Chapter 25

I take the phone out of the package and I touch some buttons on the side and it lights up.  

After some time everything was presented. I headed to the dial pad. I was delighted at that point when I dialed the number. I phoned it and it rang a few times. It's wonderful that it has been set up for me already. The call gets answered.  

“Thorne...Hi”, I say initially.  

“I see you got your phone”, I chuckle a bit. 

“Yes, thank you. I didn't anticipate it and it's extremely beautiful”, I say. 

“My pleasure”, He says. 

“I do miss home though”, And him. I miss him too. 

“The house is peaceful without you”

“Ah, so I was trouble?”, he chuckles across the phone and I feel butterflies burrowing in my stomach. 

“Yes. You don't listen”

“I do but you make things difficult at times”

“Mmmh”, He says. I hear him sigh. 

“I know you have some questions about why you are there but trust me okay?”

“Will I meet my family?”, I ask 

“Yes, once I have figured out things about that you will”

“Things about your not-so-good side income?”, he groans. 

“Yes”

“Mmh” Kaitlin...”

“Yes?”

“I...I L...Bye”, he hangs up much too fast and I take the phone from my ear before his mother comes back. 

Thorne is a hot and cold temperature adjuster if I may remark. You may not comprehend him from time to time at all yet he is just something else.   

NARRATED

It is another frigid day in the opposite half of the country. Jason was at home in his closet examining his vision board. He didn't know what to do but he had some type of idea to go about this case of his. He hasn't been in this room in years. He started little when he was still in high school to try and find his sister but it wasn't as sufficiently resourceful for him until he joined the police force. He gave up along the road but now he is back in the room attempting to piece together information that may potentially lead him to his sister. It has been a month since he contacted Kaitlin and asked her to come down to the police station but she hasn't appeared. It raised some worries to him regarding her location and why she hadn't answered.  

He stood in front of the board and folded his arms gazing at all the information and bits of facts that he had collected. 

“What are you looking at?”, He turned his gaze towards the doorway and spotted his father.  

“Working on an old case”, Jason says.  

“You would swear you have been a detective for years full of experience”, Don adds and comes into the room and looks at the vision board.  

“It has been 15 years Jason ”, Don says. 

“I might be onto something Dad. We might locate her this time. I am positive”

“She might be dead or in another country”

“Dad I know what I am saying. I know why I am on”

“Meaning?”

“What if Thorne's sudden wife is my sister and she has been missing for years? If so then the issue is who stole her and where she has been all these years. How did she meet Thorne?”

“People have the same names”, Don says. 

“You may be right on that but I haven't met a Kaitlin in a long time so I am working on this to be sure”, Don stares at his son. 

He knew convincing him differently to terminate this search was going to be a bit of a problem for him as Jason never backs down lightly.  

“Mmmh”, he needed to employ a private investigator who would dig into Kaitlin for him, Don thought. He needed to discover answers before his son.  

KAITLIN

I dust my hands and adjust my sun hat correctly to hide my face and I grab the garden fork plunge it into the earth and start prepping it before I put the plant inside the soil and bury it within. Thorne mother walked out of the home through the sliding door a she set the cold juice on the tiny outdoor table.  

“Kaitlin, here is some juice”, I gaze up at her. 

“I am coming Ma”, I stood up from the floor and dusted my dress with my hand and also my hands and headed towards her.  

“You are dedicating yourself to my garden more than I am these days”

“I enjoy doing it”, I say 

She grins and I go and sit down at one of the garden chairs and I take some cold juice and sip on it.  

“Thank you”

“You have been overworking yourself‘”, I simply want something to divert me, and doing green work appears to be it.  

“I just miss home”, I am not lying. I do miss home.  

Some days I can get through to Thorne and some I can't. I don't know why but it is quite a distraction. I have developed new methods to operate this phone and it kept me occupied for just a few days as well.  

“How are you feeling now?”, I have been feeling dizzy and nauseous recently. She believes it's fluid as I consume much of sweet foods daily.  

“I am feeling better now that I am working on the garden”

“You miss your husband?”, She adds and I slowly nod and groan. 

Yes, I do. Just lived with him for a short length of time yet I already miss him.  

“Maybe we should take you to the doctor tomorrow and find out what is wrong", Mrs. Nathaniel suggests. 

“Thank you, Ma, for the hospitality and being kind”

“You are my daughter. You should feel at home”, that warmed my heart.  

“Thank you”, I proceeded to drink my beverage and then once I was done I went back to being occupied with the garden for some time. I love it as well and the fact that Mrs Nathaniel advised that I have some little activities I may do throughout the day is what had brought me here to do some yard work. I don't know why I picked it but now I adore it without any question. I want may go home though quite soon and finally get to see my parents as well. How will they accept me? Will they even accept me? Will my mother adore me? Why does my father not want me? That is also the question.  

As I am busy my phone rings from the pocket of my dress and I pull it out from there. I look at it and it is Sabelo. I glance at my mother-in-law and she stares at me as well. 

“Let me leave you to that call”, she walks off after that.  

I answer the phone and place it on my ear.  

“Hello”, I say and I hear him let out a sigh on the other side of the line.  

“Kaitlin ”, He speaks.   

“Thorne ”, I retain my quiet thereafter.  

“How are you?”

“I am okay, you?”

“I am okay” “You have been quiet”, I reply with a bit of a strong tone interwoven through my voice.  

“I know. I just...”

“I don't like excuses, Thorne. It irritates me because whatever is going on there or whatever purpose you brought me here is not good for me.”

“What do you want?”, I didn't anticipate that, really I did not.  

“I want to come back. Don't get me wrong, your parents are nice”, I smile just thinking of how his mother has been treating me so far.  

“Mmmh, you will. Don't worry”

“When?”

“You will Kaitlin ”

“Mmmh”

I stay silent.  

“I was just checking up on you”

“Okay”, I hang up after that and return my phone where it was.  

I finished my beverage rose and picked up the tray to carry it inside the house when I heard people conversing. I arrived in the kitchen and there was Thorne's mother and some man I didn't know there.