Chapter 18
Wheeler/linka
When Wheeler returned to the police station with Kwame, he filed a report against the girl, who claimed to be Chelsea, and told the whole story to Captain David, the head of the police station.
Captain David treats Wheeler like his own son, he sees Wheeler as a the detective material that he needs in the field of investigators, and he admires his courage and quick intuition, Captain David promised him to provide him with all the support he needs to reveal the circumstances of the case and arrest Chelsea, as he entrust the task to the investigators, who will search the civil records
"I will take care of this case personally, son, and I am really very sorry for what happened between you and your girl. Go home and try to convince her of your innocence. I know it will be difficult. But try your best."
On the way home, Wheeler was thinking, what to say to his girl, and how he would be able to persuade her, that it is difficult to persuade when she insists on something, that he only knows that he will tell the truth.
Greg
When I drove her home, she opened the building door for me and we stopped at the elevator, here I should have looked like a friend who wants nothing but the happiness of his sad friend.
"Okay, sweet heart, good night, I'll go now." Then I grabbed her hand with both my hands. "If you need anything, call me, call me when you want, whenever you need, you have a friend here to lean on."
When I saw tears in her eyes and hugged her for a few seconds, "Be strong, promise me that you will be strong as I know you."
"I will."
I told her good bye then she got into the elevator and the door closed, I was looking at the elevator buttons until she reached the eighth floor, when I turned to go, I found Wheeler behind the glass door to the entrance of the building, looking at me and the fire burning from his eyes, I went to the door to get out, while he opened the door to enter, We stood for a few seconds, looking at each other. I saw the wrath of the whole world in his eyes. I felt for a moment that he would draw his weapon and kill me with his gun.
"I know you're behind it all, Greg, but I'm warning you, stay away from my girl or otherwise I will kill you, do you understand?" I can see the nerves in his neck were convulsed,
"Don't you know that a policeman shouldn't threaten to kill like that, officer?" I'm making fun of him
"Then I passed by him and got out. Before I left, I said without turning to him, " you just lost your girl by yourself, you idiot," and I continued on my way.
Wheeler/linka
Wheeler knows that if he wasn't a cop, he would fight Greg to death, but being a cop obliges him to have a certain kind of behavior, he has to be patient, and he not start hitting and attacking except in certain cases, and of course he doesn't draw the weapon except at certain times.
Wheeler entered the apartment, to find Linka sitting on the kitchen chair, with her hands on her forehead and her elbows resting on the kitchen table. He wanted to kiss her like every day, hold her to his chest and smell the sweet scent of her hair like every afternoon. He wished that it would be one of their ordinary nights, filled with love and happiness
"What was this fucking man doing with you at the entrance to the building?" He knew he wasn't supposed to ask, but he couldn't help himself
"How dare you even ask after what you did to me" She was staring at him with cold eyes, as if she had never known him before
"Babe, please listen to me" as he approaches her with a sad voice and the pain is clear in his eyes
"DON'T YOU COME CLOSE,...DON'T TOUCH ME" She jumped out of her place, and moved further away from him
"I am innocent, you must believe me, I swear, if I cheated on you, I would have confessed and asked you for forgiveness, but I didn't do it, you must trust me, Linka, someone is making intrigues for us
"I can't believe you think I'm that much stupid, stop blaming others for your mistakes and bear the consequences."
"If you think I'm cheating on you, kill me now." He took out the pistol and placed it on the kitchen table in front of her, "If you think so, shoot my heart now."
"I wish I could... I wish I could kill you like you killed me... I spent ten years doing nothing but love you, and that's how you reward me... with cheating and stab me in the back" She was crying out with sadness, with tears falling from her eyes
"STOP SAYING CHEATING, I DIDN'T CHEAT ON YOU, BABE, you have to believe me, I love you, I loved you at first sight...And I haven't had a relationship with any girl since I saw you. "He grabbed her hands while she was trying to get away from him
"YOU'RE A LIAR...A LIAR... GO AWAY FROM ME...I HATE YOU" as she tries to escape from his arm that surrounded her
"What? He can't believe what he's hearing, his heart is breaking, his eyes are watering, and he can't stand on his feet any longer.
