A/N: Sherry rocks!
Chapter 10.
I had tried to lay low.
I had tried to keep myself out of trouble, and my mind free from all thoughts of Emmett, for the baby's sake, and I was doing well. I was doing so fucking well until Dick called me.
I was out on a shopping spree with Alice and Esme at some designer boutique when I got the call. I excused myself when I saw his name flash on the screen and walked out of earshot.
"Dick?" I asked, my voice trembling in anticipation of what he might say.
"I've found something."
"What did you find?" I whimpered, a thousand scenarios running through my head.
Was he alive or was he dead?
"I can't talk over the phone." I nodded. Of course, he couldn't. It wasn't safe. I should know that. "I want to meet."
"Where?"
"Same place as last time."
"When?"
"In half an hour."
I sighed. I would be pushed to make it to the park within half an hour, but I was terrified that if I told him I couldn't make it then he wouldn't wait. "Okay, half an hour is fine."
I hung up the phone and walked over to Alice and Esme, both of them were watching me intently.
"Everything okay dear?" Esme asked, concerned. "You look a little peaked," she said, as she ran her hand down my cheek.
I nodded. "I'm okay. Something has come up … I have to go."
"Is everything okay?" Alice asked, repeating her mother's question. I knew then I wasn't going to get away with such a dismissive answer.
I forced the biggest smile I could muster and looked them both in the eye. "Everything is fine … There's a meeting I forgot about. They are demanding that I come now or we lose the contract."
Edward had been trying to get me involved in managing his restaurant group since our lives had settled down. He thought it would help occupy my time, and probably stop my searching for Emmett as well. I had meant to look into the restaurants and see what I could do with them, but I hadn't as of yet. I just hoped his family didn't know that.
Alice and Esme, both kissed me and wished me well, telling me that they would see me at the family dinner on Sunday. Esme was going to get the cooks make something extra special to celebrate our good news. Edward's whole family were ecstatic about the baby.
If they were aware of my lack of activity in Edward's business, they never said anything. To which I was relieved. I hurried out to my car and tossed everything inside, flooring it all to the way to the park.
I arrived five minutes late, but thankfully Dick's car was still there. I parked mine behind his and went in search of him, but I couldn't find him anywhere.
I was starting to get annoyed, agitated. I needed to know what he had found.
I pulled my phone out my purse and called him. A few seconds later I heard a phone ringing behind the bushes where I was standing.
I was overcome with a feeling of dread as I followed the noise.
That was where I found Dick or should I say Dick's dead body. He had a knife stuck in his chest, with a note attached that read 'Stop looking'.
Someone had killed him.
Someone had silenced him, but for what?
What had he found?