Chapter 158 Deadly Discoveries And Possibilities

Chapter 158 Deadly Discoveries And Possibilities
Sade

I park the car in the driveway instead of the garage since I am going to be going back to the hospital fairly quickly. I don’t think I can be away from Rain now that things are so volatile. I need to be there for her and help her any way I can. I rub my hands over my face, feeling my lack of sleep weigh on me. 

As I get out and head to the front door, something catches my eye. I have been back and forth a few times, but mostly at night, or from the garage and not the front. There is some kind of bright color, and I walk over to investigate what it could possibly be. There is something pink underneath a bush. 

When I squat down, I am surprised to find a small disposable cell phone. It’s an old flip phone, and who the hell would carry one like this nowadays? I flip it open and am surprised that there is nothing personal on it. As I go through it, I am realizing this is a burner phone. Who the hell would use a burner phone here? 

Then it suddenly hits me like a ton of bricks. Burner phones are often used to set off explosives. Could someone have used this phone to send the signal for the planted bomb on the SUV that Barnabas, Samuel, and Niel were all in? If so, how the hell did it end up here under this fucking bush? 

Then the answer comes to me, and my breath freezes in my lungs. I stand up with the phone in my grip, and then I shove it in my pocket and look around, making sure no one is out here to see me. Then I rush into the house and go to my office. I have been so caught up with everything with Rain that I haven’t personally had anything to do with the investigation into the explosion. 

So, now I pull up security camera footage that has been stored. The storage banks I have hold exactly three weeks of footage. So, I have three weeks still available that I can look over and see if there are any clues about this fucking cell phone. 

I know I need to gather up pictures and return to the hospital quickly, but right now I have to check things out and then grab my laptop so I can start to check out the footage while I am at the hospital with Rain. I gather it up after I have checked and made sure the footage is ready to be viewed. I shove it in the bag, then gather some photo albums, and go back to my car, keeping the phone with me in my pocket. 

Rain is still asleep when I get there, so I pull my laptop out of the bag and set it on my lap as I pull up the cloud where I sent the footage so I could access it. I start combing through the footage. I fast forward past anything that doesn’t show Rain. Then I see what I was looking for. Four days ago, I see Rain suddenly pause. The look on her face softens out and becomes more like the old Rain I love, the one that has been missing for a while now. 

She looks down at her hand as she pulls it out of her pocket. There in her hand is the very cell phone that is now in my pocket. 

She looks down at it for a few moments, then puts it back in her pocket. After that, once again, her face changes, and it becomes the one I have been seeing since our honeymoon. The robot who wears her face but is not my Rain, not in any way, honestly. 

It hits me. She did it. She killed Barnabas and her uncles. She got her revenge for them betraying her in her estimation. They found two other devices, so she had plans to take out more of us. I am not so naive as to not think that I was one of those targets. She has already tried to shoot me once, so I shouldn’t be surprised. 

I probably don’t react like most people. I have never reacted like most people. She is the most important thing to me, and I’ll never let her face the consequences for this. I will not let anyone hurt her because of this. She has been broken for a while now. I should have thought of her doing something like this. I had just seen the robotic self that she presented to the world; I had no idea the other part of her, hidden away inside, had decided to get revenge. 

Now, I have to figure out how to protect her from the fallout of this. I can’t ever let anyone else know about this. The first thing I do is make sure all of the footage for the last three weeks is erased. No one will ever be able to see what I just did. The other thing is I have to get rid of this cell phone. I will find a way to incinerate it somewhere, so no piece of it is left. 

As I look up and watch her peaceful face as she sleeps, I start to think about things. Perhaps this whole thing can be turned around into something good. She must not have accounted for the blast radius, and she was too close when she blew it, and that is why she got caught with a piece of the car. 

Now, I have to find out if her amnesia is true or a cover to keep anyone from discovering what she has done. If it is true, then I have the ability to possibly rewrite our history, rebuild a life with her, and basically get a do-over. Is that possible? Can I be that lucky to be able to keep her, and to set things right with her and truly be able to make her happy? If so, I have to think very hard about how I want the narrative to go. 

What can I tell her, and what do I need to change to make our history one she would want to be a part of? What lies can I tell her to make things better at last? I would have to plan everything down to each detail. I am good at that, so maybe I would be able to do this. I would need to let everyone know what I am telling her, so they can back it up. I can hack into documents and change things as well. So, maybe I could pull this off. Now, I just have to see how she is when she wakes up.