Herbert Smith Aka Judge Winters Secretary pov
A friend of mine texted me that someone had been snooping around my apartment for a while now. He recommended that I leave as soon as I could. He thought I might be in danger according to him. He also recommended I take everything with me work related or otherwise and use cash to cover my tracks. He said the guys looked scary and huge.
I have known this guy since the judge hired me on, he would come to the office a lot and talk while the judge was in court. He and I have keys to each others place and hes used my car several times while I was at work. Hes a part time locksmith and has helped me when my keys got lost before. Luckily we found them under my desk after looking for several days. He saw them under the bottom drawer of my desk. I thought it odd since I sat close there and kept looking in that area and he suddenly finds them.
I also noticed some blank forms for releasing of prisoners were gone as well, but people are always taking things out my files for the judge. So I dismissed it as that, but also noticed other weird things happening. Like my computer turned on in the morning, when I know it was turned off when I left.
I set up my system to notify me if anything was touched an alarm would ping me and it had tha morning. I called security and they said they didn't see anything amiss on the cctvs. But let me know that they went down for a few hours before everyone arrived this morning. Okay oddity nimber two, keys lost and then found where I kept looking for them.
I decided to clear my apartment if all papers of mine which nothing pertained to my work. I write mystery books and have sent them off to a small publishing company from on line. So I grab everything and leave my apartment. I am walking to my car when I notice a strange car driving through the neighborhood. It was the car and the guys my friend described to me. Luckily they don't see me at all. I get into my car with all my things packed up.
I call Elliott a friend from school and ask if he can put me up for a while. He says sure just come by his work to grab his extra keys. He says I might want to buy some groceries sonce hes at his brothers fir a while. He says if I need I can take over his lease since he and his wife are moving into a huge home soon. I say give me the infirmation and I will let you know soon.
I am settled in and go to get groceries, he had beer and chips here lol. Single man supplies and hes not single anymore and has 6 babies at once. I heard he got a nice settlement from his boys kidnapping from the estate. But they thought the people were going to kill his newborn son.
I turn on the news and I took time off for emergency leave, I sent notice by a notice left in the judges box. Hopefully she'll be sent a replacement soon. She waited three months for me to get there.
It has been nearly a month since I had to leave my life, luckily I have money hidden back fir things like this. My parents saud to always keep cash ready in case you need to hide for some reason. They never had to hide and until now I haven't either. But after seeing those guys I was glad my friend gave me the heads up.
As I turn on the news I hear Several officials have been arrested in connection with illegal release of known felons. Then I see Judge Winters face along with Judge Lincolns mug(him I can see as guilty, Winters no way) I handled all her paperwork and saw her docketts and no way were there any releases of felons. It also says I am missing, well sort of, but I see Cyrus and Richard Lincoln along with Cantrell. Okay I know these guys and have heard bad, bad things about them. Something doesn't add up here. I hear my phone ring and go to answer it and change my mind when I see who it is.
