The sound of the door banging open took me by surprise, I almost jumped out of the long bench, the bottle of milk falling of the bench while little Ember still laid there. I'm just lucky that she wasn't being a crybaby, have been just like this for a while now. She did cry a few times in the middle of the day, but wasn't the tear a bottle of milk can't solve.
As a new born baby, I believe her mom's breast was exactly what she needed, but seeing the unavailability of her mom right now, I can't just allow the baby to stay hungry, just got her a bottle of baby milk from the nearby store, lucky enough I had some bucks with me.
Looking at the door in hiding, hoping to see the figure standing there, I can't see the figure clearly because it's dark already and no light were left on in the church, no one even know I was here if not Ryan, the security guiding here possibly don't know that someone is staying in hiding here for the second night now. I believe it's definitely the security right here now, he might've found out someway that someone was hiding here, little Ember wasn't crying, or creating any sort of awareness, but seeing that the security is already here, I guess I won't get to stay freely any longer.
“ Are you here Ember?....”. That's a familiar voice, one I haven't seen his face in a while now, and have been hoping for some way to see him. I stood up from my spot immediately, allowing him to see my location. Inside me, I was overjoyed, but outside in the physical, tears are already rolling down, knowing that I have just succeeded in achieving something, meeting Williams.
He sat beside me, a beautiful smile on his face, I can make out the view even in the dark environment. He was being cautious so as to not wake the baby, possibly having that father feeling, looking at the little baby which belongs to him, the first time he's seeing his girl since she was given birth to.
“ Ryan said I should come here, I have been calling but no one was picking, so I made up my mind to go find you guys myself, no matter whatever the risk was going to be, lucky enough that Ryan haven't turned into someone like his father yet, he guided me, telling me that you was here with my new born baby, I am really happy to have made it here.....”. He was in tears while he speaks, yeah, he's supposed to be, this is his first time seeing his child.
“ I decided to go check up on Caro first, Ryan told me you was here with the baby all alone, then knowing that you're here, that means my Caro will still be at Margarets place.... Only when I went there do I got informed by Margaret that Caro lost her life after giving birth, I never told her of you and your whereabouts, because she seemed to be blaming you for everything going on, saying that you ran away with our baby.....”. He finished, eyes looking into mine as if he was waiting for a confirmation.
I was still in shock and lost of words, I can see pain in his eyes, really feeling the loss he just told me about right now. I know that Caro wasn't in good health after she gave birth to little Ember, but I thought that it was just a normal thing that happens after giving birth, where the woman would be so weak and unable to do anything else. When she asked me to leave with the baby, I thought that she only meant for the safety of the little girl, I should protect her until they're able to come get her back, but the fact that I am just hearing that she's no more still sounds like a wind passing through my ear.
Williams didn't press with the answer he needed, he might've found that I am oblivious to the death of Caro too, that's it's my first time hearing about it right now, I felt his hand hold mine, immediately the connection was locked, tears rolled down my eyes, still don't know I single word to say, I kind of felt this coming, but I never expected it to.
He left my hand, then carried little Ember who was still having her peaceful beauty sleep, a little girl who was given birth to in the State of chaos, where her mom died after her birth and her Dad still on the run.
“ I made it this far because it was night, we've got to leave from here, time is against us, they're possibly following me around, maybe....”. He said, getting ready to leave the church. I know it's no longer safe here, the fact that Ryan might've gone back home by now, it shows that Mr Karl Johnson possibly have a lead on us now, the church, might've already sent eyes to watch.
We made it to the Van, I thought that the van was still left there at Mr Karl's show building, never knew that Williams here was kind of ready for all this in the first place, something more like everything was planned.
What did you do Williams?, Why are they trying to hunt you down?.....”, I questioned him, really curious why all this started on the first place, his eyes were on the road, looking quite frustrated about the question like he doesn't want to answer them.
“ Tell me Williams, you said it yourself that I am family, I deserve to know too what really got everyone of us into this situation...”, I pressed, really bothered right now, not knowing whether he was truly at fault or not.
“ Here's the first thing to know Ember.... I'm a special agent, a secret agent, someone you really don't need to know more about ”.