Chapter 67 - Black Drug (Part 4)

Lorna sighed, what was with this ghoul girl that kept following her around, so now what the humans knew her too? She had to find a way to stop this confusion, but how would she? It wasn't her fault that she looked like some ghoul, in frustration she answers.

"Am sorry, you mistake me for someone else" Lorna said with gritted teeth, she might not show it but a particular problem of being mixed up with a ghoul kind of made her pissed.

"No, no, am sure of it, you're Riley, you look just like her," Cindy said stepping forward, how could her eyes deceive her, she was literary staring at Riley.

"Okay what's going on?" Jesse said lost, looking back and forth between the two, it was like they kept her in a time loop and she didn't like it.

"It nothing," Lorna said sternly. She faced the woman.

"Once again lady, you mistake me for someone else. I may look like this person but am not her, now please..." Lorna said with a nod, as she grabs Jesse by her arm so that they would turn and leave.

Cindy was about to protest but she shut her mouth, thinking maybe she was mistaken but that lady looks exactly like Riley except for her dark hair, Riley was naturally red-haired, a color she had always been jealous of.

"Honey there you are," Edward said walking up to her, he was wearing a smart suit that fitted him perfectly, with a briefcase at hand, an ID card around his neck showing that he was a professor. The police weren't allowing entry but with his ID he could, as long as he didn't take much time, he needed to pick up something in his office and Cindy offered to escort him.

He stops his action when he saw his fiancée stun looks.

"You okay?" He asked worried, wondering why she had a shocked expression like she has just seen a ghost.

Cindy faces him breaking out her trance when she felt him rub her shoulder with ease.

"Honey?"

"I saw Riley, Edward," she said as her eyes grew wistful of memories of the past.

Edward froze with wide eyes, hearing her name gave him an unease feeling, he hasn't heard in a while, his head was unable to process what she had just said, was she serious? that was the thought in his head.

"Wha…What?" he said bewildered.

"But that can't be possible right, I mean she's dead, we saw the news," Cindy said shakily, her mind going about several options she could muster to explain what she just see.

"Yes it's not possible, Riley is dead Cindy and we will never see her again" Edward grabbing her arm so that she faces him, staring deep into her eyes to give her comfort. Cindy hasn't been so worked up like this, of course, she would have thought she had seen a dead friend that lied to both of them about her identity.

Cindy nodded taking a deep breath.

"Okay" she sighs, trying to convince herself that she just saw someone that just happened to look like her, she shouldn't get herself work up at something that happened in the past, it was the past and they have moved on.

She turned her eyes lingered on the two women a far distance away as they disappeared in a building up ahead. 'Maybe it's just someone that looks like her' she thought certain that's was the only explanation.

***

"Okay, that was weird, who was that? And why did she call you that name? Wasn't that the name of the same file I sent you two weeks ago that you needed to scan through to get more info on the black ghoul?" Jesse said grabbing Lorna by her arm, stopping her in her tracks. She seriously needed an explanation because all the fact she just mentioned adds up to a point.

Lorna sighs knowing Jesse wasn't someone she could keep anything from.

"Remember on the phone I told you I was gonna tell you as soon as I resumed" Lorna begin, figuring she should start from there, there was no use keeping it to herself since she mentioned telling her a while ago.

Jesse nods saying.

"Yeah you did but then the assignment came up".

"Okay this ghoul Riley Leah, am identical to her" Lorna said sighing, she hated saying that she looks like a ghoul.

"Okay that's weird and such a big coincidence," Jesse said sarcastically.

"Have you seen her picture, I fucking look like her" Riley hissed, but immediately stops her action when she saw some students stares at them.

"I get your point Lorna but you shouldn't be so worked up about it because you look like some ghoul, I mean it's highly a coincidence, and it's not your fault," Jesse said amused. She didn't know why Lorna was upset by this, she could see in her face, or was there something else that made up her toes?

Lorna sighs.

"I know I shouldn't it's just," she said taking a deep breath because the hard part came now, one she was still trying to wrap her head around, one she was constantly having a battle with the inside of her of several mixed unwanted feeling she couldn't explain.

"I think this ghoul might have been the black ghoul's lover" Jesse froze with widening eyes, that was not good.

"Oh, shit!" she exclaims, practically staring at Lorna like she had two heads.

"Oh yes!" Lorna said rolling her eyes.

This explains it all.

"That's why he let you go because you look like his lover?"

"Talk about a romance gone wrong" She adds with a scoff.

"Yeah," Lorna said in agreement. definitely a romance gone wrong.

"But I don't wanna think about it, I may have survived once but I don't know about the second time" she adds, knowing fully well their next encounter won't be pleasant, but at the back of her mind the words he said to her about him coming back for her rang in her head or was it to kill her? that was her thought as her eyes widen, she shivers at the thought.

"Yeah you're right, he is a physic killer after all," Jesse said making a face at her point.

Lorna nods once more, she couldn't doubt that remembering how he dealt with the V-ghoul leader.

"Let's go, as sooner as we are done with this investigation the better" Lorna said as they continued their walk to the dorm building.

She was glad she was able to talk to Jesse about it, it lifted some weight off her shoulder, it was a nice relief t be able to talk to someone who understood you with no question, she was glad had Jesse, maybe being friends with her wasn't so bad after all, she smiled broadly at the thought, Jesse wasn't just her partner but also her friend.

***

Hilton Dorm Building 

Lorna and Jesse walk into the wide hall filled with doors, some students walking to and fro but they didn't pay attention to them.

"Okay, dorm 89," Jesse said checking her phone once more.

Lorna nods they searched for the door, observing each one that had the number they were looking for. They got to it, it was in another part of the hall.

They both stood right in front of it, Jesse reaches for the doorknob.

"It's locked," Jesse said giving her a look.

Lorna nods getting her point as they brought out their gun, it made an automatic start-up sound. For all they know the girl in there was a ghoul, they had to take her in for questioning and that has to be by force cause a ghoul always had an instinct to survive and it was always brutal whether they wanted it or not.

With a nod, Jesse slammed her foot at the door, it barges open, they rushed in pointing their gun in the small apartment, they walk through the thin lobby, leading to her room.

"G.I agents" Lorna hissed as they both cornered to the mini bedroom, but no answer, they turned to another part of the room but froze as their eyes widen at the scene.

Cassandra was struggling for her life, as she tapped her tighten fist against the large hand that grabs her throat, lifting her off her feet, her legs wagging to and fro at the height. Ghost smirking as he tightens his fist around her neck more but not enough to snap her neck.

Liam seated on the chair relaxing, a leg crossed on another, he wore all black clothing, a black thick leather jacket, a black inner shirt that hugs his frame perfectly, black jeans, and black shoes.

He turned to the two young ladies pointing their guns, a dark smirk that didn't reach his eyes, forms in an irresistible way.

"Took you long enough agents" his voice was dark and twisted holding slight humor that wasn't pleasant.