NEAR BUT SO FAR

"I didn't know it was that simple for you to capture someone."

Alice spoke while her eyes traveled between me and the guy sleeping soundly in front of us, his limbs were attached to the chair with ropes.

"Why do you sound like, I do these things as some kind of part-time job.."

"I don't know... You don't seem right on your mind...but tell me how did you even think of making this type of plan.."

Alice said with a suspicious look, well from the start, she had been looking at me like that, it's not like I care or anything...

"I made this plan on wimp nothing more...As you know... People like to watch horror movies, and as I said earlier the things you like are also the things you hate the most... Yeah, it is not right for everything but it is right for this.."

"In his case, this guy liked horror movies... That means he also would believe in ghosts too. So I made up this plan to use his fear of ghost against him..."

"And what if he tried to confront us... Why didn't you take the guy out just like you took out the other guards.."

"I had my plan for not using the same trick for him.."

As I was walking outside the mansion at day, I saw that many guards were eating food from this mansion which led me to deduce that all the guards were given food from this house only.

So at night I snuck into the kitchen and mixed sleeping portion which was enough to put them to sleep till the next day.

"Ok, then why Play this act in front of him? And how did he even fell for that act."

"When we were having the match that time, I saw his maid bring him a bottle of medicines which were for his heart illusion, and because of that he has a pacemaker installed near his heart to regulate and check on his heart condition."

"And as I could see that it's her assistant who brings her his medicine then that means she is going to be the one who is going to give the guy medicine at night also."

"Then all I had to do was swap the bottles of medicine. I gave him very strong hallucinations so that was it. Now it was clear that the guy just watched a horror movie so he would remember the horrific scenes from the movie and our brain tends to play with us by using illusions which we are very scared of so... I knew that he would easily feel for that."

"But isn't using drugs on him when he has a heart condition is dangerous for his life."

"Aaa... Yeah, it is but here he is still alive isn't he..."

I spoke and Alice just narrowed her eyes and looked at me with a deadpan expression.

"Well let's wake him up, give me the medicine..."

"You're really going to do that... Are you sure it's going to be ok..."

Alice spoke with a little worried look.

"Well it's not like, we are going to get somewhere by using the right way.."

I spoke and signaled her to give me the medicine and she just shook her head in defeat and handed me a syringe filled with the medicine, which will put the guy into a trance State just like before.

SUSSS...

I injected the syringe in his hand and picked his hand while placing my palm on his wrist and checking his pulse as if nothing bad happened to him...

SLAP..SLAP...

After making sure that everything was ok and his heart rate and blood pressure both were ok, I slapped his face to wake him up.

"Haaa... Where am I.."

The guy spoke as he looked a little worried there for a second but as the medicine started to work on him, his face showed a much calmer look on his face as the guy started to hallucinate.

"Hey tell me what's your name...say it..."

I spoke as I slapped his face again not letting the guy sleep while I just asked questions and he just looked at me with a confused look.

"M...my...n...nam...e....s....is...A..Akram....."

The guy spoke with a barely understandable voice.

"Tell me do you remember a Russian guy you let in the country, six to five days ago...."

Slap...Slap...

"Don't sleep and just answer my question..."

I spoke as I struck his face again not letting the guy sleep at any cost...

"A...A..Rus..Russian ..guy.....hmmm....yeah... I recalled... He was the guy....who doesn't know anything...hahaha...bast... bastard..."

He spoke as if he was very high right now but It didn't matter as I asked more questions...

"Tell me who sent him and why was he given that contract and for what reason..."

I asked again with a curious look and just struck his face again...

"Aaa.... I... Ye..yeah... I... Know ...who ....told me t...to h..helo h...I'm.."

The more time passed the more distroted his word became. Till now it was impossible for someone to even know what he was talking about. But not for me as I have saved one of my skills for these days.

"H....w....s.....a...g.....w....a....m..ge....uy..."

"What is he even saying, I can't understand anything..."

Alice spoke as she tried to understand what this guy was saying, his whole face just looked even more ugly to her than before.

"He was a guy who was a mid-age-old guy..."

I spoke and Alice narrowed her eyes and looked towards me.

"And how did you know that he said this..."

"When I was young my uncle taught me, how to read someone's lips... It's a very handy skill.."

I spoke as I shook the guy in my hand not letting him sleep at all. And hearing me she narrowed her eyes more.

"H....s....t....w...ll...ve....e...ot...f...one....o....d....ha....e...ad..."

"What he said...."

"He said the guy said that if he did his work he would give him lots of money.."

"So he did it because of money..."

"Hey did that guy say something more or anything and who is this guy..."

I spoke as I shaked the guy more making sure that he didn't sleep at all.

"Y....h....ad....om...hn....Bo.....T.B..A..."

As he said these lines I turned silent as I looked at the guy in front of me.. my grip on his collar became tight as I leaned towards his eyes and with a cold look, I looked at them as I asked again...

"Who was this guy you are talking about..."

"T....He.....uy....e..as....Aaaaa...."

Suddenly the Akram started to scream as he grabbed his chest tightly and clenched the area near the heart. As I looked at the guy, I narrowed my eyes but suddenly my instincts told me to get back.

"Alice get back..."

I screamed as I tried to run back but suddenly...

....BOOM...