Chapter 39
What they found in its place was a pile of rubbish and smoke coming from it. Sara couldn’t take it, she collapsed. Her body cannot take more nor can she keep her pressure in check as she faints.
Jared screamed and went quickly to get his mother. He was going to get help when he saw Felix Freeman come. Seeing the commotion, he went to give him a helping hand.
“Get away from us, we don’t need you Felix” Jared yelled, lifting his mother off the floor to go and find a cab. The journalists who have been lurking around to question Camilla’s family flooded the area.
“This is not the best attitude to put on now, Jared. Your sister is sitting in jail and your mother is fainted. At least for once, let’s put our differences and offences aside” Felix Freeman complains.
That way he offered his car and took Sara to the hospital. Photos were taken and the whole scene was soon covered by journalists.
Jared couldn’t help but shiver. Camilla sitting in jail? What had those people made her do? What have they pushed her to do that resulted in her ruin?
He needed to see Rodrigo and plead with him to help Camilla out. Only he can help her and save his sister. He would explain what happened to them that might have led Camilla to do something unlawful.
When they arrived at the hospital, Sara Dickson’s case was taken as an emergency situation. They quickly attended to her and resuscitated her.
Suddenly, Felix Freeman received a phone call from his father in-law. He asked what he was doing, mingling with the family of those criminals. He ordered him to leave at once.
News that showed that he was helping that murderer’s mother and brother. Does he want to fall into the black book of Rodrigo Campbell?
That way Felix slipped away unnoticed. Jared soon looked around and didn’t see him again. Well he can go. He had helped his mother.
He decided to go and see Rodrigo. He probably might be worried about his sister and much as he was worried. Though he hadn’t known what his sister had done yet.
When he arrived at Campbell’s group, he asked to see Rodrigo. The President was informed that someone by the name Jared Dickson was there to see him.
Rodrigo was actually sitting in his smoke filled office. He was smoking heavily and puffing out smoke. One could see that he was greatly disturbed.
Rather than allow him to go in, Rodrigo walked out in fury. He came and stood before Jared. The fellow was yet to know what his sister had done when he clasped his hands together and said ” Thank goodness I saw you Rodrigo, you need to save Camilla…” he wasn’t half gone in his sentence when he suddenly saw Rodrigo’s eyes shooting daggers at him.
His looks were chilling and somehow, he paused, afraid to continue his words. He looked at other people who stood by who were equally staring at him with hostility.
” You dare come before me to talk about that criminal? Are you not satisfied with what you’ve experienced already that you came here for more? When I am done with you, you won’t be thanking goodness that you saw me, rather you curse it” Rodrigo bellowed.
He looked at him with disdain and utmost hatred and ordered ” Take care of him until only a thin line is left between life and death!”
Without knowing what that means, Jared was looking at his bodyguards, waiting to know what that order from Rodrigo meant when he suddenly felt a vicious kick from the back and he fell face flat.
It just dawned on him that Rodrigo had ordered him to be tortured. “Camilla is inno…” he couldn’t complete the word innocent when he was being tortured.
He was turned over and several kicks went to his stomach. He was kicked, giving a heavy blow and it continued while Rodrigo watched.
Jared was weak and fragile before coming to see Rodrigo. He hadn’t eaten for days but gathered up the remaining strength in him to come find Rodrigo so that he can save his sister.
Jared held his stomach and started coughing out blood. He was bleeding and his lips were wounded but he still held on, stretching a hand to Rodrigo for help but the latter just stood aloof and watched on.
When the last kick landed on his left eye, Jared couldn’t hold on anymore, he passed out. Seeing his orders Carried out as completely as he wanted, Rodrigo ordered that he be dumped in some random hospital when Joel walked in.
He recognized Jared at once. He was so furious that he locked eyes with Rodrigo for quite a few seconds in hostility. When he looked away, it was to carry Jared away hurriedly.
Rodrigo sneered and went back to his office. But he couldn’t get comfortable anymore. He asked himself why he treated Jared that way.
