Chapter 82

Chapter 82
“Substitute the pain within,

And suffer through the soul.”

He doesn't searched for words as there wasn't anything that he had to build on, when Louis simply told her the truth. “Seth was staying over at your house. He was waiting for you to come back.”

“What?” Yenail was suddenly spaced out after she heard his words that sounded so true.

“Yes, Yenail. He was so much worried about you. From all of that time, he was just willing to meet you soon, but who knew? That he would be spending so less time with you. He loved you and was being so much into your everything.” Louis explained how Seth was being the secret well-wisher for her from all of this time and her heart beat strongly while worrying for him too but she was now confused, hell confused, when she doesn't knew about what to say as she already faced enough of the hurt when the sigh that she does after minutes, was unknown to any kind of expression, later that she lowered her head and froze for few minutes. 

“I don't know, Louis. I just don't know.” Her voice smothered with pain, sadness, perplexion yet so many other emotions which were mixing with her vocals when she dug her face in her palms. “He never deserved me. Look what I even did to Marquis! I am a loner. In many ways! I just don't know what I am.” Her sobs raised so early when it also made the other man worry so much as later Louis consoled her and rubbed both of her arms.

“Hey, calm down. Don't cry. Seth prayed for both of you. Till his last breath! How can you even think like that? If not like this? He......H-He was meant to leave the world the other way.” His own eyes were about to tear up when he mentioned his loving friend who was nowhere around him now, as Louis desperately wished to capture his sight by any way but he simply could not. “Don't worry. Everything will be fine. I'll do as he has told me to do the things. I'll fix everything. Seth's words won't go in waste. I won't let them.” Louis declared when he embraced Yenail so warmly right on the moment and her habit of holding onto things, showed up immediately when she clutched Louis's shirt from the back and cried on, in his chest. “Right now, I'm going to fix up few important things.” He broke the hug as Louis assured her for a slight satisfaction when he himself doesn't had any idea about how that he will going to do it, when his words sent Yenail into a void so confusing. “I'll do everything to remove Marquis's data, his records and the files which are related to him or even his everything. From the police station.” 

“H—How will you be able to do that?!” With wide eyes that she asked. 

“I have to figure out something.” Louis sighed when he sat on little distance from her and mentioned further ahead while knowing the true desires of the minds of highly assigned people. “At least, Marquis let me know that people like these bustards will do almost anything for money.” But nervousness soon took over Louis when he asked her another disturbing thing, while fiddling his fingers as surely, respect was flowing in their blood. “Since his property is yours now....so, if you allow me. Than...can I borrow some money? If I need it further ahead somewhere?”

Yenail didn't think twice before answering him as of course, it was all being black money and making it white will be like cursing their already disturbed lives, as soon than she nodded along with a smile touching her lips when she allowed him to use the money further ahead, wherever or whenever that he wanted.

“Of course you may, Louis. No need to ask. Besides, it's still his money. Everything is. My name is just few letters. Just let me know when you need it.” She smiled when her eyes shone with those promises that her and Marquis made of being together when her eyes showed a tiny spark of hope in them. “I'll do everything, though I can't be a big help but I'll do whatever I could.”

“Okay. I should start it all by now.” Louis nodded when he stood up. “Leena has herself locked in her room so.... if you want to freshen up? You may. She won't be coming out anyway.” Louis scoffed rudely and got passed through the door after receiving a nod from her when Yenail was left alone with a mind filled with deep thoughts.

Of course, from all of this time, no matter how harsh that his elder sister was being with her, she still does cared about her, as her mother always got to make her mind about one thing for sure if she ever got to had siblings.

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“Oh my child, if you ever had siblings? Then, you'll know that they would be hard to get. But from the inside? They do care.”

“Yenail, you don't have them. So, if you ever got one? Even in shape of your own friends or sometimes, even enemies. Than do care, as everything settles up with time.”

“Sometimes, even the time itself asks for time.”

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While remembering to what her mother always got to tell her everytime, after a sigh that Yenail held the tray and walked passed through the door of the garage when now that she entered the house. Her heart was already receiving dangerous vibes but she had to be strong enough to face any kind of situation. After all, this was being her fight too, for her love and she had to be strong when without any bad instincts yet intentions that she had to make the world believe herself for the thing that she is the strength of her love. She is the strongest root of their love while holding onto the other one too.

