Two months later
He had spent long weeks away from Toronto without the slightest news from the investigation. William had thought mad, only Kingston, just waiting for a telegram from his superior stating that he could go home. And this telegram did not come, for nearly three months, three long and endless months.
He spent his days as best he could, trying not to think of the danger to which his wife was exposed. But to her, however, he often thought, almost every hour of the day or night. He had so much free time that he spent hours lost in thought, he wrote her letters in which he told her how much he missed her, how he wanted to see her, to take her in his arms. He wrote hundreds of lines of words of love, words most daring sometimes imagining see her blushing and reading. Immediately a shy smile appear on his lips, he liked to see her blush and despite all these years, he always found how. These letters there, he set apart, in another small box, and he happened to read them at night, when he was alone in his bed. William prayed every night that will be the last he would pass away from her, and every morning his heart was darkened knowing that he would not see her again that day, he should wait, again.
He went up the street with a slow to enter the house where he rented a room since he arrived in Kingston. When he borrowed the stone steps leading to the front porch, the young man froze. There was a man standing in front of him, hands in pockets.
-Good morning Murdoch, he said softly.
-Sir? William threw his superior. ... Why are you here? Julia. It happened something with Julia? She ...
-We had him Murdoch, interrupted calmly Brakenreid, he tried to attack her but she is well and we got him.
-Is it over? William breathed with relief.
-Not quite, we need your testimony, he will be transferred to the prison tomorrow judged next week and probably sentenced to life imprisonment. But for this, you have to come back to Toronto, and as soon as possible.
It was quite enough for William to enter into a bond in the house and join his room upstairs. He made his case in a few short minutes away, watching his friend in the doorway of the room.
-You said he tried to go after Julia, he said out of breath fluttering in the room, what has happened?
-She received a letter after your departure and she believed it came from you Albreto Garcia grabbed one of your notes in your office using an accomplice, a prostitute. He held out a trap to the Doctor, but we had to the eye. Crabtree intervened and shot Garcia.
-Garcia? But I saw this name in the newspaper, it goes back to two months, why did you not tell me earlier?
-Well you probably rush to Toronto and failed the plan, Brakenreid retorted, I know you Murdoch, he added, making a face.
-Was she injured?
-No, you know as well as I that she is a headstrong, she came home for some time and finally when we finally found the trace of Parker, she returned home. I do not know how you manage to endure her every day, I do not imagine live with this stubborn woman everyday.
William frowned, wondering how much Julia ordeal had done to the Brakenreid as he has always known pleasant and easygoing. He then wonder during a second if he had not finally tame her strong character eventually. After all these years, he had finally arrived.
-Why are you smiling like that? Thomas muttered.
-For nothing sir, replied William.
-Hum, well, can we go? The train departs in thirty minutes.
-I am ready, William replied, taking his bag before throwing one last look around him to see if he had forgotten anything.
-No need your disguise anymore?
-If Parker is at the police station, I do not need it anymore. I am "living" again.
Brakenreid nodded, and the two men left the house at the same pace to get to the station and take the train tickets to Toronto.
They arrived in Toronto four hours later. The two men discussed the case in detail all the way and for the first time since his departure, William could finally out of his mind his wife. She came back to him when he crossed the police station quickly, quickly hailed by some police officers.
-We had to tell them that you were alive, imagine if not their face, had launched Brakenreid walking beside him to the interview room, you stay here until I call you is that clear ?
-Yes Sir, William just nodded.
His superior came into the room and began his interrogation that lasted several minutes. Then he gave him a nod and William opened the door.
-I believe that an old acquaintance wants to greet you, threw Brakenreid.
-Mr Parker, William made calmly, I am delighted to find you here.
-And I am delighted to see you alive Detective, I will have at leisure to kill you with my bare hands. You know what they say, we are never better served than by ourselves.
-There yet has a problem with your plan, replied William, you will spend your life in prison.
-Do not believe this, I am full of resources and I will get out. But when will be so, I advise you to be hiding you and your wife.
-Thank you for your advice, William whispered just before two Constables come to take the man to make him leave the room, but I think I won, he added.
They followed all the constables and the culprit into the street, the carriage was there to take him to the nearest jail when two galloping horses burst. No one had time to move as the shots were done. They went immediately to the shelter, but the body of Mr. Parker fell to the ground and frames with masked men disappeared into the street as quickly as they appeared. William then leaned toward the man to the ground and watched with interest.
-He is ... Began Brakenreid.
-Dead, William finished making the sign of the cross.
-Nils's men, not surprisingly, another network takes over.
-It is really over now.
-For him yes, but we have never done with these rots.
The two men exchanged looks and weight that was on the heart of William for months flew immediately. His nightmare was over, finally.
The young woman was on her sofa, legs raised on a small stool in front of her, covered with a dark blanket. A cup of tea smoked on the little table next to her. She read a book for many minutes already. The house was plunged into silence since the woman at her service had left an hour earlier. Yet Julia looked up from her book, convinced she heard the front door open and close almost immediately. She wrinkled her brow, sure she locked the door. She stood up then slowly and carefully and mistrust, she left the room to get in the entrance. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw William standing outside the door down the hall, smiling at him simply.
-William, Julia dropped in one breath.
-I am at home, said one.
It happened a second to the book, Julia was still holding, felt on the floor with a crash. She rushed to the young man ran and greeted him against his chest before closing his arms around her. She put her arm in his neck and plunged face smiling as he closed his eyes to savor the scent that emanated from her hair.
-You are here, murmured Julia, you are here.
-All is over, William replied the same way, and I promise you that never again I will leave you, ever.
She let out a sob and separated from him just enough to catch his eye, a second just before their lips touch, before they share a kiss long and languorous who cut their blows them both. They stayed long minutes and entwined, caressing, smiling, kissing again and again.
-I missed you, William muttered by depositing burning kisses in her neck as his hands traveled over the body of Julia.
-William, Julia moaned, biting her lips, although the idea pleases me, not tonight, you ... you have a lots of things to tell me and ...
He stopped his torture and raised an eyebrow.
-Do you want to talk about?
-Yes, we ... after all I told you that you were going to have to forgive you, you lied.
-I thought this way would please you, he said with a teasing smile before plunging his face to her chest to caress her skin with his tongue.
-Oooh William, insisted Julia who fought with all her strength not to let him continue, please I will like you know what you have done for three months ...
-I understood, grumbled the young man away a bit of her, let me change me and I will tell you everything, and I promise, I will not try to make love to you.
She smiled softly and kissed his cheek.
-You will have all the right to kiss me, she said on his lips, I also have missed you a lot.
-Mmmmh, do not tempt me too much my love, William replied in the same way before heading to the stairs which was a bit further, oh tell me, said William before boarding, I hope you kept some clothes belonging to me.
-I kept everything, I did not have the heart to throw anything at all.
He smiled in reply and he vanished, leaving Julia overflowing joy in the entrance to their home, happy to know that the man she loved was back home and that now they were at last to live in peace. She sighed deeply, laying her hand on her belly a few seconds before heading to the book she had dropped to the ground and she joined the living room again, looking forward to the return of William.
to be continued ...