Chapter 57
Rodrigo just stared at the mother and daughter pair which just came in. He was trying his best to control his temper and not blow up, leaving clues for them to guess why they had been invited.
Meanwhile he had asked the superintendent to ask them questions individually and away from each other. The police chief said ok.
Without as much as an exchange of greetings, the two women were asked to be interrogated. Ella said Okay and she was made to sign some documents.
But one thing surprised her when she saw her daughter being led to a different interrogation room from hers. Ella squinted, looks like Lola had breached their agreement.
If Lola thinks she can lure them to the top of the tree and then remove the stairs, she would tell everyone what she knows. She will not allow herself to be left in the snow alone.
Martin’s lawyer arrived before Martins and said Ella and her daughter are his clients, the police department cannot just make them confess to a crime they know nothing of.
The police chief asked him if anyone is saying they have committed a crime? Who says they are to confess to a crime? Or does the lawyer want him to believe he knows something that might interest the police department?
The lawyer said okay. If they just assume it is interrogation, he would also listen and stay by their side.
He was asked to stay away over the transparent glass demarcation when Ella was interrogated.
The mother and daughter pair were being interrogated when Martin’s arrived. He was Furious when he saw Rodrigo seated with a compressing aura which could be felt from a distance.
“Why do I feel you are tucking at my family? You disgraced my daughter publicly by refusing to show up at the wedding. As if that is not enough, you have them brought to the police station and claim it’s to be interrogated.
Don’t make me fight back. My daughter is not Camilla Dickson you could treat so meanly and say horrible words at, if you try to cross the borders an inch further, I will forget that my father was your grandfather’s best friend.
As for your late father, we were mates. Though fortune smiled on him in life earlier than me. So you must respect and treat my daughter as expected of a prestigious lady. She’s not Camilla” Martins declared, glancing at Rodrigo with hostility.
The mentioning of the name Camilla seemed to provoke Rodrigo more than anything else. He stood up and stood in front of Martins staring into the older man’s eyes. As if they were mates.
Rodrigo’s eyes had gone red and as he stared at Martins, the latter felt as if he was emitting a compressing aura and he suddenly became uncomfortable in his suit.
Had he said anything he shouldn’t have said. Anyways he shrugged. He knew he still loved Camilla. But he hasn’t said anything compared to what he said himself about her.
Rodrigo’s hand formed a fist and Martin’s eyes glanced down and saw his fisted hands and the knuckles, ready as if to disfigure his face.
He knew then that Rodrigo was using his whole strength to hold back, to restrain himself from punching him. It appeared this was going to soil their relationship further.
“Just pray your daughter and wife had nothing to do with everything that happened to Camilla, otherwise….”Rodrigo said and trailed off.
His fury was almost being felt. It was compressing and intimidating. He glared at Martin with pure hatred.
Rodrigo’s words sent a cold chill down Martin’s spine. What did Rodrigo just say? Did he find any clue connecting his family to the disappearance of his girlfriend?
He hopes that doesn’t happen in this life. He would lose face and he can’t for certain predict what Rodrigo was capable of doing.
Without another word, Rodrigo walked out of the police department. Martins looked at his retreating back view and squinted.
He has this feeling that Rodrigo was going to destroy him. One thing he’s known about this Fellow surname Campbell is that when he doesn’t say anything, one needs to be really afraid.
It wasn’t long after his lawyer walked out with a gloomy face. He looked at Martins and shook his head. He beckoned to him to come along.
Sara had stayed awake at night since the news of Camilla gone missing got into her ears. As she sat on the sofa, looking through the windows, some police official came to talk to her.
Jared came over to get the door but Sara didn’t aa much as spare the men glances as they came in. She doesn’t care about anything but to hear the news that her dear daughter is found.
The police asked a few questions more like has Camilla contacted them? Where do they think she might be, can they think of a place where they might find her or perhaps gas any unfamiliar cell phone number calling them?
As if Sara Dickson was waiting for them to come, she turned sharply and glared at them “Are you really Police officers or men who were lent uniforms to put on?
Under your nostril my daughter went missing and you come to me to ask me questions like where I think she might be? Do you hear yourself when you talk?
I should be asking you to find my daughter but because I haven’t, you turned the table around and asked me where I think she might be?
You tried my daughter who was actually innocent of the charges against her. You didn’t investigate to know the truth and certainty of what she was accused of.
She went to jail and went missing. You now walk through that door and ask me if I know where she is. Why don’t you ask Rodrigo Campbell?
