Thelma looked at her bag and looked into Jake's eyes then she handed the bag to him. “You don't have to give me anything in return, it's all yours if you want it”.Jake gave her a quick kid's on the cheek in a ruffled her hair again, quickly he tucked the book inside the bag and zipped it, at the same time Vladimir reached where he stood.“What a great turn out Jake, I'm always impressed with everything you do”. His smile was so broad like he was the one that planned the whole parade. He followed Jake back to his seat and sat where the senior Mrs McPherson sat before.Vladmir was not available from the beginning but was just coming to the event.“I can see that you received lot's of gifts from the kids”, vladmir said removing the bouquet of flowers on the chair so he can sit down.“My daughter Alice tells me of everything you both did to make this event a success, I must say that I am very proud of her as I am of you, she only had good things to say unlike when she worked for other pe
“What had to be done, did you just say what had to be done?”. There was a rising to her tone now and her eyes stared daggers at him. The park was not completely desserted, and a few person's where still gathering up ready to go home. This was not the place or time to let emotions fly around, but she doesn't care. He has some explaining to do and he must tell her all she needs to know. She wouldn't be a party to a team that carries their own investigation outside the police net and still be kept in the dark. It doesn't work that way to her and she was ready to stir up a ruckus just to get her answers.“Jake, let me be clear on you on one thing, I don't give a damn if you did what was right or what needed to be done. You've got some explanation to do and there is no better time than now, so start talking”.Jake sighed and backed up the car, he threw sideways glances at the people around, thankfully none of them were paying much attention towards them to make out what she was saying.“S
Max tapped Cassandra's shoulder to take assist him back to the car. For the first time, Cassandra had nothing to say regarding this issue. She does not even have a clue on what they were arguing about, maybe Max would tell her later what it was about.Sarah would not give up, “what are you hiding Jake, what was it that you said to her. It is obvious something was shared between you, and you don't want to tell.Jake was at his end already, “Yes Sarah,yes. I don't want to tell you about it. If you can't be patient enough to wait till I'm ready to tell you, then don't. I'm not obligated to tell you anything either ways”. His voice matched hers and they stood close to each other. Their breaths hot and none ready to back out.“You owe me Jake McPherson, you so owe me more than you think. My family died because of all these and you want to keep me in the dark. I'm not buying that bullshit from you at all. What's in the bag I demand to know right now”. She fumed.Jake clutched it tightly mor
Charlotte's laughed, a deep throttled laugh. “ I will take that as a joke because you are the only one seeing it. Every other person sees you and Jake as the best couple.you both can't seem to be anywhere without giving the live vibe. I envy you Sarah. You've got a good man and you've also got the kind of job that makes people admire and respect you”.Sarah's hand just kept twirling the rim of her cup. Listening to Charlotte say all these things was having some kind of effect on her. “If you call putting your life and the life of your family members in danger a respectful job, then it's okay by me”.“But you must know my job is in no way respectful, people do admire the police alright. Because we look cool when we enter somewhere, the dress code and the swag that comes with it. What about when you don't get the job done?, Have you ever thought about it?. Most people blame the police for not doing anything or not intervening on time when things go south. The police has a lot of burden
Charlotte repeated what Sarah said last for like four times so it stays there. Now she had something to do with her life that has worth and meaning. Making the move to Sarah turned out to be better than she expected. She just needs good people in her life, Jake was among the good people in her life, but she was allowing the feelings she has for him cloud her sense of reasoning.She got up and high Sarah unexpectedly, making the remaining drink in Sarah's cup spill to the floor.“That means we are friends now”.Sarah smile and hugged her back, what can she say, if Charlotte Hargreaves cannot be turned down my any man , then she can't be turned down by any woman also. “Fine, we are friends now, I don't really have much friends except for Cassandra, Jake's sister. So you are welcome to the group”.“That would be lovely, I can see it already, the three of us having plenty of fun times together”. Charlotte giggled.“I wouldn't be this excited yet, calm down. You haven't met Cassandra to kn
The urge to open up the bag and dive into the into the contents of the diary increased rapidly, thanks to Thelma he was able to shield the diary away from prying eyes. Any glance at the word diary would have raised Sarah's anxiety more than it was already. It was right here in his hands, he opened the bag slowly like he was unwrapping a Christmas gift. Then put the bag at a corner close to the bed. At last the book was finally in his palm, it was a well designed diary and he has never seen anything like it before. Turning it over he found that it had a lock, he slapped his forehead in frustration, of what use was the diary if he can't get access to it?. He didn't notice the lock when the senior Mrs McPherson have him the diary else he would have asked for a key or how to open it.Taking the diary out of the room and somewhere to figure out how to open it might pose a great risk. His grandfather must have carefully made arrangements do that the diary would be properly secured even he w
Whatever made Charlotte do this, he was glad, he had Important things to focus on, like the diary.He stood up and went down to the kitchen, he didn't meet anybody on his way not even the servants. He made sure to lock the door to his room so no one could enter inside. Since there was no one around he can rosm freely and quietly as he wanted, not that any one would question his movement. He hadn't made any food by himself since he became chairman, lots of attendant and workers to do almost everything for him. Now he has the chance to whip up something since he was not feeling sleepy. No need for something big, so he just made tea and searched the cabinets where he found cookies.Placing them on a tray he went into the library and nibbled at the biscuits while the smell of the tea ran up his nose, he made it a little to hot and could not drink it immediately. He had not really spent much time in the library since he moved into the house. He sat down on the big chair and ate the biscuit
It was still night and the only sound that could be heard through the entire house was Jake's movement, although he was careful enough so he doesn't wake anybody. The library house different kind of books and several compartments where things can be kept in secret. Jake checked every corner of the library, behind Evey picture and every safe box to see if the little box in the picture was inside.He had spent many hours awake just searching for the box, so he went back to the chair and sat, how could the key to the diary be so hard to find?, The only place he had not checked was the compartment drawers.As his mind went to it, he just pulled the out and used his hand to search inside, just pieces of papers laid inside, in the third compartment he felt Benes the drawer. There was something odd about it do he pulled it out completely. He tapped at it and noticed that the bottom was light, he punched through it lightly and it made a little hole, there was still something inside, so he tor