Chapter 26

Book:His Puppet Published:2024-5-1

Hey guys, I was now living in my own prison, huge gates that I didn’t have the passcode to, in the middle of absolutely nowhere! Now I’m gonna take you to Blake but mostly ink, he was about to spill his guts to the police. 
Blake follows Jacob into the interview viewing room, on the tv screen on the wall was the small guy who ran in the building the day earlier. He sat slumped in his chair just staring at the ceiling, he didn’t seem that bothered with shocked Blake for many reasons, but mostly as he was sat in the police station. 
“You can stay in here while I talk with him” Jacob turns to Blake, who nods turning his attention back to the screen.
“He looks so calm” he points out, crossing his arms staring at the man on the screen, he wanted to run in there and demand he tells him where Freya is, but he knew he couldn’t do that as it probably wouldn’t help.
“That’s because he knows he isn’t going to get charged with anything, he signed a deal of immunity to give us everything he knows about Anthony” Jacob explains, taking his final sip from his tea, he picks up the file leaving the room before Blake could stop him over the deal. 
Jacob walks in the room closing the door behind him, ink sits up straight fixing his shirt while Jacob sits down across from him. 
“Well we’re hear today to talk about Anthony Richards, in doing so you’ll be rewarded immunity from any charges” Jacob explains, pulling pieces of papers out the file placing them on the table, ink nods staring at the camera that was on the wall, the same camera Blake was watching.
“Before we start you need to know something, Anthony has a guy on the inside here that tells him everything” he whispers, getting closer to Jacob who also moves closer as ink continued “that’s how Anthony would have known to leave the house and burn it when he did” he goes on to explain still whispering, which immediately causes Jacob to look up at the camera.
He picks the file up excusing himself for a while walking back into the viewing room, Blake and another officer were sat in there. He tells the officer he is dismissed, leaving only him and Blake in the room. 
“There’s a rat in the police station who’s giving Anthony information on the case, to be safe I need you to run this” Jacob tells Blake, who just nods wanting to help anyway he could to find Freya “it’s easy, you’ll put these earphones in so no one else can hear, just write everything that is said down and by who” Jacob explains, Blake nods taking a seat with a notebook and pen.
“I’m gonna lock you in here so we know the rat don’t come in” he tells him before leaving the room, locking the door behind him, he looks around at the rest of the officers before making his way back into the interview room. 
“Now back to what we were saying, let’s start with the basics, how did you first start working with Anthony?” Jacob asks, just jumping right to it, now he knew that there was a rat, time was of the essence.
“Well, I didn’t come from a very good background, so when I turned 16 I was thrown out, I was sat under a bridge as it just rained when a guy a few years older than me ran passed and stopped” ink starts to explain, Jacob nods telling him to continue “I thought he was gonna give me some change than be on his way, he asked my name and told me he’d be back, he kept to his word, but instead of money he offered for me to move into an apartment with him” ink exclaims, causing Jacob to raise an eyebrow, well that definitely was a weird offer to a guy you met under a bridge.
“And you accepted his offer, after you met the guy a few hours prior?” He asks, being very skeletal, ink just nods than catches on to why Jacob asked.
“When you’re in that situation with absolutely nothing to your name, if someone comes with an opportunity to get you out of it, you jump at the chance” he explains looking Jacob dead in the eye, Jacob just nods looking down at the papers in front of him.
“Well tell me the events that led to Miss Freya and miss Amelia being kidnapped” Jacob tells him, to break the awkward moment from continuing.
“It was meant to be like any normal job we did, when we parked outside the front of the shop watching people walk in and out to see when the best time would be” he explains looking down at the table as he spoke. 
“A young woman with a tiny baby walk passed first, Anthony smiles at the baby which he always did cause he loves kids, especially after the accident” he goes onto say, Jacob knew what he meant by the accident, but he didn’t want to address that yet.
“But then another young girl walks by immediately his eyes go wide, I look ahead to see the young girl letting the other girl with the baby walk in before her, he got out the car straight away telling me it was go time” ink explains, looking over at Jacob who nods as ink begins to speak again.
“I didn’t know why we were taking them,  but I knew better than to question him, I thought we took them so we could make their family’s pay us but then he was going on about how they signed Amelia’s birth certificate and their wedding stuff” he starts to talk quickly stumbling over his words, Jacob having to tell him to slow down.
“I didn’t know what was going on, I knew it was the year anniversary of Layla’s and Gabbie’s death but I didn’t know he was gonna do that!” Ink exclaims, putting his hand in the air finally getting it off his chest.
“It was the year anniversary of his wife and daughters death?” Jacob asks, this was something he didn’t actually know, but if true was very compelling.
“To the exact date and time” ink sighs, looking towards the table as he spoke “Freya doesn’t belong there at all neither does Amelia, I just want to tell their families that I tried to get him to give them back” ink almost in tears mumbles out, Jacob couldn’t help but feel bad for him. 
He gets up telling ink to wait a second while he walks into the viewing room, Blake turns around sending him a questioning look as he turns the cameras off and unplugs everything. 
“You should talk to him, I think it would help you both” he smiles patting Blake on the shoulder, Blake looks so the side nodding rising to his feet walking to the interview room.
Jacob opens the door for him, where he walks inside alone, ink lifts his head up from the table watching Blake.
“I’m Blake, Freya’s boyfriend” Blake starts, slowly walking over to the table, inks eyes go wide where he sits up straight as Blake sat down “is Freya okay?” He asks, this was the most important question he needed to ask, he just needed to know Anthony hadn’t hurt her in anyway. 
“She’s fine, I’m so sorry I helped take her away from you, if I would have known what he was doing, I would have locked him in the car or something” Ink quickly rambles, the comment making Blake laugh a little. 
“You’re so lucky, she is one of the most kindhearted people I’ve ever met, when Anthony hurt me she patched me up so I didn’t bleed out” ink tells him with a smile, causing one to fill Blake’s face, he knew what an amazing person she was and didn’t know how lucky he got to call her his partner. 
“She was the one that helped me leave him in the first place, I promise i will help anyway I can to bring her home” ink smiles, meaning every word that came out his mouth.
Blake knew that.
Who would have thought it, Anthony’s right hand man going against him. Ink did help a lot actually, Blake and him became good friends. I mean he comes round every Sunday morning for a fry up, where he enjoys telling us weird stories from his weird life. But like always I’m skipping way ahead, what happened next was something I hoped never would happen to me in my life.