Chapter 38
Unable to find them, he went to their old apartment and asked after them. No one seemed to be interested in helping him until they saw a good Samaritan who told him about their new address.
Quickly, Felix Freeman got into his car and drove himself there. When he arrived there, he found the location where the address carried to be a just demolished building which was set on fire and the thick smoke coming out of the building was polluting the atmosphere.
Felix Freeman became weak. He felt his legs couldn’t carry his weight and he found himself staggering to his car to sit down. This is definitely Rodrigo’s handiwork.
This is a battle of Revenge. No matter what Camilla had done, she had been sent to jail, she was already paying for her crimes even though he knew she might not have done those things she did. Someone might have removed her.
He tried calling Jared but his phone rang and it wasn’t answered. He called several times and said the same thing to Sara but it wasn’t answered.
He doesn’t know where they are. He would come and check on them again. But where, when they don’t have a home anymore.
At an abandoned old wretched building was a lamp that lightened the dark room. its windows were broken and the door had fallen off. The floors were filled with dust and dirt.
No doubt, it’s an abandoned old building. On iits dirty bare floor lay a woman and her son in an unconscious state. The woman was Sara and her son Jared.Exclusive © content by N(ô)ve/l/Drama.Org.
Slowly Jared opened his eyes wearily. He didn’t quite know where he was. His brain was blank and he remained on the floor for some few seconds more.
Slowly he raised himself to sit up. He looked around in the shabby, dirty environment and wondered why he was. “Where am I?” He asked a question but there was no one who was there to answer his question.
He searched his brain to know where and how he ended up there and suddenly he remembered. He looked around immediately for his mother and he saw her lying a few distance from him.
He tried to hold his tears but they gave way. Is this where they finally dumped them? Is this where they woke up to find themselves.
What have they made his sister do? For how long had they remained in their custody? He sniffled and immediately became worried. What has happened to Camilla, what have they made her do?
He remembered everything till the moment they were injected. Camilla and his mother had just finished talking when she left for work that morning.
It was barely two hours after she left that day when two men in suits came to their home. They knocked and his mother went to get the door.
What he knew next was coming closer and saw his mother shivering. He looked at the men and saw them pointing pistols at his mother.
They ordered them to come after them. That way one of the men led the way and he and his mother followed, looking relaxed and smiling like the men had commanded them to do.
They got into the car and the next thing, they covered their nostrils with a handkerchief that contained chloroform. They fixed off almost immediately.
When they recovered consciousness, obviously hours later, they found themselves tied. His mother was tied to a chair and her mouth taped. So mean of them, they couldn’t even put into consideration that his mother was getting old, yet they treated her so meanly.
He was tied up by both of his hands and his body was suspended in the air. His mouth also was tapped. And he felt tired and worn out.
Then the men took a camera and made a video of them. He was sweating profusely and his mother was weak. His mother looked pained too as beads of sweat were on her face and she was sobbing.
He felt pity for his mother but couldn’t save her. He was in a dilemma himself. He wished they should let his mother go and do whatever they liked to him. But they wouldn’t.
He didn’t know what that fellow did with the video he made but next he heard him making a phone call and was laughing hysterically.
“… if you want to save your mother and brother, you would do exactly what I order you to do, step by step and if you dare make a mistake, I will blow their heads off” he threathened and shot a bullet into the roof.
He could hear Camilla’s voice from the other end , screaming and pleading that he spared them. He didn’t know what he had made her some but he knew Camilla had to do something in order to save them.
He remained suspended there for hours and eventually when he was brought down, he had no strength left in him. He felt dizzy and didn’t know what happened next or how he ended up there.
Just then, Jared heard his name, called faintly by his mother “Jared”
Camilla was ordered to come over to see something that was meant for her. She cleaned her tears and sniffled. By this time, her eyes were puffy and red, she had cried a lot.
She went to the inspector’s office and she was told to listen to what Rodrigo sent to her. At the mention of his name, she knew it wouldn’t be good at all. She shivered already and remained standing to watch.
The video of Rodrigo’s press release came up. She sighed, a press meeting with Journalists? Rodrigo is a private person and hardly goes public.
But when his voice came into her hearing, she listened with a rapt attention. He wasn’t half gone in his speech when Camila started sobbing aloud. He called her a prostitute and a whore? He really did?
Could Rodrigo say such words about her? She was listening and when Rodrigo was through with his speech, she was completely drained of strength to sob further.
As if that was not enough, another video came up and this time, Camilla saw her mother’s coffee shop destroyed. She shivered and was gasping as if she was going to collapse.
The house that she bought with her hard earned money was demolished too? What has her mother’s business got to do with what happened? She’s in jail now and doesn’t have a hope of finding her way out soon.
What will happen to her loved ones? These were the only family she’s got and those that truly loved her. Is this what his threats of Revenge meant?
This was too much. She knew Rodrigo was ruthless, she knew he was like that but she didn’t know he was this callous. She had thought he was leaving that ruthlessness behind, that he had become a changed man.
By the time The video was over, Camilla couldn’t control her emotions anymore. She sobbed like a baby and the prison warder without as much as spared her a glance, ushered her back to her place.
As soon as Camilla left, the inspector took his phone and called Rodrigo “Done. Her tears flowed Like river” the inspector exaggerated.
Rodrigo nodded and hung up. This is what he wants and that’s what he was having. This sobbing of hers has just begun. The sob will get to it’s climax when he gets engaged to Emma.
Sarah Dickson and his son found a cap which brought them home. But when they alighted, and approached the house, they saw people looking at them strangely and others eyeing them. As they approached their supposed building, they discovered that their home had ceased to exist.