Chapter 19 - Heart

Restarting the car with the keys once again, Tiger proceeds the car into the large stadium through the opened faint gate and violently turns his way towards the right side which leads Robin to perceive that the stadium covers a considerably large area but it is set absolutely silent and dark except the yellowish golden sodium light of the bulb turned on over one of the iron pillar lamp. A black-colored car is seen parked already at the right side inside the stadium. Pushing the brakes, Tiger stops his swift speed car closer to that one.

"It is better for you not to come outside." He solemnly instructs Robin.

Tightening his firm grip over the suitcase while expecting for her reaction, he picks up the suitcase, inhales a deep sigh, and opens the car door. As soon as he opens the door of his car, a man from the other car parked in the stadium, also steps out. Staring at his clearly visible young face, after the man has stepped out, Tiger calmly steps out of the car along with the suitcase exhibiting valiant expressions and possessing his usual damn wrath within his body language. Robin feels a little weird about the scene which has been brought up in front of her and keeps observing the actions and reactions between both of the boys curiously but doesn't step out as per his instructions. When she perceives her suitcase being taken by Tiger while stepping out of the car, she becomes a little scared and tries to speak in a very slow voice "Hey! Tiger! It is mine."

He thoroughly ignores her statement and shuts the car door.

While taking slow, firm steps forward,Tiger ironically speaks aloud along with faking a smile, "Hey, Jack! Are you here to get a jackpot!"

He bounces the suitcase and clutches it with both of his hands.

"I am astonished to see you smiling. Have you changed?"

Retorts Jack with a question while smiling fearlessly.

"Yes, I am!" Responds Tiger with the same ironic smile.

Suddenly his expression transits into a dreadful terrifying anger, his smile fades into outrageous eyes and his faking smile turns into an alarming accent,

"But I am still a HEARTLESS!"

Jack becomes scared and petrified and has realized that his laughter was an absolute mistake he has made along with his eyes consistently settling over his face, expecting for his further reaction and finds a sudden transition in Tiger's expressions once again who proceeds further with adding while passing a mirthful smile,

"Well! I have got something much better than this!"

Standing still and calm, closer to Jack, Tiger moves the suitcase forward to him along with passing the same mirthful smile. Jack becomes astonished and confused about proceeding for the next step. He keeps staring at Tiger and the suitcase forwarded by him, instantaneously getting no decision about whether he should hold up the suitcase or not? Sitting in the car, Robin is unable to hear whatever the discussion is going on between them but she has her gaze constantly settled over them with curiosity and eagerness to know. As soon as she perceives her suitcase being forwarded by Tiger towards a stranger boy, she becomes alarmed and runs out of the car immediately and shouts aloud, disobeying the instructions of Tiger.

"Hey Heartless! What are you doing? Why are you passing my suitcase to him?"

Jack hurriedly holds the suitcase and tries to pull it but experiences a firm grip of Heartless which keeps him avoiding getting the case.

"What is this? Heartless!" Robin adds while exhibiting terrified expressions and eyebrows raised up revealing the level of her worried thoughts.

She firmly holds his arm, standing straight at the side in between them but he keeps ignoring her and keeps his eyes settled at Jack's face as if he is going to flip the card of the game he has played. Jack becomes a little bit worried and keeps trying to pull the suitcase towards himself but Tiger's firm grip doesn't let him get the case which leads his heart beat considerably raised up and his hands begin sweating.

Constantly setting her eyes on the suitcase, she lets out a mild wail in an audibly low voice,

"Did you deceive me?"

She keeps her eyes gazed at him as if she is waiting for a reply from him but he seems still stationary, holding the suitcase with firm grip and his eyes still settled at Jack's face, ignoring her question and doesn't react with anything.

Losing her tolerance and patience, she shouts in an ear-splitting high pitch with her heart beating with a considerably swift rate while seeming as if she has been set on the verge of tears, "Did you really betray me! You are a cheater! (She shrieks aloud with her voice instantaneously getting louder and her tears joined as a chain of beads, ceaselessly dropping from her eyes) You are a betrayer! You deceived me! You are a cheater!! I will never forgive you! (Weeping and yelling but still speaking in a quavering voice) You played with my feelings! You broke my trust! I can't believe it! I blindly trusted you! I kept following you! I thought you were taking me back to my dad!"

As soon as she perceives him with the same terrified eyes settled on Jack while exhibiting deadly valiant expressions with no changes yet, she turns absolutely angry and makes up her mind,

"Oh! Yeah! It was not your mistake! It was me who was certainly wrong! It was my fault that I trusted you! I kept walking with a stranger and kept following his instructions! You only wanted to get my money which already possesses no importance in my eyes. I will go myself to my dad and I will tell him about your betrayal and fraud!!"

Jack, when hears her words and intention, abruptly interrupts with a devious smile as if he is astounded a bit,, "What did you just say? Dad? Oh! But I feel that you don't know that your dad is dead!"

As soon as he turns his eyes off her face and unwittingly glances at Tiger, he becomes absolutely frightened to perceive his face which is turned red out of anger along with bloodshot eyes as if he would have lost his temper.

As soon as Robin catches his words, she promptly becomes deadly quiet, deeply thrilled and shocked. She lets herself fall to the ground with her knees bent as if she has lost the entire strength from her body or as if her soul has departed the living flesh. Her tears are set dropping like a chain of beads and her mouth is left open.

For a full minute, she says nothing but her face reveals a flash of unleashing anger and bloodshot eyes for him which fails to stop her from shouting aloud and she cries in an ear-splitting voice once again unleashing her anger through her voice while consistently striking at his thigh near the bone of his knee,

"You killed my dad! You killed my father!"

