NO CLOSURE NO FORGIVENESS

Pawan Verma

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Prologue : No Justice, No Forgiveness

There’s no such thing as closure, there’s no such thing as forgiveness, Patrick Brenner thought as he watched the lady detective from his hiding spot outside her home. Nothing could bring back his nine-year-old son, especially since one of Baltimore City’s finest had helped his son’s killer escape justice in one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice the city had ever seen. Since then, not a day had passed when he hadn’t thought of pleasant memories of Little David’s cheerful giggle, followed by torturous images of him being forever taken from the world in which his son had been raised.

And now revenge was on his mind as Patrick sat alone in his car, a broken, distraught father who had worked so hard to build a better life for David. He rested his binoculars on the passenger’s seat, stretched his short stubby legs, and rubbed his flaky head. Years of poor dieting and lack of exercise were finally taking its toll. Not that he cared. In fact, he didn’t have anyone to care for. His universe had collapsed. The small little world that he had built around himself had caved in. Nothing mattered anymore.

Detective Jessica Galloway was on her way to speak with Irene before she checked in to work that day. Irene. Her name once slipped off his tongue with a subtle sweetness. Now it filled his mind with disgust. She was the gorgeous redhead he’d vowed to spend the rest of his life with. Yeah, so he had a few issues and took them out on her from time to time. But did that mean she had the right to take his son on a joyride when she knew she was drunk out of her mind?

No. Of course not.

Upstairs on the second floor of Jessica’s Canadian Victorian-style home, the lady detective flinched as she slipped into her shoes. Patrick froze, but decided against ducking down into his seat for he knew this woman was smart, alert, and a sudden movement would draw her attention. Patrick couldn’t afford the attention. That chilly December evening was far too early to give himself away.

Irene, Detective Galloway, and her annoyingly aloof boyfriend who was now in federal witness protection would pay soon enough. They would learn what it was like to have the one thing, the one person you loved more than anything, taken from them.

Patrick waited until Jessica dressed and grabbed her police-issued handgun from a nearby nightstand before he started the ignition of his Toyota Camry and peeled away from the street. In the upscale side of Baltimore City, he was more than confident that she’d heard him pull away from the curb in the low-crime area.

Good, he thought. Let her wonder a bit.

Patrick took a left at the next intersection and began pulling out of Fell’s Point. He switched on the radio and rolled down the window to let the frigid air shock him into oblivion. An old Jimmy Hendrix song blared through the speakers. Hey Joe, I said where you goin' with that gun in your hand? He and Irene had fallen in love listening to that song. The bitter irony was aggravating. The anger returned. The time for tears was over. The time to get even had come.

As he drove, the rest of the world floated by without paying him any attention. He was an alien among the humans. An ominous sense of despair that threatened to ruin the city’s holiday spirit. As he pulled the Camry to a halt at the next intersection, Patrick looked down at the last picture he still had of he and his son. Resistance was pointless. The tears flowed freely. And he let them.

He sobbed quietly until the driver behind him beeped his horn, yelling a few choice words that would normally have inspired Patrick to exit the vehicle and start swinging at anything that moved. Instead, he continued to the Interstate, towards the meeting place. By the time Irene realized what was happening, she would be gone forever…

NO CLOSURE NO FORGIVENESS Description:

Patrick Brenner is a broken, distraught father, who had worked tirelessly to build a better life for his son David. He has revenge on his mind and is out to kill his wife Irene, who, in a state of half-drunkenness, had taken their nine-year old son to a joyride, leading to the fatal accident. He is also gunning for Detective Jessica Galloway and her boyfriend Andrew Hoffman, especially since they had helped his son’s killer escape the clutches of law in one of the most horrendous miscarriages of justice the city had ever seen.

He wants them to realize how it feels when one is made to lose a loved one – someone you loved and cared for the most in your life. Since there was no justice, there would be no closure, no forgiveness. He is now out to deliver justice, all by himself.

Detective Jessica Galloway is torn between her passionate love for Andrew and her compelling urge to hunt out the suspect and bring him to book. She has just earned her batch back following a two-week suspension for dereliction of duty. That was the term the brass used when they’d learned she’d fallen in love with one of the witnesses who testified on Irene Brenner’s behalf, leading to her acquittal. And Andrew Hoffman—the man she loved—had been legally compelled to test in a federal drug case just days after Irene was acquitted.

Patrick is a smart operator who anticipates Jessica’s moves very well and manipulates her responses in a way that all her support systems start crumbling one by one. With her back to the wall, she is just staring at a situation where she is almost declared a rogue cop. But, Jessica is not the one to give up. Even though she has made horrible mistakes one after the other, her out-of-the-box approach leads her to discovering something much more sinister.

Will Jessica be able to get over her emotional vulnerabilities, unravel the sinister designs of the suspect and bring him to book? The answer lies in this romantic crime thriller, where there is a hunger for revenge, there is pining for love and above all there is action & drama, which keeps the readers on the edges of their seats till the end.

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