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chapter 2

Paul's POV:

Living like I do has always given me a sense of purpose,knowing I can help people and also catching bad guys is also a thrill for me.
 
I have worked so hard to reach where  I am ,if I am anything at all it's that I am ambitious.
It is not a easy job to keep avenging for other people knowing fully well that you could not do the same for people you hold dear.

You see, Four years back I was relatively new on the force doing minor officer work,I had a job I loved ,by that time I was married to my high school sweetheart and it seems life couldn't get better than that ,we were expecting our first child and two years on the force I got promoted to take on a higher job,in all my excitement I made a grave mistake and this in turn caused me to lose my wife and unborn child,they were attacked by soulless criminals who were targeting me.

Knowing the best way for attack, she was tortured within a inch of her life and then she was dropped off by the roadside,I was called from the station to the hospital.

The 20 minutes it took me to get to the hospital felt like the longest 20 minutes of my life,I had loosed all control and I still wondered how I got to the hospital in one piece,I entered the emergency room with so much anxiety it took me a while to breathe properly,tears we're falling freely by this time,I could not control myself when I asked to see her they took me straight to her room.
 
At the entrance of room 205,I paused I could not let her see me in this condition,I took a deep breathe and entered ,the sight that greeted me made me lose all my bravado.
 
She looked so weak on the bed ,she was bleeding profusely ,she was coming in and out of consciousness due to the blood lose,her skin was a series of open cuts and belt pelts,they did more than torture her,they were planning to kill her and make me watch as she took her last breathe ,the doctors were trying their best to stop the bleeding but it was proving fruitless and she was nearing death's gate.

I kept shouting to them to please save her,I kept whispering to her to stay strong for me to please come back to me  and then I did what I have not done for the past 10years I prayed ,I begged at this point I begged God to please spare her life,that I would do anything in return.

I did not recognize who I was again I was screaming to God to please help me just this one time and it seemed as if it fell on deaf ears and by the time it was 3:20pm she gave up the ghost.
  Seeing as it was just 10 minutes I had with her before she breathe her last,I was dumbfounded,I could not control my self,I saw red and I kept shouting for them to do something.
 
Eventually I had to be sedated for 2 days ,after that I got discharged to take care of the funeral procession of both my wife and child,I got some time off work and in those months I spent reminescing about my lost love I vowed that if it was the last thing I would do on this Earth ,that I would make sure another family did not have to go through what I went through.
 
   As for love,family I promised myself I would never have a weak point in my life .
And as for God,I knew we were over or so I thought....