Chapter 17 - 13: Heartless (1/2)

It took Matthews a moment to digest what he had just heard as he didn't want to believe it. The mother of one of his best agents had just admitted to killing his brother accidentally. If this unexpected truth didn't just flip his whole world they even have the audacity to make up fairy tales about the dead walking and his brother somehow controlling them.

Matthews was a really well-grounded person when it came to anything that crossed his path in life. He believed that men with greed in their hearts wrote the bible with the ideals to control the populace of early human life than believe a magic man walked on water or that the first man lived for 930 years. Everything had to be proven or based on some kind evidence for him to accept it as the truth, so when Alexia had looked him in the eyes and told him about the dead walking and his brother talking through one of them made him furious as he believed he was being taken as a fool.

Although he believed that she killed his brother as she laid the pistol on the oval table that separated him from the rest like a barrier, he wanted to know what angle they trying to play. As far as he knew Alice, one of his ace veteran agents, was as trustworthy as his Beretta in sticky situations, so he was just as confused as to why she hadn't told him or better yet turned her mother in.

”So you expect me to really sit here and listen to a bunch of fairy tales after hearing that you killed my brother by accident and just found out he was innocent through the evidence you stole from his safety deposit box. For what reason do you think I would listen to you better yet shoot you, you bitch.” Matthews says with as much venom in his voice while holding himself back from blasting Alexia's brains onto the glass cabinet that held family pictures and trophies.

”I... um....” Alexia says struggling to speak under the pressure that Matthews was throwing directly at her since the moment she filled him on what she had done before Alice interrupts her.

”What we're trying to tell you might just piece together what been happening around the city lately Matthew. The corpse outside, the cemetery incident, Megan the survivor from the incident and her ramblings about the skeleton raising the dead. Does none of this not line up with the death of John...” Alice says before being interrupted by Matthew.

”Shut... the... hell... up! None of you bitches deserve to say his name. I trusted you enough to believe that at least you would have the common decency to at least bring her in for her crime Alice. As you claimed before tonight you had all the time you needed to arrest her yet you went on a crusade to find the evidence that he was innocent in order to assure yourselves that he was the monster that that sick son of a bitch of an orphanage director framed him as. You make me want to shove my Beretta down your goddamn throats and let it sing, but no, I'm not like any of you, and you will face the harshest punishment that the law can dish out I guarantee you that.” Matthews yelled as he glared over at Jacob his other ace agent.

He walks over to the frightened Jacob who looked at him with wide eyes that didn't even try to hide his fear. Matthews begins to stare him up and down and asks, ”Did you know, and for how long?”

At first, the words couldn't escape his mouth fast enough as he began stuttering. but he eventually said, ”T..t.t..tonight was the first time I'd heard of it sir after I killed the moving corpse that was attacking Alice.”

Hearing about the corpse outside moving again he felt that they were still playing games with him, But before he could raise his voice again Alice stands and approaches Matthews at a quick pace and said, ”Hey leave him alone we only told him a little before we told you....”

Before Alice could say anymore, Matthews quickly grabs his Beretta and swings the but of the pistol at her head striking her across her temple and pointing it at everyone else in the room to make sure they wouldn't dare try pulling a fast one on him. He raises the walkie talkie that was resting at his hip to his face and says, ”I need back up inside the house issuing an arrest for the four individuals in the house for two counts of murder”