chapter 5

Team

"Every crime has a team to solve, and luck is always the enemy of this team."

- Look, be calmer and don't act like a wild teenage girl ! Where Are you going, Roxie!.

Matthew said he was able to pull Roxana out of his hand before she charged out, with Annie helping him close the door and locks and throwing the key into the kitchen for Roxana to yell at them:

- Fools ! All the evidence says there's a murder and you're holding me back!.

Annie angrily said to her: what else is wrong with you? Where Are you going without knowing the details? You have no proof in your hand!.

Matthew looked her in the eye and said: yesterday evening she asked me to be Matthew I rather than Shakespeare II, so now I ask you, sit on the couch to outline our plan.

Everyone was silent for seconds until Roxana whispered.:

- Let go. it really hurts.

Matthew let it go so fast, and he was so disturbed by this attitude, how does he do and say all this without thinking? Did you get him a burst infection or what? Annie signals to them that they really have to talk, so that everyone walks into the lounge, randomly choosing where to sit.:

- Look, the subject is very clear, without any complexity, there are those who imprisoned Isabella for a month in the room in the attic for several reasons, including: stealing the sword and selling it, second: for other ends in himself of course, and one time Isabella managed to escape to paint the code for the site where the sword is offered for sale and And what did the killer benefit from killing her?.

Follow Matthew : and the most important question, Who is the killer?.

Silence reigned for a moment, but in Roxana's head there is an idea that is messing with her mind, she got off the couch and quickly climbed the stairs, and she also quickly returned with her mobile phone and ordered Annie and Matthew to silence with a movement of her finger after she put the speaker, a man's voice came out,:

- Vasily! How are you, buddy?.

- A young voice came out of his voice that seemed to be funny: okay, Rox, and you?.

- Okay. look, is there anyone on your side?.

- Wait a minute, yeah there's no one now, what's wrong?.

- Look, I want you to go to the vickelson E-sale site and find me who is offering the red sheath sword for sale ? I'll send you the picture.

The young man said sarcastically: Oh, really?.

Roxana added seriously and firmly: Yes Fez, it is really necessary.

Silence reigned for a moment, but Vasily continued after he sensed the seriousness of his girlfriend's words:

- But it will take time.

- How much?.

Shocked Roxana and she wanted to ask him many questions but he blocked the road in her face to tell:

- It's complicated, but I'll try.

She hung up and threw the phone to her side and looked at Matthew and Annie Lake, What do we do now? Everyone was looking at each other trying to understand the next step, but no hope, Matthew tried to find a way out. To say hesitantly:

- I don't know, but why don't we try to figure out what was happening a month ago with my grandmother?.

- Come on, how? Roxana said she felt helpless

- I don't know.

She told Annie not to pay attention: the memoir.

Matthew and Roxana exchange glances, Roxana jumps up and cuddles Annie and says:

- You're the coolest girl ! I don't know how great you are!.

Matthew had literally arrived in the locked room that became open after Roxana broke the door, and both Annie and his cousin followed him, the three sat on the couch, Matthew in the middle and Annie and Roxana on his sides, Matthew opened the notebook heading towards the last pages, stopped at one of the pages history attracted him, he:

Hey, today I feel weird. I don't know why. But almost it is a feeling of malaise, seeing Richard every day makes me feel nostalgic, to our daughter whose existence no one knew but me, how sad and painful her death is, how much I feel like the stupid covenant I once made in my teens with a dagger in my heart!. How can I not tell Richard about Amelia's existence and her death ? But I have to take my oath, and I can't forget Richard's memory loss !

Damn he doesn't remember me and remember our love ! On top of all the harm caused to her in her childhood she did not give her anything now , but she threw her cold blood in a dark house alone, and her visits have become too many to my house, I try to bring her back to her senses, but she tells me: I learned to differentiate between my daughters from you, mom, Stupid.

Matthew stopped reading, to take into account Roxana's feelings first, and because this page ended second, Roxana said as she pretended to hold together:

- Go on to the next page.

Matthew calmly did what Roxana told him and went back to reading with Annie and Roxana listening to every letter he says.:

Hello I have nothing new, but this feeling of anger still feels like pain and that my end is near scares me, I feel like I've made many mistakes in my life, I don't know why but I'm scared, so scared of everything, of all those around me, I feel like I'm going crazy! Matthew and Roxana's visits were reduced at my request, alone in my paradise that I feel is my hell now.

And here I stopped writing and Matthew stopped reading, he was feeling lost, he literally doesn't know anything anymore, all the evidence they have now has been invalidated by the coming out of another evidence, will he be based on Roxana? She needs someone to stand on and cry on his shoulder. will he stand on Annie? Of course not! She's a kid whose curiosity got her into this thorny problem, is he pulling out? If he withdraws, his grandmother's Ghost will haunt him all his life until his death. will it continue? Of course, and he has to support the lost Roxana and the shocked Annie to continue the investigation, take a look at Roxana who was in the world of her thoughts, she has suffered so much in her life, she is like a broken girl who pretends to be coherent and fine, smile a smile Sincerely, he told her:

- Hang on, Roxanne, and let's go on, for Grandma's soul to calm down.

