Ria Episode 50

Ria Episode 50

SHE’S HURTING ?
••••• Three Days Later •••••
♣ LINT CORP ♣
IAN POV ?
“Sir you can’t go in -“
I heard Grace voice
The door opened and Ethan was there.
“I’m sorry Sir – I tried to stop him from coming in” she rushed out her words.
Ethan sniffed and ran his hands into his hair. Anger surged through me at the sight of him In My office.
Why was he here?
Oh! To boast of the fact that he was Ria’s old friend and she trusted him even though she only met him about a week ago.
“It okay Grace.. You can go”
She looked at Ethan before walking out.
“You have the gut to barge into my office -” I gritted
“Who do you think you are? huh?..Fine you own the largest industry In The state..Number 3 in USA.. So what? Does that give you the right to treat Ria like she isn’t worth anything?!” He yelled
“Get out” I said almost standing up from my chair.
“You sit you butt in that chair! I’m not going out of this place until you listen to everything I wanna say!” He snarled
Like he had compelled me..I sat back in my chair. He meant business but I was ready to face him.
He relaxed a bit when I sat in my chair.
“You have no idea how hurts Ria is right now – she hasn’t been feeling good,she couldn’t eat properly,she’s finding it hard to sleep – Why? Because she’s still finding hard to accept that you left her” he pointed at me
“And you left because you found out she was Lucas’s sex machine.. coward! You never gave her the chance to explain why she didn’t tell you Everything. You don’t know what she went through six years ago! And have you ever asked yourself after listening to that false recording, if it was possible for a 16 years old blind girl to go around sleeping with men?! And does Ria look like a whore to you?! And didn’t she tell you she came to Chicago with her female friend?!… Well I’m sure she told you but even at that you still believed it when that man said she left Idaho with a man!”
He came closer to my desk. I saw anger and pain in his expression.
“He claimed that she was sleeping around as if she could see. And you -” his voice trailed
I noticed the tear that slid down his left cheek as he wiped it quickly.
“You have no idea what she went through…and you really don’t know what it feels to lose ones parents” he paused
“Ria told you but you never cared to ask how they died. You’re sitting there grieving that Ria didn’t tell you anything whereas you never cared to know..you were only concerned on how to fulfill her dreams so you could rule her world..and be the main man!”
“That’s not true!” I yelled
“Then what?! Huh? Tell me?”
I clenched my fist
“I wanted to know about her past but she wasn’t ready to tell me about and I don’t want to pressure her!”
“What about now?..if you wanted to know about her past then you would have given Ria the chance to explain everything the day you listened to that recording!”
He paused and continued
“Six years ago Ria lost her patents”
His voice was calm.
“The MML gang killed her parents and the leader Lucas took Ria away”
My heart sank.
I listened to Ethan without interruption as he told me Ria’s story.
What have I done?!
Why didn’t I remember that fear I had seen in Ria’s eyes – fear of being touched by a male. Why didn’t I reason that someone who sleeps around with men won’t have such fear!
Ria’s fears came from what Lucas did to her!
And I never imagined that fear to come from something terrible like what Lucas did to Ria!
I placed my palm on my face
How come I believed that recording easily without thinking clearly?!
It was a lie!
A blind girl couldn’t have done it!
I didn’t think about it!
“She went through all that as a blind girl.. And the most painful aspect of it is finding out that your uncle killed your parents because of a mere inheritance”
I looked up at him trying to makes me sense of his words.
“Her uncle ordered MML gang to kill them”
Anger crashed over me and i clenched my fist
“Frederick Robert murdered her parents”
“What?!”
What? Frederick Robert?
I shot him a confused look.
“Yes the same Frederick.. Drake’s Father” he blurted
I could hardly believe his words.
Drake and Ria are cousins!
She met him at the party but she didn’t say anything!
No, oh my God!
That was why she had cried that night!
Yes..she asked Drake if he was related to Frederick and he said yes..saying yes changed her. Finding out that Drake was the son of the man who murdered her parents!
