Chapter 240 - Alive Or Dead

Amy had stayed awake for the later part of the night waiting for Lair and her mother to come back home. But she had to succumb to the hold of sleep after waiting for too long when none of them showed up. She had been both nervous and relieved all through the night.

Nervous because she didn't know what to expect, and relieved because she didn't get to hear any bad news such as the one her mind kept telling her, thanks to Ethan who reminded of the possibility of something bad happening to Micheal. She was beginning to think he might know something which he isn't letting on. But then again this was Ethan, he wouldn't keep anything from her.

The moment she left her bed she made her way to Lair's room, but she was surprised to meet an empty room. It seems like he didn't come home last night, that was strange.

"He left very early. He said something about an early class" She heard someone say from behind her, slightly startling her. She turned around to find her father standing behind her

"Good morning dad" She greeted.

"Morning princess" He said as he took a step closer. He looked at her very intently, he before running his hand through her hair. He could see worries in her eyes, and it made him sigh inwardly.

"I know you're worried about all this, but I want you to know that you have me and Lair to support you, and you really shouldn't hate your mother. I'm sure she had good intentions but she has never had a good way of showing it.... it's her default"

Amy looked at his face as he spoke, she had a question she wanted to ask, but before she could ask he spoke up first.

"And no, she didn't come home either. She's in her office, maybe too ashamed to face us for what she has done. We'll have to be a little bit patient, hmm" He told her while Amy nodded her head. She knew her Father was only trying to placate her and stop her from worrying. But they both knew her mother wasn't ashamed, something was wrong that's why she didn't come home and she was sure her Father knew that too. Her mother didn't know how to tell them whatever was wrong and not that she was ashamed.

Ashamed of what?

Mr Walker patted her shoulder, and said, "Let's go have breakfast. It's now you and me princess" He said smiling at her.

"Okay" She nodded, before turning around to follow him to the dining table.

Mr Walker's smile disappeared the moment he turned around and made his way to the stairs with Amy tailing behind. He didn't like the fact that they were all lying to her.

Lair had met him last night and told him about all that they had discovered, or rather what they had not discovered.

"We weren't able to find him. There was nothing to find as a matter of fact" He said as he watched his father quietly read through the documents his mother had been able to gather.

"Mmm" Was all he could mutter at the time, while he went through every piece of paper.

"Could it be possible, he was given a pardon, or he made a deal, or anything that could make him suddenly missing, possible?" Lair asked.

"If you're trying to say, if he was hijacked from prison by some black ops of the government then I think you have the wrong idea" Mr Walker knew what his son was trying to say. What Lair was thinking happened in movies and very rarely in corrupted government, but certainly not this one.

Lair looked at him with an inscrutable gaze. "So what idea should i have then?" He asked.

"Firstly, looking at the boy's records there's nothing peculiar about him that could attract special attention of any secret government agency, and secondly if something like what you think Indeed happened, then there should atleast be a death record for him, since that it's how things like that work. But looking at this, there's no indication that he was Indeed there. And even the name of the criminal which you mother had swapped him with isn't here either. So I think none of your guess are possible"

"So what does that mean then?" Lair curiously asked, he wasn't into legal stuff like the rest of the family, so he had didn't have enough insight on matters like this like them. Even Amy was more better than him in this department. She had read alot of law books at the time....well thanks to Mrs Walker dictatorship.

"It means someone does not want him to be found. This looks like a clean job and whoever is behind it didn't know this would raise a red flag, maybe they were basking on the fact that your mother wouldn't go looking for him or think about letting him go" Mr Walker reasoned.

"You think so? But wouldn't it be hard for someone to take a prisoner out of a place like that. Someone must know something, someone must have seen something"

"And someone must be powerful enough to keep it under the radar. Whoever were dealing with knows something and must be indeed be powerful. Things like don't just happen, they're well thought out plans and I have a feeling this is one of those spooky ones that keeps you on your feet." Mr Walker stated. Only a powerful person would be capable of doing something like this. Taking a person out of prison wasn't an easy fit, except....

The person was dead.

But there are only one type of people that could be easily moved out of a prison most especially when they're not being set free, and that was a dead people. But then again there should be some trail or a death certificate. Anything to indicate that the person was dead. Because if whoever did this really wanted people to believe that the said boy was dead, just in case someone comes looking, they'd had made him a ghost.

But now this didn't seem like the case. This was a case of someone completely disappearing with no trace. From all indications something fishy was going on.

But the main question is, is Micheal alive or dead?

And which ever case it was, then who is behind his sudden disappearance.

"So what do we do?" Lair asked fearfully. His baby sister was linked to this all, he didn't know how she'd react to any of this.

Mr Walker looked up to his son and he understood why he was worried, he also shared his fear. They didn't know who was behind all this. Who Vivian must have upset. But they also couldn't be conclusive about anything yet, since there was nothing to aid their thoughts.

"Let's keep this away from Amy while we look further into this. Tomorrow I'll visit the prison myself" He told him.