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Chapter 8 - 8

Without second guessing to even call my father or wait till he got home I opened the box to see a well done red velvet cake that displayed the words "YOU'RE DEAD" written in red frosting with a human finger in a plastic wrap bag placed in the corner of the cake. A note was attached to it. It read

'Your wife and daughter are next' The words were written in black sharpie.

I jumped back scared for my life as well as my father's and immediately called him, his phone went to five dial tones and then voicemail. I hung up and called Josh.

"JOSH"

"What's wrong?" he answered the call worried. "I'm in Psychology, don't worry" he said chuckling "I ran out"

"My dad... we need to get to him and fast"

A car pulled up outside of my house two hours after, it was Josh and Caroline. I walked up to the car with a terrified expression on my face, it was well known to them both that I had looked like I've been scared out of my wits. "Are you okay?" my best friend asked when I got in the back seat, her head was now turned to the back. Josh looked in his rear view mirror at me. "Does she look okay to you?" he shook his head

"You look like you have just seen a ghost?" she frowned noticing the box. "What's in there that has you so shaken up?" I turned the box towards them opening it up, Caroline gasped but Josh exclaimed.

"Who would do this?" Caroline asked me as I closed the box on my lap. I shrugged. "That's someone finger, a dead person finger". My skin began to crawl as I watched my best friend turn back around in her seat and stared at her brother. I noticed Josh looking at me in the mirror again. What was he thinking?

The engine started and we were on my way to my dad's building downtown. "I don't think you should stay at your house alone Laur" Caroline spoke. "I mean with your mom gone and your dad being constantly busy, you're more than welcome to stay with us for the time being once the death threats start to decrease"

Josh shifted in his seat. "Yeah.... ummm... y-y-you're more than welcome to stay with us"

What's up with him?

"That's the thing" I looked at Caroline "I don't think the threats will decrease, it's gotten worse, I, holding a finger in a box for Christ sake! God knows whose finger this is"

The car pulled up. "You guys don't have to stay" I said getting out peering into the car, Josh's face was nothing but worried, Caroline however, was just the same, she really cared about my safety, they both did. Caroline reached for my hand. "We're here for you, we're not leaving until you walk out of there and you're in this car with us" I gave her a slight smile. "Laur" Josh now spoke "Do me a favor, if not for you, for me, for both of us" he said looking at his sister "I know your dad being protective and all but ask him to stay with us, we're good people, your mother knows this so do you". I nodded and gave them one more look before heading into my dad's headquarters.

The building was massive, let's just say I was amongst very important people in the industry as it relates to the law, people that one wouldn't mess with, people that were responsible for very important cases of the world varying from Atlanta to Alaska from Georgia to Mexico even Moscow, they were responsible for looking deep into files, cases and setting people free or sending them to months even life in prison.

My dad's co workers all knew who I was, after all I was his only daughter, his only child. I was greeted by one of his fellow case filers, Walter, mid 40's, strapping, friendly, he was always around to help.

"Fancy seeing you here Lauren, what can I do for you today? Are you here to see your father?" he said greeting me. "Yes" was my answer. He showed me to my dad's office where I saw my father seated at his desk with a huge stack of papers and folders scattered all over, the file drawers were all sprawled open

"Tomorrow, 10am" he looked up at me. "Yes that's fine, make sure to have your documents ready"

He looked down at a file closing it. "Okay. See you then". The phone was hung up.

My dad look shocked. "Lauren what are you doing here? How did you get here?"

"Josh brought me" I gulped. "Caroline is with him, they're outside"

My dad was silent. "Why are you here? Is something wrong?" I closed the door and sat in front of him.

"The mailman dropped a package off at the house, it was sent for you" I looked at my dad. "I'm sorry for opening it without your permission but I was curious"

He looked at the box and sighed "It's another death threat isn't it?". I opened the box to reveAl what was inside and I knew what my dad was thinking when he looked at the cake, I had originally had the same thought when first opening it: Why ruin a perfectly good looking, maybe delicious red velvet cake, for all I know it was probably poisoned. The person obviously hated my father and was after my family.

My dad reached into the drawer and got a glove and took out the finger that was inside, observing it. I was disgusted at the sight of the human limb in front of me, the look on my dad's face... I knew he was terrified as I was. "Who would decapitate a person like this?"

My dad got on the phone and quickly hung up. "MAX" he yelled.

"Yes John" a figure appeared

"Get forensics"