Chapter Fifty-Four

"Get on the ground!" I shout as she takes even more slow steps out of the room, her eyes go to me where she immediately, starts to well up. "Taylor" she says starting to cry as she went, I've had enough of people crying when they see me so this wasn't bothering me anymore. "I said get on the ground" I repeat walking closer to her, she finally does listen and drops down to her knees full blown crying. Brandon runs in the room behind her to check if Richard is in there, but he soon runs back out shaking his head. As he was still behind my mum, he cuffs her hands behind her back before pushing her down to the floor. "He isn't in any of the other rooms either"Julian says from behind me, either he wasn't home and we just picked a bad time or he saw us and fled, I needed to know which one is was. "Where's Richard?" I ask pulling her to stand up, she was still in floods of tears shaking her head "I don't care how upset you are, we need to know where Richard is so tell me!" I shout finally loosing my cool, if my second theory is right and he did see us and run, we're wasting time just standing here. "Can someone please enlighten me on what the fuck is going on, who's Richard?" The Alpha asks who had been in the room the whole time, I take a look at my mum wondering if she was gonna be the one to tell him. "The people living here aren't Charles and Vanessa Peterson, Charles is really a man called Richard who is the most wanted and dangerous man out there, they used this place as a cover and hideout" I tell the Alpha, he looked over at my mum beyond pissed off, I was surprised he hadn't run over and dropped kicked her or something. "You have been hiding the most dangerous man out there, putting my pack members at risk!" He shouts walking over but I stand in front of him, we were wasting even more time standing here chatting. "We don't have time for this, just tell us where Richard is!" I shout holding my mum up to fully look at me, I didn't care what she was to me at this very moment in time. "I don't know! He hasn't come home in nearly a week!" She cries talking for the first time, but wasn't giving me the answer I was looking for. Brandon takes me by the arm and pulls me to the side of the room, while Julian kept asking my mum over and over again where he was. She wasn't gonna tell us a thing about him, she's too selfish for that. "Go and take your mum into that room to talk, not only to see if she'll tell you where Richard is but to talk things over" Brandon suggests pulling me to stand near the window, I didn't have time to stop and talk about the past with that woman "before you say no, remember what you told me about Peter. Just talk to her so you can move on with you life, Julian and I will be out here looking for evidence" he says stopping me from walking away, I turn to look at him actually understanding what he was saying. "But what would I even say?" I ask finally showing a vulnerable side of me, it's a hard side of me to produce if I'm being honest. "Just anything, whatever you feel you need to say just say it. She'll be locked away soon where you won't get that chance, you done it with your dad now it's her turn" he says as I look over at my crying mother in handcuffs, Brandon's right in saying this might be the last time I'll be able to have a private conversation with her, the next time cameras will be everywhere so I won't be able to say what I need to. I nod my head moving away from Brandon and back over to my mother, without even talking I take her by the arm and pull her into a room closing the door behind us. I don't speak at first and just pace up and down, I didn't know what I was supposed to even say. "It'll be better for Richard and yourself if you just tell us where he is" I say looping back to the investigation, I think that's where I'm more comfortable honestly. "I really don't know where he is Taylor, you know I wouldn't lie to you" she tells me while sitting down on the bed, my response to her was just shaking my head. "I couldn't trust you as far as I could throw you, I mean look who you ended up marrying" I say looking at the woman in front of me in such disgust, she wasn't the same person that brung me up for seven years of my life, that man has changed her like he does everyone. "You don't understand-" she starts to say but I cut her off immediately, my anger boiling. "You're right I don't understand! You've married and have been living happily with the man that attacked your baby daughter all those years ago! You're sick!" I shout still standing by the door, I didn't care who was listening on the other side of the door. "No Taylor, you have to listen to me it wasn't like that" she cries shaking her head at me, I just laugh a little not getting why she was trying to deny it "just let me explain please, you might be able to understand" she pleads but all I could do was shake my head at her, there wasn't anything she could say to make this situation better. "I will never understand why you chose to do this" I say leaning my back against the wall to look at her. "No you will if you just listen to me, you have to believe me when I tell you this wasn't my intention going into this. When I left your dad my only thought was finding the man that at the time I thought killed my daughter, I wanted to make him pay for ever taking by baby away" she says but I just laugh a little, well that definitely didn't happen. "And what you saw his face and thought oh I want me some that" I say in a full sarcastic way, I wasn't believing a single word that was leaving this woman's mouth. "No not at first, after weeks of looking for him I finally found him in no territory, I confronted him with everything that I knew and was ready to have it out with him" she says looking down as she spoke, like this was so hard for her, she doesn't know the definition of hard "but then he started to talk to me and explained about his past and everything that built up to what happened, he told me how he held so much guilt over what he did to you because he never wanted to do it in the first place. Before I knew it he was telling me you were still alive because the alliance saved you and that's where you were, he told me he was keeping tapes on you due to him actually caring" she says moving to stand up from the bed, but I walk over pushing her back down to sit "you don't understand Taylor, he is so much more than the man you know, the man I know is so sweet and kind and feels so bad for the other side of him" she cries repeating what Luisa said that day, I guess he's brainwashed another woman into thinking he's a good person. "If he's this great person who wouldn't have attacked a seven year old in the first place, he would never have done or continue to do all the evil shit that he does! You know my dad is an evil man but I got to give him credit, he would never go and play happy families with the person that ripped his family apart, that takes a different kind of messed up" I say getting into her face before walking to the door, she continues to cry as I take the handle in my hand "this is your last chance, where's Richard?" I ask looking back at her, she looks up at me shaking her head. "I'm telling the truth I don't know, please Taylor" she cries while I shake my head opening the door slightly, that was the wrong answer. "Then I can't help you, I would say enjoy your stay at the alliance but someone like you, they're gonna eat you alive" I say in a dark tone before turning towards the door "see you around mother" is all I say as I walk out the room, leaving her to shout my name after me.