Prison

"He was talking to his…mother? But then why did he feel the need to put me to sleep? Should I wake up now?", Nicolo slightly opened one of his eyes. As his face was covered with his hands, his opened eye was not noticeable. 

He looked at Lucian and saw him lying on the bed. 

"I need to ask him things right now. I'll have to wake up and finally use the weapon I have with me! If he is capable of doing this, then I have to be careful. I need to know about his family, and his mother.", Nicolo's hand went towards his pant's pocket, which was located behind Lucian's view of Nicolo.

Lucian's body shook as soon as he heard Nicolo's loud voice. He sat up and saw Nicolo standing, with a gun in his hands, pointing towards him.

"You-You are not asleep? How?!", Lucian said in a confused voice, loud yet quiet.

"I saw you mixing those sleeping pills. I was just acting to sleep, I heard your conversation with your mother. Now, tell me what's going on, why did you want to make me fall asleep?", Nicolo shouted.

Lucian was silent for a bit. He bent his head towards the floor, not making eye contact with Nicolo.

A gun? Right, it's obvious someone like him would have one. But he is way too kind to ever pull that trigger. Besides, he has no reason to do so now. But that means, he is considering me as a threat now. Not a problem.

"Look, I needed to do that..", Lucian said. Then he looked at Nicolo, with a sorrowful expression on his face. 

Nicolo instantly put down his gun and came closer to Lucian.

"Tell me why.", Nicolo spoke softly.

"M-My mom has a heavy fever. And there is no one to look after her", Lucian paused, half-closing his eyes, "And my father, he is no longer alive."

Nicolo sat down, beside Lucian. "I'm sorry, I didn't know that."

"No it's okay. After all, I'm the one who gave you those pills.", Lucian turned his head towards Nicolo, "And you ask why? It's because I didn't want the investigators to involve my mother in this case. If you guys get to know about my mother, who knows, you might even drag her into this."

"OH, that's right. How did I not understand this simple fact.", Nicolo thought.

"I'm sorry for your condition, I understand it. But, you could've just said to me that you wanted to talk to your mother. I would've allowed you.", Nicolo told Lucian.

Lucian went silent again. Nicolo broke the silence by saying, "I understand. How can you trust me? I shouldn't expect that."

"Please don't tell this to anyone in your group, I mean TGC."

"I won't", Nicolo said, "I know how it feels to have a single family member, and how it feels when you can't even contact them normally. I too had only my father…"

"Thank you so much.", Lucian smiled slightly.

Suddenly Nicolo's phone rang. He quickly received it. It was from Ralph.

"Anything happened so far? Have you noticed any inconvenience?", Ralph asked rapidly.

"N-No Sir!", Nicolo went away from Lucian, to the corner of the room, where his conversation with Ralph couldn't be heard. 

"Really? Something should've happened.", Ralph sighed, mostly from frustration, "Are you sure, Nicolo? Nothing happened? You noticed nothing extraordinary?"

"I didn't. I'm telling the truth.", Nicolo spoke quickly.

"What happened? Why is he suddenly bringing 'truth'? He is obviously hiding something. But why would he?", Ralph was creating questions in his mind.

"Nicolo. I can feel you are hiding something. Don't do it. I don't know what is forcing you to do so. But I'll find it anyway. So please, reveal everything you know.", Ralph said with a calm voice.

Nicolo left a small breath and said, "Lucian Cole tried to dose me with sleeping pills and use that as a chance to talk with his mother. But, I saw it beforehand and acted. I heard his conversation with his mother.", Nicolo was going to continue, but was interrupted by Ralph.

"He talked with his mother?", Ralph questioned slowly.

"Yes. But don't worry, it has nothing to do with us. His mother is really sick and he has no other fami-", Nicolo was going to explain but was interrupted by Ralph again.

"Nicolo! Be right there and take away Lucian's phone from him. Don't allow him to use the phone anymore! I'm coming there soon!", Ralph immediately cut the call, leaving Nicolo a little stressed.

Lucian had his phone in his hands. His contact 'Mom' was still typing something in the messenger app. He had been deleting his previous texts all this time, so it was a fresh chat.

Damn. How long is Elias taking to write the message? And what is he even typing? 

Lucian took his eyes away from his phone and saw that Nicolo was slowly coming towards him.

He quickly created another contact named 'Mom 2' and changed the number of 'Mom'. Typed some other messages too.

"Mr.Cole, Ralph ordered me to not allow you to use the phone anymore. I'm sorry, but I'll have to follow that order.", Nicolo said.

"So, did you really tell him about my mother and the things you heard?", Lucian asked, while raising his hands, trying to give away the phone.

"I didn't. He just ordered me, that's all.", Nicolo said with a smile, "I know you might want to use the phone, but believe me, I'll return it soon. We might even get you out of our suspicion list soon."

"I'll be very glad.", as soon as he uttered those words, the doorbell rang.

"Oh someone has come.", Lucian was about to stand up but Nicolo instantly said, "I'll open it.", and went through the hallway to the door.

Lucian heard footsteps. Footsteps of two people.

So Ralph IS coming now. Which means this guy told him everything, or most probably something at least. Ralph already suspected the fact that I might be trying to call someone that is not my Mom. Which is also why he is not allowing me my phone now, as he thinks I might be planning something together with Elias, or someone.

I thought Nicolo really wouldn't reveal anything. But guess what, he did. Still not a problem.

Ralph entered Lucian's room, together with Nicolo. 

"Lucian! Long time no see!", Ralph went towards Lucian, while Lucian had shock on his face.

"Why-Why are you here? Am I proved not guilty now?", Lucian stood up immediately.

"I wish I could say that. But you are not yet. I'll have to stay with you here, for sometime, in order to prove you innocent. I promise, this is the last time you'll see us.", Ralph assured Lucian.

"I understand. If this will prove that I'm innocent, then I have no problem doing this.", Lucian looked at Ralph's eyes, only seeing dedication.

He understood my motives. Even after he layed a dual trap, he still needs more security. He truly knows what 'The Ghost' might be capable of.

"If my intuition is correct, then there's no way Lucian Cole would be able to do anything anymore. He has no way to contact anyone. If the piece doesn't get stolen, it is basically confirmed that he is the ghost. If my trap wasn't enough, he will have to deal with this now too. Let's see, what happens", Ralph closed his eyes while thinking.

1 minute later,

"I sent him everything. Let's see how he can use this information.", Elias was sitting on his rotating chair, while he just ended typing a whole paragraph.

He sent it to Lucian but it was not seen yet, more surprisingly, not even delivered.

"Why isn't it delivered? Did he really turn off his internet at this moment? Or is he in some kind of trouble again?", Elias was thinking while rotating himself along with the chair.

"Did I take the right decision by trusting him?", Elias questioned himself.

"He showed me his face, his partner was taken hostage by me, he should be vulnerable enough to not betray me. No, no why am I questioning stuff again? I should truly trust!", Elias closed his eyes.

"But investigators? What kind of investigators was Luk-Lucian talking about?", Elias stopped his rotation as something struck his mind.

"W-What if Zeph Loxley is somehow connected to him? I mean if he truly is Lucian Cole, then his friend would be Gary Loxley, whose father is Zeph. Did his death affect Lucian somehow?"