Chapter 4

Next Day

 The sound of steaming home espresso released giving signal that your drink is ready. Adrienne in her half sleepy figure slowly marched towards it. She picked the cup and took few sips so that her sleeping figure could wake up. She pulled out a chocolate croissant from the fridge. Heated it till it was eatable and took it with her in her study room along with the coffee. She placed her breakfast on a table and ate it while looking on the pictures. She took few sips from hot espresso.  "Interesting...", she said as she examined few pictures altogether. "If I'm not mistaken these murders are done in same way which indicates killer is one person who I guess is master of violence". She aimed to pick up the reports which accidentally slipped as she tried to grab them and rested on the floor. She moved her hand to pick them up just until an anonymous hand came and picked them up.  She looked up and saw Denzel in his causal clothing reading the reports. "Quit reading the reports and give them back", she commanded in cold voice. He handed them . "Adrienne I believed you're working on Mire-Field haunted hospital case?", he asked. Her eyes were wide open. "How does he know?... oh right he read the reports but wait a minutes he can't read a report in couple of minutes.... he must have read the heading", she thought.  "I believe you're thinking how do I know?", he asked. Her eyes widened. "Say what? He reads minds psychic ability?", she thought. "I know a lot about this mystery", he said. "Mystery huh?, what does he know might be useful", she thought . "So what do you know about this mystery?, How do you know? If you knew why didn't you care to solve it?", she asked as she started her interrogation. "Well you see my uncle used to work on this case few years ago", he started. "Uncle?few years?", she thought. "Why did he stopped working?", she asked. "He was killed", he replied. "Oh. I see", she said. "Care to explain how?", she asked. "He was killed by the ghost the one which haunts the hospital", he replied. "Hmm... ghost haunting", she thought. "Do you know anything about the ghost or haunting?, anything your uncle discovered", she asked. "Well I know why this hospital was haunted, my uncle discovered why", he said. This answer sparkled Adrienne's hopes. "He told me few decades ago there lived an average family, that time the hospital wasn't there, there was a house", he started. "That family had everything, luxury, peace and love  but one day a man killed them, that man was believed to be children's (children in the family) step father who married their mother right few years after the biological father died", he continued. "He killed them and ran away with their money and his other wife whom he loved with all pure heart and he acted to love them just to gain their trust". "Since they were betrayed, their ghost stayed there waiting for avenging his death and they want other people to feel their pain", he finished. Adrienne finished writing. "I see", she said and rested her chin on her knuckles. "He knows quite a lot", she thought. "If I visit his uncles place maybe I can get some more information", she completed her thought.  "Just one more thing where does your uncle lived or living before he died?", she asked. "He lives in Mire-Field,  street 4,  block ABD 97", he replied. She completed writing and said, "Thank you". He left the room right after replying her thanks.

He closed the door and rested on it with an evil smirk on his face. "Seriously you will solve this case", he laughed. "Impossible". "Believing on my fake stories such a fool you are".  "You will die soon just like others", he murmured under his breath. He pulled his phone out and called an unknown number. "Master Lorenzo mouse trap as you said  has been set and we also seem to have a mouse coming to be trapped... very soon", he said and put his phone down. "Mouse in the trap", he  laughed. 

Meanwhile Adrienne pulled out her cell phone and dialed a number. "Ah, Edie are you free like I am going to solve a case, I was thinking would you like to solve it with me because I, you know er...ummm", she started. "Then see you at 2 at police station", she finished and put her cell down. She looked at wall watch which showed 1 pm sharp. "I guess I have few minutes left", she said. She quickly took a shower, changed within the time and left her place.

1 hour later  

She was sitting on her office chair waiting for her invited guest to come. The door opened. A figure entered. It was a lady about same age as hers, wearing casual detective outfit. Her brown hair were tied in high pony tail. "Ah, Sorry I'm late", she said and sat on a chair. "So tell me what the case about?". Adrienne explained her every thing and pulled out the file with it. "Interesting", Edie said. "Well I have decided to visit Dezel Duncan's uncles place, maybe we can find something there", Adrienne said. "Mire-Field hmm lets go", Edie said.  They both sat in the car and left    

3 hours later

The car stopped. "This is it", Adrienne said. Beside the car was a big house which resembled a haunted house. There were broken dirty-stained glass windows. The color of the house was faded. They left the car and entered the house. "Start inspecting upstairs while I inspect downstairs", Adrienne replied.  She searched in the dark dusty drawers until she found some burned paper bits and some paper. Words on them were handwritten. "I assume they must be the documents burned by the killer", she thought.  

The door opened. A figure entered. "Quite correct", it said.