"What have you done?" Chris shouted.
"It was a mistake" Melisa tried to defend herself.
"Mistake!!! How could you say that?" Chris could not believe that such a tragedy could be pushed away by saying an accident.
"It was your experiments remember. Your so called dream" Melisa reminded Chris. She tried to put him in a tough spot and it was true. Whatever they were doing it was all started by Chris only. Now, when things turned in wrong way, he cannot escape the results by blaming her only. He was equally responsible for all the mishap.
"How dare you? It's your fault. You did that to her" Chris felt hurt as well as violated by Melisa's words. He knew she was right all along but listening to that in exact words did not felt good at all. Although he could not deny that he made a huge mistake but neither would he allow Melisa to go so easily.
"Ssshhh… Don't say that. I beg you. My career would be over" Melisa got scared hearing that from Chris. She knew her career, her future and her existence would be finished if any word came out regarding this catastrophe.
"Your career? That's what you cared about, right" Chris was amazed by Melisa's selfishness. Melisa only cared about her and she was ready to discard any possible hint of humanity just to save her so called career.
"Don't think of yourself as a saint. Don't forget you pushed Sara for this. You were the one who wanted to extend her abilities, to explore more into it. It's your fault" Melisa rebuke Chris for making her the only faulty.
"You have to pay. You will pay for this. I promise you" Chris threatened Melisa.
"No, I won't" Melisa said with certainty. She knew that Chris would not make any ruthless decision. He was not like that. He was much smarter than that.
"You will" Chris knew that it was not wise to act now but nothing can be said in future and he knew if he would have patience, he will make her pay for sure.
"If you ever decide to do anything against me, if anyone came to know anything about it, anything at all, I promise you I will expose you in front of the world. I promise you that" Melisa made threats.
"You did this" Chris blamed Melisa again.
"No, you did" Melisa shared a glimpse of Sara lying lifeless on the bed. "We did" Melisa said to Chris.
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Harry's words were repeating inside Samuel head. He was hurt but somewhere he knew that Harry was right too. When he reached his friend's studio, he realized that Harry was more than right. He was being irrational towards Mrs. Robinson. She might seriously be in some trouble when he is busy accusing her for the thing she might not have done. He also realized that he was rude while talking to Harry before or May he was upset because he fought with his best friend. Doesn't matter, he does not feel too good about what happened between him and Harry. He thought of sorting things out after he grabs the picture.
"Howdy? Is it done?" Samuel asked his friend.
���Yes. Here it is" the friend answered.
"So, how much similarity do you think this picture has with the one I gave you from that CCTV footage?" Samuel asked and hoped for some good news as they were not having a very good luck in that particular field from few days.
"At least 80%" the friend answered.
"Really, so we can say that both the person is same" Samuel asked with hope.
"It's the most probable thing" Samuel thought that it was a good thing at least.
"So, Mrs. Robinson was not lying about this girl to be her daughter" Samuel thought"
"Thanks man. I owe you big one. Bye" Samuel left by saying these last words.
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Harry texted Samuel to meet him on their usual spot. Samuel reached at the coffee shop and noticed that Harry was in deep thought. Even when he sat in front of him, he did not notice. His mind was somewhere else. Samuel called for waiter, making Harry come out of his day dream world. Samuel ordered coffee and sandwiches for two. Samuel noticed Harry to be somewhat distant and lost in his thoughts. He remembered his tiff with him from earlier and wanted to talk about it. But no words came out of his mouth. He decided to keep it simple.
"Sorry" Samuel expected some reaction out of Harry but nothing could be read by his face. No word escapes from his mouth. He just kept staring him and Samuel stared back for a while. Waiter came back with their order and then left after placing coffee and sandwiches on the table but Harry remain silent. He stared at the floor and was involved in deep thoughts.
