Kapitel 43: Chapter. Domestic Abuse

Something is not right, Carah studying the old files of her father some out of the mysterious box and the ones that her friends filed and was confused that some things doesn't match up. As if something is missing.

"Dad what have you come up to that cause you your life." Carah was thinking as she paces the floor of her study, her mind drifted back to the time when she was thirteen years old, the first time her father took her to witness a court hearing,,, then her phone rang that brought her back to the present. It was Shiela " what could be so pressing that she called in this hour" she thought, what she heard after lifting her phone to answer the call, leaved her in horror. " Carah help." Sheila's voice in pain as if struggling to breath so low and weak. "Where are you? I'll come right away."

"Home....Help me...."

"Hang in there, I'm coming." she hurriedly took her purse and her keys, knock in her mother's door to tell her she's leaving. Sheila's place is just fifteen minutes drive from her house in this time of the night there is no traffic to delay her trip, she drove hurriedly. When she pulled over the driveway her heart was pounding hard.

The sight that she saw when she open the door of Sheila's apartment was appalling she was lying in the floor, bruises and cuts in some parts of her body, her legs are bleeding and traces of blood on the floor giving the impression that she crawled from the kitchen to get to her phone. she passed out and unmoving, the place is in total chaos with broken glasses on the floor. She immediately called for an ambulance and rush her friend to the nearest hospital. She suspected the culprit to be her live-in partner "this time I will nail you bastard with or without Sheila's approval." Domestic violence is a crime and punishable by law in addition, Carah has been secretly gathering information and proofs of her friend's boyfriend illegal activities.

She took her phone from her purse and called someone."Boris I want you to investigate on the incident on Sheila's apartment and find the whereabouts of Hugo Martin.... Yes the very one I assigned you before, call me for any development... Yes thank you , keep me posted." as she finished with her call she saw two police officer walking towards her.

"You must be Miss Carah Jade Ho, the nurse in the nurses' station told us we can find you here."

"Yes I am Carah."

"We are here to investigate on the incident on the apartment if Miss Sheila as the neighbors said you are the one who brought her to the hospital."

"Yes I'm Carah the victim works as my secretary in a law firm." she replied.

"Do you have any idea what had transpired, the neighbors said that they heard commotion coming from her apartment, and saw a man minutes later getting out of the place carrying a huge bag, and was described as her live-in partner."

" I'm sorry officer, I don't know what happen before I arrived at the apartment my immediate concerns was to bring the victim to the nearest hospital. " she replied.

"Thanks , Miss Ho please inform us if you have additional information regarding this incident, can you supply us with the information of the next of kin of the victim?"

" She is an orphan as far as I know she has a distant aunt in the country. I'm sorry officers I can't supply you anymore than that, but I'll keep in touch."

Just as Carah left the hospital the following day after making the arrangement for Sheila's confinement, Boris called to confirmed that it was indeed Hugo who made the attack on her friend causing the miscarriage of her baby denying it was his, and took her money. She was fuming with anger and order her men to pick up Hugo and interrogate him on the matters of his illegal activities. "Make him confess so that we can charge him and put him behind bars, we will build a case against him its about time." She concluded.