章 13: Night Out
Asher and Zoa separated their ways after reaching the city. Asher refused to go on separate way but Zoa insisted him.
She wanted sometime alone. They exchanged their contact information and promised to meet tomorrow in a café. Asher will decide the location and share it with Zoa.
Zoa agreed with him and took a taxi to unknown path. She went to the house of the dead hit man.
Zoa reached his apartment. He owned that apartment. Zoa kept standing on the front door before entering.
"Please forgive me. But you deserve it.", Zoa prayed in front of the door before unlocking it.
Zoa entered in the apartment. The password was simple. The hitman must have been a simple man. That was Zoa's first thought.
Because she didn't have to struggle to find anything. He had arranged his all passwords and details in a single Excel file in his mobile.
There was a list of his targets and the persons who had hired him. The details of the payments and success rate. Everything was easy to find.
"Did he want the police to catch him without any effort?", Zoa said as she opened his laptop.
The apartment was clean and well arranged as well. Zoa investigated the whole apartment. It was a single bedroom apartment. The kitchen was on the ground floor and the bedroom was on the first floor.
Zoa had found some interesting gadgets while investigating the apartment.
Zoa fell asleep on someone else bed while investigating. She was tired. Her single bone and cell was fatigue and tired.
Zoa woke up and looked at the clock. It was night already. Zoa checked her phone. She saw that Asher had called her 90 times. There were 100+ unread messages as well.
Zoa checked the messages. She had received messages from two persons. One was Asher, who had sent her 120 messages. He had asked about her whereabouts and well being.
"Where are you?"
"If you won't pick up my calls. Then I'll start stalking you."
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"It's my last warning."
"Please, Zoa. Don't ignore me."
The second person who had sent the messages was someone whose contact info were not saved.
Zoa opened the messages. It was a wedding card.
"Oh! His ex invited him to her wedding. This is interesting.", Zoa said.
Zoa was going to call Asher but before she could dial his number. He called her first.
Zoa picked the call. "Are you fine?", A panic voice full of worry asked from the other side of the phone.
Zoa smiled unconsciously after hearing this. But she felt a little bit of guilty for ignoring him.
"I was sleeping.", Zoa responded with a calm voice. She didn't want to chuckle.
"I see. You must be tired. Are you staying at that killer house?"
"Yes, I'm staying at his house. It's a comfortable one. He had no friends, no family nothing at all."
"No lover either?"
"He had a girlfriend but she is getting married next month. They had a break up."
"That's good. But wait a second. How do you know about this?"
"She sent an invitation when I was sleeping."
"Did she come over?"
"No, she didn't. She had messaged. Now, can we talk later? You should also rest."
"I'll send you the location and timing for our tomorrow's meeting. Please act more responsible this time."
"Ok, byee."
Zoa hung the phone. She wanted to talk more and share her feelings with him. Zoa wanted to lean on someone.
But Zoa knew that she couldn't trust him easily. Everything had started after he had sent her a picture.
Asher knew about her trauma and past as well. Zoa couldn't risk to lose him. She had no reason to kill him either.
"I need to eat something first. I don't want to die yet.", Zoa moved downstairs.
She opened the fridge and the cabins in the kitchen. There was nothing to eat at all.
"I had to eat at some restaurants. But I have no energy to go out.", Zoa lay down on the floor of the kitchen.
Zoa always had a habit to lay straight on the floor. She had this habit from childhood. Whenever she felt depressed and sad.
She went in a park or a garden and lay down there while observing the sky.
Zoa did the same this time as well. She looked at the ceiling of the kitchen.
"What am I going to do next? If I had to fight against a rival or any other relative then I already had them on my palm. But now, it's my birth mother. She had done nothing except giving birth to me."
"Sigh"
"Then why am I resisting to go against her."
This thought occupied her mind for a long time. Zoa sat on the floor and stretched her back.
"I know what do I need to do?", Zoa aimed and stretched her arms. She opened the cup noodles from her bag.
Zoa had snacks and some cup noodles in her bag. "I'm going to use my emergency food.", Zoa spoke to herself while eating.
After finish eating, Zoa grabbed that bag and locked the apartment before leaving.
Zoa wore a hood before leaving. She had covered her head with the hood's cap. She was wearing the backpack over her hood.
"I had never imagined that. A day like this would come. When I had to wear used clothes of other men. The men who are total strangers for me."
Zoa moved on the unknown dark streets of the vast city in search of the familiar dark streets. Zoa checked the phone to find her way.
Zoa finally saw some familiar roads and streets. She was standing in front of a tall building. It was dark.
The darkness was killing Zoa. "Was this place always this dark?", Zoa thought as she looked around.
She had lived in that place for last ten years. After taking admission in the college. She had shifted to this building.
Zoa was familiar with each corner of that building even the darkest corner there. Zoa covered her face with a white mask and entered in the building.
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