Chapter 15: Miroku's Resolve

I went towards the door and saw that it was locked. I didn’t have anything with which I could open the door. I kicked the door but it didn’t open. I kicked it again but the result was same… the screams of Evie was making me desperate… I kicked again and it opened in the third try.

I went inside the house but no one was there. The first room led to 3 more rooms… one on my left, one on the right and third one in front of me. I checked the doors clockwise. The first 2 were open but the third was locked. Evie must be in that room…

“Stop, don’t get any closer…” It was Evie’s voice.
“I have paid your father for this and you want me to stay away…” Taylor started laughing.
“Please don’t do this, Taylor…”
“No one can stop me today… ”
“Help! Father… please“
“Your Father will help you!!!! That greedy old man doesn’t know a thing except Alcohol and money…”
“Help me please someone… anyone…”
“Call as much as you want, you bitch but no one will come, we are the only ones present in this house… your father has gone to the pub…” Taylor laughed again.

“There must be something with which I can open this door…” I searched the whole room.

Nothing was there, nothing except some shoes and broken utensils. I went and checked the first room… the room had nothing....nothing i could use to break the darn door…

“There must be something… must be…” I said as I entered the middle room.

There it was… a hatchet… I picked it up and made for the third room… the screams of Evie had stopped… I could only hear sobs… no signs of resistance any more… I was really desperate… I let the hatchet do the talking… three strikes on the door and it fell apart… the room was dark… but silhouettes of two bodies were visible… one body on top of the other… one seemed to be lifeless and the other constantly moving… like a snake, on top of the other body… It was clear that Evie had given up…

“Leave her alone bastard.” I shouted and threw down the hatchet.

The sudden noise seemed to have had some effect on Taylor. He looked towards the door…

“Miroku! Is it really you?” It was Evie’s voice.
“Yes it’s me.”

“Good thing you came, you can see my little game…” saying that Taylor turned on the light.

Being in the darkness for so long I took a little time to adjust… but the darkness was better for me than this light…

“Look for yourself what I did to your little girl…” I could see the sinister smile on Taylor’s face.

Evie laid on the bed… her legs and hands stretched… all her limbs tied to the bed… she did not have a bit of cloth on her body… I could see red scars on her white skin… and at some parts of her chest pink blotches… Taylor was again getting on top of her…

“I am not yet done Miroku, first she will have to repay me with her body… and then I get my bonus…”
“You will pay for this…”
“Now c’mon baby… this will definitely relieve you of the pain…let me press a little more…” Taylor moved his hands over Evie’s chest…

I couldn’t take it anymore… I went towards the bed and punched Taylor on the face, he fell down on the floor… but before he could get up I kicked in his groin… not once but thrice… there was blood on the floor… but I showed no respite and kicked again. Taylor didn’t have anything to say… I didn’t leave him in any position to say a thing… from the groin I moved on to the chest… my boots must have been waiting for such a day…

“Even if my legs can’t kick a ball because of you, it can definitely kick your balls…” I didn’t stop kicking as I said those words.

“Stop it Miroku, you will kill him…” Evie’s voice was becoming weaker and weaker.

“I am sorry Miroku, please forgive me… ” Taylor coughed up blood after saying those words.
“Forgive you? Forgive YOU ? YOU DESTROYED MY LIFE!! Now you beg for forgiveness ?!?! that word isn’t there in my dictionary now…I won’t forgive you…” I pulled him up and punched him again.

Taylor fell down and became unconscious… I looked at the hatchet I had used to break the door… I picked it up…

“This is your end Taylor…”
“No don’t do it stop… please stop…” Evie’s voice stopped me…

I threw down the hatchet and went towards her… I untied her… she couldn’t get up…

“I am too weak Miroku… please leave me and go…my father can return any moment…”
“I will take you with me…” saying that I took off my jacket and made her wear it.

Evie couldn’t walk; I carried her in my arms and went out of the room leaving Taylor in a pool of blood.
As I was going out of the house I saw Evie’s father at the entrance…
“Where do you thinks you are taking her? She isn’t going anywhere, you gets that…” Evie’s father yelled in his usual tone.
“You should be ashamed of yourself… I don’t know what else you made her do… but to take money from other people and to use your own daughter for their lust… you should simply go and jump into the Thames…”

Saying that I moved past him without giving any sort of attention to him… but he didn’t reply to me… he must have realized what mistake he had done…

“I thinks you are right…” Evie’s father spoke, but the tone was different.

He was as if repenting… regretting his decision to side with money and not his own daughter…to use his own daughter for money … he is after all a human no matter how much poison he must have taken in to taint his heart, it was after all a human heart… which knew the cost of near ones… but it was late… realization did dawn upon him… but it was late… might be too late…

As I went ahead I saw the man fall to his knees… crying… and maybe apologizing to Evie as well as to her dead Mother, Lisa.

“Take care of her, Miroku” Evie’s father said still on his knees with his head bent down in shame.
“I will…” I replied, stopping a bit but again started to walk.

But I wasn’t alone… Evie was again with me… I had her in my arms… she looked at me and tried to smile… tears rolled down her eyes…

“Everything will be alright… I am with you now…never again will I let go off you” I said and smiled.

She couldn’t speak but her eyes said it all… Taylor had made her suffer more than what was visible… he left those scars on her body… those bites on her chest… but they would definitely heal with time…but could the scar on her heart ever be healed? The bruise, Taylor left on her mind could it heal?

“It will heal… I will root out all sorrows from her mind… and that’s a promise…” I made the resolve to myself and went through the same path that had brought me to Evie…