"As I told you, take your belongings and leave. I don't want...I don't want to see you anymore" She choked on her tears, ran to the bathroom and closed the door behind her.
"No Lin, please, don't do this, don't kill our love, please" as He's knocking on the bathroom door strongly
"You killed our love with your hands, if you loved me at all, you have an hour to collect all your things and leave, when I get out I don't want to see you or see anything that reminds me of you do you understand me? She is screaming in tears behind the door
"Lin, open the door, please don't make this mistake… please" But she did not answer him, she was trying to calm herself down ,she felt that her face had turned into a piece of fire so she washed it with water as she collapsed crying on the bathroom floor
Wheeler sadly gathered his things and put them in the bag with anger, not believing what was happening, and what he had done to deserve it all, he started looking at his clothes and everything around him with pain in his heart.
This shirt he wore when he was at home with her on days off, and this pants that she bought him as a gift, and this shirt he wore when he went out to go shopping with her, and this perfume that turn her on, and this belt that she took off from him when they had sex last time
The bag was a pile of memories, he now feels a terrible headache that he can no longer bear
He thinks he can't live anymore without her, he took the bag and stopped at the bathroom door where she was hiding from him, he knocked on the door but she didn't answer, she was sitting in the bathtub with her head between her knees.
"Lin, I'm out of here as you asked me to... but make sure I'm innocent I'll prove it to you... I just want to... ask you something... Please be careful from Greg... Get away from him as much as you can. He... he wanted to hurt you." She didn't answer him, he stumbled out of the apartment with his heart broken
When Linka came out of the bathroom, she looked at the place, she felt alienated in her home, or as if it was a house whose family had died, the place became sad and full of memories, she looked at the living room, here he would sit every night in front of the TV and put his feet on the table, she remembered when she said three or four times a day "Put your feet off the table." He started dropping his feet as soon as he saw Linka.
She grabbed the pillow thrown on the sofa, he loves this pillow, and he always uses it to prop his head up when he sleeps in front of the TV, as for Linka, it's kinda rough
She grabbed the remote control on the coffee table. It was Wheeler's friend. He used to change channels every day in the evening for half an hour until his fingers hurt and he stopped for any channel.
On this sofa in the living room, they made love an endless number of times, watched movies and games, ate popcorn.
Then she turned her eyes to the kitchen, here they were joking while they were cooking the food, washing the dishes, the refrigerator is the most common place you can find Wheeler's red head, still a lot of his favorite drink bottles in the fridge, a piece of cheesecake he hadn't finished yet, his favorite cereal On top of the fridge, he has a bunch of his favorite sauces that he used to add to sandwiches in the corner of the kitchen. It was everything that reminded her of him, it's just like all the things turned into talking things and they started asking her, "Where's Wheeler?" And "when will he return?"
She ran out of the living room and the kitchen, which were open to each other, she rans to the bedroom, she was terrified at the door when she saw his empty cupboard, She put her hand over her mouth and her eyes filled with tears as she looked at their bed, remembering how much happiness, kisses, satisfaction and love he let her feels for the past two years.
She looked at the woman and remembered when he was standing there combing his hair and wearing a police uniform, how handsome he looked, and how she was hugging him from behind as if she didn't want him to go anywhere, she just wanted him to stay with her.
She just can't stand this big amount of memories, this big amount of feelings, she wants run away and never come back but where? She came out of the room, not knowing where to go, and stood in the hallway, collapsed on the floor crying, she was screaming loudly her back against the wall.
She spends hours crying, crumpled on the floor with her head between her knees, she doesn't remember that she was that before like this day.
