I turned my face towards the exit door, and bid farewell to Nurse Michelle. The way I was headed now would lead me to a string of Lorenzo's malicious crimes. This man would prove beneficial for this case. This case was not that easy earlier and now it is even more complete. I don't know if he would stick to his confession he can easily turn his back on us, but I have the key which would certainly make him spill the beans.
I first came to my house and started looking everywhere. Thankfully this time no Night Shadow was waiting to kill me for vengeance. Everything was just as I left earlier that cold day. This house lacked the presence of something known as, warmth. Everything was just black, grey, brown and white. I sighed and went into my room, even my bed was just like as I left, my pen on the side table, the comb on the shelf the opened book everything. I searched in my wooden carved cabinets and drawers desperately looking for the key. I searched everywhere, I panicky went into my living room and searched on my study table. It was nowhere to be seen, and I became worried. I tried to calm myself and opened the study drawer. Fortunately, it was still there, I locked it in my briefcase and went out happily.
I reached the cafe, it had barely any customers in it. It was understood because these riches would be enjoying their Christmas parties, which precisely is a show-off of their expensive and unique featured items or the hub of planning their vile crimes. I sighed and went towards the table near the window. I started looking outside and kept thinking. Would he come? Well, he has to if needs to get saved from getting revealed. If he would've informed Edmondson about me then probably, that traitor might have planned to put me to death in the nights of that hospital. Fortunately, it didn't happen which mean he kept his mouth zipped. With every move, he is making me even more sure of his crimes. I was thinking this when I turned my face and saw him coming into the cafe. He searched for me, and then his eyes does land on me and fear took over his entire body. He came towards me and sat right in front of me while looking at his surroundings.
"So you decided to show up didn't you, Richard Ross?" I said in a cold tone.
" I want you to give me my present or whatever you have against me." He said angrily with a lowered voice.
"You think I would give it to you that easy?" I raised my eyebrow.
"What do you want from me? Why are you behind me to ruin my reputation?" he started pleading with me and sweat was all evident on his face.
"You very well know what I want from you and don't worry about your reputation, falsehood is bound to end one day," I said in a determined tone.
" How do you know about Edmondson and me?" he asked curiously.
"Don't you know walls have ears and doors have eyes?" I said while smirking.
"Do you have any accomplices ?" he asked abruptly.
"I'm not answerable to you but you are to me and you will tell the truth as a witness," I said in an enraged manner,
"I don't have answers to your question." He said shrugging his shoulders
"Don't think to lie even or else your vile crimes will be famous among the officials and you might lose your most awaited promotion to the desired respectable and highly paid post. The people who think of you as an angel will know your real perilous face and you will rot in prison." I picked up my sharp knife and placed it on his throat and looked into his eyes infuriated. He was shocked, his hands started shaking, his breathing stopped for a moment and his eyes widened with shock, he started panting heavily. Some people tried to approach him, but I pressed the knife even closer to his throat. He quickly gestures to them to stay away from his hand.
"Please don't do that, please I beg you" he started begging for his life.
"I would not if you would tell me the truth I eagerly want to know, hmm," I replied while gritting my teeth.
"Yes, yes I would tell you everything but please don't do it" I removed my knife and let him off roughly on the window. He kept holding his neck and loosened his collar. He started breathing heavily. I sat on my seat and said,
"Now reveal yourself." I gritted my teeth.
"I worked hard for this post." He said and sat, still, his breathing was unstable.
"Worked hard to feed on the flesh of innocents, huh?" I shouted.
"I'm sorry please, I never wanted to do that." He said while having a worried expression.
"But you did" I replied.
"Lorenzo provoked me to do so at first." He confessed anxiously.
"huh, Lorenzo? " I said surprisingly.
"Yes, he did. I am an old friend of Lorenzo and I have known him ever since he was just an ordinary waiter. We were there for each other whenever we need each other, he was more like a brother to me. Then I shifted to London for further studies and became a lawyer here. We met after a long while coincidentally and he told me that he requires my help. I agreed to do so, he only told me at first that those were some local products which were not getting approved by the government officials to hold the profit to themselves than the locals. So I agreed to it and continued helping him, and soon I came to know what he was smuggling. He offered me to keep quiet and gain help in return at that time I was coming into politics and required his strong support, so I agreed. I used to contact Lorenzo when I needed him and he always helped me, in return, he would ask me to smuggle illegal things. I was in a good position and had strong connections in London so I could get the smuggled things out from London and get them delivered in Italy easily or vice versa. I used to be his partner in loan-sharking, drug trafficking, arms trafficking and fencing homeless kids to beggars to gain profit which was divided between both of us. " he said while lowering his face in shame.
My eyes had a fire burning in them, my blood was boiling and my mind was exasperated by listening to his horrendous deeds. I sighed and refrained from killing him with my own hands, I need to be patient because in this case, he is lucky that he is a witness.
"You were not provoked you did it on your own will. But it's never too late to repent, you can confess this and can save many poor lives. If you are ashamed." I replied.
"I don't want to die and rot in prison, I would stop this malignant crime when Lorenzo would put to death. This work makes me fall in my own eyes, I do want to change it. At that time I was helpless." He said in a despairing tone.
"Why were you helpless back then?" I asked
"I needed his help to gain a strong position in my political party and at that time he did had high contacts. I had no choice" he said in a lowered voice
"No choice but to fulfil your greed huh?" I said.
"Power makes you like that, you become blind between right and wrong. The only thing that satisfies you is more power. Power's a strange thing lad, it's a drug people like I crave. I thought if I would gain more power I would become undefeated, unstoppable. I will become the most prestigious person in London and nobody will look down on me again." He said while having tears in his eyes and biting his lower lip with embarrassment.
"So I guess they say it's true," I said in a cold tone.
"What?" he asked.
" Greater the power more dangerous its abuse," I replied while having a lowered voice but impactful tone.
"I'm sorry... I am." he became innocent and started wiping his tears while covering his face.
"You didn't think one of those innocent people who look upon you and trust you the most huh? Those people there live a horrendous life because of you and still think you are their guardian, you are their saviour. If you were blinded by the power you still can't justify the ill-treatment and hardships they bear. In the night you abduct their innocent children and give condolences to the parents in the morning. On one side you cut the ribbon of inauguration for a flint house police rehabilitation and on the other hand in the darkness, you supply the drugs. You promised to stop the oppression of the peasants but you traffic arms to Italy so that Lorenzo and his dogs could feed on the flesh of innocents? Are you eligible to be even called a human?" I asked in a questioning tone while my expression was showing the contempt I had inside me for him.
"But how will you prove it huh? Who will believe an unknown stranger like you?" he suddenly turned his innocent expression into a vicious one and looked up at me with a cunning gaze.
"I knew you would turn your back that's why I brought the key that will make you spill the truth," I smirked and said.
" What...what?" he asked with a fearful tone.
"You will know soon what this ordinary man does have and it will make you regret what you did in the past," I said while smiling.
"Show me you-" He said in a loud voice,
" Do you remember the last time you met Edmondson?" I said while getting something from my briefcase.
" I do, what do you mean by that?" He asked angrily.
" Then you might remember this" His eyes widened with shock.