She remained silent for a moment, until Annie's voice, saturated with sadness and pain, came:

I think the three of us should draw from the pain of the past a force for the present, because if we allow it, it will destroy us, it will destroy us to pieces, will you allow the past to degrade you! Come on, Roxana especially you, when I first met you you weren't like that ! Rise and rise again, we all know that you are not the perfect or perfect girl and that you are the girl with thousands of flaws and a stone-crying past ! But just get up, for Isabella, for me, for Matthew, for yourself.

Roxana raised her head, drew a smile that shone on her beautiful face, got up and wandered around the corners of the room as if trying to extract any evidence from her walls, as if waiting for the walls to tell what happened to her owner, but no miracles happen, she fired a sigh of helplessness, and Matthew and Annie watched carefully, I thought a lot:

I don't really know, guys, what to do.

Matthew and Annie looked at each other, Roxana came up with nothing either. she said she hadn't given up yet and that there was hope for her progress tonight.:

Matthew and Annie are going to the color salesman to ask him about the last time he saw our grandmother , and I'm going to visit that restaurateur, okay?.

In addition, there was an idea that was messing with Matthew's mind, reluctant to implement it.

- Really happy to meet you guys!.

James smiled as he said his phrase Hello to Matthew and Annie, Annie always preferred the direct questions method, so she said to James, attaching her words with a smile:

- Mr. James, I wanted to inquire about something.

- Here you go, son.

- When was the last woman you saw Lady Isabella?.

James rubbed his beard as he thought, until he shouted cheerfully:

- Two weeks before she died! She was buying some colors, she cared about Red a lot.

The two were shocked, two weeks before she died ! How? Annie asked him right away.:

- In red?.

Yeah,and she used to bother me with her requests. she wanted grades like blood.

He kept quiet for a moment, like he was hesitant to say a sequel, but he said a whisper.:

She even once cut her hand to show me what degree she wanted.

Shock marks appeared to be firmly on Matthew and Annie's face, Annie stepped in to try to pull out a larger amount of information:

- Did you see the painting then?.

- Never, I hoped, but she left for the other world. I never saw her, and I never saw her painting again.

Annie and Matthew sighed, thank you, James , and they walked out of the shop, so Isabella had ill health, a lie, she was trapped and ran away several times, Annie said as she raised her head to the sky:

- Although it's summer , it's very cold.

- I regret like you not wearing anything but this shirt.

- Let's go home.

Matthew said, " Come on, who told you we were coming home?" There's something we haven't done yet, Annie.

Annie glanced at him, what did he mean, but he was really starting to walk, and I blew up behind him until they were walking the same way, going together to find out, is this meeting going to benefit them or not?.

Roxana was upset that the last clue she could get crashed on the floor like a glass cup, disturbed by the visit to the House of the restaurateur who turned out to be back in France where her daughter was three years ago, and she knew it from a curious neighbor, started the engine of the red car she rented after she got money from her grandmother's bank She was worried, was Matthew and Annie's luck as terrible as hers? After a quarter of an hour of driving I arrived, opened the door expecting Matthew to be in the house, shouted his name a lot, but did not answer.

- You really came to make me open the paintings for you!.

- Yes Richard.

Richard gave Matthew a sharp look until Matthew stepped back to say :

Did not expect to be Richard sensitive to this point, and despite all entreaties Matthew Richard did not agree, even the intervention of Annie said:

- For me, seriously! Come on, you're gonna help us a lot, me and your other great-grandson!.

Richard smiled as if he was waiting for these words to agree, ordering them to head behind him to the second floor. The three went up there and opened the first six paintings, all of which embodied attitudes to Richard and Isabella in their youth! Which really shocked Richard, he certainly does not remember any of these situations, yet he smiled like he longed for the nostalgia of the old days, suddenly the whispers were heard by Matthew and Annie, Richard shouted:

- There's a painting Isabella gave me three days before she died! I saw her three days before she died! Fuck my weak memory ! How'd you forget that ? She was exhausted at the time and tired, she was sick, she told me that I would never see her again, she told me, continuing hesitantly, and raised his gaze to meet Matthew's gaze: she told me that she loved me.

Signs of astonishment drew on Annie and Matthew's face, and Richard ran towards the painting wrapped in gold wrapping paper, tore the paper to see the painting in front of them, yes, this time they did not get the tip of the thread but found the solution of the whole case.

- Where Have you been all this time?.

Matthew said coldly: we knew who the killer was.

- Who?

Annie smiled: hilsey