As for Wheeler, he angrily threw his bag into his car and drove aimlessly, hovering from one neighborhood to the other with tears in his eyes, cursing his bad luck, and remembering her, remembering the past ten years with her, as if it were a videotape in his head that passes quickly
The first time he saw her, she was wearing a purple coat and jeans. She was standing next to him when he approached her closely (more than enough) expressing his admiration for her Russian accent, and how she pushed him away with her hands, how he had been trying to catches her attention for years and she repelled him steadfastly, or exchanged jokes sometimes, remember how he was watching her to protect her, to drive away young men who desire her, to keep looking at her beauty as long as he can.
He remembered the parties that brought them together, and how her beauty blinded him, so that he could not see anyone else in the parties.
He remembered his dances with her and their first kiss, and how he confessed his love to her, remembering their dates, and making love together
"HOW THE FUCK COULD SHE BELIEVE THIS FALSE RUMOR AFTER ALL WHAT WE GO THROUGH ALL THOSE YEARS "He was screaming alone in the car
After a while, Wheeler found himself at his best friend's apartment door, knocking on the door with the bag in his hands
When Kwame opened the door he wasn't too surprised, he knows Linka when she insisted on something, "Oh my God, come here." He opened his arms to Wheeler, who hugged his best friend.
"She threw me out of the house, man" His voice breaks when he hugs his friend
"Don't worry my friend, I promise that everything will be back to the way it was, she loves you and eventually she will be back to her mind and she will know that you love her and you did not cheated on her" As he walks Wheeler into his apartment, takes from him his bag and puts it aside
"Oh yeah ,not when you have a bastard brainwashing your girlfriend against you!"
He throws himself on the sofa in the living room
"What lunch? What happened?" He opens the refrigerator to offer his friend a bottle of beer
"When I was about to enter the building before...before she threw me out, I found him with her at the doorway talking, or rather he was talking and she was listening to him."
"Who was talking to her?" as he handed him a beer, and when their eyes met, "Don't tell me it's Greg!"
"Who else will be? The son of a bitch, I bet he's behind all this." .Taking beer from Kwame
Oh Wheeler. I don't know what to tell you, I'm suspicious about him, we should keep him away from her! Then he drank a sip of beer, "did you speak to him?"
"Yes, I told him to stay away from her or I will kill him."
"Oh my God, are you crazy, man? You are a cop, beside now he's going to take your words as a challenge, don't you know how he thinks?"
"I don't know man, I can't think straight anymore, all I want is to go to the phone company tomorrow, I want to finish this issue, ... I want my girlfriend back"
"Didn't you try to talk to her and convince her before you collected your things?"
"She didn't give me any chance man, she started screaming and telling me to get out, then she hid in the bathroom."
"Go to sleep my friend, we have a long way tomorrow." As He brings him the pillow and the sheet from the stairs
"What do you mean (we)? Are you... are you coming with me?"
"What the friends for then, my friend? It's a six-hour ride for one trip. I will not leave you alone in this difficult situation. Besides, Captain David welcomed the idea that he really cares about you, man"
"Thank you man, I really appreciated"
Both lovers could not sleep that night, their hearts were broken, their eyes drenched with tears, wishing that what had happened was just a nightmare, they woke up about every ten minutes, wishing they were in each other's arms as usual, hugging and kissing, for Linka couldn't sleep in the bedroom with the rest of the memories, she slept in the living room on the sofa. She was feeling a psychological struggle destroying her, her heart was telling her that Wheeler was sincere in his denial of cheating on her, that he was not doing that, he was just madly in love with her, while her mind was telling her what do you call all those pictures? , What about conversations? What about the woman who saw in the video call and knows all the details of their lives?
As for Wheeler, he almost went crazy, who is this woman? How did she get these pictures? Is this someone similar to him? Or did someone make it up? And why the hell would anyone do that? His heart was telling him that he was Greg. But how does he prove that? How can he prove his innocence?
The only one who slept happy tonight is Greg plotting what to do with linka after destroying her love