Fury and anger crashed over me..hot and thick..my teeth ground together – I would crave that bastard in pieces for what he had done to her.
“I can forgive everything but I will never forgive anyone that hurts Ria. Ian if you truly love Ria,then you will go to her and do all you can to put Frederick in Jail”
He spun on his heel and left my office.
My world was upside down. My heart went out to Ria.
I got out of the chair and grabbed my car keys as I rushed out of the office.
My whole focus was on reaching Ria. I felt i had added more to her pain by leaving her. I never meant to hurt her.
I’ve made such mistake by believing that damn tape, by getting mad at her for not opening up to me just because I was jealous she told Ethan and staying away from her.
Will Ria forgive me?
I took an unsteady breathe. I realized that it wasn’t pain I felt now but fear…fear that I’d never be in Ria world again.
“Don’t let it be like that..”
I’d never been the type to pray frequently, but all the way down to RRC I said the prayer over and over again.
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^^^^^ IDAHO ^^^^^
AUTHOR POV ??
He sat in his room thinking back to why he was jobless,why he had moved in to the slum,why his love had left him since he couldn’t get a well paid job. He had wanted Justice for that Family and he turned in enough evidence to summon the culprit and they accepted it but he got fired the very next day. And ever since then his life had been miserable…for six years now.
Derrick wiped his tears as he gathered the paper works to burn them in a small fire place. It was pointless keeping evidences he put together six years ago. The real prove which they fabricated.
He knew the truth but he couldn’t do anything about it. And The case was closed.
He was about dropping the papers in the small fire place in his home when he heard a knock on his door.
Who could it be?
He wondered
He closed his eyes as he thought of his landlord standing outside his door with thugs ready to throw out his load.
The knock came again.
He stopped to think of what to do but then he realized that the knock was soft.
The landlord doesn’t knock gently. He dropped the papers back in the box,wiped his face before going to the door.
He peered through the small hole on the door. It wasn’t the landlord. He saw a figure on hood.
He stepped backward and grabbed a mop and went back to the door. He peered again,the figure was still there.
“Detective Derrick.. I know you are in there” the voice whispered
“Open up i don’t have much time..we need to talk”
He knocked again.
Derrick relaxed a bit when he didn’t sense danger.
He grabbed the knob and waited for few seconds before opening the door.
No one walked in.
Derrick looked out and saw a guy there with his hands up in the air. He meant no harm.
“Can I come in?” He asked
Derrick studied him and nodded slowly.
Derrick closed the door and locked it when he walked in.
“Who are you?” Derrick asked the guy who was scanning the room. He turned to Derrick.
“An ex convict” he replied removing his hood in the process
“No name?” Derrick asked
He stared at Derrick
“Matthew Alley”
He answered
Then Derrick settled on the old couch.
“Why are you here?” He asked
“To give you something”
Derrick raised his eyebrow
“What?”
Matthew tucked his hands in the hood pocket and waited for Derrick to offer him a seat.
Derrick gestured for him to sit down feeling a bit embarrassed at the condition of the couches in his small apartment.
Matthew brought out a devise from his pocket and explained things to Derrick.
He waited for a response after he finished .
“I’m sorry I can’t help you. I’m not a detective anymore”
“I made a promised to my late that i would find you and deliver it to you -” he stood up and dropped the device and a note on the table.
“You can throw it out” Matthew said before walking out of Derrick’s house.
He was lost in thought
Another evidence. The real evidence from the horse mouth enough to reveal the truth. But there was nothing he could do about it. The case has been closed for six years now.
He pressed the button on the devise and it played. He listened to it.
She was alive?!
He whispered
And everything he heard echoed in his head. He almost threw it in the fire but held back.
“This is the only chance to make him pay for his crimes”
A voice whispered at the back of his mind.
He can’t give it anyone.. They will kill him if he turned it in to the police. So he would wait for her to find him.
He stood up and dropped the stuffs in the box.
Derrick grabbed his jacket and made his way out of the house.
He would find out if that girl is truly alive.
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