The Flu

Chapter 7

Epy froze in the moment when he spotted an unknown impurity in the blood strongly coating most of her WBCs. He took his blood and looked at it but it didn't sjow the same, they looked normal. It was definitely not a body produced matter but something injected in her blood.

Even when taking a walk with his son in the park, he was lost in his thoughts. Tommy was dressed in red shorts and grey floral print polo with black sandles. His dad had just picked him from his favorite barber and suggested they visit the park. Despite his dad being a doctor and mom a lawyer, he had other interests. He never wanted to be either of them. Said he do be a teacher instead, more so now he knew Nella, he felt it would work.

" But what would you teach son? I mean, school, investors ??" he had caught up with his son's talk.

"Investors. That business talk weekly or The shark tank show. Something like that." he replied. Though he was 8 years, he had a tendency to give a grown up talk in such an amusing way.

"Like media thing? You know you got to have connections or cause an internet uproar to be spotted."

Epy was always determined to change his mind.

"No dad, not media. You don't get it do you? Even if it was that i got Nella, don't i?"

The innocence in his eye just made his dad nod. He wasn't sure about Nella anymore. She was a woman full of torture towards him  and it really made those feelings want to burst.

" Sure you do son. "

He later dropped him home after a long P. S game and drove to work. He had alot of appointments to catch up on that afternoon.

Nella never called back with a reply and was discharged when he called. He didn't have her address, he had just noticed. After all, it dawned on him, this was just a fling to her!

Everyday he sat in  his  office, a mahogany polished executive desk with several photos of him, his son and Nana placed on one end. Every morning he looked at this photos and felt  strength to keep going. His grey and black walls had huge 3 paintings on them with one artistic style. He treasured them having won them in a bidding down town just when he was starting off his clinic.

It must have been 3 a. M when he received a call from Nella. She was breathing heavily, sounding shocked.

"I need your help. They are dead! I found them like this. I can't call police now, there was a note left behind that of i told authorities, Charles would be next.... "

He just couldn't understand her. He asked her to send her location and was on it! He must have been driving so fast as it was too late when he noticed a police car following him. He stopped as announcement came in.

" Get out of the car with hands where i can see them!"

He got out, hands in the air with blinding light towards his eyes. The officer checked his driving license and started to apologize.

"Sorry doctor, it must be an emergency... Continue saving people's lives. You can go and drive carefully." he let him go.

Most times they did that the moment they spotted his doctor license and mostly his surname. His Nana was well known among them, the first police commissioner in the state now retired.

He found Nella shaking sitting at one corner. On the floor lay two bodies, they had been shot, a shot that carefully showed the sniper was not on a closer shot. He realized there were no bullets, someone had gone to the trouble of pulling the bullets out of the body and messing up the place with blood.

He embraced her as she cried even more.

"Are there garbage bags here?" he asked.

" Yes but we just can't do that! No i don't want this!" she started crying still talking in whispers.

"Look at me Nella, we are in this together. We either let Charles be in danger, may be next your dad, you, my nana or me. We have to be vigilant about this. Its not our call yes but its our lives! Now get me those bags!"

By dawn they had scrubbed the flat with bleache and installing new scents in the house. It smelt of bleach and their hands were all pale and numb from the scrubbing. They sat facing each other on the floor each in their own thought.

" Why would someone want to hurt me? Charles must have gone back to gambling! He wasn't himself when we broke up. He was up to something that i didn't like." Nella said

"I will call Nana to help. We need someone to clear this bodies fpr us. She was a police..."

Nella jumped!

"They said no police! If they know Charles then they know you as well and your connections. May be they are even watching us now. Who knows?"

At the thought of that Epy stood and started looking on the walls.

"What now!" she exclaimed.

"Am looking for small cameras, they can't be watching us that easily. Either they are tracking your moves or are watching this place."

They found nothing. Hours later they were driving out of town so shaken that no one talked to the other. Epy was used to the small of blood and dead bodies after failed surgery but not murdered people. He knew he was a suspect in case the family of the two men came looking for them. He had a hand in a murder.

They drove deep into the grove and then to an old cemetery.

"What! Are you even serious now? Have you done this before?" she asked him.

What she didn't know was Epy's life as a son to a DCI  had impacted in his life. He had heard the tales from his Nina. She even had taught him in discreet of ways to hide murder. He was using lesson 22 of over 1000 of them.

" We are not burying them, we are burning them."

Nellas shock got even more.

"But wont the morgue attendant ask their identification. Plus they are in garbage bags with tapes for heavens sake!"

He pulled out a can, made a spray on to a kerchief and told her to stay in the car. Nella at first wanted so much to follow him but he suggested she stay back and watch over the car. The black SUV had to be guarded but not that much as the cemetery and the morgue besides it attendants would rule them out as new clients.

Epy knew this morgue like the back of his hand. He knew there was a private furnice and all he needed to do was drug one of the attendees who would be guarding the place now. The other was on a lunch break in a local village down stream.

... Its getting hot....