The Dream

Chapter 17

This was ridiculous. How can this be right?
If that is true, then did Sarah lie to me? Even just before she died? What is the meaning of this? This had to be wrong. It was just a last name, it could be a coincidence.
The more I thought about it the more betrayed I felt. Sarah had a different motive behind all this and she didn't even tell me the truth.

There was one way to find out the truth. It's true that me and Sarah had been dating just for a few months, but we were pretty close. At least I felt we were until yesterday.
But nevertheless she has stayed at my place far too many times and I do have some of her belongings.
I immediately went back to my apartment and got one of her combs and a toothbrush of hers. I got her DNA samples from those. I tried to compare them with the post-mortem reports of Steve Spindler.
It was a match!! They definitely were siblings!

I was finding this fact very difficult to take in. Not only the fact that, the real name of Steve Spindler was Mark Jacobs but also that he was Sarah's brother who she was apparently trying to protect. What exactly was she protecting him from? And why is he dead while she yelled at me that she would do anything to keep him alive? All of this information was like a huge maze for me, the exit to which was not even seemingly close.

However small this bit of information looked like, it was a very important piece of information. This connected us to one more of these ridiculously insane murders and this also definitely gave us a new possibility that other might have been done by Mark too under various pretences and aliases. This could have been a possible breakthrough. As the investigating officer of this case, Robert had to be told about this new development. So I decided I'd go to his cabin and tell him this.

But something very strange happened just then. As soon as I rose from my chair and moved a few steps ahead; the ceiling fan on top came crashing down. The glass on top of my table was smashed to pieces. You could hear a wave of gasps; echoing throughout the office as everyone was startled by that crashing noise. I was feeling very lucky. Had it fallen a few seconds earlier, I might have been hurt badly.

"Hey Richie.... You alright?"
"Yeah dude, I am just fine. I was completely startled by this. I was lucky that I had moved out of way while I had time."
"But that's strange.... We had an electrician check all the electronics just this morning. How did he miss this? Or maybe he was careless"
"Yeah maybe...."

But something felt off when Jack said this. It felt like I was missing something.
But I shook off the incident like it was nothing and walked towards Robert's cabin. I was about to enter Robert's cabin when the phone at a nearby desk started to ring, but no one was around to attend to it; so I decided to take the call.

On the other side of the phone was an electronic voice.
"Feeling lucky Richie? Seems you are happy to have escaped by a hair. Well, this won't be the case next time. So act accordingly"

I was baffled. So that was not an accident. That electrician must have purposely left the screws loose enough for the fan to fall. This means the person on the other end had to be the real culprit.
"What are you? What do you want from me?"
"I did expect from you that you would figure out Steve's real identity. But now keep this to yourself. If Robert comes to know about this, then remember I am always watching you!"
"You bastard! I remember those words. I won't fall for it again. I am going to tell Robert this. What could you even possibly do?"

Just then I heard everyone shouting. I went around to look at what was going on.
It was Jack! He was electrocuted by touching the doorknob of Robert's cabin and he was lying there; unconscious. Not seriously hurt, but it could have been dangerous!!
I could then hear a voice from the phone and I immediately placed it on my ear.
The person on the other end said in a very cold tone. Just listening to what he said, sent chills down my spine.
"I guess now you know what I could possibly do!!"