She wouldn't stop crying. He hated this, losing a case was not what he bargained for. The onset of it didn't seem so difficult at first ,he thought he would be able to help her this time but he failed yet again.
He squatted and patted her gently on the back. It's okay, we would surely think of something else...
Hands of me!....she said admist tears.
Puzzledly he slowly droped his hand,it's fine...
It's fine, she said gently wiping off her tears. She stood up and slowly arranged her clothes.
U could..
That's enough already, why are you doing this to me, why me, she screamed. Everyone living in that apartment put their hopes on you, I feel like sheet now, why did I convince them to let you handle this case, we could have paid for an attorney you know. She paused to catch her breathe, we could have been able to pay.
She glared at him with an expression he could not really get but it was not in the good for him.
Watching her walk away the way she did made his heart sink. But nothing could change the fact that he made twenty-five innocent tenants lose their home and her being a one of them.
Leaving the court to his two bedroom apartment far inside the city memories of how he failed to win her heart crept inside him which made him shiver under the scorching mid-afternoon sun.
He had had feeling for "maggi" for a long time, but she didn't seem to notice. When her landlord sold the house he rented out for people without refunding their rent,she was affected and he knew well she was just getting by, by herself and also taking care of her sick mother.
She and other tenants filed a report to the police but the landlord was nowhere to be found. They were advice to look for a good lawyer to help them drag the case to Court to see if they had any chance against the new landlord who was still unknown to them.
That was were he came in and offered to help for free since he was a lawyer, he thought with this case won he would have a chance with her but the reverse seemed to be the case.
His phone rang in his coat pocket. He picked it up and the voice from the other side was of no calmness.
Bro..another incident had happened again.
Again...he sighed, is it serious?
Yeap, it is. And this time it is quiet messy.
Background siren and wailing filled the callers background as he quickly disconnected after telling him the location of the incident.
The month hadn't been a good one for the city as well because people were being murdered in the middle of the night in their houses and their bodies totally opened up as if a wild animal attacked them.
He knew it wasn't easy for the government to find the cause of these sudden death but people still hold protests like the one going on across the street from him now, he wouldn't blame them because he shared in their believe.
On getting home from his long walk about 6pm he texted his reporter friend Elvis( he told him about the new murder) that he would visit the residence of the incident in an hour.
One good thing the recent killings in the town brought him was clients.