And his eyes were wide when he read its contents.
"Mr. Bush, my godfather can never conspire to kill my parents and I trust him. He is our only family left, so I want to meet him. I have heard that he is in a coma and has been lying unconscious for almost a year. Please Mr. Bush, I request you to give me your permission."
Damian cleared his throat and looked at Hudson with a confused expression and asked him hesitantly. "Can't-Miss Callie speak?"
Hudson held my hand and said softly. " Yes Mr. Bush, my Callie can't speak but she can hear you."
"I apologize, I did not know that." He whispered apologetically and said. "But I am sorry, I can't help you in this regard as, Mr. Logan has escaped from the remand hospital this afternoon."
"What !" Hudson exclaimed loudly and I was staring at Damian Bush with my mouth wide open.
"But wasn't he in coma?" Hudson enquired.
"Apparently he was but looks like he came out of a coma and his brother helped him to escape from the remand hospital." Damian said and shook his head in frustration as if he was going mad.
I looked at Hudson and urged him to leave, as I was very uncomfortable.
Hudson understood and was about to leave when they heard some commotion outside the office and Damian's secretary barged in.
"What is it Macy? Can't you see I am busy !" Damian looked helplessly at his secretary.
"Sir, Mr. Jordan Brooke from the FBI is here to see you and he is trying to barge into your office. What should I do?" Macy said a little embarrassed.
"Well tell him to freaking wait Macy, as you can see I am entreating my guest." Damian said with anger in his voice."
"It's okay Mr. Bush, we will not bother you anymore and take our leave, as the sole purpose of our visit was fruitless. Please do inform us if you find him." Hudson said urgently.
"I am sorry Miss Callie , I know you wanted to meet your godfather but he has escaped. I am warning you not to entertain him, if he tries to contact you, as he can be dangerous and if he tries to contact you, please do let us know for your own safety." Damian looked at me with concern and warned me and somehow I felt he was a nice guy, so nodded my head in agreement and followed Hudson , as he shook Damian's hand and we moved out.
But coming out we bumped into a very tall and sturdy guy and looked at Hudson and me with interest as he crossed us and went inside the commissioner's office.
Hudson looked at his retreating back with a strange expression and holding my hand firmly, he walked, out of the commissioner's office.
s they rounded a corner, they almost collided with Steffanie William and Jackson Harris.
Hudson smiled. " Aunt Steff ,what a surprise and hugged her tightly."
Steffanie hugged him back lovingly but as soon as she pulled away, she looked at Callie .
"Callie how are you darling? And Hudson what are you doing in the commissioner's office?" She asked.
I took out my pad and wrote. "I am fine and Hudson just accompanied me to the commissioner's office."
"But why? What happened? Did someone try to attack you again?" Steffanie asked with concern.
Hudson held my hand firmly, when I was about to write again and said. "Aunt Steff, Callie wanted to ask the commissioner about the progress of Wanda's attempted murder case, she was worried about her. She thinks the attacker might attack her again."
Steffanie moved forward and held Callie in her arms. "Oh, Callie , you have just met Wanda but you are worried about her. You are such a kind-hearted woman. And you were the one who saved her or the killer would have killed her mercilessly."
I pulled out of her arm and wrote. " But I wish I could have seen his face but sadly I fainted or the killer might have been caught by now."
As I was showing my pad to Steffanie, Jackson Harris took the pad from me and read it.
He looked at me with concern and said. " Callie , it's good that you didn't see his face or you would be in grave danger and don't worry Steff and I am there to investigate the matter and will solve this mystery pretty soon. He smiled and assured me.
I nodded and smiled back.
"But aunt Steff, why are both of you here?" Hudson asked.
"Well there has been another homicide and the body was found an hour ago at the lakeside residence. That woman was really young. So we wanted to know about the progress of the case. At this time I think even I will help with the investigation, so I just came to speak to the chief about it, as I think the killer was the same one who tried to kill Wanda." She explained.
