Don't look back

Chapter 5

My life right now is one giant pile of shit.

First off, my husband cheats on me with my best friend. Who knows how long that had been going on before I found out.

Secondly, my informer was flirting with me. Why would he do something like that. He has never been that extra with me before

And last but not least, my mother isn't who I thought she was. A woman who would bake cookies with me on weekends and take me shopping. A woman who held me when I cried over my father's passing, the woman who held me when my date didn't turn up. The woman who held me when I got engaged and who walked me down the aisle 2 months ago to marry a man who I loved whole heartedly.

My mother was right. I was never leaving this place alive. I was barely fed let alone given water. The room smelt like death and I knew this is where I was going to take my last breath. She was slowly but surely killing me. I have no idea why, but it was happening.

What kind of sick fuck puts another human being through this. I am meant to be her daughter, her only child, her blood and this is how she is treating me.

Lucille- (singing) "I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing,

Just praying for a God, that I don't believe in

Cause I got time while she got freedom

Cause when a heart breaks, no it don't breakeven"

My tears are falling.

I lay down on the cold floor and let the darkness take over me. Praying that my death will come quickly.

*Cameron POV*

It has been 3 days since I have seen Lucille.

Walking around the station aimlessly, looking for anything that could help us find her is proving to be pointless. Nothing is going our way. Every lead we have had, has been a dead end. We are on a wild goose chase and then only thing we are chasing are our own tails.

I went back to Hiddlebrooke yesterday. I couldn't be in Blackburn any longer knowing that Lucille's life is over. She was a light in a dark room.

Ainsley keeps in constant contact with us. Because we have no leads we cannot treat this case as a kidnapping until we have proof.

Ainsley- PC- "Cam, picked up a small drug dealer in Blackburn. Have him in for questioning now"

Cameron- PC- "Aight. I won't be able to get there in time to help question him"

Ainsley- PC- "I'll keep you posted about it"

I hang up from Ainsley, my mind is going a hundred miles a second. Every time I close my eyes all I see is Lucille. My mind is showing her up in different scenarios. All of them end with her death and how they kill her.

Sitting at my desk, daydreaming but more like nightmaring, a thought comes to me. I don't know what it is but all I can see is a warehouse. It is a warehouse that belongs to Brandon. We have searched it once before but came up empty.

I dial Ainsley's number

*Ring*

*Ring*

Ainsley- PC- "Cam, I can't talk long. In the middle of the interrogation"

Cameron- PC- "Man, I just had a crazy thought. We should go back to Brandon's warehouse. The one we searched a few months back. Might be something there?"

Ainsley- PC- "Let me finish this and I'll get back to you"

I hang up the phone

I can't sit around and do nothing. Lucille is my friend and I need to save her.

Seeing as I have no one that can help as she isn't classed as a missing person, I decide to take this up on my own and make a move out to the warehouse.

The drive is a couple of hours away in Newton. I look at the clock and see it is just past 6.

Cameron- (mumbling) "If I leave now I will get there just past 8. It'll be dark and they won't see me coming"

I pack up my desk and grab my stuff. I check my weapon to make sure I have enough ammo to get me through in case anything goes down. I make sure to grab my bullet proof vest, I don't need this to end badly.

Making my way out of the station no one stops me to talk which I am thankful for. I have everything I need in my overnight bag that I keep at the station so it won't look too suspicious. I get to my car and jump in it after unlocking it. I set up my GPS to the warehouse and head off in that direction

I have been on the road for an hour when my starts ringing. Looking at the caller ID its Ainsley.

I drag my finger across the green button

Ainsley- PC- "Cam, what are you doing. I rang your station and they have said you left for the night"

Cameron- PC- "Ains, man, I can't not do anything. I need to save Lucille and take out the fuckers who took her. I'm about an hour away from the warehouse"

Ainsley- PC- "Pull over man. I'll be there in 5 hours. Get some sleep and I'll help ya get them. Young kid spilled the beans"

Cam- PC- "What do you mean?"

Ainsley- PC- "Lucille was taken because she has gotten too deep. Her mother isn't who she says she is. Mary Winters has been wanted for years. Mary Sparks is what she's being going around as for quite a few years. Any of those names ring a bell"

My mind is in a constant loop. Lucille had told me one day her mothers name is Mary Sparks. I have even met the woman.

Cameron- PC- "FUCK. Lucille's mother is the hierarchy?"

Ainsley- PC- "Looks like it man. Pull over. I know you need to get to her but you are in no condition to help her. I'll be there in a few hours. I'll put my foot down all the way"

We hang up the phone, and I sit in the car punching my steering wheel over and over again.

Mary Winnie Sparks is not who she says she is. Lucille's mother is Mary Louise Winters. A wanted woman, for her involvement with King Ping Brandon.

If only I had made the connection earlier, I would have had Lucille out of that house when I left. I had given her the information about Brandon and eventually everything would have come back onto her mother. I have signed Lucille's death warrant.

I lay back the drivers seat and close my eyes. Hoping Ainsley will be here sooner rather than later.