The Murderer In My Shadow

Chapter Four: Second and Third Victims

The guy with a shovel carried the two chambermaids into his hide-out, into the place where no one would dare to visit or at least inspection. The unconscious chambermaids were lying both in his arms while he continued walking into the narrowed path where he was supposed to punish them.

When he reached his destination, he put both of them down into a barren land. The area was remote and isolated. There were no trees or signs of living things, except for some older trees whose age would be soon forgotten.

After a few minutes walk away from the mansion, he began shoveling the rectangular-shaped of a coffin area of the land. He was just checking if it fits to the bodies of the ladies he captured a while ago.

When everything was settled, he rested for about one or two minutes, wiping his sweats running all over his body. It was still early as three-thirty in the morning, but the temperature was hot.

“I must finish this task before Amberlene wake up and do her usual routine in her favorite spot.”

He was thinking about the girl he spied with every day in her favorite place. Wasting another time would mean disappointment to him if he won't see her again.

He was able to dig two coffin-like shaped grave for his victims. Then, he carried a wooden brown coffin he made and put it on the grave he dug in. The bodies were already transferred to each side of the grave. And without wasting any time, he kicked each one of them, rolling over inside the coffin, still unconscious.

What he did next was nailed all sides of the coffin and covered both of them with soil. T

At that time, the two bodies inside the coffins were still knocked out, and he succeeded with his plan.

Before leaving the area, he made sure that the can't get out even if they shout inside the coffin because both coffins were covered with soil. He was standing at the center of his finished products, grinning devilishly of burying them alive.

After watching it for seconds, he left the area and headed back to his hiding place and changed.

Thirty minutes after leaving the coffins, both ladies suddenly woke up and saw themselves lying in a dark coffin. Their heads were still spinning and when they touched it, fresh blood were flowing endlessly.

“Anyone there?”

“Let me out!”

“Can you hear me? Let me out of here!”

“I'm begging you, please let me out!”

They were knocking and knocking, punching and punching the coffins inside, but they failed. No one can even hear them scream in the barren area near the mansion.

Their voices were slowly fading and there breath were running out. Both ladies were struggling to shout, but can no longer do it due to suffocation. No one was there to help them. There was no way for the to survive, thus they ended up dying inside the wooden coffins.

AMBERLENE's alarm clock won't stop every time she stopped it. She doesn't want to get up today. She prefers sleeping until she gained enough sleep for the rest of the days. But, it the alarms won't let her sleep more.

“This is frustrating! Why can't I sleep more today huh?”

Her eyes were still closed while talking madly on the annoying alarm clocks on her bed. She was acting crazy and when the other clocks alarmed again, she threw it on the wall of her room and all its spare parts were disconnected. Then, the only daughter of the Ayala went back to her bed and sleep.

She immediately dozed off and started dreaming nightmares.

“Yoho! Where are you?”

Here comes the voice again. She's very tired, but she must find a way to hide from his shadow. He killed so many people, and she never expected that she will become his next target. And fighting him earlier was the least she can do to flee from him.

“Do you still remember the first day we've met? I remember you are head over hills with me, right? Where are you?”

He tried to bewitch her with his voice. Yes, she clearly remembered the first day they've met. She admitted that she fell from him the first time he smiled at her. But, that was just a fake encounter.

“Are you not going to come out and hug me, my darling?”

Her eyes continued to drop a tears while heavy rains keeps on dropping into the ground. She ignored his stupid innocent faked voice and hid very well at the back of the big narra tree. Dripping and soaked in rain, she embraced her knees to make her body warm.

“Found you!”

Fears shocked her upon seeing the silhouette of the guy she was trying to avoid almost two hours of running inside the forest. The guy suddenly grabbed her hands and pulled her out.

“Just let me go! You're a murderer!”

He tightened his grip on her hands. The girl slapped his face, but he just smiled at him. She can only see his face when thunder and lightning flashes in their surrounding.

“I told you earlier that you cannot escape my eyes. Now, it's about time to execute my plan on you.”

Creeps of terror suddenly rushes into her body. A sharp, pointed tool was waving in his hands ready to stab her. She immediately bit his hands holding her and the guy released her. Running was her only choice, but she failed because he grabbed her hair and pulled her back to him.

“You still want to play hide-and-seek? I'm sorry, but I cannot let you. This game must end NOW!”

The dagger was about to fall from her eyes, but she parried the thrust of the guy using her right hand. She tried to control his hands, avoiding the pointed head of the dagger reaching her eyes, however she's too weak to do that.

She cannot escape her death. Her only way is to bite his hands again. She made it and without further ado, she kicked his balls and punched his face. She immediately grab the dagger and slashed him on his hands and face. The guy moved back and saw drips of bloods flowing out his face.

“Do you ever think I cannot kill you? You're wrong!”

She pointed the dagger and jabbed his stomach many times. Jabbing him on that part is not enough, so she stabbed his chest, pushing the edge of the dagger into his heart. He tried to pull it out, but the girl is uncontrollable.

Stabbing him more. Jabbing many times. Thrusting and staking the dagger several times into his heart until his breath stops, made her feel satisfied. She checked the body and confirmed that he's dead.

In the midst of torrential rains, and continued roaring of thunders and flashing of lightning, the girl whose clothes were stained with blood, holding a sharp weapon, shouted angrily in the middle of the forest.

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“Aaaaaaah!”

Butlers and chambermaids heard their master's scream and immediately ran towards her chamber.

“Young lady, are you all right? What is happening in there?”

“Open the door, young master.”

They keep on knocking outside her chamber. Chambermaids were panicking and the butlers were doing their best to open the door of their master's chamber.

On the other hand, Amberlene was breathing laboriously, ignoring the sounds outside her room.

“Go get the duplicate key! Hurry!

She finally heard one of her chambermaid shouting outside while she was still calming herself from the bad dream he never expected to dream early in the morning.

“Hurry up! Where is the key?”

Amberlene got up of her bed and walk slowly towards the door of her room. She was still sulking and a little dizzy when she grabbed the bolt of the door. When she opened it, chambermaids and butlers fall down and saw her situation.