The Café Rosé - The blossoming of old secrets

˚˖𓍢ִ໋🦢˚ 7. The Dead Woman (Eleonore)˚˖𓍢ִ໋🦢˚

I now stood rooted to the ground in shock. Arthur had just been shot. He was lying there almost dying. There was blood everywhere! Frantically I looked around. The killer was gone. Who could he be? 

I ran to Arthur. I could look for the killer another time. He was breathing heavily and his heart was slow. The only thing that would have helped us was if I had called the police and the rescue. We would be suspects, but you don't abandon a friend. I took out my mobile phone. My hands shaking, I called the police.

 A woman said boredly, "Hello, how can I help you?" "A body found...murderer shot Arthur," I said desperately. She tried to calm me down, "Stay calm. Please tell me where you and your friend are? We will send an ambulance and the police immediately." "Um yeah sure...so we are here at Green Lake. And the...body is here too." 

After a few minutes they came. An inspector came up to me and spoke slowly and clearly, "Hello, you are the woman who called us. I am Inspector Black and I would like to ask you a few questions. Could you please accompany me to the police station?" I asked, "But will everything be all right with Arthur?" "Don't worry about your friend, he will be fine soon." 

I went to the police station. It was an old building and looked like any other police station. The inspector escorted me to an interrogation room. I sat down and so did he. He began, "So please tell me your name and your friend's name." "I am Eleonore Gaston and he is Arthur Konstantin." "Okay Eleonore, can you tell me how you found the body." "As I recall Arthur started screaming, then he mumbled something and that's when I saw the body. We didn't have a moment to agree what to do, someone shot Arthur and I called the police" I told as credibly as possible. "All right. Did you know the victim?" he asked suspiciously. I just looked distressed and told the truth: "I didn't know the person, but I couldn't really make out the face either. It's far too dark to make out anything." The inspector just said, "I'll call them if we find anything new. And I would ask for your help, because you and your friend found the body." "Of course. You can count on me," I said as good-naturedly as I could. 

I stepped out of the interrogation room and there was this person standing in front of me, I guess he was an officer there too. The person said casually, "Can I give you a ride home, it's getting late and I'd get in trouble from Inspector Black if I didn't bring the woman who found the body home safely. What do you say?" "Ehm, well I can actually make it on my own. It's not that far away. It's only about an hour." He insisted, "Ah, come with me. I drive by there too, so it wouldn't be a diversion for me." I found it hard to say no. 

So I got into the car and rode with the man. During the drive he told me that he had recently been allowed to work for the inspector and that his name was Danilo. 

He whispered, "Someone is following us. Take the gun. I hope you can handle a gun." "No I can't," I said in panic. Danilo pressed the gun into my hand and drove on quickly. Who was chasing us? And why? Was it the murderer? It seemed that the car was catching up with us. He turned into a street. Suddenly there was a car in front of us and behind us was the pursuer. We were surrounded. Danilo muttered, "No matter what they say or ask. Don't say anything about me, you or the police. Is that clear?" I nodded. A guy in a black suit with sunglasses and a firearm stepped up to the car. He ordered, "Get out of the car. The boss wants to see you." It was the same man who had killed the people in the restaurant. We followed him and got into his car. My eyes went black.

I woke up and I was sitting at a table. A slightly older man was sitting there opposite Danilo and me. The man said: "I am Gabriel. That is why my son likes you so much. I won't shadow you any further, but if you hurt my son Ben, then you know what happens to people who disappoint me. So tell me everything about you." I didn't know what this guy wanted. It was like in those crime movies with mafia bosses. I looked at Danilo in despair. What could I do? I started talking slowly and calmly, because as far as I understood, the guy just wanted me to tell him about my life. I told him my whole life, leaving out a few details, but otherwise everything was the truth. Gabriel spoke: "Well, it seems to me that you have a normal life. You shouldn't trust this Ines. And be on your guard against her." I didn't know what he meant. Danilo looked at me questioningly, "What's going on here?" He had only just woken up from a faint. I wanted to leave immediately and it was strange. Was Ben's father a mafia boss? I felt dizzy again and blacked out.

I opened my eyes and I was sitting in Danilo's car, it had all felt like a dream but unfortunately, it had all happened. He looked at me worriedly: "I told you not to tell the guys anything about yourself, even if you only told them briefly what your life was like, as you did, it's still dangerous. Not for nothing did I tell you not to say anything. Now they have you in their sights." I ignored him, "Why is your eye blue?" He wouldn't answer. He just said slowly and quietly, "They haven't found out about me. But we should be at my place soon." "What do you mean at your place? Just drive me to my place." "It would take too long." "No, it wouldn't. I don't want to go to people home who I know since how long, one hour. Just let me out of the car. I will go alone."„I won't let a girl walk alone home in the night. Just come with me. You can sleep at the people's apartment that live next to me. They are not home and they will not mind if I tell them that you are a friend of mine. "„Okay. I will come with you. Because I am too tired."

He drove me at his place. It was a big building. I think he was rich. In addition, I remember as I went in his apartment, I saw a strange figure. However, I did not look it closely. Danilo had said that I could sat at his couch and I could wait there. I wanted to look carefully at the figure. I have seen that before but I could not remember as well. He asked me, „If you want, you could sleep in my guest room? " I agreed. I went to the room and he gave me some clothes. It was almost day but I had to have a look at it. I went there and looked at the figure, I opened it and there was a photo of Ines and him. I didn't know why he knew Ines, it all seemed a bit strange to me. I remembered what Gabriel mentioned about Ines. Maybe, when I think about it, she was really mean.