After gulping deeper, her feet moved towards the kitchen when her sight roamed the whole empty house and she observed that Louis was nowhere to be seen, which hinted her that he left already as another sigh that she escaped while pulling up those long sleeves of her pink fluffy sweater that she was wearing, when later that she started the tap water of the kitchen sink and begun washing the dirty dishes. She does cared about Leena if she saw her inside the house, but as if the fate was being with her, it was the last day of saying goodbye to Leena's periods and her senses calmed down along with the flow yet pressure of the blood too. The males of the house were nowhere as the whole house was being by the two ladies. While Leena had herself locked up in the room, in the meantime, Yenail cleaned up the whole house, settled up few things here and there, whereas she also organized the living room and after working for good two hours, she made herself a cup of coffee and got ahold of it when her happy eyes watched every allocated tile of the house shining like sparkles, there was some food that she also made for Leena and left it covered over the counter as she knew that Leena wasn't already feeling well when everyone knows about the creepy tiredness of these days of women.

Her fingers wrapped the coffee cup's handle when she stood at Leena's room door as it's been days that she was still being mad at her and Yenail was willing to console her, hug her and let her know that she cares. But a thought drifted off her worriedness when she doesn't knocked, rather than her hand just hovered over the door when the sobs from the other side of the door, filled her ears and with a sigh that Yenail made a turn and headed for her own room. But still her heart was worried as she was willing to apologize her.

It was the time of noon when the house growled with scary silence filling in it as the door of the room which was situated under the stairs, opened and Leena came out after being the crying mess when she eyed the whole house unknowingly, while her mind was flowing with thoughts. Her eyes searched her precious brothers while expecting at least a knock from them over her room's door, but no one was being there all night when she waited for them. Her sight captured the door in front of her room which was closed as that hinted her that the other girl in the house to be considered as Satan in her eyes, wasn't being there. A grin formed over her lips when she thought of her own self, throwing that girl out of the house. Leena's eyes soon got welcomed by something over the kitchen counter and she proceeded walking towards it unexpectedly, her eyes sparkled when her sight got welcomed by the delicious meal in front of her right after she took off another tray over the food, when like a child that she licked her lips and smiled so widely afterwards.

“Danial must have made this for me. At least someone cares.” Leena cheered when she took the tray and walked back towards her room. However, she doesn't ate all night while being angry.

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The control room where several screens were spread and in each one of them, they were observing the activities done by the criminals. Different actions were claiming by the criminals as some were searching some sort of ways to get out while other few were yelling and screaming in disguise, whereas some were straining their strengths out while few of them were just roaming in the cell. But, there was only one criminal who was being so peaceful while sitting in the corner of the cell.

“How is he being so calm at all? Some days earlier, he was yelling like a mad beast.” A man described after watching Marquis over a monitor.

“Hmm. That's strange. Well who cares anyway? It's been already months since he's here.” Another man asserted when he scoffed.

“He's actually the one who used to play with baby girls. What a fine time that he had in his young age.” Another man said while they were watching over him and after observing that he was doing nothing else but just sitting there, they soon got back to their business when the chattering later took over the control room.

Marquis was sitting so silently than ever in his cell when he normally stared the red iron door in front of him and a sigh that he relieved, he couldn't do anything else than that. He had a very clear idea of getting out from this place because of higher agencies to be in contact with him. But he was vanished from the globe like that and he decided not to break the jail while he was willing to be a change for real as when he decided and took the decision earlier? He wasn't seriously joking at all. He fiddled his fingers along with his head low when the tray of almost dead meal got dragged in front of him like always as he accepted every little challenge of fate. Marquis ate the food, more like almost swallowing it up with water and the expressions that were clearly ruling his everything, were being annoyance and weirdness when he was eating for the sake of just staying alive. He gulped down the food which was nearly comparable to poison, just for a reason that he'll soon be tasting the heavenly lips. As a full coarse meal.

There wasn't any much special activity to be done by him at this place as every time, they were being scattered like gray sand all over the usual (meetup the others) area, where he never forgets to collect the rare information about the earing that his love gave him and got to think further ahead when except that, he attains himself to inhale the air between the metal walls.

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“What the hell are you even saying, Louis?!” A high grade officer almost scolded Louis when he opposed the topic in front of them all. “Are you out of your mind?!!”

“But sir... he is having his punishment now. I guarantee that he won't do it again.” Louis's afraid vocals came out when he convinced the other officers very hardly to remove every data related to Marquis.

“I didn't know that he bribed you too. You were supposed to be the crystal clear officer in every eye, Louis.” An aged man spoke so bitterly when Louis was seated among the other police officers which were higher in status than him.

“He didn’t bribe me, sir. He surely showed me the real meaning yet the actual way to fight with the world.” Louis argued back in the politest manner possible and further affirmed. “He knew wrong people, so rightly.”