Her words leave a flash of astonishment all along his body and he unwittingly turns his eyes at her as if he is trying to explain his position and clarify the reality because her words are quite opposite to his decisions and intention. She forgets that he is changed for her and also, she forgets that he was an ABSOLUTE HEARTLESS before. How can she trust him? And all these questions lead her to add further to her cries,

"You, heartless! You are heartless, indeed! I hate you! He was very patient and he kept missing me! He was my world, he was everything to me! You kept me away from him to kill him. Why don't you kill yourself! You, heartless!"

Each of her words works as a knife on his heart but soon he realizes that being heartless, he doesn't possess a heart! Whereas he begins crying like a child then gives one more attempt to gather all her strength and proceeds with defiantly standing up and this time begins speaking more fiercely with anger greater than despair and downcast.

"You are a cheater! A betrayer! I am despondent more over your betrayal instead of losing the suitcase… For what I really don't care!"

She tries to continue speaking further but suddenly Tiger's loud groans makes her quiet after a frightened jerk and leaves Jack shivering

"Yes! I have been cheating on you! I have been hiding this all but I wanted to unleash everything and I had changed my mind but …"

He swiftly takes out his gun from his pocket, doesn't waste a single second and completes his incomplete sentence with a physical act by shooting a bullet at Jack's head and leaves Robin shrieking along with the sound of a gunshot then he subsequently speaks to complete his sentence, "But I don't want to do that anymore!"

As soon as the dead body of Jack lands on the ground, firing begins from three different sides with Tiger at their gunpoint which leads Robin to sit down on her knees with her head covered with her hands and knelt. Tiger keeps shooting here and there and everybody whom he perceives and throws bombs in different directions until the firing stops as if he already knew his opponent's plan. Subsequently he turns to Robin and holds her hand, pulling her up reluctant to leave this place and take her to a safer site.

"Hurry up! I will let you know everything or even will myself explain in detail but leave this place first. Come on!"

But Robin shakes his hand away angrily, rises up and says, "Enough, Mr. Heartless! I am not going to follow you anymore! You are a murderer of my father and a cheater too who even betrayed my dad!"

At the same moment, another car approaches from the opened gate into the stadium and snaps the attention of both of them. Tiger takes out a bomb with the intention to throw it at the recently entered car but when he perceives that Robin's sad eyes are turned happy to see that car driver, he stops doing so and reveals within his eyes , the eagerness to see his face which soon fades when he comes to know that the man who is driving the car is Ritcher. As soon as the car stops with a violent turn, Ritcher steps out of it and Robin readily runs towards him.

Holding both of her hands, he says "Robin! Come on! Let's go back home! Just leave this hell!" Still holding one of her hands, he takes her to his car while walking with swift steps.

"Hey, Robin! Don't go with him! Robin! Stop! Robin…" Both of them hear a pleasing manly voice of Tiger behind them.

She keeps ignoring him continuously but the steps of Ritcher begin to move more swiftly. Tiger becomes quiet for a second then speaks aloud "Okay, Ask him! How does he know that you are here with me?"

As soon as his sentence completes and his voice touches her ears, Robin puts on a break and turns his eyes at Ritcher who himself becomes unmoved. Tiger observes that his hands are moving slowly towards his pocket as if his intention is to grab out his gun and Ritcher soon proceeds with immediately taking out his gun and pointing it at Robin, who herself witnesses his point of gun and becomes thrilled but luckily Tiger shoots him before he shoots Robin and hence, he is not given a chance to shoot her. Her shrieking sound roars up the ground once again as a few sprinkles of his blood just touch his skin.

At the same moment, another black colored car with its mirrors covered with black paper enters the stadium, it moves hastily to the right side and turns back violently and heads its way out back again. The right-back side window opens and a gun is brought out which is held by a lady sitting in the car who shoots three bullets into Robin's chest who is already wearing a bullet proof jacket but Tiger hastily breaks the front right mirror and kills the driver by shooting it but the person sitting on the left front side begins to handle the steering wheel and tries to rush the car out of the stadium. As he moves the car forward, the target point of the gun held by a lady displaces and she loses her point which leads the bullet to pierce the flesh and enter into Robin's arm.

The car keeps moving speedily but as it reaches the stadium gate, Tiger throws a bomb and the car destroys with a huge blast. This all happens in just three seconds. Fire is seen on four different sides due to the bomb blast and nobody is left in the stadium except Tiger and Robin. He runs towards Robin, holds her hand, and pulls her up. She is wearing a bulletproof jacket hence saved but the bullet in her arm ripped her muscle and her arm begins bleeding. She tries to stand with the help of his support but seems almost unconscious.

Meanwhile, a boy from the backside comes closer to Tiger and places an anesthetic tissue over his nose. As he staggers, the boy becomes scared because he knows his wrath. Tiger can't avoid him because he is holding Robin, providing her support with both of his hands and just after a few seconds, he becomes unconscious and falls to the ground slowly. The boy holds Robin immediately and does not let her fall. Her shedding blood increases his fear. He is waiting for Mr. Maxwell, who enters the stadium within two minutes in a car and swiftly drives his car closer to them and then steps out and picks up the suitcase, and then assists Allen to help Robin to sit in the car. The car is driven speedily out of the stadium while Tiger is left unconscious, fallen on the ground between fire and blasted bombs and the police have been called by Mr. Maxwell's personal assistant, Allen.