ERIC

The doors to the the room opens widely as if someone kicked it open. Two men walk in holding another man firmly by his arms and his face covered with a very thick dark cloth.

"Finally!" Jessica exclaims calmly with smiles. "Bring him here." She orders the men loudly.

The men obey the order without any utterances. They march carefully to Jessica and opens the man's face.

Everyone had expected to see Malik's face or the man to be Malik, even Ella had expected that, but it is so shocking that he isn't the one.

"Who are you?" Jessica asks loudly in anger.

Eric gives no response, instead, he struggles himself out of the hands of the men who held him captive and it was successful. He pretends to itch his head then carefully and secretly click on a very micro device which he had attached to the back of his ear.

"Are you deaf?" Jessica asks again loudly.

"I should be asking who you people are, I was at a mall and before I knew it, I was blindfolded and brought to this place." He looks at Ella and notices how badly she had been tortured then faces Jessica again. "Who is that girl? And why is she bleeding?"

"That is non of your business!" Emerens fires at him then faces the men. "Who on earth did you bring here?"

"I am so sorry ma'am, I had no idea he isn't the man we are in need off. Since he was at the site, I suspected him to be the one." One of the men explains.

Even though she is in a very bad state at the moment, Ella can't deny the fact that she recognizes Eric. "Uncle Eric?" She asks in her mind and thinks. "If Eric can be here now, definitely, her father is up to something."

"I am so sorry for the inconvenience, you are not the person we wanted to capture." Jessica apologizes and scoffs. "Hence, I can't keep you alive."

"You can't keep me alive? But what on earth have I done wrong to deserve this from you?"

"Seeing Ella here and coming here is more than enough reason for you to die."

"What?" Eric asks and scoffs. "Young lady, why are you so bent on killing that lady?" He asks pointing to Ella.

"Why are you so interested in knowing that." Jessica looks at him closely in an observing manner. "Perhaps, do you happen to know who she is?"

Eric looks at Ella again, she is almost lifeless, breathing fast and heavily, blood stains in her mouth and her wound bleeding. "I just pity that she in such condition." He faces Jessica. "That is why I wish to know how she ended up here."

"Just kill him and let's move on to the next thing." Emerens spits annoyingly as she is getting impatient already.

"That young lady over there killed my mom and grandfather, so tell me, how do you reckon I punish her?"

"If she truly killed them with her own hands, I guess her death is the only atonement for her sins." Eric whispers left with no choice.

Emerens opens her mouth to say something but stops immediately she hears footsteps. At first, it sounded light, but later it starts sounding very loud, as if a lot of people are approaching them. "Did you hear that?"

"What is that sound? Who knows about this place?" Jessica asks too.

"It's all over!" Ella exclaims loudly and laughs hysterically.

Malik leads about fifteen armed men into the room, he points the gun to Jessica and watch the rest of the men surround everyone entirely in the room, pointing their gun too and ready to shoot when necessary. "You are under arrest for kidnapping and attempted murder. Anything you say now might be used against you in the court of law, you have the right to an attorney."

Jessica opens her mouth dropped dead. 'So it was a trap after all?' She asks in her mind. 'I fell into my own trap, just as my mom did ten years ago.' "Were you all in on this all along?" She asks Malik.

"No matter how desperate I am, I will never use my daughter as a bait to capture a monster like you." Malik replies and looks at his daughter. "I am sorry, I have failed as a father, but I promise to make it up to you. Hang in there for a moment."

"Yes." Ella nods gently.

"I agree with you, you have greatly failed as a father, because you refused to monitor and protect your children." Jessica whispers and faces Cassandra.

Malik's facial expressions shows how shocked he is. "Cassandra?"

Jessica sees clearly that Malik and almost the police officers are now distracted, they are currently focused on Cassandra. 'If I don't do it now, I won't do it again. I will never allow history repeat itself.' She whispers in her mind then looks around making some calculations. At once, when she feels everything is in place, she grabs the metal rod and it hit hardly Ella's head.

"No!" Malik screams with tears gushing out of his eyes and runs to Ella.

Two other police men grabs Jessica folding her arms to the back.

Miss Smith suddenly sees her mom standing in front of her as her eyes are about to close. "Mom." She whispers.

"You've done more than enough, it is time for you to come home." Alex whispers with a smile.

"Yes." Ella replies whispering, then closes her eyes, maybe to death.

Malik holds his daughter tightly. "Ella please, stay with me please, don't do this to me." He says but he gets no respond. "Ella!" He calls loudly with tears rolling out of his eyes profusely. "Please honey, stay with me."

The scene is such an emotional one, no one on earth will ever wish to mourn over a child talk more of experiencing the child's death. Malik's pain was deeply felt by almost everyone in the room.