Devil's Advocate
Chapter Two
Theresa had slowly moved into the dining room to find her husband Richard moping over his food. Though he tried a few times to eat his eggs, and waffles for a change with black coffee. His tablemates had already left in order to run errands for the day mostly and including a wheelchair-bound resident named Carl.
"There you are, Richard. I wanted to show you the costume I had picked out for today and the party. I understand there is going to be one other wearing the same type of costume for the party." she tells him with her heart now in her throat.
"I see Theresa, but I had told you that I wasn't interested in being involved with one." he alluded to say to his wife.
She was soldem all of a sudden before John Kim came in a Chinese resident that likes to walk a great deal outside with Richard at times. Theresa turns to face him to ask the following...
"What's wrong John?" she points out seeing the expression on his face.
With a shaking of his head briefly. "I don't know. I can't seem to find Joanne anywhere." he cried out with his throat constricting for the most part.
Richard needed to say to him with drinking the last of his black coffee. "Have you tried her room 121 on this same floor?" he responded.
"I really didn't think of it Richard since I did see her very early coming out of her room without an aid. Most of the time they are usually with her making sure that she is dressed. I will head there now to see if she is okay or now. Richard and Theresa, I will talk to you later on what I am able to find out about Joanne."
He walks away with Theresa deciding to kiss her husband to head back to their quarters on the garden level.
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He had felt an eerie presence around him as he had walked down to her room 121. There was no one else around the corridor as he approached her door which was slightly ajar.
Taking in a deep breath for a man his age at 82 years old and in great shape from all of the walking that he does over the years.
He called out to Joanne asking whether she was inside. However, there was going to be a nightmare ahead of him. Moving inside he saw the bathroom door now opened and what was to be a body on the floor and blood everywhere.
He cried out when he bent down to see it was Joanne with her throat cut as with her chest. He tried feeling for a pulse. But only to find that she was not breathing at all.
Getting up from her body. He headed for the intercom button over her bed as he needed to let them know what was happening with the body of Joanne.
Al answered the intercom call as he was monitoring the shortage of staff. John explained about the emergency by checking for a pulse only to find nothing at all.
"Mr. Kim, I will need for you to stay where you're at while I call the police, Roxanne, Joel, and others from the medication room. Try and stay calm the best you can." Al had noted with his own stress levels had to be going up at the same time...
"I will try my best since this is a real nightmare to be walking into her room to see the blood all over the place," he exclaimed with his own heart racing...
