Chapter Fifty-Two

"I will answer anything you ask me" he says as I open the file on Richard, this could be the closet we'll get to catching him, I know I keep saying that. "Do you know anywhere we could find him, we know about his place in no territory but is there anywhere else?" I ask pulling the photos Brandon took of that building, before all the rouges turned up and caused trouble. "I rarely had any contact with Richard throughout the years, I always went through Denton to keep who I was hidden from Richard" he tells me which wasn't great, all the things he's gonna tell me might be what Denton has already told us since being here "but once you guys caught Denton, I knew I'd have to do my own research on Richard so I know he wouldn't turn against us" he says successfully peaking my interest, he might be useful after all. Brandon is amazing at his job and can find things that no one else can, but when it comes to criminals sometimes they're able to hide some things that only other criminals would be able to find, Brandon is far from being a criminal! "We did some digging into him and found out he was at a house in the Creek Wood Pack, it's under a fake name so the alliance won't be able to find him and he can hide out there" he says while I start to write all this information down, how haven't we been able to find his other fake identity?! "He goes by the name Charles Peterson, he uses him for anything that isn't illegal so he can use that as a semi-normal life" he further explains while my pen hurriedly writes down all this information, but more questions were popping up in my mind. "How has he been able to hide that from us for so long?" I ask while he just laughs slightly leaning back in his chair. "The trick is, if you live so under the radar that you give no one any reason to look into you, they won't look into you" he says with a smile, well I guess that's why he managed to get away with the things he did for so long "I'm going to suspect you're either thinking about what happened to your mum, or you already know" he says which was the thing that stops me from writing, I didn't know if I wanted to bring her up in this conversation. "Someone in my team brought her up and wondered why you don't speak about her, than we found out that she went to live with Richard" I say telling him all I knew, that's all we've been able to find out about her so far "but what I don't understand is why she left in the first place?" I say which was now his turn to let out a sigh, there's been a lot of sighs happening recently. "You're a lot like your mother or what she used to be like, when I started the family business she had the same opinion as you. She would say over and over again that this isn't what Taylor would have wanted, Taylor would want us to be out there trying to find her anyway we could" he says looking down at the ground, I wasn't even writing in my notebook but hanging onto his every word "around a year or maybe two years after you disappeared, me and the family had to go away for a few days for work and your mother stayed behind. Just before I left she told me if I didn't close the family business that she was gonna leave me, of course I didn't believe her and went anyway" he says placing his hands back on the table as he spoke, he didn't need to finish his sentence though as I knew what happened. "When you came home she was gone" I say finishing what he said, he nods his head confirming what I said to be true "do you know how or even why she would go to Richard anyway?" I ask knowing my mum was far from being an alliance agent, if we haven't been able to find him how the heck has she?! "Your mothers a very clever woman, I wouldn't have clue how she found him by herself, but I do know what happened after she did" he says which confused me, I had no idea what he meant by that "the reason you haven't been able to find your mother is because she's done the same thing as Richard, she goes by the name of Venessa Peterson, the wife to Charles Peterson" he says which I don't know why, but it sort of broke my heart a little, she married Richard. I look to the side for a moment, you can't cry Taylor, you cannot cry. Who cares that your own mother married the man that attacked you? That's her lose. I send the I'm okay sign to where the viewing room would be, I know Morgan's probably wanting to run in this room all guns blazing. "I know sweetheart, I had the same reaction when I found out a few years ago. The man that almost killed her baby she decides to marry, what a terrible person" my dad says from across the table, but I knew what he was trying to do. "That's why it's important we find them, she can see first hand what that man has done" I say putting my head up and looking at him, he reaches over wiping my falling tears off the cheeks "is there anything else I need to know?" I ask finishing up this interview, it wasn't long but it felt like it's going on forever. "I know you don't agree with what me and the rest of the family did, but just know that everything we did was to try and revenge what that man did to you. I know you're young right now but in time, you'll see that what we did was the right thing to do" he tells me trying to reach for my hand again but I pull it away, he gives me a weird confused look while I give the signal to the viewing room. Moments later the door behind me opens, I didn't even have to turn around to know who walked in. "Oh Taylor, you know I love it when you treat me like that" Coopers voice says from behind me, I smirk a little handing the notebook over to him "you managed to make the pig squeal, we must be good actors" he smiles as I raise from my chair, my shocked father sat right in front of me. "What's he talking about Taylor?" He asks looking between me and Cooper who throws the notebook to Brandon who was waiting by the open door. "You got played Travis, you finally gave us the information we've been waiting for" I smile looking him dead in the eyes as I spoke, he looks majorly taken back and extremely worried. "I'm your dad Taylor, how could you do this to me?" He asks looking as though he was gonna cry at any moment, while I just roll my eyes at the man sat in front of me. "This is what I do, I break down guys like you until they give us the information we want. And please you're not my father, that spot is already taken, my dad is called Morgan Dufner" I smile sending him a final wave before leaving the room, walking down the hall he just screams my name over and over again until the door is closed. The plan worked perfectly, did you figure out what was going on before he did?