Chapter 52: Chapter 52

Isabella's pov;

The police took them and some stayed behind investigating what happened.

When they investigated me I said what happened to them because I was the one who saw them first. After my turn was over, they started investigating Mr Martinez.

Big brother walked over to me and asked, "They missed a question to ask you."

"What?"

"They didn't ask you why were you in the second floor in the middle of the night when you're room in the first floor."

"I… i…"

Mr Martinez called, "Mr Johnson, come here!"

Big brother turned to me and said, "I will ask you again. Be prepared." And left.

Should I tell about this to Big brother? What if he stopped me from investigating about this? What if he say to stop doing it?

This is not a revenge but i can't let Olivia walk walk free after what she did to my mother.

On the next day,

In Mr Martinez's working space,

"What do you want?"

"I have to go out. I'm tired of being in the house. Can I go out?"

"No."

"Please, I will return quickly. I promise that i won't run away."

He gave me a suspicious look on his face.

I continued, "Even if i run from here, where do you think i will go? I don't have anywhere to go except this place. Please, can I go?"

"Why do you want to leave the house?"

"Um, i want something to buy for me."

"What is it? I can buy it for you."

"No, i want to it by myself. Please, let me go. Can I go?"

"Fine. But…"

"You won't even know that I left. I'll back quickly."

After he gave a nod, i started to leave.

He said, "Take Mateo with you."

I gave a thumbs up to him and left.

In the mall,

I took Mateo to a mall. While he waiting in the parking lot, i sneaked outside the mall and headed to the hospital where Matthew Rodriguez was taken care of. I studied the hospital's name on the death certificate so i headed to the hospital.

At the hospital,

Where and how can I start this? I can't go around and ask people about Matthew Rodriguez. While i was thinking about a way, someone called my name.

"Bella!"

Who's calling me? I turned to look at that person. It's a girl. I don't remember her face. Do i know her?

She ran to me and gave me a hug which left in a surprise. Woah! I don't remember her name. What should I call her?

She asked me, "Why are you looking like you don't remember me?"

"I… I… actually…"

She hit me on my shoulder and said, "You did forget about me? How can about me? Okay, tell me my name."

"Do we have to do this?"

I looked her outfit. She was wearing the hospital's uniform.

"Do you work in here?"

"No, I'm studying medical science in here. Don't change the topic. Tell me my name."

When i looked her outfit where the name tag was, she blocked it and said, "No cheating."

"I need a help. Can you please help me?"

"What help?"

"Um… can we talk somewhere?"

She gave a nod.

I explained about the death certificate that i found and said I have a doubt with that.

She said, "Why are you investigating about his death? Are you FBI or something?"

I moved closer to her and whispered, "Yes."

She shouted, "What???"

I tried to calm her down by saying, "Please, keep it low. This is an investigation they gave me as my first case. If i don't solve this, i can't get to work in the field. Can you please help me with this?"

"But I'm not allowed in those places. How can I help you if they don't allow me in there?"

I looked at her Id and asked, "Is every id be like this? Without a face?"

"Yeah."

"Okay. Fine. Give me your id. I'll go in there and take whatever i need for my case."

She was shocked to hear me.

I patted her shoulder and said, "I'll be real quick. They won't even know that i was there. If you don't like to help me, it's fine. I'm not forcing you here." And stood to leave.

"Wait." She removed her id and placed it on the table and said, "You need someone in the monitor room."

I took the id and said, "Thank you."

"Be careful. Hey, did.you remember my name?"

"We have to be quick. Give me your phone." I dialled my number and gave it back to her and said, "Call me when you're in the monitor room." And left.

I waited outside the documents room waiting for the call from her. After i got the call, i entered the room and looked around the room to make sure there are no one. After knowing that I'm the only person in here, i asked her, "Where will be the death certificate?"

"Number 46."

I opened the cabinet number 46 and looked for the year. They said he died two years back when i started working there so it means that he died four years ago so i searched all the persons who died four years back. M! I took Matthew Rodriguez's document which is in the hospital. I looked into the document and came across death certificate and saw many documents along with it. I didn't saw these documents in the house. Why? I tried to take pictures of them but she said, "Quick! Come out of the room! The document room inspector is on the way."

"How much is there to get here?"

"Less than three minutes."

"Clear the evidence and get out of the monitor room." And ended the call with her.

