Finding Happiness book II- Falling into Place

Chapter 31 - Playing Detective (unedited)

Jane's P.O.V

Liam picked up as soon as I called like he was waiting for my call.

"Hey baby, are you okay?" He asked and I couldn't help it when I heard his voice. "I was so scared... for a second I thought I lost her. And... I just stood there. I... I couldn't move. The thought of losing her... Mom... has heart issues and... and they never told me. I didn't even notice. She visited us so many times and I failed to see it... what kind of a daughter am I. How..." I cried.

"Hey... hey it's okay. Don't be so hard on yourself. I'll be there by tomorrow morning I promise. I need you to stop crying, can you do that for me please. I promise to be there. I'll call Ryan and talk to him since he's there" Liam said and I nodded like he could see me.

"I just need you to stay cool cause you know you can't stress yourself too much please." He added. "Okay, I'll try. Ian? How is Ian?" I asked.

"He is fine, he is with my parents." He replied. "Okay, I'll call you back the detective is here" I said and hung up.

Ryan, Julie, and the detective walk up to me. "How's mom" I asked.

"Same" Julie said.

"I'm really sorry you guys are going through this right now. We are still on the case, and we are trying our best to find more proof, because the fact that she has a clean record and is yet to do anything to claim the the first motive was right. The jury is going to ask why she hasn't done anything again after you took over the company.  If that was the reason why she had Louise killed in the first place." The detective said.

"This seems like a dead end to me, it's been over two decades. You guys should have done your job right when it happened. I'm already tired of this. My mother is on the sick bed fighting for her life because of this. And as much as I want her to pay for this, it's not going be at the expense of my mother's life. I don't wanna put her through that again, it's too much. How long do we have to relive this? How long? I don't think I can do this?" I said and walked away but Ryan followed me.

"Look I know how tough this is, and I don't like seeing our family like this. I understand where you're coming from. Yes this is going be a very tough and probably long case, but I promise you I'm gonna try my best to make sure that women doesn't spend more of her days in luxury. And I know you want the same. I know you want her to pay for what she did to Louis and I get it, you're scared. You don't want your mom or Julie to relive the pain or have to deal with what you dealt with. Out of all of us, you know your step mom best. You know what happened to Louis, because you saw it and you were the first witness. I get it, it was hard but maybe there was a reason why you never really moved on from it or wanted to be back here where it happened because something in you told you it wasn't over. And now that we are given the chance to actually make the real suspect face the crime I'm sure you want to finally let that go. You want to be at peace and you want Louis to be at peace to" Ryan said.

I let out a deep breathe. "I can assure you my baby brother is at rest, but he would want us all to be at peace especially our mom. He didn't hold grudges we did. You're right why are we the one struggling when we are the victim. I want her to know the implication of what she did. And I know her, she going do everything to make sure she gets away with it. But she's not, I'm not gonna let her." I walked back to the detective after telling Ryan my mind. Ryan followed me again.

"What exactly do we need to make this case and win it" I asked determined. "A confession will also do plus the proof he gave us" The detective said with a smile and Ryan agreed with him.

"And that you'll get. Julie you can take care of mom right. When she wakes up I need you to try all your best to assure her everything is under control. Can I trust you to keep our mom alive? I can't let Louis have her yet" I said facing my sister.