Chapter 8. –A presentiment of the truth.
Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
~Anna Kamienska
Liza's POV
And at that moment, I was absolutely sure. It was him. He had taken my little girl away! "He came back." I whispered. "He said he would, but I… I…" I was looking for words but I just didn't know what to say.
"Your ex-husband?" Officer Vega asked. I nodded. "Why do you think he would hurt your daughter?" he asked. "I don't think so, I know so." My voice remained completely calm. "But why?" Was his logical response.
"He hates me." I said. "He feels I betrayed him by leaving. I hurt him, now he wants to hurt me. There's nothing worse he could do to me then…" I couldn't say it. I felt a tear running down my face. "And he knows that."
Officer Vega laid a comforting hand on my arm as he asked: "Has he ever threatened you or your daughter?" Just a moment ago I had been so calm, but now I could hardly see through my tears. "Yes" I whispered. I remembered everything. How could I ever forget?
Flashback.
"Don't think you'll get away with it, you bitch. I will find you, you can count on that. And when I do, I'll take everything from you. I'll destroy you, like you did to me. Don't think I'll spare her, just because she is my daughter. Don't forget she is your daughter too, Liza. And for that, she will die."
End flashback.
I felt sick. "Can you tell me about it?" I took a deep breath. "He changed. So much. He wasn't like that at all, at first. But later…" This wasn't the point at all. "Jade, she… She just never could do anything right with him. He was always angry. We tried. We did, but..." Another tear streamed down my cheek. And another, and another.
"It became worse every day. We just, we couldn't live with him anymore. I decided to get a divorce, for Jade's sake. But it drove him mad. He had never been so angry. He said he'd destroy me, like I had done to him." My voice was shaking so bad, I wondered if he could still understand me. "He said he would kill Jade."
I couldn't stop myself from crying anymore. I didn't want to anymore either. I felt Tori's arms around me, and I laid my head on her shoulder. I heard Beck's voice, but I couldn't understand him. We needed to find my baby.
We had to.
