Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27569420-20170506155512

Everybody loves Saturdays, don’ t they?

Of course, it is the day when students and office goers alike, get their much- needed rest after their tiresome week, but it’ s much more than that. Saturday’ s the day when football fans head out to the stadium. Saturday’ s the day when people go for end of the week shopping. Saturday’ s the perfect day for a candlelight dinner. Surely, Saturday is not the day you want to spend alone.

I, for one, do not mind the solitude. I’ m used to being a loner for quite some time now<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I head over to the Redwood Park every Saturday, not to have a bash with my friends, but to be away from my work<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. My clinic, has become a pathetic place, thanks to the terribly monotonous work schedule<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. So, whenever I can afford my weekly break, I head out to the park, to watch the world around me enjoy carefreely<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal">What I found peculiar today though, was the absence of the usual hustle<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- bustle in the park<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. For the past two months, I had spent my weekend here, never had I sensed an absence as absolute as I did today<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. Then again, the times I had been to the park before, I had a better someone to care about, than to notice the scarcity of sound<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal">Still, the absence of noise bored me, and I tried to think what might have caused the unexpected break in the schedule<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. It could have been the weather, I thought, getting worse every passing day<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. It could be the case that the school had taken the children for a picnic<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. No, there was no shot of a good picnic in this weather<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. It could very well be that nobody had felt the mood to come out to play today, and I was uselessly racking my brains<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But it seemed odd enough, that no one had found a purpose to enjoy their weekend<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal">Ah, I realized it was the criminal<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I remember a cursory glance of the paper in the morning, having been greeted by the emphatic headline, <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">‘ Don<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t stay out late, without a genuine purpose<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’. What the Times had wanted to convey, I suppose, was an appeal to its readers, asking them to be extremely careful and avert<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Of course, the readers, being overprotective as they are, had to delve in to the literal meaning of the sentence, and grounded themselves in their houses for the evening<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal">I couldn<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">’ t really blame them, though<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Of course, Castle Ville had never been the safest of the towns, to begin with<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But I guess that the situation had got a little worse in the recent days<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. As many as 4 people had been found brutally murdered in the past 2 weeks<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Very brutal indeed, the skin around the temples of the victims was found ripped<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. The most unsettling part, the killer had made very little mess of the work, in all of the 4 cases<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. The police concluded the slayer got away with the blood of his victims<span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> So basically, a psychopath murderer was out in the town, killing innocent people in a spree, and <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"> my townsmen were well averted <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. And then, there was me, a fool, out in the night, all alone, waiting to be the perfect target of the killer <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I shuddered when I checked my watch <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. 8PM <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. The perfect time for a killer to sneak behind my back, and stab me right at the neck <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I checked my pocket <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. The sole self <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- defense I had, aside from my amateur karate skills, was my faithful swiss knife <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Taking a deep breath, I prepared myself to jog down two miles, just to be back in time at my safe, sweet home <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> As I got up and prepared to dash off, I banged my head <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Damn, it was Saturday, my best day of the week <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. As much as I had compelled myself to remember, yet, invariably, at the last moment, I failed to recall <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. The Times had asked people not to be out without a genuine purpose <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I still couldn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t believe I had forgotten my purpose for the day <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. I had to visit Lana <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I had never been a fan of the path which lead to her residence <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. The yew trees cast dark shadows in the already dull lit night, as I made my way to the cemetery <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. It had only been 2 weeks <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. I could not forget the path which led to the shrine of my beloved Lana Munro <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> It took very little strength to remove the coffin <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s lid <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. And the moment I saw her face, I bent down to kiss her on the lips <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. There wasn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t