Always Mine {Book 3}| Completed

Part II: Chapter Fifteen

TRIGGER WARNING: if you are sensitive to self-harm please do not read this. Read at your own risk.

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   I sat in the office waiting for Amelia Meyers to talk to me. I felt like I was in the interrogation room for a crime the police thought that I have committed. It's bad enough of what I have to maybe say and maybe tell them. I know everything I need to know of what the Google search says about my uncle. I was reading it all on Wikipedia. But he wasn't my biggest concern right now. My only concern was telling the police what I think they should be looking into.

   So far my dad's murder is an opened investigation right now. And this was definitely the biggest murder case they've had here. Especially when it comes to a doctor murdered outside the hospital parking lot. And still, I hear about the surveillance footage that they got of my dad and his murderer. And still is will haunt me because of what I know.

   Amelia Meyers was the detective working on my dad's murder. Amelia is this tall blonde woman. She looked around in her thirties. She's pretty and smart. I saw her on the night she came to my dad's funeral pulling Colleen away with a male detective. Amelia and I haven't actually met in person. But I know that she knows of me. And here I was, ready to speak to her about it. About my dad's murder. But she's basically been speaking to Colleen everyday and I've heard nothing from Colleen. But I'm sure my face hurts her. When Colleen sees me, she sees my dad. And she will have to live with that. And I know it kills her. If I call her, it will kill her. And worse, when she wakes, looking at my sister she sees my dad. Hallie has my dad's eyes. And everyday Colleen will live with it. Just like I will live with the reminder of how much I miss my dad and how he won't be here when I look at Hallie.

    I have this weird obsession with my dad's killer. And I feel as if I've met them before. Like I'm right next to them everyday. I've ruled out Noah possibly being the killer because he obviously didn't escape the mental hospital to get his revenge on my dad and killed him. But this doesn't feel like a stranger. This feels like someone I know. Someone I may have known for a long time. But who? It's not Josh I don't think. Last time I checked, he was in prison still. And I now know that there is a killer communicating to me. Their trying to get my attention. Their leaving me yellow roses and simple notes. The next thing, I now have to take in the comprehension that I have a cousin out there. Somewhere. Online, it says Ted and a former psychiatrist Ginger Val Vaye had a daughter together. And I will have to actually think about it for a moment to wonder where is my cousin. But she was adopted by a family in Boston. That's like across the country. Google said she was eight months old when she was adopted. And I know she's not in Boston. Because the secretary at the front desk said I looked like Ted's daughter. But who else would it be? And apparently, she visits Ted every Tuesday. And maybe that means something.

   Maybe I should take Victoria's suggestion. Maybe it's not so wrong to go visit Ted. I know he's a psychopath. But I'm positive he is behind my dad's murder. Maybe he didn't commit it. But maybe he has people who work for him to do the job. And Ted has quite the motive. I know he is jealous and angry that my dad got the life he didn't get. Ted didn't feel loved by my grandparents. Which means they gave up. They didn't try hard enough.

I had the feeling to know that I'm smart. And I might be able to solve my dad's murder. And I know Ted, Josh and maybe my cousin was involved. But I need to know who took my dad's life. And I will catch them.

In my head, I was remembering Noah's chants about nine o'clock, fire, rain, gun, bat, and death. And now it's making a perfect sense to me. He was talking about my dad. He woke up for that split second being conscious. But those repeated words has something to do with the night my dad was murdered. I think nine o'clock was when my dad died. Meaning that's the exact time my dad died. It was when my dad's heart stopped. And the fire represents the fire that broke out on Cliff Avenue about a block away. And the rain was because it was raining that night. And the gun is what killed my dad. And I'm unsure what a bat meant. And then there was a death, my dad. But what was the bat? That part I still need to figure out.