Against All Odds

Chapter 81

Aliyah P.O.V.

I stepped inside the police station, frantically looking around. I walked up to the lady at the front desk, automatically speaking. "I'm looking for someone named Marcus Richmond, he should've came in about a hour or so ago with the police for questioning."

The lady looked up at me, finally giving me her attention. "Who are you?"

I took a deep breath, not having the time for this. I opened my mouth to speak, but stopped once I seen a door open, with Marcus coming out of it.

I darted away from the desk, and made my way over to him. "Marcus!" He quickly looked up when he seen me, taking a sigh of relief.

"Li, hold on, we-"

I ignored whatever he was saying, and pulled him into a hug, thankful that nothing had happened to him tonight.

I quickly let him go, still holding onto him. "What happened? Why was Tyree at my moms shop??? Why is her place all shot up?? What's going on??"

He opened his mouth to speak, but the sound of a man's voice stopped him.

"Alright son, we're done for tonight, we'll call you in if we have any more questions." Marcus turned his attention to the man who had stepped out of the same room he did, and nodded.

"Okay, thank you Detective Ronson."

He gave Marcus a slight head nod before stepping back inside the room, shutting his door. "What's going on?" I asked again.

"Why do you look so messy??" I asked, motioning to his clothes.

"I'll explain everything outside, we can't talk about it in here." He said lowly.

I took a deep breath, following him outside to the empty parking lot. As soon as we stepped outside the automatic doors, I spoke again.

"Okay, what happened?"

He took a deep breath, grabbing my arm, pulling me over to my car.

"How'd you know I was here?" He asked, ignoring my question. I frowned a little, folding my arms across my chest.

"One of the officers at my moms shop said they took you here for questioning." He nodded slowly, rubbing his chin.

"Did they say anything about Will?" My frown deepend, as I shook my head. "No, what does Will have to do with any of this??"

He sighed. "I don't know what happened to him, we all got seperated once the police got to the shop, I don't know if he's okay or not."

I held my hand up, confused. "What are you talking about? Will was there tonight?" He sighed, running a hand down his face.

"Alright look." He started.

"It's a long story that I can't really explain right now, but I promise I'll tell you everything later."

I sighed.

"But right now, we gotta get over to the hospital, after Chris get's out of there." He said, pointing back to the station.

"Chris is in there?" I asked confused. "Okay, you have to tell me what's going on, just tell me something."

He sighed. "Cordarius came to the shop tonight." Both of my brows shot up. "He did??? For what??? Why didn't you tell me??"

He was silent for a second. "Because.....I invitied him there."

I scrunched up my face, confused as ever. "You invitied him to my mom's boutique??" He sighed, nodding his head.