voice. She chewed on a minty bubble gum as she glanced at the glittering wall clock to witness the ticking of 7:30am. It was obvious she had gotten a very good night sleep somewhere outside the comfort of her home. Her fashionable torn jeans and a golden colored crop top was definitely not the same clothes she had worn the other day.
The sassy girl glanced at the screen of her phone only to see the sixth round of message sent by her mute boyfriend. She tapped on the screen to read the last message which goes as follows: “Where were you last night?”
She sigh erratically and ignored the message for the moment only to continue yelling out for Eric and Lily’s names. "Could they be sleeping at this time just because I was gone for the night?” she talked to herself, wondering why the house was too silent.
Eric walked out through a door…
A door he was not suppose to cross through…
“Eric! Why are you coming out of Lily’s room?” Her jaws dropped down as she stared at Eric, waiting for some kind of explanations from him.
“Something happened yesterday while you were gone. I don’t know how to break this news to you”
“Obviously. I can see that something did happened. Since when did you an Lily got too emotionally close to be sleeping in the same room?”
“No… Its not what it seems like. Yesterday while you were gone, there was a terrible accident”
“What terrible accident?” she threw him a scornful look
“That guy Jordan Miko… is dead”
Anna almost swore that Eric was talking gibberish… What did he say again? Miko died? How would Miko, a happy and cheerful guy who enjoys the bounties of life… suddenly die?
“What happened and When did it happened?”
“Around 1:00am yesterday, I drove Lily to his house after they had a conversation on phone. We found his dead body hanging on the ceiling in his room, and it looked like a case of suicide”
“Oh My Gosh… Where is Lily? Is she okay? She must be very shocked”
“I dissolved some sleeping pills in her water and made her drank it because she kept crying throughout the night. She fainted twice yesterday”
Anna pressed on her forehead as she supported all her weight on the slim drawer beside her. She managed to take off her high heels and made her way towards the couch… “Miko… What went wrong with Miko? He has everything… Why would he kill himself? I cannot believe this! Someone definitely killed him and made it looked like suicide!” she concluded.
“His story is streaming on the news” Eric said
“Turn on the TV please”
Eric motioned for the remote and turned on the CBT news channel. Their eyes fell on the hot headline below which boldly said: ‘Jordan Miko, a senior director of Bitz, found dead in his residence after a probe into his fraudulent financial deals with a Mafia group’
“Miko is not that sort of guy. This sounds totally like a set up or something…”
“He left behind a letter for Lily, though the Forensic have it”
“It was a set up right?”
“We don’t know that yet”
“This is very unfortunate. You should get some rest yourself.”
Time Skipped. Same Day
Jalan Marco roamed around in his office from one end to the other glancing at his phone with the passing of every second. He seemed to be impatiently waiting for a reply from his girlfriend who was confirmed to have met with Nate at the Rogue Villa last night. He had spies planted everywhere to track and report back on her movements so he knew about her meeting with Nate but what shocked and angered him the most, was the fact that she silently slipped through the back and met with someone whom she clearly knew was his friend.
When he planned everything out, he never thought the game would get so complicated like that. He never imagined he would get angry at the other squad members who were competing to have the woman. It was just a game, but it drove him crazy to watch his plans going off the original track… And even more crazier to witness the woman ignoring his messages. Did she slept with Nate? Did something happened at the Rogue Villa?
“Sir… the Doc is here”
He didn’t even notice the presence of his secretary because he was so deep into his thoughts until the man repeated “Sir… the doctor has arrived”
“Send him in” he signaled with his hand.
A middle aged psychiatric doctor made his way into the big and well equipped office.
“I want to get back on the pills” Jalan used his sign language to instantly declare.
“Come on, take your seat first. Lets have some chat about it”
“I don’t have much time. Just prescribe me something strong and effective” Jalan signaled again.
“The least I must do… Mr Marco, is to know your symptoms first before I can prescribe you any pill”
The mute guy furiously moved his shiny boots forward and dropped his weight unto the couch directly facing his psychiatrist.
“So tell me now. What specific changes do you experience?” The psychiatric doctor switched to using hand gestures, instead of verbal language.