Book 2: In the Life of Mia: College Chapter 68
By the way my grandfather had went stiff I knew it didn't take long for him to realize what it had all been about. "No.....son of a bitch...." Ethan Sr. gasped taking the seat in the chair next to my father. I knew now that there were things, they were keeping to themselves. "Out with it.... I can see it on your faces... do you realize if I don't figure this all out and catch him he's going to kill another and they have photos of everyone that is important to me. They are toying with me and I'm tired of going round and round and to be honest if this psycho keeps taking away people I care about I'm going to have to take this into my own hands!" I was now serious and did not want to force anyone's hand. My grandfather groaned and looked at me knowing I was not joking. "Damn it Mia... this is not an easy case... and to be honest one that is hard to explain... ugh fine.." he finally was convinced taking the computer and typing away at it like he was a pecking bird.
20 mins later my grandfather got up from his chair and made me sit in his seat. "Have at it... it's all there including the photos you see here... I have been getting the same ones for years and when your father had seen them on my desk one night that's when he decide that he'd found a love for law and justice. A boy came to the hospital along with his parents who had died in a car wreck... I had the boy in surgery for 12 hours repairing his heart. He was only 10 years old and when he woke up, he wanted his parents.... the social worker tried to explain that they were gone, but he didn't believe her until his grandparents came for him after flying in from Russia. He said that all he could remember was his parents fighting about someone and that he was pretending to be asleep. He was so broken after his grandparents told him that his parents were gone and that he'd be living with them in Russia while is older sister would be living in the USA with her other grandparents. She was 18 and made her choice to stay and so it was horrible when the young boy tried to kill himself a few days later. Ummmm and that's what some of these photos are... they are not all victims as you think but his parents’ bodies and pieces of the accident. As for the rest I can't be sure since I mean they look like they could be but without umm well the actual bodies..." "They are trophies to him... his sister..18 she'd be.." I stopped and thought to myself running through people's faces from the last few days and weeks thinking as everyone around me was talking with my grandfather.
It had taken me awhile, but I had learned to tune people out and focus on using my brain and memories as a tool and flash cards in a way that I was able to pinpoint the oddities. "It doesn't matter he'll get through to you one way or another... he won't stop until he uncovers the truth..." the thoughts of the one person who had taken over as sub-professor rang out loud in my head. I opened my eyes and grabbed the open laptop as it sat next to me and typed quickly across the keys finding the photo I needed and turned the computer around. "Is this his sister...." I asked in a harsh whisper. My grandfather looked as though death was staring him in the face "She looks just like her mother....." he spoke in a tone I was not familiar with yet he was so soft. "She's 40 has a background in medical, law and justice.. she's also the sub-professor who was at my school the other week. States here though that her brother died almost 10 years ago... not possible..." I trailed off thinking about it and the things she was saying out loud and in her head that I could hear. I grabbed my cell and dialed the number I found on her page since she was a doctor and not just any doctor but a doctor in psychotherapy. The voicemail came on and I left a voicemail "Dr. Miles this is... well you know who this is, so I will call again and next time I expect you to answer!" I tossed my phone on the table as my head started to hurt.
Everyone in the room went stone cold face and was ready to pounce when I put up my hand and dialed the number again. "Dr. Miles or shall I say professor Miles... nice to hear your voice.. so shall we talk or keep playing this game? I have read that your brother died but we both know that's not true!" I smiled thinking how right I was and getting up nice and slow. Dr. Miles spoke softly as though she were talking to a child which in her eyes, I was considering I was old enough to be her daughter. "I know your brothers not dead, but I also know you are just trying to help him and bring him in unharmed or why would you come to me at school? Your just as much a victim as he is are you not? Losing your parents at such a young age... I need answers and if he needs something from me, he needs to tell me instead of only pissing me off by killing people around me that I care about. Why do this for this long and use your own parents as bate per-say..." she cut me off telling me she only kept in touch by letters from all over the world and had not laid eyes on her brother in almost 15 years. I was not taking her word for it but something in her voice also told me she might be telling the truth. "Ok well I guess I'll keep trucking away here instead of being home for the holidays since there is a deadline or he kills again. So I guess you're not going to be telling me much more since by all your accounts he could be anywhere... tell him to contact me if you hear from him" I was now irritated giving her the number to my burner phone.
A few seconds later I hung up and was scolded by everyone including Leona who physically came at me hauled me up into her arms and carried me off. "Don't dare follow, as for you Bailey I already know you are going to be coming along but just stay out of my way!" she growled at him as he did just that and followed us. Leona had me behind the closed door of where I had been examined by the doctor earlier and made Bailey wait outside. She left the lights off keeping us in the pitch dark and me against the door with her pinning me with her hips and still holding me in her arms with just my tiptoes touching the floor. After what felt like forever being in the dark room with Leona, she finally let my feet completely touch the ground after wincing. "Sorry... you are just so infuriating and strong, passionate... a risk taker and..." I needed her to just be quite and this time took her face in my hands and pulled her close kissing her quickly. I did not linger since I didn't know what would happen after. "Now are...." she kissed me back before I could finish a sentence and the intensity was something I had never had before.
Leona’s intensity was almost familiar in a way that I was left breathless and weak in her arms. "W.....o.....w....." "Y----a" we both whispered breathlessly. "Should I even ask what the hell this was all about? I mean damn...." "Well you basically just put yourself up as bate....which I probably would have done too...so me doing what I did was to get you far away for a min and have well a moment.... that ha-ha led to the most amazing kiss either one of us have ever had... and before you try and say it wasn't I'll be more than happy to prove it again" Leona cut me off but I welcomed it since I had no idea what I was supposed to say. My mind was running around going from Sharene's face to Leona's and how I was really supposed to focus. "Jesus.... I need you to just back up a step because this shit right here doesn't help me... its, been way to long and I just have my head umm trying to solve this and my migraines are getting worse with the piercing sound of my name that I keep hearing in my head like....ugh never mind" I reached for the door knob at my back. Leona was ready to grab me when my father came running towards us. "I have to get back to your mother and grandfather too.. she's in active labor and the doula said it could be soon" he was in full speed and wanted me to follow.
My father and grandfather were out the door like a bat out of hell and I was panicking wanting to go but not wanting to put them in danger. "Damn it, Mia remember this if they knew where you were and not your parents and this started with grandad and dad... you have every right to be there with mother and the baby!" Ethan scolded me with our grandparents agreeing. "Bailey, Lola lets go... I am going to be there with my parents..." I was now barking orders not giving them a chance to say no. "As for the rest of you... if that burner phone rings patch me through because I bet my life on it that he'll be calling!" I bitched with Bailey and Lola catching up. Leona was close behind too and I stopped her dead in her tracks "NO ABSOLUTELY NOT!" I was firm in my tone so fierce she backed right up. "What... why?" She asked as she stood watching me walk away from her without another word. We got in the Suburban and headed to my parents, house which was a good 35 mins away and I prayed we would get there before my little brother was born. "I'm sorry but I can't miss this... if I never get to see them all again.... look I need you to all keep this from my parents... we need to move locations and leave them out of it all now... so call the team and have them pack it up... don't care where it is but I have to keep them safe and that's my choice and my job now that this psycho put this shit on me" I was in full swing of demands staring out the window.
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