Murderer
CHAPTER 20 - Charles & Earth, The Discovery of Angelica (Revised)
It's been eight days since Angelica's search was conducted. But the results are nil, they did not get a clue about the existence of the model as well as the mayor's adopted child.
This morning, Citra visited the address given by Fina, last night she and Faisal had decided to split the investigation tasks, she met Bella this morning and Faisal looked for Angelica's whereabouts.
Citra's Rush stopped in front of the gate of a building that was arguably quite spacious and it seemed like the girl named Bella was living in a boarding house. He entered the boarding house, a girl about eighteen years old he found was drying clothes.
"Good morning, sorry can I ask you a little?" sapa Citra's. The girl looked over and smiled kindly.
"Good morning, yes please, sister."
"You know Bella? Who works at Artha's apartment as a receptionist."
"Bella?" The girl frowned and looked not so sure. "If Bella's sister means Arabella, she's in room eight, sister. It's just — he hasn't come home like yesterday," continued while pointing to the room on the second floor.
"He hasn't come home yet?" This girl nodded again.
"Bella rarely goes outside, but, a while back she told me she had a boyfriend now. As I recall, he said that his girlfriend was one of the residents of the apartment where he worked," said telling what he had heard from Bella.
"His girlfriend lives in that apartment?" ask Citra with a gamang tone.
"Yes, but I once said, be careful, the man who lives in the apartment alone is not necessarily a bachelor," she said again, pursing her lips.
The image smiled and then bid farewell to the girl, after thanking her for the information she gave. For now — he can only wait for Bella to come home to boarding or enter work, and hopefully he is fine, and can still remember the sender of the package.
"Aarrgghhh!" the screams echoed inside a quiet basement.
A guy in a NYC baseball cap, dressed all in black, looks like he's Charles. The man was seen dragging the body of a girl who was fainting towards the elevator, when he arrived at the elevator, he supported the girl's body to stand up.
His finger pressed down on the number seven, the floor on which he was about to get off that elevator. However, unexpectedly, the elevator suddenly stopped on the ground floor. A couple with their son appeared to enter the elevator, the Husband smiled faintly at him, but — children and the wife of the man looked at Charles with a suspicious look.
"My wife was drunk" Charles said without asking. The husbands only smiled stiffly when they arrived at their destination floor. The elevator door closed and went up to the floor to Charles' destination.
He got out of the elevator with the girl he knocked unconscious. Charles whistled the melody that he always casually hummed, while still continuing to support this girl — he opened a room door numbered 711.
The woman he lay on the sofa, then put his finger under the tiny nose of this woman, Charles just wanted to make sure his condition. He was still alive, Charles murmured in his heart, he tied the poor girl's hands and feet
"Bella," called Charles while patting the girl on the cheek who turned out to be the receptionist of this apartment. "Bella!" He repeated it again, and this time with half a shout.
Bella's eyes opened, she looked at the man with fear and tried to move her tightly bound hands and feet.
"Shhhh!" Charles' index finger stuck to Bella's pale lips, telling her to keep quiet. The girl nodded, her whole body in pain and trembling.
"If you obey and remain silent, I will not kill you" Charles said with a wide grin.
"Why are you doing this, Earth?" bella asked with a trembling voice.
"Earth? He's sleeping. Now, you sit here sweetly, follow my words and you will not hurt me. You're supposed to according to what Earth says, so — you won't end up like this." Charles stroked gently Bella's smooth cheeks which felt puffy due to tears.
Bella was surprised, and she was dating the wrong person. This man before him was not Earth, his lover, but an alter ego that possessed a cruel nature. He was truly sorry when he followed the man to the rubble of an orphanage.
Charles took a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator, and sat back down in front of Bella. "You must have regretted knowing Earth, right?" he swigged water from the bottle.
This girl is silent, she has no regrets about knowing Earth — but seeing the condition of the man, she feels pity and makes him think, she said, what injuries did Earth suffer in the past to make the man a monster. Even now, Bella was scared to death.
"Se — a pe — freelance employee, right?" bella replied trembling. Charles laughed loudly.
"Wrong! The earth was nothing more than a useless unemployed man, we were the ones who made his life colorful, he should have slept forever!" charles was angry.
"We?" mumbling Bella slowly.
The man chuckled. He stood and revolved like an artist on a theater stage.
"I'm Gabriel."
"I'm Deborah."
"I'm Twilight." He spun around as he continued to introduce himself with different voices and attitudes.
"And I am Charles" he concluded.
Bella's hair bristles, she thinks the alter ego is only in the mystery movies, but now she is dealing with a real person who has an alter ego.
"We have six including Earth, but one of us doesn't want him to be known to others. He is the backbone of the Earth and our protector, the Earth just sits and shuts itself up while painting in this room,"
Charles propped up his chin with both hands on his knees. His eyes kept looking at Bella's beautiful face, and he got up from his seat.
"I'll be gone for a minute. Don't try anything, 'cause I'm gonna kill you!" remember Charles, he came out of the studio apartment.
Bella immediately attempted to untie her hands and feet, but could not. The bond was so strong, forcing her to choose to give up, moreover she already had no more strength.
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Faisal had gone to all the hotels, inns, as well as the empty warehouses where the possibility of Angelica in the whole room. But he did not find anything, his body had sent a signal to ask for a break for a moment.
He had a short rest in his apartment. Faisal obeyed Bara's advice to take time to rest so as not to be attacked by stress, but — his body is increasingly tired as the development of serial murder cases. Just like today, when he woke up from sleep — his body was like it had done heavy work.
Faisal decided to try once again to go around looking for Angelica tonight and drive his avanza in an uncertain direction, until finally he stopped in front of the wreckage of Benedict's orphanage. He got out of the car and surrounded the grounds of the home with a flashlight. When he reached the warehouse building where he and Iptu Citra were investigating the deaths of the dead victims, it appeared that the warehouse lights were lit even though not so bright.
Faisal tried to open the door of the warehouse, how shocked he was when he opened the door and found Angelica lying unconscious, immediately he helped the poor woman, he carried Angelica out of the warehouse and took her to the car.
Angelica was taken to a nearby clinic. While waiting for the woman to wake up — Faisal contact Citra to tell her boss, if he has found the mayor's son.
The model was transferred to Hospital S the next day with very concerning conditions. When he regained consciousness, he was in a state of shock, he did not even want to speak and just looked blankly.
Doctors still forbid police from asking Angelica for information. Angelica's abduction, torture and sexual abuse became her mental destroyer.
"How did you find him?" ask Citra wonder.
"Come, Ndan. I just drove my car without thinking, and suddenly I was stopped in front of the former Benedict orphanage" Faisal replied.
"What about Bella? Have you met him?" Faisal asked back.
The image shook weakly. "He didn't come back to his boarding house yesterday, today he hasn't been to work yet" Citra replied.
The two of them sighed together, the case they were handling became extremely complicated, one was solved, another problem appeared, one was missing one was found. The red thread they thought they had gotten — was just a tangled strand of yarn and hard to unravel.
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