Mark's spacious office in the M J Memorial Medical. Mark and Ryan were sitting on two chairs while Adam was pacing to and fro. He demanded Mark, "Why did not you inform the police at the first hand when you hospitalized my son?"
"I thought – no the short bald man with the girl convinced me that the killer might know the whereabouts of her victim and may come tracking him and may shoot him again. That's why I did not," Mark confessed.
"Where are they now? Where is the girl for whom my boy is shot? Where is the short bald man?"
"They are also gone."
"They are gone. The killer is gone. The boy is gone too," said Ryan. "But the thing is that I know where the boy must have headed."
"Where?" Adam and Mark both eagerly asked.
"Mr. Mark, do you know where the girl was heading," asked Ryan.
"No," replied Mark.
"I guess the lovelorn boy is following the girl."
Adam said, "Please officer, my heavily injured boy is missing and you are in a mood to crack a joke on him."
"I can prove my point," Ryan said and showed the video recordings through his smart mobile phone. In the video Matthew was lying flat on the bed – half of his face was seen. Then there came a lithe beautiful girl with long hair. Must be the same age as Matthew: thought Adam. The girl in the video, sat down before Matthew. Ryan fast-forwarded the video. Everything was happening in a quick motion. The girl was shifting positions quickly. Then she put her head on Mnaish's bed and slept. Ryan stopped fast-forwarding when Matthew played his fingers in her hairs. Adam knew not that his son knew such romantic things. Because I have never allowed him any friend – let alone a girl friend: he regretted. Then the two teenagers chat for a while, then suddenly the girl woke up and started toward the door; but Matthew caught her hand and she stared at the ground. Then she came back, sat on the bed and slowly lowered her upper body part. Her hairs curtained Matthew's face. Adam could guess that she was kissing him.
"She was telling we are just friends. I must say Adam, your son is much more a sleuth than you," said Mark.
Adam was feeling hot in both his ears. He could see Ryan grinning. Then in the video, after few moments Mark and doctors came. A short bald man was also lurking there. Adam was shocked. He asked, "What is he doin… - I mean, who is he?"
"He is the father of this beautiful girl," said Mark.
"Because of this girl, my boy is shot and see how foolish is my son – falling in love with her; and because of this short bald man my friend (eyeing at Mark, who lowered his gaze.) did not do the only rational option – to report the police. Where are they now?"
Except Ryan no one was looking at the screen now. "Shh," Ryan said. "Drama queens, look at the screen now.
The video was still playing. The girl had left the room. There was no one around except the somnant boy. The boy woke up slowly and painfully. Dressed himself and arranged pillows on the bed and covered them with the white sheet and staggered out of the room closing the door. Then after few minutes the door opened. Everyone watching the video was piqued. Adam was anticipating: Is it the killer? A tall dark lady with a small head and an ugly face entered the room.
"So this is the face behind the mask!" exclaimed Ryan. Everyone looked shocked.
In the video the tall woman neared the bed. When she uncovered the sheet she looked shocked. She muttered something – put her hand into her pocket. She procured a rose and put it on the bed. Then she looked startled and stared for a moment at the window.
"I was shouting killer – killer at that time," said Ryan. He bent down and got the rose from the floor and continued, "So, she likes your son, Mr. Adam. You are lucky, you got a lady charmer," Saying so he pocketed the rose.