Chapter 29

Chapter 28
Bree stared at the older woman for a moment completely speechless. She hated that her apparent mother didn’t look familiar, nor did the older woman clamming to be her grandma. She jumped a bit when Ben came closer and laid a hand on her shoulder. She snapped up her head and looked into his hazel eyes. They were calm and gentle as she looked up into them.

“So, what do you say, Bree, are you going to let us do a DNA test?” his thumb brushed along her shoulder slowly.

She thought for a moment, “I guess.” She answered even though she didn’t know what good it would do. Finding out if she was related to the fancy looking woman wouldn’t bring her memories back.

Bree watched as Cierra began to swab Amelia then Ben began the same with her. Her eyes landed on Justin who was talking to Iris

As soon as Ben was done with her, Bree made an escape. Her head was beginning to hurt, her vision blurred as well. She slipped out quietly and quickly. She stopped on the porch as the fresh air hit her nose, calming her some.

She was done, she couldn’t wait anymore, nor could the girls. She whipped around when she heard someone behind her, relief swept through her some when she saw it was Holly and not one of the others, “Holly.” She greeted quietly.

“It’s such a shame isn’t it?” her sweet voice rolled over Bree, almost making her want to throw up.

“What?”

“That you can’t remember what little of a family you have left, only one blood relative and you can’t remember her, while Justin remembers all of his and is being held back by you to try to find his niece, Iris is getting even more upset, so is Clay.” Holly pursed her lips. “How is it that you’re safe and if Marnie is a part of your family, then you are cousins and you left here there without a care for her.”

Bree felt her heart tighten at the thoughts, even though she hadn’t known, it still would plague her the rest of her life. She watched Holly stroll back into the house.

As soon as Holly shut the door Bree was off the porch and rushed down the sidewalk. If Chief Michaels wanted her help then she was going to help now. Holly’s words hurt but it was what she needed to hear.

She just hoped Justin forgave her after. 

If he didn’t then she would just have to deal with the consequences. She wasn’t sure what she felt for Justin but if she was going to lose him because of this, well at least she tried to save the girls and they were safe with their families who they actually knew.

She glanced around a little as she made her way further away from the house and just hoped she was making the right decision.

She also hoped she was going the right way, it looked familiar which was saying a lot since Justin and his group were the only ones she felt familiar with. As she continued to walk and kept glancing over her shoulder to make sure Justin wasn’t rushing down the sidewalk after her. She was glad when the brick building of the station came into view and she had to stop herself from running in.

Bree walked into the building and ran smack dab into the man who Michaels had interview her the second time she had gone into the building. She stumbled back as his harsh brown eyes glared at her.

“What are you doing here?” he demanded.

“I need to speak with Chief Michaels.” She explained in simple terms she hoped.

“Fine, wait here.” The young man took off toward, she assumed to get the chief. She could do this even without Justin, she let out a breath as the young cop came out and following him was indeed Chief Michaels.

“Well, well, well, what have we here?” his loud voice asked as his body shook with each step he took toward her.

“I want to help, send me out, I will lead you to where they are and then we can get them out.” Bree said with crazy confidence that she really wasn’t feeling.

“Interesting, well, I’ll get it all arranged and we’ll send you out today, are you sure you want to do this?”

“Yes.” She said shortly.

“Okay, come with me.” He turned back to his office and she followed, taking a deep breath, Justin was never going to forgive her for this. She closed her eyes tightly pushing the guilt away, she had to do this because if she didn’t the other guilt of not saving the other girls would eat at her forever.

Justin finally got done with calming Iris down and turned away and fear sliced through him, “Where’s Bree?” he demanded from his tea.

He watched as Ben and Cierra looked around the yellow room quickly, “She was just here, Justin, I swear.” Cierra moved closer to Ben.

“Well, she’s not now is she? After the first time of her taking off with you watching her, how could you guys take your eyes off her?” he gritted out. He yanked his phone from his pocket as it began to ring. He looked at his team, “It’s Chief Michaels.” He put the phone up to her ear not ready for the conversation at all.

“Okay, Bree, everything is set up,” the chief began. “You will be tracked through this.” His fingers ran along the wire beneath her t-shirt. “And we can talk through this.” He tapped the ear bud gently. “Do you have any questions?”

AS soon as Bree shook her head she was whisked off in a huge black van and taken to the forest. Her heart hammered in her chest. She shook a little as the cop in the passenger side got out and opened the sliding door quickly.

“You know what to do, right?” the cop demanded with a scowl on his face.

She nodded her head as she stared past him into the dense trees.

“We will start following you about fifteen minutes after you leave.”

She took a deep breath, she would be okay, she spent a night out here before she crashed into Justin.

She got out of the van and slowly made her way into the trees. She couldn’t worry about anything else right now.

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“What the hell are you talking about? I didn’t send her there to help, you did what?” Justin hung up quickly holding in the urge to throw his phone across the room. “Ben, you and me, now.” He stalked toward the front door and Ben kissed Cierra and followed Justin quickly.

“What’s going on?”

“She went to the station, they sent her out with a tracker and ear bud, you’re going to hack their system and we’re going to find her before it’s too late.” Justin explained as he marched to the car.