CHASING LIGHT IN DARKNESS - Shkumbin Gashi (books for students to read txt) 📗

a father.

 

 Things started to connect  in his mind and become subjective, because this case reminded somehow in his mind with his wife and son that were no longer living and he now sees them only on his dreams.

 Bruce has meet his wife Joan in work cocktail that was organized from his police department, in honor of their heroic job against crime 15 years ago,

 

 Joan was working as party planner and she organized even that one. Bruce actually didn’t want to go in that party but his colleagues had convicted him.

 

 When Bruce arrived on the party, his eyes immediately noticed a beautiful woman( he wouldn’t believe that she will be the love of his live) wearing a white dress with curly hairs  she looked a little bit nervous because of the organization but still you managed to see her wonderful smile. She is the prettiest woman I have ever seen, what a smile she has, after all I think I did good that I came on the party.

 

 Bruce was wearing a black tuxedo and looked like a movie star that night that will be one of the most important nights of his life. He saw his three colleagues Sony, Murdock and Kane gathered together joking and went directly to them. Hello guys here I am said Bruce that looked quite happy and one of the reasons was the woman he saw.

Sony: Look who we have here.. Told them you will come.

Bruce: I couldn’t disappoint you, after all that you did

Kane: We shouldn’t invite you, you are taking the whole attention hahah

Bruce: Well everybody has his 5 minutes of fame. I guess those are mine

The conversation continued with jokes but Bruce s head was up many times searching for that pretty woman.

 All night was thinking how to take courage and talk to that woman that had conquered his mind like no one before. But he was decided to catch the last train for his future, and while it was almost the end of evening he saw her staying on the corner and watching the party.

Bruce: Nice party you organized here.

Joan: You think.. Thank you I don’t really have problem organizing one but this is more special for me because you are our pride and I wanted to make it good for you

Bruce:  Don’t worry even I that don’t enjoy those things tonight I had fun, good detail those napkins with our flag..I’m Bruce by the way

Joan: I am Joan nice to meet you.

Bruce: I watched you since I came here, you look pretty. We didn’t had the chance to spend some time together I would love to know you better,

Joan: haha you go straight to point. You know what I accept. Are you free after tomorrow on 8 o clock night?

Bruce: That sounds nice to me. Give me your phone number and I will call you.

Joan: Okay (and wrote her number in a napkin) see you.

 They both left good impression at each other. Bruce left the party few minutes latter.

 

 The second meeting between them has gone great. They went in a good restaurant and had wonderful time together. She adored his jokes and a wonderful romance has born between them.

 Two months latter he proposed to her, Bruce looked that he has find that element that was missing to him now he belonged somewhere.

 

 Bruce and Joan gave birth to Nick 1 year after their marriage.The night that he was born Bruce has cried all night from happiness, he even vent to church and thank the good. This was something very rare for him.

Seven years have passed since Nick has came to live, and everything was working fine, Bruce was assigned to chase a mafia boss from Romania who was smuggling drugs and guns in London.

 

 His work was hit by Bruce because he was arresting all his men one by one; this was becoming a big obstacle for this mafia family because the task force leaded from Bruce was the only thing interrupting them from becoming super rich. The boss was Gabriel Obrocha who came as emigrant on London and then created a net of crime.

 

 One day Bruce was on Newcastle University holding a lecture to its students for police work. In the middle of lecture while he was talking about interrogation techniques his phone rang. It was Steven from his department. Hello Bruce, I have to tell you something.

Bruce: Yes sir what can I do for you

Steven: I have to tell you something. Joan and Nick…

Bruce: What what about them.

Steven: A bomb exploded in your home and ee I’m sorry son.

This was the biggest hit that life has made to him. Obrocha family decided to make Bruce an example and planted a bomb on his house.

 

 This was such a big shock for him that it crashed his heart. After their funeral he started drinking and the next years were horror for him, he was closed on himself. Never getting out, many times he was suspended from job because of big violence used during actions.

 

 This event has killed the angel inside him and has released a demon that was so hard to control it, two years later he started taking therapy for anger management and alcohol but this didn’t help him to continue his life.

 

 There was a time when he passed every prediction by planning something that nobody thought he will do. For him at that dark period there wasn’t any difference between good and evil.

 

He took the report of investigation from bombing case on his family and saw that Jar Kastler was the person that ordered murder of his son and wife.

