Chapter 12
***Dorothy's POV**
Today is cleaning day, I moved into my apartment for over a month now, and I still had some boxes that I hadn't even opened, and they just laid there.
"Hmm. So many boxes" I said, drawling and stretching and sitting on the floor and took one box and it read 'Reyes Partnership'
I looked at the box, it was my first time seeing it. I tried recalling if my parents had said anything about it but, nothing came to mind. I took out a pen and tore the tape over the box and opened it.
I was met with files and some documents. I have never seen this box before.. strange. Is this the company that my dad told me not to fight for?
I actually thought it was the accident that was messing with his head. I took one of the files and opened it.
I continued reading through, and I saw some plans, with budgets by the side, like there were starting a factory of some kind.
My dad always talked about opening a textile industry and this looked like a plan, but it looked more like he was presenting it to someone.
I skimmed through and I reached the next file that read 'Terms of Partnership'. Oh, he was looking for someone to partner with him. After skimming through some many files and not finding anything important, I decided to drop the box.
And I moved to another one, it contained so many family pictures and some pictures of my mom and dad when they were dating. They really were in love with each other.
I was about closing it till a particular picture caught my attention. I reached for the frame and it was a picture of my dad with Diana's father.
I couldn't understand. I was thrown into both confusion and curiosity. They knew each other, all these years?
I opened the box and I continued looking through, I found several pictures of them both, but at different places.
There was a picture they had taken and they was a banner with 'R&F LTD' behind them, as they stood in an incomplete building. It rang a bell, the name rang a bell.
I went to the other boxes that I opened and saw it. R&F LTD' was on the first page of this particular document.
I opened it and I saw a contract, signed by both Diana's father and mine, lasting for twenty years.
Wait, what? Why didn't my dad say anything about this? Why didn't my mom?
I'm so sure she knew about this, so why didn't they say anything? I continued skimming through the files.
They actually were in agreement, my dad produces while Mr. Frey brings the raw materials, and they share the profit sixty, fourty, with Mr. Frey getting sixty percent.
Seems pretty fair. So what went wrong? From Mr. Frey's expression and attitude when he realized me, he didn't seem so happy.
I closed the box and put the files back into their boxes, I checked other boxes and threw away things I didn't need.
After I cleaned everything and had eaten, I opened the boxes again and settled down to actually read through them and connect the dots.
There were so many questions, questions that I didn't have the answers to. And the only people that would have had any, were dead.
I looked through the box that had the files and I looked through all twenty files, but I couldn't find the reason behind Mr. Frey reaction.
Maybe I'm overthinking.
When I reached down into the box to take another file, I felt an envelope. I tore my eyes away from the file I was holding and I looked at this envelope.
But, it was a disc case and a CD was in it. I looked at it, examining it and it was still in perfect condition. I reached for my CD player and I inserted it.
I went back to my chair and nestled in. Let's see what this is about, I said to myself and the dosc started playing and my dad's face came up.
"If you are seeing this, it means I'm either in jail or dead…." My dad's voice boomed through the TV. What?
I soon felt my eyes welling up. What did you do dad?
"I won't say everything here, so if he finds one, it won't all be lost. I don't know who is watching this, but if it's you, Dora, please keep this to yourself and don't act in a haste. If you've found this, it means you know of my partnership with Mr. Douglas Frey" He said and I heard my mom's voice from the background.
"Mamma" I cried and went close to the TV.
"I have a partnership with Douglas, it was going well for five years and I thought he was a good partner and friend. Until, I overheard him saying that the materials he supplied wasn't so good and healthy. He was trying to cut cost, although he took a bigger share" He said and went to a table and came back with a black recorder.
"This is where I recorded the conversation. It won't be in the same place you found this disc, so it won't be destroyed if he finds it. That material killed a lot of people and made us face backlash, but he tried to subdue it which also earned him more money. Mr. Frey is a little snake, conniving too" My dad said and paused the video.
I looked at the screen. What? I stared at the screen for sometime. Then he came back and continued.
"Listen to me, the more children buy that material, it kills them, slowly but surely. It causes a deadly type of skin cancer. You have to stop the production of that material. I was at risk when he found out that I knew and I threatened to expos e him and the day I confronted him, was the day I knew that I was in danger. Please, find the recorder. Diana, if it's you watching this, you are already ten steps closer to finding it. You just have to think" He said and nodded his head and the video ended.
"Dad? What kind of hint is that? Just have to think. Think about what?" I exclaimed as I threw my hands up hysterically.
But R&F LTD wasn't anywhere, or is it?
I took my laptop and researched it. When the results came up it was just death tolls. And from the look of it, twenty people died under six months from the material.
And they didn't close down the factory or arrest Me. Frey?
I looked deeper, but I didn't see any recent news, linked to the name, then I decided to search 'Mr. Douglas Frey'
And his name came up with his picture, CEO of Frey Foundations. What?
Did he change the name? And what did my dad mean when he said, he knew he was in danger? I really needed answers, but I didn't know how to get them.
Except…I'll go back to the house as grew up in. But I hadn't been there in close ten years.