Claire and Sarah were still going through the scripts to decipher them and know what Alex was trying to tell. She was going through the script with the underlined name 'Professor Ryan'.
Meanwhile, in the Kanugo Central College, the students were arriving. A man with brown hair wearing glasses, a loose white shirt and grey pants was sitting on the bench near the main gate of the college. He was reading a book with the author-name 'Dr Felter'.
A few girls were having some chitchat near the main gate.
"Hey, Jessica, you are so pretty and so smart. You will easily get a guy if you want. Why aren't you still dating someone?" One of the girls mentioned.
"I haven't found someone who is my type yet," Jessica replied, her eyes fell on the man who was sitting on the bench and was reading a book.
"Come on, you reject every guy you meet. What kind of guy do you want?" Her friend said with a sigh. "Does that kind of guy even exist in this world?"
She was still staring at the man and didn't reply to her friend. They noticed it and followed her eyes to know where she was looking at.
They all smiled when they saw a handsome man sitting on the bench reading a book.
"Why don't you approach him? it" One of the friends suggested out of nowhere.
Jessica looked at her friend and asked, "What do you mean?"
Her friend sighed and answered, "You are staring at a man. Stop trying to act tough." She held her other friend's arm and said before pursing her lips, "Look, how handsome he is."
The other friend looked at Jessica and suggested her to go and approach him.
"Hey, guys. I am not interested in him. I was staring at him because he was reading my dad's book," Jessica replied and tried to clarify, but her friends were persistent.
"Then it is even better. You won't have to find a topic to talk, you already have one."
They pushed her ahead and told her to go and approach him. The guys was not even raising his gaze even though he could hear everything. His eyes were still fixated on the book when Jessica finally decided to approach him.
"Umm… Hey," She said when she went to him, but he didn't respond. She frowned, thinking that this guy must be the rude or arrogant type. "Excuse me."
He raised his gaze up and looked into her eyes. "How may I help you?" He said with a straight face.
"I saw the book you are reading. Are you a regular follower of Dr Felter?" She asked, trying to move the conversation.
"Oh, are you his follower as well?" He raised his head, meaning that she gained his attention.
She first smiled a bit and answered, "He is my father. My name is Jessica Felter. Nice to meet you." She placed her hand for a handshake but he just nodded. She frowned and got angry a bit while pulling back her hand.
"I was here to meet him. I am his admirer," He mentioned.
Dr Felter was a professor in Kanugo Central College.
"I can take you to him if you want," She replied, making him expand his eyeballs.
"Really?"
She nodded.
"By the way, do you agree with every point he mentioned in his book?" He asked with a kind of curios voice.
She thought for a bit and answered, "I do agree with most of the points, but there could be disagreements in some smaller points."
"I don't quite relate with one point," He mentioned, turned the page and showed her a certain line underlined with a red marker when she sat on the bench beside him.
It stated –
'Love and Lust are two sides of the same coin. They are basically the same, they are powered by our interests and desires.'
She took a read and said, "It seems fine to me. There might be some disagreements."
He closed the book and turned to her. "Its not like I don't agree with him. I usually connect love with a different thing."
She got curious. "A differing thing?"
"Yes…"
Meanwhile, when Claire was turning the pages of Professor Ryan's script, she came across a line which was underlined with the red marker. She read it.
"Loving and Killing someone are the same…"
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"Loving and killing someone are the same. First, you fear, then you hesitate. Then slowly you get used to it. You don't even realise that it becomes an addiction," The guy replied to Jessica.
Jessica was just staring at him after listening to such a connection. She was partly impressed by his views.
"By the way, you haven't told me your name yet," She mentioned.
"Ryan… Professor Ryan," He replied. It was pretty difficult to believe that this young man was a professor.
"Are you a professor as well?"
"Yes, I work in Rosener Central College," He answered.
Rosener was a city near Kanugo.
"But you are so young," She mentioned with a surprised face. "And why aren't you in your college?"
"I am on a leave right now," He replied, picking up the book again. "By the way, tell your father about me. I want to meet him."
"Of course, he would be happy to meet you as well," She replied before her friends called her as it was time to go. They exchanged numbers before she left.
As soon as she was gone, he smirked after looking at her number in his phone. He picked up his book and walked away.
Claire couldn't get why those lines was underlined. She again started having weird thoughts. She had got it what he wanted to say through those sentences but still didn't want to believe it.
There was only one way to get the answer. It was to meet him personally and ask this, but there was a challenge. How would she find him before the police find him? She still believed in her love so she knows he won't harm her.
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NOTE: Read the author's note below.