How much did he pay you to come here and ask these questions? Do you have conscience at all or does the job make you lose it,?” Sara Dickson bellowed.
These police officers are probably amateur. How can they come and ask her such questions? Even if she knows, did they think she would tell them?
“Find my daughter, dead or alive. Let me set my eyes on my dear Camilla again” Sara pleaded and started sobbing.
Jared came over and consoled his mother. They appear to be the only two in their World. As Sara stayed all day sobbing, Jared couldn’t leave her alone, he stayed with her and forfeited going to work.
“Please leave us alone. Do your job and find my sister. If she’s dead, at least present the corpse to us and if alive, find her”Jared added.
The three officers exchanged glances and quietly stood up. Perhaps they were wrong to have come to them in the first place.
Sara started sobbing again. Besides Joel who comes to visit and calls them, no one shares in their sorrows and pain. And that is because they are poor.
Only the rich and wealthy have family and friends, lovers and well-wishers. But the poor, their next door neighbour doesn’t even know who they are.
Camilla’s news of sudden disappearance affected Jared as much as it affected Sara. He wasn’t shedding tears like his mother but emotionally, he was down.
Every good thing that has happened in their life was because of Camilla. She saw him through the Versity and set up the coffee business for his mother.
The house they had, which Rodrigo maliciously demolished, was bought by Camilla. After his father died, Camilla stepped into the responsibilities he left behind and put it on her shoulders.
She wasn’t his biological sister but what can biological sister do that Camilla hadn’t done more than that. Having Camilla in their lives was fortune.
But when she needed them the most, they were not there for her. She went to jail because of them and she didn’t get to see them before she disappeared.
What would she think of them? That they couldn’t come and check on her? But they tried, Rodrigo was too strong for them to penetrate.
He would have gone to plead with him to let them see Camilla but the dude is an imbecile. After the way he treated him, he didn’t want to come before him ever again.
He might kill him at the sight of him. And if anything happens to him too, his mother would die. Camilla first and then him, his mother would definitely slumped and die.NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.
“Camilla my child, where are you?” Sara sobbed, sniffling vigorously.
“… there are clues and evidence that might lead your wife and daughter to the sudden disappearance of Camilla Dickson. But what I feared now is that they might have set that girl up and the secret is about to be exposed..”Martin’s lawyer explained.
Martin was quiet, just staring at the lips of the lawyer. Ella and Emma know about the disappearance of that girl from jail? What is he hearing?
” Why did you say that? Is there evidence for that?” Martin asked. Even if what his lawyer said was true, once there was no evidence, it would not hold much water.
“There was an evidence of huge sum of money from Ella’s account to another anonymous account. Survelliance camera caught Emma trying to bribe a doctor to forge a fake abortion report….”The lawyer kept stating facts and Evidence found.
And the climax of it was that Ella’s answers to the interrogation were different from Emma’s. Their words do not correlate. Hence they might not be granted bail.
Martin was speechless.
Rodrigo was pacing back and forth in his office. Those two are going to rot in jail if ever he found out that they were responsible for all that happened to Camilla.
He had hurt Camilla but they must tell him where Camilla is. They definitely must know something about her whereabouts.
Mirabel came to check on her brother. She couldn’t bring herself to see him since she came to the office, not after what their mother did.
Only Rodrigo and herself were the only kids their parents had. Their father was dead but they were glad to have their mother and grandfather still alive.
But letting Rodrigo know what she’s heard the previous evening was going to devastat him and he could declare their mother dead to him.
Seeing Rodrigo she held back her tears and pretended to be fine. She asked her brother out of concern what he’s found out.
Rodrigo said Ella and her daughter have been arrested. They were the ones who poisoned Camilla in jail. Emma confessed to that crime. He told her that she also confessed to knowing that Camilla was pregnant.
“Oh no!” Mirabel exclaimed. Rodrigo may not know that her exclamation wasn’t about what Emma did but that the part their mother played was going to be exposed soon.
Those two mother and daughter pairs are so shameless. They will not hesitate to call their mother soon. Greater shock and surprise awaits Rodrigo.
In City B, Camilla decided to call her mother Sara. She definitely must be worried about her disappearance.
Without being told, she knew the news of it would be everywhere in the city. And the likes of Rodrigo and his fiance Emma would be celebrating her disappearance already.
She almost lost her life. The line between her death and being alive was a thin line. Thank goodness her brother Eduardo came around.
Her parents had gotten her a new phone. She doesn’t have anyone’s contact but she definitely would have Jared’s.
She dialled his cell phone number on her new phone and soon his phone started ringing….