Joel got the unconscious man into the car and started driving in high speed. He was still bleeding and he knew he was in great danger if he lose too much blood.
He saw the news and went to find Sara and Jared in the hospital but saw that the older woman was resting and left. Only to return to the company and found Jared passed out because of being tortured.
He was taken back to that hospital and immediately he was also taken to an emergency ward. Joel stood outside and was watching.
Soon the doctors came and said Jared had sustained some internal injuries. Two of his ribs were broken and a nerve was destroyed in his left eye.
They needed to carry out a surgery on him immediately otherwise he may lose the ability to sight in his left eye. Joel told them to go ahead and he made the deposit of the money.
An hour later, Jared was wheeled out of the theatre. His left eye was bandaged and his body covered in plaster. He was still unconscious and Joel shook his head.
Why are all these befallen this family? After what happened the previous day, he knew Rodrigo would go the extreme and that’s exactly what he had done now.
Treating this family so badly. If Camilla had crossed him, he should be satisfied that she’s now in confinement and would remain there for the rest of her life.
Why torturing her family. He destroyed Sara Dickson’s coffee shop and demolished their home again. Not satisfied he did this to Jared. How long was he going to vent his anger? On everyone because of one person’s sin?
At the suburb of the city, in a lonely alley, a young man cleaned his wounds again. By two days at the most, the wound would dry up. He kept looking at his wristwatch, waiting for someone.
Soon Emma walked into the alley in disguise. She wore a face cap and a wig and walked into the deserted building after looking behind her to be certain no one was following.
She walked in and sighed. ” Good job” she complimented and gave Ambrose Kelvin a thump up. She had thought he was going to get caught. How was he able to hold on lifeless for so long.
Ambrose Kelvin nodded. “I’ve been waiting for you, miss,” he declared and lit a cigarette. ” I’m here now,” Emma said and brought out two bundles of dollars.Material © of NôvelDrama.Org.
Ambrose Kelvin took the money and examined it before kissing it. This was what he almost got killed for. The job was neatly done. He had paid those men off who helped to abduct Camilla’s mother and brother.
He was the one who tortured and remoted Camilla to do all she did. While doing that, he ensured the surveillance camera caught all of Camilla’s actions. He was himself part of Rodrigo’s employees and knew exactly where she should check.
He had ordered her to pick the gun in a designated place and shoot the security that discovered her deed. She indeed shot him, but what was in the gun was plastic bullets.
Such bullets can only cause a superficial injury and though he bleeded, it was not something deep. Everyone present was deceived and even Camilla herself thought she committed a murder.
When he was brought into an ambulance, of course he arranged for the ambulance beforehand and he was never seen again. He was driven away from the company, but he never reached the morgue.
“I added another hundred dollars as compensation for a perfect and well planned execution of the plan. This is your Visa, first flight tomorrow, you are heading to City B.
Now, you cease to exist as Ambrose Kelvin, you are now Jordan Blank. Don’t forget your new identity,”Emma explained.
She handed over the visa to him and Ambrose Kelvin saw his new identity indeed. He looked at it and a faint smile crossed his lips.
“We never met” Emma declared and Ambrose Kelvin said ” I don’t know who you are miss”.
Emma nodded and put on her face cap and left. She walked briskly away and Ambrose Kelvin saw her go. They never met, yes, that’s true. In Fact he doesn’t know who she is.
“… I want you to tell me all about my sister’s whereabouts?” Eduardo asked his aunt. He had come to find her and this time, he was not angry anymore.
He stared at the woman before him in handcuffs. She didn’t seem to give a damn, not feeling remorseful about her deed. She looked away as if she owned nothing.
“Aunt Clara, I am asking you to tell me where you know my sister might be?” Eduardo urged again.
Clara became furious, he was asking her too many questions about this sister of his. Anyways, she would tell him what she knows again. He would never be able to find her.
“Your sister is in City A. She was last seen in a dunghill there. I guess she refused to die despite the inhuman treatment she was subjected to since she was born. Go to the dunghill and find her there… hahahahaha…” Clara laughed out loud.