Fallen Point | Break Point Book 2

13

Sitting beside the newly dug grave under the stars, Kaya looked down at her hands, how the dirt-stained marked her, the darkness it had represented, and the sorrow of taking someone's life she only knew for a few hours. She helped herself to her feet and started to throw the ground on Jax's pale body. An hour later, Kaya left the scene with the shovel in her hand, knowing how his presence would haunt her until the dead of time. 

In Greece, where the lights shone and moonlight reflected off the limestone buildings, Detective Theodore Galanis strolled towards the Higgins residence. The wind caressed his face, offering a respite from the day's relentless work. Theo was on the case of Lucas' disappearance, reported by his employer who had stated that he had been absent from work for some time.

Theo was aware of the Higgins family's prominence in Santorini. Kaya Higgins was a top-rated psychiatrist, and Lucas had a knack for turning blueprints into structures. 

Theo stopped at the Higgins residence, intent on discovering Lucas's whereabouts. Approaching the door, he knocked and waited. After a few minutes, he knocked again, but there was no response. Peering through the kitchen window, he saw nothing until he spotted the backyard's glass sliding door ajar.

He forced the kitchen window open, clambered through, and tumbled to the floor, losing his balance. Regaining his footing, he noticed a white powder on the floor but refrained from touching it and proceeded to the living room. In the darkness, he flicked on a light and observed two cups of coffee on the table, the milk curdled on the stale surface. Theo sensed that something was strange.

He slid the door open and stepped into the Higgins' backyard. With his phone's flashlight on, he scanned the area, seeing nothing but emptiness until his eyes caught sight of disturbed soil on the otherwise overgrown lawn.

Approaching the disturbed ground, Theo began to dig with his hands, soil staining his skin and clothes. After a few minutes, Theo scraped a handful of dirt away, and just as he rolled up his sleeves he saw it, a white pair of Lacoste sneakers buried in the soil. Not thinking he thought it could be their son, he moved up a few inches and started to pluck the weeds and ground out of the ground where the soil had lay, another hour had passed and the winds became cold. 

His clothing was stained, and patches of dirt on his arms and hands, Theo saw it as he grabbed a pile and felt something solid, something soft. He took away the remaining soil and revealed Lucas' pale and lifeless face, maggots crawling out of the decomposed cheek, and other insects hiding from the individual who was forced away from their feeding time. 

Theo grabbed his phone and, dialed the department stating, "Get the department out here, we have a murder case on our hands." 

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Kaya threw her mop on the ground making the tiles wet and clean. As she mopped around making sure every corner was clean she walked past the door of her mother's room. Knowing what evil her mother had invested in she continued to mop, she had killed a man almost double her size but what would it do if she killed her mother? What good will it do to her? 

After she mopped the hall and placed the wet floor sign she walked into the elevator and looked at how the metal doors scarped together closing her in. The space she had been in numerous times felt like it was starting to suffocate her. 

"Something is bothering you?" Lucas asked behind Kaya, his shadow looming among her, "Something on your mind?" 

Kaya rolled her eyes and replied, "Again, nothing is bothering me, and I don't need you here with me." 

"Oh come on!" Lucas said, his voice changing from low to high and energetic, "You can tell your old buddy, your old pal, your hubby... your-"

"Stop." Kaya demands, "You are far from my buddy, or my husband. You fucked a whore, someone who wasn't even a part of our little precious life. Let's build our own house, Kaya, I want to have my baby with you Kaya, I still love  Kaya! But every fucking time when you fuck up, you turn the tables making me the fool!"

Lucas was taken aback by Kaya's rage, his shadow that loomed over Kaya turned facing towards her. His voice grew low again speaking, "I was always, always your husband, from that day you waited in the rain for me at university–"

Before Lucas could finish his sentence the metal doors scarped open and Kaya walked through him with the mop and bucket in hand. Trying to get away from him Kaya could only feel that his presence loomed over her, "University was years ago, and still you couldn't fucking care less about me."

As Kaya threw the water out in the sink of the maid's room she placed it back in their place and sat on one of the displayed chairs. As she crossed her arms and closed her eyes, the silence was like a reward until it was ruined like always by Lucas' steps in the room.

"You know Kaya–"

"Get the fuck out!" Kaya yelled placing her face into her palms. She knew he wouldn't leave her alone and asked yet again the same question, "What do you want from me?" 

"That's my question to you, Kaya, why am I here, why am I in your thoughts, playing with you, manipulating you, why are you keeping me in your mind, why am I still a fucking problem to you, I am you, I am Kaya Higgins, I am the voice that talks to you, and still... how many times..."

His voice shifted from the low masculine pitch to a medium-toned feminine pitch, Kaya took her face out of her palms and looked at the brown eyes that stood in front of her, her voice, her demon...

"Get your fucking son... and stop being blinded by your sorrow..."