INSOMNIAC: ALAN SMITH #2 (Alan Smith series) by ARKOPAUL DAS Read Free Book Online Page A

body. Wore T-shirt and jeans that day and looked quite fit’
    ‘If needed, can you describe him to our sketch artist?’
    ‘That I can. Although I’d rather not’
    Someone from the back banged a car with something heavy, by mistake this time, the car crashed down to the ground from the stand it was in and made a hard thumping sound, the tyres became flat. He looked like a inexperienced worker.
    ‘Dude that’s not a toy’ someone joked.
    ‘What are you doing’
    ‘Hey come one man. We got a problem here.’ The other one called cleverly.
    Cleverly said that he was going then turned to Alicia ‘Now if you would please excuse me folks, I must join them’ and he went away.
    ‘Come on’ said Alicia as they came out in the fresh air from that large dingy place.
    ‘That means’ said Kevin trying to form a theory again as they were inside the car and Ryan hit the accelerator hard ‘This man, his friend or partner, was always with him. So he got to know what he was working on. And I think they were both working on the same thing’
    ‘Right’ said Ryan ‘And the problem is someone wants to stop them from doing it.’
    ‘But we should still not forget that he might be our killer’ said Alicia.
    ‘That’s what I said before’ Barked Ryan. ‘You’re copying my theories’
    ‘I don’t give a damn about your theories, let alone copying them. They’re all bullshit’
    ‘Come on, then why are you saying the same thing as me?’
    ‘Because they are right’
    ‘You know they are right?’
    ‘Yes!’
    ‘That means I am right’
    ‘The main thing is that we find him, we get to know everything, it’s as simple as that’
    They all continued arguing in their whole way.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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    The street ahead of them was totally clear as their car raced along in a blazing fast speed . They knew they were close to cracking this case and they could not wait for it to happen.
    The day was high on humidity ,so people were all drinking a lot of fluids in order to regain their energy. They themselves were quite sweaty now , but they were ignoring the temperature as they were running high on adrenaline .
         ‘You got the address Alicia?’ Ryan asked keeping his eyes fixed on the road ahead which contained just a few cars.
    ‘Yeah, it’ll be somewhere in the 1 st Avenue’
    Ryan continued driving for a few more minutes after which he turned around a corner and said ‘Here we are’
    They came down , Ryan quickly identified the house on the right hand side, just another normal apartment in a large building .He lived in the ground floor, or so they presumed.
    Ryan first went up straight to the door , started searching for a calling bell , but there was none, so he just knocked and yelled  ‘NYPD, open up!’
    He waited half a minute. Kevin said ‘I don’t think he’s gonna open it’
    ‘Then we have to break through it’ said Ryan.
    ‘Great, let’s do that .Just hope that the wood is not too solid’
    ‘Hold on , guys’ said Alicia, trying to move them away, ‘It’s already open’
    ‘Oh!’ Ryan growled.
    Alicia moved the door open and it was all dark  inside save the sunlight that was coming from outside and lighting it partially.
    Alicia took out her gun which was a Sig Sauer P226. She held it in front of her in the darkness and then started moving inside. Ryan and Kevin also had their gun out, facing Alicia’s back.
    There was a table in the middle, maybe a dining table and the place looked like a mini hall room cum kitchen type. Apart from that there was nothing . The floor was just made of wood and the wall consisted of a bunch of cabinets.
    It’s a peculiar house’ Ryan said looking around.
    There was a window on the wall and it was half open ,that’s from where the sunlight was coming in.
    ‘Why do you say that?’ asked Kevin.
    ‘Don’t you see it , the kitchen is in the front .Generally people make the living room in the