“You are arguing with us?? Are you even in your senses!!!?” Another man angrily exerted when his palm slammed the wooden table between them. 

Louis was absolutely right about Marquis's thoughts towards this department as now that he got to know as to why Marquis hated this every time. Right now, Louis was willing to use the bad-word dictionary that Marquis commonly uses to talk with people that he hates, which comes out more like shutting their mouths up. Louis started to breath heavily when he was being so done yet angry as hell, when now that he remembered every word that Marquis told him about this department that currently revolved his brain.

“They care about their respect and pockets more than souls and hearts, Louis.”

“Yes. I am in my senses!!” Louis frustratingly stood up while slamming the table as well when he glared while angrily talking back to all of them, when Louis pointed towards the man who threw those words of (asking for respect). “You all are just being jealous of him. He never offered me money or anything but he sure does told me how to deal with people like you guys.”

The other police officers who stared Louis with god knows what kind of eyes, as it really seemed like the criminal didn't just bribe him but like named his whole property to him when Louis was honestly taking his side.

Because of just one reason.

Marquis was being the most powerful yet the most daring one that Louis ever met in his life and he couldn't think of losing him when he was also being worried for him.

“I guess you don't love your job?” A man raised an eyebrow at Louis when Louis slowly sat down upon his chair and apologized for his behavior.

You never know when positivity and grace holds your hands after you attains the attitude of helping others. Especially those, who are willing to be the change.

“We should give him a chance.” Louis heard another person and his head elevated towards the voice when his sight captured another fine tall man who said it. “No matter what sins that he has done. He is now getting his punishment. I am very well aware with that prison. No one has ever broken it.”

“Officer Vincent...” A ray of hope gleamed Louis's eyes.

“Officer Vincent! He's a powerful criminal! What if he starts doing the same thing again after the escape?!” Another officer panicked and after hearing him, some chattered the matter while agreeing on it. “What will we do at that time? It's better that the world—”

“The world needs to know the other side of the picture too.” Vincent cut him off immediately. “We don't know almost everything about anyone. Marquis's the most powerful one and I know that. If he even wanted to pull on something by now? He would. He's never afraid to fuck up other people.”

The other officers threw annoying expressions at another powerful officer among them.

Vincent Bellindra. The name that shone brighter than the other officers for a reason. He also knew Marquis very well as he had hidden meetings with him. But never that he asked for girls, bribing or anything unusual of dispersing like that as Vincent was perfect by every angle. More specifically? A ditto copied reputation like Louis. Clear. Vincent was the mere officer of the department who played his role as being more of a secret agent, when he also had well connections with equally powerful and different agencies to Marquis. More like, the agencies who worked for Marquis or were being under Marquis’s eyes? Were also well handled by Vincent's hands.

You never know when God praises you with the people who can handle the matter like squinting ants, when you truly, honestly, humbly yet surely and willingly decides to help the others, and Louis played the same character as that, when the god provided him the mere person to help him. Vincent.

“We won't let you, Louis. That's seriously a crime itself! You cannot remove the data related to that bastard like that!!” The other officer raised his voice towards Louis as he surely knew that this loyal officer can't simply do anything. But they were being unaware from another trick that was being played with him.

“Are you afraid there won't be any baby dolls remaining to treat you afterwards? If the data got removed? The world needs more people like Marquis, rather than filthy rats like you. This links with your job yet reputation also. Think before bricking up the others.” Vincent rudely talked back when he fired those words right at their faces.

“LOUIS, YOU'RE FIRED!!!” Another man announced when he pointed towards Louis and Louis just made a stand while being in utter shock.

“Wha—Why!!! I-I didn't do anything!! I was just—” Louis worriedly tried fighting with the tension as he protested right away.

“You are not the one who decides that.” Vincent again spoke up. “Louis, come with me.”

Vincent got hold of the wrist of a panicking Louis when he dragged both of themselves out from the committee room.

“The world will forever know the title Marquis, as a criminal!” An aged man mentioned when he eyed the door from where the other two males went out.

“Louis, relax. I know Marquis so well.” The man in black suit, talked. “And, I know everything about what's going on here.”

Louis was already well aware with his contacts as Marquis's hands were wide enough to hold them and Vincent was one of his powerful partner who always helped Marquis in knowing the activities among the police, as Vincent was the trusted man who tells Marquis when to fly off and hide at a new location.

Marquis blew Louis's mind off from every angle when now that Louis couldn't think straight as he made his mind not to mess up with this guy.

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In the night when the clock struck one a.m. and still Louis wasn't home rather, he decided to stay at the police station the whole evening, yet still now even at late night.

