Page 52 - Veritas

to find anything. Finneas found himself getting frustrated and completely dis-
heartened as he kept searching. Now all he could hope for was that Cooper

and Mads were able to find some lead in Markus’ workplace. And if they
could not find a lead…... No! He did not want to go down that lane again. He

felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Clark “I think it’s time to leave,
Finn,” he sounded tired and dejected.

“I can assure you, officer, I was not in any of the places during the time that

you mentioned right now. There was nothing to find here because I am not
hiding anything here,” he curtly said.

Finneas scanned the room for one last time and saw Markus’s bookshelf. The

cops looked around it but did not find anything. Markus had quite the collec-
tion of books. It seemed like he was a collector of Holy Scriptures, especially

The Bible. He had different Bibles varying in different sizes and different
colours too. It looked like Markus was a devout Christian. But even if that was

the case why these many? The verses in a Bible tend to vary but, in the end,
the message was still the same in all of them. Finneas found it odd. “Quite the

collection of Bibles you got here. You like to hoard ‘em?’ asked Finneas.

“Yes, that and my family were orthodox, they lived for God and lived by the
Bible. And I imbibed those values.”

Finneas would have left then and there, and Markus would have avoided

getting caught, yet again, if it were not for the smallest mishap Markus made.
Finneas knew Markus was tense, he also knew that in times of danger people

tend to lean towards things they want to protect. And that is what Markus did.
He gave the smallest glance toward the thing he wanted to protect the most in

that room. The Bibles. Why though?

Finneas walked slowly toward the shelf, he could feel Markus getting a little
edgy. Finneas took out one of the Bibles from the shelf and started flipping

through the pages. When he reached a book called Isaiah, he saw that instead
of the pages filled with verses, there was a rectangular space carved out by cut-

ting out the pages and in them were stacked, a bundle of kroner banknotes.

THE END