Samuel on the other hand found this situation very unusual. He tried to drink his coffee but couldn't and he tried to eat but couldn't. He needed to sort things out but didn't know how. [Are they having love quarrel?] He thought to himself. He felt like he has to wheedle him over. [Why should he coax him? He didn't ever do that with his girlfriend. The real one, you know.] Yet he felt like he had a quarrel with his lover but that weirdo is not his… [Oh my God!!! What's wrong with me? What the hell am I thinking? Why the hell am I thinking?] He decided to rest his mind and only focus on his food. He was hungry and that's why may be he was being reckless and implausible. He needed food to calm his nerves down.
"That photograph and the crazy girl on the CCTV are same. I just found out" Samuel informed Harry.
"I was drawing a connection between Mrs. Parker and my birth mother. That's might made me partial while making the decision or suggestion until now. It was wrong of me to do that" Harry didn't give any response on Samuel's exposition and Samuel didn't expect it. At that particular moment he was more talking to himself rather than Harry. He himself was in deep thoughts now and Harry was glancing over him with no emotions to tell by his facial expression.
"I found the attacker" Harry finally spoke.
"You found Sara Parker? The crazy girl… right" Samuel was both shocked and excited. He nearly started to believe that they will not be able to find her ever. That girl just vanished from the map. There was no trace as such regarding her.
"How? When?" Samuel asked shockingly and Harry knew he should have been a little bit more specific.
"Not the crazy girl…" Harry clarified.
"Then who?" Samuel asked confusingly.
"Mrs. Parker" Harry answered simply without any distinct facial expression.
"I am sorry. I didn't get it. You found Mrs. Parker, so, where does attacker came from?" Samuel was puzzled by what Harry was stating and at the same time there was some part of it which was not sure of where this conversation was heading.
"Mrs. Parker was the attacker" Harry tried to be more specific in delivering the most vital information they had get regarding this case. He was also embarrassed due to the whole exchange blows they had few hours back.
"What? I knew it. Something was definitely wrong with her" Samuel was suddenly so excited with the piece of information he got. "Wait a minute. She attacked her own son" Samuel asked again as he might had not a good feeling about Mrs. Parker but he definitely did not expect her to come up as a bloody criminal that to in regards of her own son. He did have an opinion about her but coming across with the confirmed news is something else. He was just following the case, going with leads and some of the emotions but it turned out he does not get enough credit for being so smart.
"The medical examiner confirmed that there was foul play in Jackson's case. His death was not natural. He died due to suffocation" Harry added the information just to support his above statement. Moreover, he knew that that particular link up could be easily done by Samuel. Even he had a hunch about it before.
"His own mother strangled him. What kind of mother she is?" Samuel said with amusement.
"Not the kind I would ever want" Harry accepted it as a fact. "There is something else" Harry said after taking a sip from his coffee mug.
"What else?" Samuel was taken aback that there was more to it.
"The reports of DNA analysis came. There were two sets of DNA and two sets of fingerprints found on the knife. The fingerprints obviously belonged to the Jared and other set must come from the crazy girl" Harry informed Samuel.
"Sara" Samuel reminded Harry about her name but that was not just why he said that. Harry never mentions the girl by her name, her actual name. Mostly may be because her name is same as that of his wife.
"Yes, same as you said" Harry did not like the way Samuel corrected him but he knew exactly why he did it.
"What about the DNA found on knife?" Samuel asked to divert the topic. He did not want another squabble or something.
"That's the most interesting part. One set of DNA belongs to some dog but another one is the most interesting, weird and confusing thing" Harry was taking his sweet little time in breaking the news as if he was teasing Samuel.
"You are really testing my patience man. Break the news" Samuel insisted.
"The other set of DNA belongs to the Jackson's father" Harry finally breaks the news. Samuel was confused at first but then realized what Harry had said
"Mr. Parker?" Samuel asked confusingly as there was no way he could digest this newly found piece of information.
"Mr. Parker!!!" Harry confirmed the news.