Her Savior

Ian and Blair arrived at her mom’s house, it was situated outside the city area where the land was vast and people has horses at their properties.

The house looked a bit run down, but you could actually see that it used to be a big beautiful house. Blair knocked on the door and an older woman opens the door for her.

She recognized Blair and excused herself to do some housework in the back of the house.

Blair called me to come closer and we let ourselves into her childhood house.

“Mom?”

She greeted her mother who was sitting in front of the television. She was holding a book on her lap, then looked at Blair the moment she calls for her. But it only took seconds when her mom accused her with a low shaky voice as if she was withholding so much emotion inside her.

“Murderer…”

“Mom…” she stopped in front of her, she bit her lip and held back her tears. Ian moved to her side within moments.

“Adulterer…” she spat another word when she looked at Ian.Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

He knows that she would crumble if she stayed there longer. So he quickly gets Blair out of the living room, they were outside within moments. And although the air was warm and sunny Blair was shuddering and trembled in his embrace. He kissed her hair and whispered softly in her ear.

“Do you mind if I talk to your mother alone?”

“Maybe we should just go?” she was sobbing and crying in his arms while he kept on rubbing her back slowly. The only person she’d expect to take her back with open arms was ripping her heart out.

“Baby, we’re here already. Let me just try this. Okay? Just wait for me.”

She was hugging him tighter, she didn’t want to let him go. But finally did after he kissed and hugged her one more time. He had convinced her that they would go if her mom wouldn’t listen to him.

“Mrs. Wright, my name is Ian Taylor. I don’t know if Albert Simmons had informed you or not…”

“You are an adulterer, you acted on sin by sleeping with a married woman.”

She must’ve seen his protective demeanor earlier, but he didn’t back down and sit in front of her.

“First of all, I’m sorry if I have made that impression on you. But let me tell you about myself…”

He took out his badge and give it to her, while he introduced himself telling her that he has been with the police department for over a decade. She looked at it and still holding it when he started telling her their side of the story.

“… I met your daughter as she was trying to defend a teen who was stealing bread at a small convenience store. I was going to bring her to the station when she fainted. From there I found out everything. Please keep an open mind that what you saw and heard from the media might not be completely revealing…”

He continued telling her about the bruises and how she was starving on the street. She looked taken back when he told her that they have her medical records of her bruises which her husband had inflicted on her, almost killed her and that he had cheated on her.

“You can check with her lawyer, her case had been moved for spousal abuse and self-defense. His family, her in-laws had been concealing the fact…”

Her mother was silent the whole time he was explaining to her about Blair. Then by the end, she didn’t say anything. But when Ian decided to stand up and leave, she stopped him. He could see her eyes were red from withholding the tears. He could sense that she was struggling with her decision.

“Wait, your badge.” He nodded and took back his badge from her, he was about to go out when she told him to get her.

“Thank you, Mrs. Wright… and please, I love Blair. I only have good intentions for her and her future. But if you couldn’t handle the fact that she took her abusive husband’s life then I will take her back with me.”

It was his turn to be silent, he looked straight at her and waited for her reply.

“Of course… I’d like to talk to her, and let her tell me why.”

He clenched his jaw when she said her words. He just hopes that she wouldn’t blame herself when she finds out that her daughter was getting beaten for the money needed for her treatment.

Ian nodded and excused himself to get Blair for her. Blair hesitated but agreed after he said that he’ll be there for her no matter what the outcome.

Blair walked into the living room, it still looked the same, and feels the same. It even smells the same as when she used to sit there, spending her days watching television with her mother. There have always been the two of them since her dad passed away when she was three years old. Her mother never remarried, she had always seen marriage as a sanctity union between two individuals.

That was why it pained her, embarrassed her mom when she saw the news of her son-in-law who was murdered in his own home and that his wife, her daughter, her only child was a person of interest since she went missing. She had blamed herself for the woman Blair had become.

“Blair, honey he had told me his side of your story. Why, my child? If he abused you, you could easily tell me in one of your visits and calls?” she couldn’t contain her feelings as her voice was getting emotional.

“Mom, I love you. I looked up to you. I truly want my marriage to work out, I… I always thought that it was my fault, that I wasn’t a good enough wife for him…”

Blair sat in front of her mom, she was wiping her tears repeatedly. While her mom slowly got up from her seat and took the empty place beside her. She wrapped her arm around her and kissed her forehead lovingly.

“The money, it’s all my fault isn’t it?”

She could feel her mom’s tears trail down her cheek, and Blair wiped it away looking into her mom’s beautiful eyes.

“No mom, I’m a grown woman I should know better. I should find a job and leave him the first time he hits me…”

Both women talked, while Ian patiently waited outside. Carefully listened in to the peaceful surrounding and was glad that the mother-daughter couple seemed peacefully talking it out. He didn’t want to interrupt their moment and decided to call the office.

He asked for his captain and was connected moments later.

“Taylor, I got your message. I just open the email from Blair’s lawyer, it seems that the Turner’s case was being settled quietly. I haven’t heard anything from the precinct that issued the bulletin.”

“Yeah, I’m glad…”

“Right, so now that I got you on the line I need you back. There are cases that need to be solved and I’m one best detectives down. When can you start working?”

“I thought I’m still suspended?”

“I’m your captain, I can do anything I want. And right now you’re back on the clock. So, what time can you start working?”

“I’m actually at Blair’s mom, a couple of hours out of town. Let me talk it out with her and arrange stuff, she’s still talking it out with her mom inside. I need to be here for her.”

“Okay, shit… why don’t you take a day off then come back to work tomorrow? or the day after tomorrow. But Ian, I need your best head in the game, there’s a missing woman and we’re stump with the evidence and the clock is ticking.”

“Hmm… okay, tomorrow. I’ll get everything done today, and I’ll see you for a briefing tomorrow morning.”

Ian could hear him sigh from the other line. He ended the call just in time as Blair was coming out of the house. The expression was unreadable, but at least she wasn’t crying.