 

Jar was living with his wife and two sons in London.  In one night Bruce has entered on his home using his military skills and had neutralized the guards that were on home arriving on the main room and turned the gun to Jar sons and wife.

  In the last moments Bruce didn’t trigger the gun and escaped from home running thinking: O my god what was I thinking, killing children, becoming like them, I have turned on a monster, I’m same with them. Something divine has stopped him from doing something that he will regret all his life. Maybe it was his Joan from the sky..who knows

 

Bruce promised to himself that he will destroy them but with law on his back. For two years he and the taskforce destroyed Obrocha family mafia by arresting them all.

 

Chapter V

      Evil has evolved

 

 

Next morning after murder that happened near Thelma River everything on city was on chaos. In fifth channel the news started with that subject:

News reporter: Yesterday something very brutal happened on or city, a murder of a kind that reminds you Jack the Ripper happened on our city, police has no clues about the person who committed the  murder. Let’s hear a police statement released few minutes ago about this case.

Police officer: A body was found yesterday down the river of Thelma, it’s the body of the woman A.R 24 years old. The investigations are continuing and we are chasing traces to catch the murder. Anyone who knows or seen anything please share that information with us, it will be very helpful.

We have solved a lot of cases with the help of our beloved citizens, so we expect the same even on this case. This is it for now, that s why we are not receiving any question. In the moment we will understand anything we will notice you. Thank you for your cooperation.

 

News reporter: And we are back to studio after that declaration from that police statement. Let’s continue with other news. Business man Sheamou oConnor has declared that…(in that moment Bruce stopped the TV)

 

Everything is the same even this morning, why can’t we have news that doesn’t give those informations.  Where are the happy news said Bruce.

 

A new day on the office was waiting for him. The case was putting him and the department in a lot of pressure.

 

He woke up from the bed and went to the closed to take his clothes that he ordinary wears, a black suit. He saw something there… it was painful to see it .His weeding suit.

All the sudden he remembered the wedding day. Such a lovely day. After the proposal of Bruce to Joan they decided to get marry in the church of city two months from proposal.

They called small number of people on that wedding, some of Bruce colleagues and from Joan side her family and friends.

The big moment came Bruce was standing on church expecting his queen, he was having a fear that she will not appear .What if she decided not to appear. But she did it.

 

Dressed on white dress with her curly brown hair and shiny smile she was so lovely, coming to the altar Bruce kissed her and started the ceremony of marriage.

Priest: We are gathered here on this day to celebrate unity between Bruce Loan and Joan Sinclair. Let’s proceed. Joan Sinclair do you accept to take for companion of live Bruce Loan in good and bad, wealth and poverty, in good health and illness.

Joan: Yes I do (she was smiling so much; you could see the happiness on her eyes)

Priest: Making the same procedure again.

 Bruce Loan do you accept to take for life companion Joan

Bruce: Yes of course I do.

Priest: You may kiss the bride now.

 

That was one of the happiest days on Bruce’s live, but now it’s only a torture.. Every time he sees that suit he remembers this day on details.

He even thought of burning it one day but he couldn’t. He had nopower to do that.

He took his regular clothes and touched gently his wedding suit and prepared to go to office and start to deal with the crime.

He lives on the fifth floor and the elevator most of the times didn’t work (like they always do).It was the third floor when something strange happened.

On that building it was kind of dark on the halls, when a man appeared fast he was hiding on the elevator site and took a photo of Bruce, the light disoriented him for few seconds. It has caught him on surprise.

After few seconds he started to chase him, to ask why he would do that, he was a floor before him and when Bruce arrived on the street that weird man was already mixed with the crowd. Bruce turned his head on all directions but that man disappeared. God damn it… what was that he said

 

Something like this has never happened to him before..And all the way to the station that he usually does with his red Mercedes he passed thinking about that event.

In the end he came to conclusion that perhaps is one of those reporters who know that he is on charge of investigations and is preparing something for the news.

Sometimes some people do anything just to get a story. This calmed him down a little bit on that morning.

 

The police station was in the middle of the town and just 20 minutes out of his apartment, sometimes he walks but most of the times he goes driving because he always wakes up on the last moment so he has to rush to go on the right time in job.

 

In station there was a big mess like always, police officers receiving their