I checked the documents and saw many terms in the paragraph. I read very quickly from left to right and repeated it and one term was highlighted in a bold. Scopolamine which sounded like a drug. Why did they highlighted it? What is this substance doing in Mr Rodriguez's death documents?

I heard someone opening the door of the room i was in. It must be the guy she told me to be careful of. I kept back all the documents back into the cabinets like how i found them and squatted down to not to be in his eye level. I backed away and came out of the room before the door get closed automatically.

I ran out of the room and came to the cafeteria.

She gave me a hug and said, "I was so scared."

"Did you erased the evidence?"

"Yeah, i did."

I gave her I'd back to her and thanked her for helping me.

"I'm sorry, i didn't recognise you soon, Ikea. You grown your hair long and have bangs which made me hard to remember you."

She smiled and said, "You finally remembered."

"I didn't. This id did. I thought you will be some great player in basketball. What are you doing here?"

"You know my mom, right? She's a doctor so she wants me to become a doctor too. She wants me to look after her hospital."

"Oh, okay. It's good to see you after a long time. I gotta go. Bye."

I rushed to the mall and entered the dress shop and picked whatever i saw and paid the bill in a hurry and ran out of the mall. When i saw Mateo, i walked slowly making a smile at him.

At the Mr Martinez's house,

I checked in the online about what is scopolamine. The results said,

'Scopolamine is anticolinergic agent, which blocks the ACH binding site, resultimg in high concentration of ACH. This damages hippocampus nerves, eventually leading to memory loss.'

Rose said Mr Rodriguez suffered a memory loss some days before he died. Does this drug can cause death? So i searched further about the scopolamine drug. The results lead me to the death rattle. Why there is death rattle whenever I searched for the scopolamine? I knew that death rattle is which every dying people experience before their deaths. In death rattle, person may suffer from swallowing and coughing. They say that it is a distinctive sound that people make before they die.

Why does this scopolamine do with this death rattle?

Scopolamine is used for death rattle??

My guess is right. Someone must have druuged him with this scopolamine. First, his memory got lost later he died in his sleep. Someone must have given him the scopolamine drug in smaller amounts to kill him.

Suddenly, the door opened and someone came in. I turned of the phone and looked who it is.

"Mr Martinez?"

He slowly walked towards me without speaking anything.

"Mr Martinez, what are you doing here?"

I looked at the time. It's 2 pm.

His silence scared me.

"Mr Martinez?"

He stood in front of me and stared at me and asked, "Why are you awake?"

"I had a nightmare so i woke up some minutes ago."

"Give me your phone."

"Huh?"

"Give me you phone."

"Wh-Why… why do you want my phone?"

He pushed me away and searched for my phone while asking, "Where's your phone?"

"What are you doing?"

He took my phone under the pillow and asked, "What were you doing?"

"I didn't do anything. I just woke up few minutes ago."

"Where did you go today?"

"Did you forget? You send Mateo along with me."

"You're lying. You went to HK hospital."

"H-How did you know that?"

"You think I'm a dumb, right? You were in second floor last night. You went to the HK hospital today. You were searching about scopolamine in the internet. Am i right?"

"I… i…"

He let out a sigh and said, "Stop whatever you're doing." And tried to leave.

I said, "I don't think your father died a natural death."

He turned and looked at me.

"What did you say?"

"Yes, you Father's death wasn't natural. He was murdered."

"What nonsense are you spouting?"

"I'm saying the truth. When i saw his death certificate, i had a doubt when they mentioned it as unknown so i went to the hospital and saw the documents in the hospital. There were more files about his medical condition. Among them, i came across a drug named scopolamine. When i searched it on the internet, they said taking the drug results in memory loss. You father suffered a memory loss and someone continuosly gave him the drug in smaller amounts…" before i finished, he held my throat to stop speaking.

He whispered, "I didn't know you'll come to this point. I said to stop. Don't you understand what I'm saying?"

"W-Why are you doing this?"

"I hate him. I hate whatever related to him. I hate when you talk about him. I hate when you speak for him." And tighten the grip.

"I-It hurtsss."

He let go of me and said, "Don't do it again."

I coughed after he let go of the grip and asked him, "Did you killed your father?"

"If i did, i wouldn't drug him and waited for him to die like that. I would have killed him with my own hands." And left the room.

By the way of his talking, i came to conclusion that he didn't. Which leaving to Olivia and Ethan. Ethan doesn't do that. Olivia. I won't leave it like this.