a chance I could have resisted the charm of my sleeping beauty <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I toyed with her jet <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- black hair, brushing them aside to reveal her pale face <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I couldn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t describe in words how great Lana looked asleep <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. I had thought Alexandria <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s Genesis to be a rumor <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But as I opened her dreamy eyelids, her purple eyes reflected the wonderful reality I was indulged in <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">“ Hello doll <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. How have you been doing? <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">” It was me who finally broke the silence <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. “ An entire week, but finally, I <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ m back <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. How did my week go? Well <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">…”. I narrated my entire week <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I told her how I had toiled in the past five days of the week, just to be back with her, on my awaited weekend <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Nothing had changed, things were just like they were before <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Back when we met in my house, it was me, who did all of the talking, while my beloved lover intently listened <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. And this time, when it was my turn to visit her, even then it was me who spoke, while my beloved lover heard <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But, this moment missed something <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. As I finished my narration, I stretched my arms out, eagerly awaiting Lana <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s warm hug <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. The hug, which always assured me, that no matter how pathetic things were, but all would be fine till my Lana was with me <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. But the hug never came <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> It is at that moment I realized I was crying <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Weeping at the sad realization, that things could never be the same between me and my lover <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. My hands reached out to my pocket, plunging for the swiss knife <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. My damnation had to end <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> My hands came out with the small present I had brought for my beloved <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. I smiled <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. No, it was not the time to lament <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I had a gift for my doll <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">“ Look what I <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ ve got you <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Eau de Cologne <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s your favorite? No, even I like that <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But trust me, this one <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s way better <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">”. My hands finally came out with the Swiss <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I sliced open the little gash on her temple <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Funny how the gash always managed to fill itself well in time <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Drop by drop, I sprayed, until the nozzle got jammed <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Eventually, I uncapped the bottle, and poured its contents down my beloved <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s wound <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">“ See, knew you <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ d love this <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Oh no, really, it wasn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">’ t trouble <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. It <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s just that the Times made the job a bit difficult <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. As it is, it <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s hard to find unsuspecting people these days, it wrote these awe <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- inspiring articles that compounded my problems <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. But no, I knew I will find someone <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Someone with perfect and luscious blood <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. And that someone turned out to be Ariana <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">“ I don <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t know, all I could tell, was that she was heading out somewhere in the forests <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Typical city girl, busy chatting on her phone <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. Too busy, didn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t even notice the man stalking her <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I think it was only when I stabbed her that she realized what was happening <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. She screamed for help, for mercy, but even she knew it was to no avail <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. A helper was impossible to find in the desolate forest <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. And mercy she wasn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t getting <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. No, I didn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t know her <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. It was when I checked her I <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- card to see her blood group <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. That <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s when I checked her name <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Oh, you want a refill? Well, lucky I <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ ve got another bottle <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">.”

