Chapter Eleven
After they got the phone call, everything that occurred in between Adrien getting arrested and escaping felt like such a dream.
Camila thought back on it and realized, it really was too good to be true, like a fleeting dream, and she should have expected for things to turn out this way.
When it was just Adrien making calls from inside prison to bother them that was one thing. This, though, left her petrified, and she felt like she was back in her nightmare again, running away with Adrien at her tail, trying to hurt her.
He won’t be able to get to me,she thought, trying to console herself. He can't. Not here.
The first place Adrien had attacked her had been her home, and he’d somehow found out where she worked, as well. From the moment they got the call, Samuel had been insistent on her staying inside the mansion no matter what. Not that she minded. The mansion was built on huge grounds, but it also had good security. The only problem was that Adrien knew all about the mansion and its great security so Samuel had also talked to the police.
Or it was more like the police insisted on talking to Samuel. From what she’d seen of him, he’d looked a bit reluctant to go to the police himself. But Adrien hadn't just escaped, he’d gotten people killed, he might have even done it himself, and he wasn’t the only one to escape from the prison.
If he could escape from prison, then Adrien wasn’t stupid, even though Camila had already known he wasn’t. The police needed to get into his head somehow, and who better than his own twin brother?
Everyone’s biggest worry though, was that now that Adrien was out of prison, he would try to go after Camila again. What if he got hold of a gun? She knew he couldn’t have gotten one during his escape because the guards in the prison didn’t have them. They were given other weapons, tazers she thought, so there wouldn’t be the risk of prisoners somehow getting a hold of a gun. But considering how resourceful Adrien had been while he was in prison, it was entirely possible that he had one now from his outside contacts.
In the end, both Samuel and the police had thought it would be a good idea for them to all be cautious. The next day, Camila made the call to her mom, and she was brought by a separate car to the mansion.
Morganna, when she appeared, had a grim expression on her face, but she didn’t act surprised at all when Camila explained what happened, as much as she knew so far. Camila supposed this wasn’t a first for her mom, not really. Camila was too young to remember what happened when her father died, but she did know that he’d tried to hold a weapon on her mom, who somehow managed to turn it all around.
She never expected to go through the same thing her mom went through with her dad.
The only difference was that Camila had people to take care of her. Her mother, having no family and few friends, who she didn’t even get to see or talk to because of her abusive, controlling husband, had been alone.
Everything is going to be fine,Camila tried to tell herself.
Why did it sound like such a lie?
After Samuel finished his talk with the police, he arrived back at the mansion to meet the three of them, Morganna, Camila and Brianna, so they could figure out what to do. Of course with Adrien at large, all of them had to be careful, which meant not being out on the streets. He was more worried about the latter two, but as this would affect all four of them, he didn’t plan on keeping anyone out of the loop.
“How is everything?” Camila was the first to speak, getting up and walking over to him.
Samuel sighed as he took her hand and faced all three of them. He didn’t look happy at all, and Camila could faintly hear a commotion outside.
“There have been no leads on Adrien yet,” he said, making everyone disappointed. “The police are advising us to stay together, which I agree with. What I, however, do not agree with is their wanting us to rely on police guard.”
Camila saw he look irritated and rubbed a hand up and down his arm.
“Wouldn’t that be a good thing, though?” she asked. “We definitely need help from the police, don’t we?”
Samuel frowned. “The police would be useful, sure. But I’m a bit wary about trusting them, seeing as they haven’t been the best support through all of this. They couldn’t stop Adrien from constantly getting burner phones into the prison. It’s possible he even paid the guards to help him out. I don’t know everyone that he knows, we might be twins but I don’t know a damn thing about how he lived while I was away and even while I was here, so I don’t know the kind of help he’s getting. They’d be better off using all their manpower to look for him while I hire a private team to keep the grounds extra safe.”
“There are police outside, then?” Camila asked.
He nodded. “Yes. There’s a possibility he might show up here so there are several patrol cars outside. They don’t want me calling in outside security, either, because it will interfere with their investigation.”
Samuel was irritated, but Camila kind of understood the police. Adrien was from the Kane family, a big name in New York City. He kept violating rules of his incarceration and no one once managed to stop him, and even with such a huge warning sign, he managed to leave without them doing a thing about it. Twenty four hours later, and they still had no idea where he was, or what he was doing. They were probably under a lot of pressure, and a lot of that pressure must come from the Kane family name. If this kind of news got out, Camila didn’t doubt the police would be getting a lot of heat for all of it.
“Did they tell you anything about his escape? If he had help, or if he has a weapon so we knew what to expect?” Morganna asked, stepping forward.
Samuel turned to her. “They believe he had help, both inside and out. And at the same time he escaped, there were other people that escaped as well. They don’t know whether he’s with them or not, but this has grown into a problem of a much bigger scale than it should have.”
He was frowning, and Camila didn’t fight when he suddenly put an arm around her and tugged her body into his side, his arm around her shoulders holding her tightly. She knew he did it to make the both of them feel better because with every word he said, Camila could feel her insides start to freeze over.
It was bad enough that Adrien had come out, and people had died thanks to him, but if others had escaped with him, then wasn’t it possible that he had something to do with it all? It would be too convenient if others had been planning to escape and he just happened to be part of the group that managed it.
Camila had a frightening thought, that Adrien was the mastermind behind the escape. And if he could escape from a well-guarded prison, what were the chances that he could appear at the mansion when they least expected it?