The Wolf and the Beauty

TWATB #5

Three murders in a single week and the citizens were more than just terrified. Two out of three were the people Baekhyun knew.

One victim had made a snarky comment about how he would like to have him for a day or better, at night. The next day he was on the headlines when the people found the corpse left in the open in the woods for birds and animals to feed on.

The second one had criticized his book to the point where Baekhyun had begun crying about it. There were comments defending the book but the man never stopped and kept going with it. It was two days later when the man was found dead.

His corpse was found in the internet cafe on a Monday but the man had been killed two nights earlier.

Just like the man from the sixth floor, their hearts were taken out too through the perfectly made incision on the chest which had been neatly stitched up. The same Sagittarius sign stared back at them along with the few numbers in their finger.

The third man was killed in the middle of the week and that was unlikely since the Sagittarius Killer had been doing his deeds on the weekends and not on the working days.

"You know I'm starting to think the killer is a doctor," stated Sehun and took a sip of his Americano with a sigh leaving his lips at the sight of the numerous files spread out on the desk in front of them. Junmyeon furrowed his brows, "What makes you think that?" the younger lowered his drink to stare at the other detective. 

"Have you not seen how perfectly he does those sutures? I even had one of my friends demonstrate it for me on a dummy but theirs were not as perfect as his either."

The elder laughed, "You think the killer is better than a doctor, then?" The younger nodded in a heartbeat, "What else could he be? An engineer? A teacher?"A scoff escaped his lips, "If he were a teacher, his victims would be the students who piss him off.

"But jokes apart," he continued setting down his drink, "it must be someone who has really good knowledge about the human physiology, you know? His cuts are too perfect and did you see his cuts on the chest? They're made with the perfect precision to take out the heart without damaging anything else. He knows the exact position of organs, he knows it a little too well. Not even a single scratch more than he intends to."

"All I'm sure of is catching him would be the greatest achievement of our lives."

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Baekhyun was typing down his new story when his phone buzzed with a new message. He knew very well who it would be from and part of him wanted to see what it said but the other wanted to ignore it.

Letting his curiosity get the best of him, the male unlocked his phone to read the message.

'How are you, my angel? Taking care of yourself?'

'Who are you?' he sent not hoping to get a proper reply.

'You'll know when I'm ready, my angel.'

Baekhyun threw the device on the bed as he fell back with a groan. No later, tears welled up in his eyes remembering everything that happened the past week. The writer had begun working at a cafe hoping to earn a little on the side while he worked on his new book.

Some of the customers became regulars because of Baekhyun. A few hit on him asking for his number but two of them took it a little far. One had followed him home and scared him while the other had pulled him into an alley but the writer had been brave enough to kick the man between his legs and run away.

But at the end of the weekend, the two were nothing but rotting corpses found in the woods, beaten up and bloodied. Right after the news about the corpses, Baekhyun had received a new message.