"Okay, aunt Steff do let me know if you make any progress. Now it's better we leave." Hudson said politely.
"Hudson come down for dinner someday, along with Callie after Wanda's health improves, after all she is part of the family now." Jackson smiled and said softly.
I blushed and my cheeks turned red.
"Okay Uncle." Hudson agreed and after bidding them farewell, we got into Hudson 's car and drove away.
As soon as we headed towards my parent's home, my phone started vibrating. I took it out of my bag and saw it was from Jayden. I connected it with Bluetooth and spoke.
"Hey big brother, Where are you?"
"I am home Callie , when will you be back it's late." Jayden spoke from the other end.
"Jayden, we just came out of the commissioner's office, Hudson is taking me home we will reach there after twenty minutes." I said softly.
"Commissioner's office? Why did you go there? Is there something you are not telling me Callie ? Jayden asked with concern.
I relented as I shouldn't have mentioned it, but I had to tell my him, so I narrated the whole incident to him."
Suddenly Hudson 's phone started ringing and he picked it up and spoke very softly. And I could see his worried look.
"Jayden don't worry, I will reach home soon, then I will tell you everything. I am hanging up now." I said and ended the call.
Hudson's face had gone pale.
"Hudson what's wrong ! I exclaimed softly.
"Its dad, he had locked himself in the dock house and is not coming out. Callie can you take a taxi home, I will drop you somewhere as I need to rush to the Villa or he might do something to himself." Hudson said urgently.
"Oh, Hudson , I am not getting down anywhere lets go there together." I said determinedly not giving him any chance to object.
Hudson did not say anything and drove really fast and within few minutes we reached the outskirts of the town where the villa is situated.
Hudson got down and ran forward and I had to follow suit.
As we reached the dock house, we saw Maria and the other helpers were knocking and telling him to come out but no reply came from inside.
With great difficulty with the help of the helpers, Hudson broke the door and got inside to see a crushed beer can all around him and he was holding a shotgun in his hand and was mumbling something.
"Dad ! Hudson exclaimed with sadness and alarm and went towards him.
"Hudson ," Leo said in a daze and said. " Your mother is waiting for me, I need to go with her. I love her and I can't live without her. "He said and pointed the gun on his chest.
"Dad, no....
Hudson and I held my mouth, as I was about to scream.
But Hudson was very fast he grabbed the gun and threw it away on time and hugged him tightly, while Leo cried like a baby and Hudson was shaking him and stroking his hair lovingly.
"It's okay dad, cry it out." He whispered stroking his hair and hugging him tightly.
I looked on, unsure of what to do. Maria and the other helpers went outside and I was embarrassed at witnessing such a private moment. Finally, I simply looked down and closed my eyes, silently releasing my own tears in silence.
About an hour later, I sat on the porch sipping a warm can of beer. I was barefoot, my shoes next to me. I absently rub my toes and stared out into the darkness that was occasionally broken by the wink of a lightning bug. I swatted at a mosquito and then wiped out a trickle of sweat that ran down my leg. I was holding the beer can to my forehead and contemplated getting into the house and switching on the AC and trying to fall asleep. Maria had already shown me the room where I would stay for the night, as I had informed Jayden about what happened here and he advised me to stay back, as would be a long drive for me and Hudson needed me by his time at that time .
The door opened and Hudson appeared. He had changed into faded short jeans and an untucked sleeve shirt. He was barefoot as well. He held a plastic package strip with two beer dangling from it, he sat down beside me.
"How is he? I asked softly.
Hudson shrugged." Sleeping, or at least trying to."
I looked around and whispered. "Is it safe for me to talk to you here because I'm scared that somebody is spying on us." Then I told Hudson what happened in the morning when we had come to visit his father.
Immediately Hudson called up someone and instructed that person to increase security around the house and to make sure that no trespassers were allowed with ten kilometers radius from the house. Then he ended the call.