CHAPTER 06

MARSHA'S POV:-

"So, will you tell us the story of the most difficult case you have solved? We would like to know. Also, it would polish our skills." Sara asked captain Falcon and I barely controlled my laugh. She was fooling him and I knew he would buy it. He was one of those people who seek audience and fame. Such a foolish man to work with us. I knew him very well.

"Of course I will tell you. About seven years ago, it was the first week of September. I was just a step away to become the captain. A man came to the precinct reporting for a missing girl. The captain of the precinct handed me that case along with ten officers to help me. I was in charge of leading them and I was my first case to lead a team by myself.." He started telling us the story and we both pulled the chairs closer to his seat to sit beside him.

"What happened next?" I asked in an exciting tone. Both I and Sara were excited to know the real story. After so many years, I was finally getting something about Sierra.

"In the start, it really did not look like a missing person case, I was sure about it. We had searched her room and found a secret diary. It had all her secrets. Including how her step mother tortured her and how her father stopped paying attention towards her. I decided to hide the diary. Because I did not know if her father was not involved in all this. I was not even sure if she was alive or not." He replied and Sara and I both exchanged looks. We looked back at him and he pulled that diary out of his drawer. He gave it to us then continued telling us that story.

"A day later, one of the officers gave me a paper that was thrown into the fireplace. But it was not burned at all. I opened the paper and found something weird written into that paper. It said, don't worry, Sierra. The angels are coming. They will rescue you. She had written it about ten times into that paper but the last line was different. It said, I will be gone but tell the angels to protect Mira from that monster. He will abduct her too then torture her like he always does to me." He said and I pinched the back of my thigh to control my tears. It almost felt like she knew that I would be in trouble too. Sara noticed that I was not able to ask him any questions so she asked him.

"So that's how you were able to learn that the girl was abducted? I mean, I am sure it was not a missing person case. It was truly an abduction case." She asked him the same question I wanted to ask him. He nodded his head and leaned back on his chair.

"Yes! That was how I learned that she was abducted. I suspected both her father and her step mother. And they were both arrested as soon as we learned that she was abducted. We asked them questions but none of them said a single thing." He replied and I frowned in confusion.

"Why did you suspect her father and her step mom? And what about her mother, was she not alive?" I asked him and he looked at me.

"Her step mother had a brother. He used to live with that family. His name was Brian Doyle. Actually, he was the one who filed the case against her father and his own sister. He told us how much they tortured her and all. And about her biological mother, she left her with her father. She did not even take divorce. Her father said that she laid on the bed with him at night but in the morning, she was gone with her belongings. She left a letter that said that Sierra's face reminded her of the favor her sister had done for her. And she just can't live the weight on her shoulders of that favor." He replied and I frowned again. I just did not know how a mother could leave her baby for a favor.