Chapter 2

Dev ~

'The poor man must have not comprehended the pain when his throat was slit. It was an immediate action and less severe death I think,' I reckoned.

'I think I saw a silhouette of someone glimpsing inside the ward. If they have come to know, the police will be here any minute. I should rush,' I aroused myself.

I thought it would be better if I entered from the window rather than from the door. I was certain that somebody was there peeping inside. The person who saw me committing this action must have already informed the whole asylum that there's a murderer in here. Even the receptionist was looking at my face the way she will remember it well to give a sketch of me to the police.

No fusses, I can find my way of evading. After all, executing so many crimes didn't bring me to the police, then how can I let them take hold of me now. They don't know my momentum. No matter how much they try they can never have me. And even if they have me I'll never surrender.

I did have a smirk on my face thinking about my proficiency and talent that I own.

As quickly as possible I wiped the knife with the mattresses that were there on the bed of the ward and kept the knife in the fruit vessel as it was. Rashly, I ran over the window to see my possible prop of exit. Yeah, and there it was. There was a pipe leading all the way down to the ground from the window. Everything was in my favour. My face had a smile when I saw that I am so close to my way of fleeing. I glanced back once to see if anyone was coming or not and much to my solace there was no one yet.

'How come there's no one here yet. By this time, the whole asylum should've gathered. By this time I should've heard the siren of the police jeep, but there's no one. It is for the first time I am encountering such a thing. Either the person who saw me is mad or he is in my favour, there are these two possibilities.'

Seeing the opportunity, I instantly got down without making much noise. I have a check here and there if anybody has laid any trap or not, before moving out of the gate. I go near the front gate silently. The side where I got down earlier was the back of the asylum and there was no exit way there. Huge fences surrounded the arena approximately 27 to 30 feet tall, which was impossible to climb, they had glass pieces and nails stuck at the bars of the fence, which if touched would injure someone very badly.

The area near the gate had many trees. I remembered I kept my gun in hiding under one of those trees. I ran after reminiscing and started surveying for the tree. I had no time. But I needed the gun. In case the police caught me on the road while eloping I should at least have something for my defence. I am strong enough to fight with my fists but nobody can confront guns. And the police are not mad to arrive here without any preparations to arrest a wanted criminal like me. Just my name is enough to let shiver through their spine.

'Yes, I got It,' I said delightedly.

I took my gun and moved further towards my final destination, the gate. The huge gate where there were two Watchmen's always alert.

'I am ready to kill them too if they come in my way'.

I kept my gun targeted, so if anyone comes to shoot them there and there. I moved slowly lurking behind trees to see if there were watchmen waiting for their death to come on the gate. My eyes were overhauled on the gate. My footsteps light and hefty, the grass crushed beneath my feet as I walked.

As far as I can see, there's no one outside the gate. Everything is mum and dark outside.

'Today is my day,' I glowed to myself.

With a happy face, I walked dauntlessly towards the gate. As soon as I reached, my eyes were in shock at what I saw.

'Who's she? And what is she doing here?'

A girl was lying near the gate. Where did she come from? Her face was wrapped with the strands of her hair. She was bruised and hurt, blood coming from her feet. Is she unconscious? She is wearing the asylum's clothes. She must be from this asylum. Leave, why am I thinking so much, let her die what I have got to do. Even if I ran in front of her, she would not say anything. She is a mental person.

'Such a poor thing you are. I'll wake you up and go. I at least have little humanity left in my heart until now. And then I'll run in front of your eyes,' I sat near her on my knees mocking her condition.

That's what my nature shows, I love torturing people who are less stronger than me. And by the way, she is just a girl and that is too mad. What can I expect from her? She would not memorise me. I shook her harshly and pushed her onto the other side as she was lying reversed on her stomach. I moved the strands of hair from her face to pat her check and wake her. As soon as I did that, a beautiful face was disclosed to me. A girl I have never saw before. She was captivating and divinely beautiful. I looked at her for a few seconds, waited for her to get up. She finally opened her eyes. She saw me. I saw those gorgeous eyes. She took my hand away from her shoulders and got up, very afraid.

'What have I got to do with your beauty? a girl like you I have every day to see. But one thing I pity is that you are mad. So sad, such a tragedy,' I shook my head teasing her abnormality.

She looked at me amusingly. I pointed out gun at her trying to threaten her, which as expected she was scared of. She started sobbing as I was Laughing seeing her afraid.

'Shhhh..' I hushed her.

She immediately stopped crying. I opened the gate knob and was outside the premises.

'Bye-bye Mad girl,' I mockingly waved at her.