<p class="MsoNormal"> It was sometime before I finally spoke, <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">“ Yeah, you <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ ve only got yourself to blame <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I call Ariana foolish, but are you any different? I had never really liked your friends on WhatsApp <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. Always sent you useless gossip and messages <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But you had to read each one of them <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">“ Taking calls on road itself is damn risky <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But reading messages? That <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s utter stupid! <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">  I ask you, what was the message? <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">  How good could a message be, worthy of so much attention, that you had to read them on the highway? <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">  And read them, fine <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. But be aware of your surroundings <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. How could you not anticipate the Bentley? <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">”

<p class="MsoNormal"> I sighed <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. “ The bone injuries were really no problem, just minor fractures <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But again, you had to have, the one <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- in <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- a <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- million, the rarest blood group in the world, the Bombay blood group <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. As much as the doctors tried to stop the bleeding, and as hard as I tried to procure the rare blood, your bleeding never stopped <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. And here you are now <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.”

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">“ Oh, please <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Doctors say a lot of things <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. If it were up to them, they <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ d declare the benign tumors as malignant, and make a fortune of the treatment <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I mean, isn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t it ridiculous? All happened was that you fell into a deep sleep, patiently waiting for the blood to arrive <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But the docs thought you were dead? Oh, kill me <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">! As much as they insisted to burn your body, I never allowed them to touch your body <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. It was when the cops came in that I finally had to bury you <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But hey! <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">  I pay you a visit time to time <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I provide you your panacea <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. Do you need a bigger proof, that you are the only woman whom I love? <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">”

<p class="MsoNormal"> I checked my watch <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. 11 <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. “ Goodness, I <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ ve been speaking for three long hours <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Now make some room, got to catch some sleep <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.” I moved aside her broken leg <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. “ Oh, I am sorry, that must have hurt <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Nah, don <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t worry <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Just wait for a month, and your leg would be fine <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. OK, no more talking now <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Good Night <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.”

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<p class="MsoNormal"> I woke up to the sound of crows cawing <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. My eyes dreamily opened, only to gaze at the rooftop yew trees had caste around me <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Confused, I got up, wondering what had brought me to the peculiar place <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. That <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s when I first noticed the blood on my hands <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Naturally, I was surprised, and stood up, only to find my white shirt stained in an interesting shade of red <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I scanned my surroundings, and that <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s when my eyes fell on the bottle of cologne <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. As I bent down to claim it, my eyes turned, to the body of a girl lying on the coffin next to me <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. A closer look confirmed my worst fears <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. It was Lana, my dead wife <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Guilt scorched my heart, as I studied my bloodied palms, and contemplated my past actions <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Lana had meant my entire life to me <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. It was impossible to accept the news of her death <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Of course, there was no one to blame but herself for the accident <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But the news had left me a lot more than shattered <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. The woman behind the success, of my medical excellence as a doctor, was no longer alive <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. No, surely, I couldn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t accept that <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Perhaps Dr <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Ryan Miller could have eventually filled the void left in his now meaningless life, but, her death had made way for the birth of Ryan Miller, the psychopath who murdered his victims <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Words of the forensic kept stinging my ears, <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">“ If only we could have provided her the blood on time <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">…”. And that <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s exactly what Ryan Miller did <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Just as the Sun went down, awoke the psychopath Ryan, with hunter <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- like instincts, the perfect predator to his unsuspecting preys <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. And it was this predator whom the cops were on a lookout for, this predator whom the Times had warned to be weary of, and, this predator, who supplied blood to his deceased lover, in the hope that she would open her eyes <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I was down on my knees, weeping <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. For the fifth time in a fortnight, I had broken the holy oath Hippocrates had asked every paramedic to observe <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Lana <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s death had triggered my Sun <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">- down syndrome, and brought to the world, a harsh, ruthless psychopath <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. And no one, but me could stop him <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> As much tempting as the choice of a quick death was, I realized that was not what my Lana would have wanted me to do <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Lana would have wanted me to fight myself, get control over myself <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. No, I had resolved <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. I would surrender myself, and that would be the end to all my crimes <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> I picked up the bottle of cologne <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. The only reminder of my wife I would keep with me <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">. I had a last good look at my dead wife <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. If there was anything the doctor and the psychopath had in common, it was the love they shared for Lana Munro <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Perhaps it was my imagination, but the corpse had a slight smile on its face <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Thankfully, the joke was over <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. Finally, I put the lid to the coffin, wishing my lover farewell <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> As I proceeded to exit, the image of Lana <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s corpse flashed into my mind <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%; font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. That <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ s when I stopped dead in my tracks <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. In the past four visits I had paid to my dead wife, I had not noticed <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But this time, it had finally caught my eye <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt; line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Had Ryan, the psychopath noticed, he would have been elated, overjoyed that his efforts had finally paid off <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. But to Ryan, the doctor, this observation was terrifying to death, a medical impossibility <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Every time I had visited Lana, I had made a slit on her neck, in which I poured the blood <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">. And for the past four times, I hadn <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">’ t noticed, but, the gashes had healed <span lang="BN" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Vrinda",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">.

<p class="MsoNormal">How can the wounds of a corpse heal? <ac_metadata title="Medically Impossible"> </ac_metadata>