Atlas
It has everything to do with her. I need answers and that’s
the hospital that treated her after the wreck. I need to know
how bad the injuries were and what caused the memory loss.
Gavin
Okay man. I got you. It shouldn’t take me long.
I exit out of my text thread with Gavin and look back at the photo from in front of the hospital. If no one witnessed the wreck, who dropped her off at the hospital? Why didn’t they stay with her or say anything to the press about it?
It’s very possible the person who caused the accident is the same person that ditched her in front of the ER. I take a closer look at the image and spot a man climbing into a black car that has a lot of damage to the front of it. No fucking way. The same person responsible for the hit and run proceeds to drop one of the victims off at the hospital.
I feel like instead of answers, I only end up with more questions. I run the license plate through a software but it traces back to a rental company. I make a quick call to the car rental company but they’re of little help. They reported that particular car stolen. I switch to another screen and search the tag for any police reports.
The results correlate what the rental company said. I was able to find a police report stating that the vehicle was reported stolen from Eazy Motors Rentals and was later found abandoned in a gas station parking lot days later with a lot of damage to it. The list of damage matcheswhat little I can see in the surveillance footage from the hospital.
That little bit of information is starting to make the wreck seem intentional. But why would someone hit the taxi on purpose? Who was the target? If it was intentional then I don’t think she was the target. It’s also possible the driver was scared and panicked.
I decided to torture myself just a tiny bit more and replay the voicemail I got that night from Maizyn. Even though hearing the sadness in her voice wrecks me, I try to listen for anything I may have missed. Her sentence cuts off in the middle of her talking before the unmistakable sound of the taxi being hit follows.
I listen to it again and the picture becomes a little more clear. She was trying to call me when she was hit. I should’ve never let her leave that night. It’s my fault she left. I should’ve told her about the tracker and explained to her why I put it there.
Wait a minute… the tracker, how could I forget about that? I was so wrapped up in finding her again I completely forgot the entire reason I put the tracker on her phone to begin with.
I didn’t want to tell her at the time because I didn’t want to worry her, but I had a good suspicion she was being watched. She received a few cryptic letters to the house that I destroyed before she found out. At the time, I was hoping it was someone pranking her, but I put the tracker on her phone just in case. I wanted to have that implemented so if the need ever arose, I would have access to her location. I didn’t think she’d find it and I also didn’t think she would’ve thrown her phone on the side of the road when she left me.
Hell, I honestly didn’t think she would’ve left in the first place.
Would it have played out differently if I told her why I put the tracker there? If I could change the past, I probably wouldn’t have put the tracker on her phone at all. It’s not like it was any help to me finding her when I needed to anyways. Did she change her name to run from whoever it was that was watching her? I can’t believe that someone in my profession missed all the signs.
I was so infatuated with her I let her close to me without doing any digging into her past. I should have. Maybe if I did, we wouldn’t be where we were now. The beep of an incoming text pulls me out of my own head long enough to see the notification from Gavin. I have to give credit where credit is due, the man works fast. It’s an honor to call him my best friend.
Gavin
Are you sure you want to know?
Atlas
I need answers, Gavin.
Gavin
How do you think she’ll react to you digging into her personal information?
Atlas
I’m hoping that whatever I find out will bring her back to
me and it won’t matter that I went digging in the first place.
Gavin
I hope you know what you’re doing man.
Atlas