Saying her bye I started walking towards my car Until I stopped forcibly;

'I saw you. You killed that man. I saw your clothes. You are a bad man. I will tell you killed,' she said, stuttering while holding the bars of the gate.

What! What the f**k. She was there who saw me. Why in the world did I wake her up? Why? What should I do now? I have to do something. I was bombarded with all the questions coming into my mind.

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Dev ~

I was flabbergasted on hearing the girl's testimony, her saying wreaked havoc inside my brain. Nothing was evident in my mind. The girl whom I was miscalculating was far more thoughtful than what I could think. Nothing left to think about, I couldn't find a solution to my problem. I Scratched my head with my forefinger and then ran fingers through my hair in awe. Don't know why but for the first time, sweat was dripping from my forehead.

I glanced back and glared at her, anger oozing out from my face. I clamped my teeth and ran towards her.

"What do you know huh?" I asked, gritting my teeth.

"I know that you are a murderer, I saw you. I know you are here to kill me too. I will tell everyone about you," She replied, stuttering.

"Shut up! You don't know anything, do you understand. You saw nothing, is that clear to you?" I raised my voice slamming the bars of the front gate.

She crouched hearing the bang. Her eyes were not raised to look into mine. Her beauty was undeniable and undefinable. She was one of a kind, very delicate and fragile looking. My bang created great fear in her mind and that was understood by the anxiety in her eyes. Her grip on the bars of the gate tightened. She was breathing heavily. We both were standing opposite to each other, she was inside the gate and me outside. I was very close to feel her breath. She was suffocated, due to our intertwined breaths.

Hurriedly, without wasting a moment I opened the gate and yanked her outside. Her face fell right onto my chest with a thud. She got hurt from my locket. I banged her body on the gate taking both her hands into my capture and shoved myself towards her. She cried in pain. I didn't react to her cry and was stiff as usual. Hearing her cry I gave a quick look to my surroundings in frustration. Seeing the chance, I huddled all my fingers onto her mouth so that the cry would not be heard.

"I said keep your mouth shut," I gritted my teeth once again.

She tried to let herself go off from my capture but in vain. It was useless for such a fragile girl to push me or even shake a bit from my grips. She started flapping her body, hoping that something could help, but again in vain. The more she tried, the stronger my fingers gripped onto her mouth. Tears started flowing from her innocent eyes. I looked into them, they were the authentic things I've ever seen. I didn't let myself get lost into those.

Devoid knowing what I was doing, I only did those things that came into my mind at that dangerous moment. If I let this girl go, she will certainly tell there was somebody who killed him. She might not remember my face, but police are enough to understand that this murder is committed by me if she tells them that the murderer was a man. After all, they are rummaging for me from when they came to know that I am the one who is going to murder this guy. I am wanted. They know many things about me. It will be susceptible for them to find me. No, I can't let this happen. I have to do something.

My mind had never been on such a ride of questions ever before. By today's lesson, one thing I learned that I was sure about is that never underrate anyone, they can create tremendous problems for you.

When I hit reality from all these questions, there's one thing in my mind that was clear, that I couldn't leave this girl to create problems for me.

I didn't give a second thought to my thoughts and was firm to do what just my mind ordered me to.

With my grip on her hand and mouth, I pulled her towards my car. I opened the car door and threw her inside the seat.

After letting her in, I took out a tape from my car drawer and stuck it onto her mouth. The second thing I did was, I took the rope from the dickey of my car and tied her both hands.

After doing all this stuff, I put on her seatbelt and then put mine on. The whole time she was whimpering and was trying her best to get rid of my clutches. She was trying her best to scream for help but she couldn't.

I accelerated my car and held my grip on the steering wheel and was ready to drive. Before driving I pointed out my gun towards her once again, just to scare her. In case she tries to escape, but that won't happen, because she is not stable.

I did not understand what I was up to. Everything was a mess. I had done murders and crimes, I had cut people to their death, I had done all the illegal stuff in my past, but never done kidnapping. I could have killed her on the spot when she uttered that she saw me killing him but I couldn't. I felt vulnerable. So what I did was extremely fair. It's better to kidnap her rather than kill her, because she is innocent. It just requires proper knowledge to handle it, then she will be under my constraint.

I was sure of what I was doing and drove my car as swiftly as possible from the asylum.

The reason that the receptionist and the Watchmen were sleeping was because I threw a dart in their direction so that they couldn't remember my face or anything about me. But for this girl, I couldn't use it. I was out of darts, nothing left with me. So, I couldn't think of any other plan and just abducted her.