Cared by Twin daddies

Chapter 59

Jeremiah rang the bell of his father’s house. The one that he had not returned to since he had been posted overseas in Afghanisthan. He waited for a while without any reply and then he rang the bell again but when he heard no noise from inside he tried the door. His instincts told him that it would be a lot better to leave the place for good and not return but he was adamant this time he was going to confront his step-mother no matter what. If she thought that she was going to enjoy everything that his father had left for her then she would be sorely mistaken.

So, he turned the doorknob and found that the door was open. Why on earth was the door open then?

After the long therapy and physiotherapy that he had, Jeremiah was now being able to walk almost without any kind of dragging movement in his legs. The door to the house was open and then what he saw absolutely blew his mind. The entire place was trashed.

“What the hell?” Muttered Jeremiah to himself as he walked inside. The couches had been cut open with a knife and he knew that sight because he had to do that a lot of times in homes of the civilians where the terrorists used to hide their weapons. The vases had been broken and flowers strewn around and there was one single heel lying on the floor with the heel of the shoe broken.

“Hello? Anyone home?” Jeremiah called out.

But there was no sound whatsoever from anywhere. It almost felt like a deathly silence. Jeremiah started quickly going through the rooms as he dropped his duffel bag from the shoulder and then moving about methodically and found that Judith was lying in the kitchen. A knife was sticking out of her stomach from the side and he gulped down hard. Her clothes had been almost cut off with a knife and lay in tatters around her as he could see the bruise marks all over her body and he knew that this was not a normal home invasion at all. She had been raped and then killed. But he needed to check if she was really dead or not.

He knelt down beside her with a grunt because it was still difficult for him to use his legs but he placed his fingers on her neck and found that there was a pulse. It was faint but was there. He knew that his basic urge was to pull out the knife from her abdomen but he did not know if it had been sticking to any of the major artery and it might cause even more bleeding. Judith fluttered open her eyes and looked at him with glassy eyes and said,” They took her.”

“Took her? Whom did they take?” he asked but she could not say anything more and lost consciousness and he called 911. This was not at all what he had been envisioning when he had planned on coming back home.

The paramedics arrived within the next four minutes and she was immediately transported to the hospital and Jeremiah went along with her. He had no idea what had been going on but he had figured out that she had been speaking about her own daughter, Jenny, his step-sister. The last time that he had seen her she was still in school and in pig tails. The cops came in for questioning while she was being treated in trauma emergency.

“So you are Lieutenant Reed?” asked the cop and Jeremiah nodded. He was above six feet in height and cast an imposing figure on anyone else.

“Yes.”

“What is your relationship with the victim?” asked the man and Jeremiah knew where this was going to lead to and he decided that to be truthful. After all what did he even know about Judith or Jenny from the past few years since his father’s death? He had not even been back for his funeral.

“She is my step-mother. I was supposed to come home from my tour in Afghanisthan about six months earlier but with the shrapnel hits and me bearing the brunt of the blast I had to stay away for my therapy and in hospitals. I came back home today and found that the door was open and the entire place was trashed and things were broken and then I found Judith in the kitchen and I called 911.”

“So this is the first time that you have been home in how many years?” the cop asked.

“About three years. My father passed away about one and a half years back and I could not even come for his funeral.”

“Is your tour over?” he asked and Jeremiah nodded saying yes when the doctor from the ER came out and asked for him by name.

“Please come with me. The patient is asking for you.” The cops were also coming after him when the doctor said,” Please gentlemen, you need to give her a little bit of respect and privacy as well. The amount of torture, the physical and s****l crimes committed against her are massive. Please. You need to give her the respect that she deserves. And please come back when you do have a female officer along with you.”

The cops scoffed at the doctor’s words and were going to enter the room when Jeremiah turned around and blocked the doorway and said,” You have been asked once and that too with extreme care and caution. For you she might be nothing else and no one. But make no mistake about the fact that I am going to make your lives absolute hell, if you go against the doctor’s orders or barge in until she is ready to give her statement.”

Jeremiah did not look at them again and knew that they were going to listen to him as he entered the room and then locked the door. The doctor said,” the stab wounds are multiple but they are not serious. It was almost done by a person who knew where to hit and where to not. She has been gangraped and even though I would have needed her permission for filing the case, but I have asked the doctors to take the samples and then store them since the DNA will be lost if we decide to cleanse her up. Is that ok with you?”

“Has any of the major organs been hit?” asked Jeremiah as he stared at Judith who looked like she had suffered a lot and she moaned in pain.

“No. That is the point that I was trying to make. She has been tortured by professionals and she keeps on taking the name of someone Jenny and she also called out the name of Lester. I do not know who it was so I guessed that it might be her husband.”

“No. Her husband is dead. That was my father.”

“Alright. She will be conscious in a little while but any kind of movement on her side may start the bleeding once again. She has lost a lot of blood and she needs a lot of care and rest. Do you think that you will be able to stay with her?” asked the doctor and Jeremiah nodded at the doctor. He sat beside her and waited for to come to consciousness.

And after almost an hour she screamed out loud and woke up in cold sweat.

“Jennnnyyyyy!!!!”

Jeremiah who had been waiting for her to wake up had been slightly dozing off but was woken up in a massive shock.

“Judith! Settle down, you are in the hospital!” said Jeremiah and she looked at him in a mad gaze and then said in a whisper,” they took her. They took away Jenny. You have to find her. I did not know that Comet had already been taken by them. Baron is missing. You have to find out Jenny… they are going to make her into a fucktoy and sell her off to a Russian gangster.”

Jeremiah could not even understand half of the portion of what she was saying and he looked at her with a confused expression on his face.

“Judith! Can you please slow down? Where is Jenny? Who took Jenny?” asked Jeremiah. That seemed to be the most important question right now.

“I don’t know. I don’t know where they have taken her. I never know where they take the girls.”

Jeremiah was confused again at he words when a male voice spoke from the doorway.

“So you have been involved in this all along!”