Destiny

Chapter 25: Could it be you?

Backstage, enjoying her match with Taker, she takes the water bottle handed to her and drinks her water. She sees Paul pass right in front of her to go to the locker room, she rushes towards him. "Hi Paul !" she cried. He turned around and saw Lini approaching with a big smile despite being tired from her match. "Lini! You did a great job in the ring." He said smiling, trying not to show his annoyance, still in a bad mood because of Taker who is doing whatever he wants.

"Thank you Paul but why didn't you come with us? Taker told me you were angry." she asked.

Paul looks to his right, seeing Taker glaring at him before entering his locker room to take a shower after the match. He looked at Lini again before answering her.

"Yeah but don't worry about it, it's just... whatever... don't worry Lini. It's fine." He told her before leaving. Lini watches him leave before heading to her locker room to take a shower.

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Taker gets out of his shower, he takes a towel to dry his black hair, he puts another towel around his waist and then looks at his calendar for this weekend:

Saturday 5th: Autograph session at noon.

Saturday 5th: Radio interview 95.0 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday 5th: WWF private party 9 p.m.

He closes his diary, gets dressed and gets ready to go back to the hotel. He takes his bag and leaves his locker room to go to the parking lot. Paul is waiting for him in front of the car, Taker puts his bag in the trunk before getting into the car ignoring Paul.

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Lini got dressed after a good shower, she's sad for her match, she didn't pay attention to what's going on behind her. She hopes Taker isn't too mad about it. She heads for the parking lot joining Paul who was still waiting for her, she puts her bag in the trunk before sitting in the back of the car.

The atmosphere in the car was heavy all the way to the hotel, she could feel the tension, if someone spoke it might start a big argument.

~!~

She entered her room, put her bag on the floor before dialing the number of Taker's house who kindly gave her the number she could call her daughter.

"Good morning ?"

"Mideon? it's Lini."

"Oh, how are you Lini?"

"I'm fine, how is Agnes?"

"She's fine, she's very good, school went well. Wait, I'll pass it to you."

Lini waits a few seconds and a big smile appears on her face when she hears her daughter on the phone.

"Mom !"

"How are you my darling ?"

"I'm fine, I was good at school, I like Louna, we play together all the time."

"Well, that's good."

"But I'm a little sad for her..."

"Why is it my dear?"

"Well...she doesn't have a mother, she told me her mother left with her brother. And her daddy doesn't take care of her and that makes her sad. Undy is very mean. "

Lini smiled sadly. So Taker is divorced, she thought; Lona must have confided in Agnès.

"You know honey sometimes it's hard for parents to deal with a breakup. I think Undy is like that, yes it's not right that Undy doesn't take care of his daughter but I'm sure he loves his daughter like I love you. He just needs time." Lini explained to Agnes. She doesn't want Agnès to have a bad image of her idol. It's true that it's better not to meet your idols, you can be disappointed. She says goodnight to her before hanging up.

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"You need to take a break!" Paul says looking at Taker who is pacing the room, he is writing things that he could put on his board at home. The number that keeps calling Lini is one more clue to the identity of Jessie and Calvin's killer. Waits...

"Give me the robot portrait!" Taker ordered, extending his hand to Paul who carefully took out the case documents.

"Mark..."

"Give it to me !!" He shouted before taking the portrait from Paul's hands that the police showed on television two years ago. He analyzes the drawing, the guy has droopy eyes, a thin face, a well-trimmed beard, black hair. He draws the same design as the robot portrait but instead of putting the hair black, he colors the hair yellow for the blonde. Could it be you then?

Paul looks at the drawing Taker made then looks at it, Taker has eyes that could kill someone.

"What if you're wrong?" he asked Taker but flinched when Taker slowly turned his head towards him, his green eyes very intimidating and cold.

"I am rarely wrong"