“Where could he be?” Danial worriedly asked Max when his eyes were stuck over the wall clock that hung in their living room while he was roaming in there.

“What work is stopping him from coming home at this hour?” Max said when he was constantly calling Louis, but the other person wasn't even picking up.

Yenail left the garage and stayed at her room as something dangerous was pinching her heart too when she was being worried. She even called Louis while she was present in her room and asked him about when he'll be arriving home. He told her that he would be coming back by evening but still there was no sign of him as he doesn't showed up.

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The man who was being hell frustrated, ruffles all the files and papers with a dizzy yet tired brain when he grunted after falling hopelessly upon the chair.

“I need to help him. I am willing to help him. God, help me.” While conveying his words so brokenly, Louis buried his face in his palms when later that he sobbed a little. His phone was being silent while he was fully concentrated towards the case in front of him. “Maybe I should offer them some treats that they always expect.”

His head lifted from his palms when he thought of using the money that Marquis collected and allowed him to use further ahead if he wants to. He was surely unaware of the time when he picked up his phone and his face formed a shocked look so immediately.

12 Missed Calls from Danial

4 Missed Calls from Yenail

3 Missed Calls from Max

22 Text Messages

Louis hurriedly collected all the files that he gathered by now or more like theft them up from other lockers when he took all piles of the files and shoved them in a bag. He was lucky for one thing that collecting the data and records were being in his hands as he got keys to the lockers where they put all the stuff related to things like secret data and everything.

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Two thirty a.m. Never the people of the house were being up this late but, because of just one person that the air of the house was being disturbed and it got more disturbed when the only two girls showed up in front of each other when un-expectantly yet unknowingly that Yenail peeked out from the door of her room and the next moment she was being captured by the devil's sight as by the fact that while being with Max and Danial, Leena was present over there too, when later after gritting her teeth Leena dashed towards the guest room when Danial was the first one who was alerted by her sudden actions.

“Leena! No!” Danial exclaimed right away when he spotted her hurrying towards the known room as luckily he caught her figure and his soft vocals rung her ears when he made a request. “Please, at least listen to her before doing anything further ahead.”

“What is the thing that you and Louis always want me to know!!?” Leena raised her voice at him.

“She's not a Satan or a devil. She just wants to be a friend. She doesn't have a family....and she's not pretending anything.” Danial slowly released her figure when Leena gradually settled down and rudely made a turn when Danial signaled Yenail to leave the room.

The two females sat over the couch in the living room as this was being the best time to discuss the matter. In the howling hours of silent night, when right after Leena dealt with her final day of her period, her mind started to hit her senses and she started thinking straight as a sigh from her, allowed Danial to talk furthermore. After Yenail also got herself seated so silently in front of her, Danial disclosed the matter widely in front of Leena when Leena was already aware from half of the story but the other side of the picture was still hidden from her and it was her own fault that she never got to focus upon it when she felt miserable and ashamed of her own self while hopelessly staring the other girl in front of her as everything about her was being true and honest when Leena was taking everything so wrongly. The one who was being in the ditch from all of this time, was her own self as she felt so low when her heart clenched after hearing that the girl who was seated in front of her, was just asking for a stay and some people from whom that she could gain an experience of having a family, about how it’s like to have an elder/younger brother, about how would it sound like to be someone's little sister and the care that the others will give you. Leena was jealous and she got to know now.

After good half hour more, the main entrance of the house suddenly opened and that picked their attentions when their eyes went wide after they all witnessed a tiring yet exhausted Louis passing through the main front door when Louis entered the house while rubbing the nape of his sweated neck as he was hell afraid of stealing the record files and the data that was relatable to the only title (Marquis) which was still shaking their nerves but he had to anyway, when even after being disappeared from the eyes of the others, his name was still playing the role very well.

They all watched him falling on the couch when he threw the leather bag on the floor while being extremely exhausted and breathed heavily. “Water. I need water.”

Yenail dashed towards the kitchen immediately and came back after minutes along with a glass of water being between her hands, Louis took a sip and settled himself over the couch when his breaths were timely reaching their normal rates after drinking the water. In the meantime, Danial grabbed the bag and opened it, and his eyes soon got welcomed by some files with the only name imprinted on top of it.

Eight Years Records and Data of MARQUIS LUNARD

“Holy! Woah! You—How did you manage to—” While being in utter shock that the elder almost spaced out so suddenly.

“I've got the keys. Remember?” Louis shuffled a bunch of keys in his hand when he mentioned ever so proudly.

“They didn't check CCTVs??” Max asked as to which Louis just struck a deadly smirk.

“I worked my plans in dark hours.”

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TBC