The diary Elizabeth wrote was opened wide in front of the police officer I ws directed to deliver my case. I watched as he scanned through the pages without having to read it's content. When he got to the part where the handwriting went amiss, he looked up at me to question me about it.
"Did you forge this to incriminate a person?" He gave me stern look, aggressively pushed the diary to my side and stopped any bit of explanation from my mouth. "Please leave, we don't have time for this" he said before throwing his eyes to the screen of his computer.
"I have another proof...." I tried saying, he paid no heed to my contention as he got up from his seat and left me in my baffling position.
I felt a little disgusted at his behaviour but I had no time to dwell on a corrupt person who refuse to see the fact that was in front of his. I grabbed the diary and left the table.
As i was focused on unzipping my bag so that I could put the book back in, I bumped into one of the detective, he looked familiar.
"I'm sorry Miss" he apologized with a bow as he walked past me.
"Excuse me..." I touched his hand to stop him from leaving, "You look familiar.... Are you the detective that handled Damon's case"
"Listen dear, we receive numerous cases with the name Damon on it, so you would have to be a little specific about who you are referring to" The dectective looked around feeling agitated to leave.
"The case was about the secretary of former president of Prince and Damon Limited, they have different chains of business, which is why the name differs.... Do you recall?"
"Ah.... Damon Prince, of course I do" he said smiling. "Come with me" he led me to a small cubicle away from the other police officers, I even saw the other police officer who refused to give me a listening ear, stare at me.
"Have a seat..." He pointed at the empty chair, "It's been months since that case had been dropped due to inadequate evidence...."
I was shocked to her this as I didn't help myself from opening my mouth wide in front of him, "I thought after Damon was released, y'all found the real suspect, then why was the case dropped?" I inquired while dropping my bag and the diary on the table in front of me, my forehead furrowed as I began to get furious at this injustice.
It was no longer a hidden secret Rachel was murdered by someone who despised her but why should the case be dropped when they haven't caught the main culprit, or where they covering up for the culprit crimes by shutting the case down?
"My thought when I got taken off the case after Damon's release, I still strongly believe Damon had something to do with her death and I had enough evidence to keep him behind bars but someone had requested his release which seemed suspicious, I really how you have core evidence to prove Damon"
"I'm afraid I don't... Rather I'm here to show you this" I slide the diary to his way, unlike the other officer who didn't bother checking it, the detective took his time to, studying every detail before closing the diary.
"The handwriting...." He started off and I interrupted him before he went any further.
"Yes I know, they are different but if you read after the torn pages you would see that it aligns with the last page before it" I said opening to the page that was torn off. "And oh... I've got this as well" I brought out the letters I had received from the mystery man behind the lost pages and Beatriz secret.
After taking a brief look at it, along with the note at the back and the one written on Elizabeth diary, they all were from the same person.
Relaxing on his chair, the detective used his pen to tap on his nose while looking at me mysteriously. "Do something for me...." He tore out a sheet of paper from his notepad, "write your full name on this" he gave me the paper and a pen.
Doing as he says without question I was starting to feel like he didn't believe a thing that I had said. When I was done I turned it over for him to see. Without taking much time to look at my name, the detective used my handwriting to compare to the one on the notes and Elizabeth diary.
Seeing that there was a strain difference between the two, he clapped his hand as if he had figured out something, he soon started asking me some weird questions "Where do you stay?"
"I currently live at Damon's mansion" I replied hiding the true reason I was there.
"And why are you there? Are you a maid of some sought?" He asked.
"No..." I hesitated to give him a direct response but went ahead anyways, "I was their surrogate for nine months, I was carrying Xand.... Damon and Elizabeth baby"
"I heard the baby was delivered...."
I cut him again to give the straightforward truth, "I am currently pregnant with Damon's child, we both had an affair during his wedding with Alicia saga, currently we are separated" I said briefly remembering the kiss we both shared hours ago.
"So why are you two separated? Is it because Elizabeth is back?"
We were going off course with the questions he was throwing at me. I personally didn't really know why we both broke up, I did know Damon was using that greed and pity talk to cover up the real reason, if not he would have restrained himself from getting close to me but he just can't.
He still didn't know how much he was hurting me each time he tried to get closer to me which is why I wanted to avoid him.
I was starting to feel uncomfortable and the detective took notice as he stopped with the questions, "I'm sorry... I really don't understand why you would want to see him get punished...."
"Get punished? This entire diary has nothing to do with Damon, I know you really want to see Rachel's be put behind bars but this is an entirely different case that I am entrusting in your hands" I said swallowing hard, my hand were already sweating as I waited for the detective to speak.
Gbam! The sound made from when he hit the table with his hand.
"Whoever had given you this note must be aware of the atrocities committed in the mansion, you said you receive most of this note when you returned back to the mansion, right?"
I nodded my head in response.
"Have you bothered checking out the handwriting of any of them in the mansion?, if this person wants to bring down Elizabeth and her counterpart, he or she must have a reason, have you notice anything amiss about the people living in the mansion, lately?"
I squinted my eyes trying to remember anything that could aid this case, "There is this cousin of theirs who just returned today, he told me his name was Link but turns out it was Brett, other than that he made emphasis on the words "see all" I thought he was joking around but now that I think of it, he was a bit weird, he knew my name and what I was thinking...."
"Is he psychic?" The detective asked.
"I really don't know but he does do a lot of meditating as per yoga instructor and yes! His room is at the last floor and it's the largest room there, I wondered why Damon didn't use that room instead...."
"That will be enough, you will have to keep a close eye on him from now on, also do me a favor and check out his handwriting. If what's written in this diary is correct then whoever had written it must still have Elizabeth torned pages with him or her"
I agreed with him. "I shall report to you if anything suspicious do comes up" I said packing up my stuff, while allowing the detective to snap the pages of the diary before taking it from him after he was done.
"Ehm... Here is my number, if you do have something to say regarding this case you would still have to follow protocol, and my name is Alvarez" he called out his number and I pressed it on my phone before saving it with his name.
"Thank you for all of your help" I said before leaving. I took a cab that led to Damon's mansion but not directly at his gate.
As I trekked from the first gate to the main gate, I could feel a sense of satisfaction and relief though this wasn't how I had envisioned it to be, this was still enough for me. The fact that I already knew Brett or Link might also have something up his sleeve like everyone else shows that I have been invested in this family too much.
It didn't even take a day for him to appear as my suspect.
When I got to the mansion, there were a group of band playing the instrument and some songs as if they were welcoming someone in. I struggled past everyone blocking the passage way and saw who everyone in the mansion was welcoming so dearly.
With her crocodile tears she was able to get everybody's affection as they gathered around her to console her. "Two times my wedding...." She sobbed wiping her tears with a handkerchief, "it's fine, now that I'm back here I promise it will only be business related, nothing more. Every feelings I had for Damon has already been squashed, now I will focus on the business Beatriz and I have decided to do, so please support us" she said smiling to the camera with her ever faithful friend Jeanette by her side.