Black Rose

Chapter 85

Mild had run into the guys on their way out and they had made their way to his place. Gulf shouldn't be alone right now, even if he wanted to.

"Here" Mild said handing Gulf the towel and soap bottle "Go, take a relaxing bath, it's your favorite lavender soap relax a little it's late, we'll wait for you here"

Gulf nodded absentmindedly, he was still spiraling thoughts around in his mind.

Mild waited for him to go in and after hearing the bath water running he went to the living room. Saint was sitting on the couch already in his pjs, the spare he left here just in case, drinking a glass of wine.

"So?"

"He told him he loved him" Saint said staring at the liquid in the glass "and Gulf got scared" he looked up at Mild.

They understood, they knew the fear Gulf carried, they had felt it when he had tried to push them away relentlessly for months when he woke up. First avoiding them, then ignoring them all together, than he had escalated into insulting them, telling them they annoyed him. But they knew the truth and when he had finally cracked he had told them how scared he was that because of their love for him they would die. But the group had stayed by his side assuring him loving him wasn't a mistake. It had taken them a long time and now here was Mew blurting it out after letting him know he knew all about him. Gulf was shutting himself down quickly.

"We just have to give him time" Saint said taking another sip.

"Saint.." Mild said softly, Saint looked at him and noticed how anxious he was.

"What is it?" He asked concerned

"Tul was at the crime scene today" he looked back making sure Gulf was still in the bath "he appeared suddenly from the opposite side of where we entered, according to Gulf right when he was chasing the killer"

Saint looked at him wide eyed "You don't think..?"

"I don't know anymore" he replied honestly

"I mean yes there's is something wrong with the guy but murder? Plus the killer is meticulous, almost perfectly, well till now" he placed the glass on the table "Tul is clumsy always dropping things, spilling stuff on himself"

"That's just it! I saw him move swiftly twice already once with Gulf and the second when he caught a box mid air, when he realized I saw him he let it drop" he bit his thumb nail and shook his leg nervously "what if he's pretending?"

Saint thought about it. A killer? Could Tul be a killer?

"We have to go inside his house" Mild said anxiously "the faster the better I have a really bad feeling Saint"

Saint nodded "Okay, we'll go together again Monday okay?" Mild looked displeased but agreed.

They heard Kana get out of the bathroom and dropped the subject, it was almost 3 am and Mild was sure he wouldn't get a wink of sleep.

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Later that day

"We're listening" Saint said staring at Gulf who had told them he needed to speak with them.

Gulf bit his lip he had been thinking about the case a lot to keep his mind off Mew and his dark thoughts. He had decided to tell the guys after he had gotten a notification on his phone this morning when he woke up, from his security system.

He placed the phone on the table and showed them the video he had watched over and over again. They looked down at the phone confused, they thought this was a Mew thing.

"What's going on?" Mild asked confused.

"I've been keeping this a secret because I don't want to worry you guys, but after watching this video in the morning a lot of things came back to mind, things I didn't pay attention to till now"