told.”
Frowning Lelone responded, “Who told you what happened and what did they tell you?”
“He was found by some fisherman. They said they had seen him get tossed off the river bridge. They didn’t see who tossed him.
They pulled him out and notice that he was severely bruised and had a hole in his shoulder. They drove him to the hospital themselves. He wasn’t awake or responding when they brought him in.”
Lelone was only half listening she was too focused on what her plan of revenge would be.
“Lee Lee are you listening to me?” “Huh. Yes Mama.”
“Are you going to tell me what you saw?” “No. You know I won’t do that.”
“Well can you tell me something?”
“Yea. He can hear you and he’s fighting to come back to us.” “You can pick up all that?”
“Yes. It’s part of his thoughts. Did they say why he’s not awake?”
“Not really just that he has a concussion and he has great brain activity so he should be up soon.”
Lelone nodded. “Okay.”
She got up from the chair kissed her mom’s check and asked, “Have you talked to Ms. Lela or Luke?”
“Now that you’ve mentioned it, no. I’ve been so consumed with everything that I hadn’t even called them to see how they’re doing. You know I haven’t seen them either which is odd.”
“Mom, don’t call. I’m going to stop by and have a talk with
Luke.”
“Okay. Please give him my condolences.”
“Okay. Mom one more thing; How did you know that LJ was dead?”
“Lucian was with him. When I got here I asked about him and they told me about a John Doe that came in around the same time. I went to view the body and sure enough it was our LJ. They wouldn’t let me sign anything because I’m not next of kin. They said there were two officers that told them to keep the body as a John Doe until they found next of kin.”
Lelone’s eyes darkened. Not only did they kill him but they were making his family worry about him while they worked on covering their tracks.
Deep in thought Lelone said nothing as she left the room and headed to her truck and sped off toward the police station. Pulling up she parked and placed her hair in a bun and put her glasses on. She didn’t want anyone to pay too close attention to her as she walked in and waited for Lucas. As luck would have it she walked in and walked right into the officers responsible. They looked her up and down while making rude sexual remarks. She held in her rage because she didn’t want to get sidetracked from the main reason she was there. Ignoring them she walked up to the front reception and asked for Detective Luke Farmouth. She didn’t get his name out completely before he walked off the elevator. He didn’t notice her at first because he was talking to another detective. He briefly nodded at the dirty cops, who made no attempt to respond to the gesture but instead gave him a look of disdain. He never noticed while talking to the other detective and looking over some paperwork. Luke didn’t notice Lelone until he and the other detective finished their conversation.
“Hey Lelone is that you? What do I owe the pleasure of a long awaited visit from my adopted daughter?”
She didn’t smile like she usually did nor did she respond to his question, she just simply said, “We need to talk, privately.”
He frowned at her unlikely response and simply said, “O-kay”
She followed him to his office and sat down on his desk. The picture of her, LJ and Lucian caught her eye immediately. Without realizing it completely she said in a tone that was barely above a whisper, “I can’t believe he’s gone.”
She didn’t know she said it until she heard his response. “What are you talking about? Who’s gone?”
She looked up from the picture finally and said, “The