In that moment, Adam went to the mayor wife and appoint to the stair besides the balcony of the daughter room, and said something, the sheriff stopped for a moment, and Adam went to stairs and hold it lightly and then she made an agonizing noise, and one last move, Adam was quick and move away just before it drop down on his head, the stair broke in three major pieces as it hir the ground, she was white in the visible part, but the part in contact with the wall was rusty and rotten, the noise was dry and the grass hold him the mayor's wife and the cops was stunned, as Adam stared at the floor.
The sheriff was with a big problem in his hands, he doesn't liked much his work, and even less of that city, he had to travel about two hours every time he wanted to see his wife and children, his kids, twins a couple, and he felt divided and it was indeed. He wasn't giving everything he has in his work, and not even to his family, and now he was there, a situation clearly compromising to himself, who wasn't there during the kidnap and not even after it in his post, and doesn't even knew were to start, since his main line of investigation had just drop rotten of the wall, that stair falling was like his career in the police, soon will be falling.
Sheriff – Officer Abrax, come here please.
Abrax approach, and the sheriff started that usual talk:
Sheriff – You know, there's been a while since I came to this police station.
Actually, there's been a year and a half.
Sheriff – and now, all this crap fall in my hands, so I need your help! I see that you have familiarity with the case, and on top of that you discovered a flaw here and I don't even know were to start.
Adam – Sir, don't worry I will trace a investigation line that suits the situation, because I don't believe that the girl was kidnapped here!
Sheriff – What do you mean, you don't believe? So what's your theory?
Adam took a deep breath and explain, and the sheriff listen everything without questions. Adam already suspected, but just to be sure he decided to talk to the maids and found out that the mayor was going to be home three quarters pass midnight, in the mansion there was a sentry-box where it was supposed to be a guard, but according to the mayor the wife had given him a day off because the man has lost his father and need to go to the funeral, the mayor will support his wife on the testimony, and that was strange and then Adam went back to talk to her.
Adam – Ma'am, I really want to find you daughter, but for that I need you to help me telling the truth.
The woman became serious.
First Lady - What?? I told you all the truth.
Adam – I checked the info that was passed on to me, but they don't fit, and the mayor confirmed that he arrived three quarters past midnight, so something is missing, and I have a theory: Your daughter wasn't kidnapped here, and I think I know why you're hiding it.
She doesn't answer, just raised an eyebrow as someone who is curious and them continue:
Adam – You Ma'am, let her go out with some friend, perhaps a special friend and she had a time to go back, I suppose it was a little early than midnight, but she didn't arrive, right? And then you Ma'am, became desperate because her father was about to get home and he could notice that she wasn't home, since he probably don't approve the relationship between them, am I right?
The lady was with her eyes wide open, impressed by Alan capabilities:
First Lady: How could you say that? I, I...
And then she began to cry, but Adam was right, was noticeable that the girl wasn't at home that whole time. He noticed that when she didn't inform right away the last time that she had seen her daughter, only on the second statement, and on top of that, why she would look for so long to the clock? The trip to the pharmacy and the doctor appointment was probably because the girl was being oriented about the dangers of unprotected sex or something like that, furthermore there wasn't any signs of a struggle in the bedroom, at last, all indicating a secret relationship, Adam knew that the mother only had going to the cinema to supervise Penelope and the boyfriend. Steve was curious to know how he had found out all of that:
Adam – Wasn't hard, They went to shopping and the lady's schools, probably the mayor wanted to depart her daughter of the young unknow boy, speaking of which we have to found out who he is and where they went, I want to pass on my strategy to the sheriff, the mayor and the first lady are afraid of the exposure, and sincerely I also want that our steps to be as discreet as possible.
Steve seems nervous every now and then he stepped away to smoke, Adam though that was jus the pressure of the situation.
Adam was right about his theory, about Penelope didn't disappear at home, but he had another that could or not be relevant to the case but kept them by himself.
Penelope had gone out about ten o'clock, with her boyfriend and a older friend, a "supervisor", the boy had also fifteen years old, and the three of them went to ice skating on a rink, that was a attachment to the bowling in the city., right after that they played bowling, and at last they had gone to a drive in to watch some of those gruesome terror movies, and in a given moment the friend that was supposed to supervise them, took a step away and the two got out of the drive in walking and have gone to a convenience store in the fourth avenue, which was nearby, when the woman noticed the vanish of the teenagers, went out to look for them and them called the girl mother, the youngsters had indeed entered the store, but according to the boyfriend, Penelope disappeared right there.
The mayor and his wife didn't want to tell the identity of the boy, but Adam found out quickly, the boy was Louis, a young boy who lived by the orphanage, where he grow up. Wasn't permitted older than thirteen Years old there, but Louis was the first kid abandoned there since the remodeling and the removal of the nuns in the administration and that's why they decided to let him live there. The woman who was it him and Penelope in that day was sister Marie, she had only twenty-six years old and soon she would be a nun, she help in the orphanage even after he began to be a town hall responsibility, she was heartbroken, to get something out of her, Adam had to go deep but certain, take the testimony of Louis was the worse, the boy was in shock.