{"id":13650,"date":"2026-09-18T22:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:09:01","slug":"part-10-jennifers-warning-stopped-the-police-at-the-door-until-a-second-message-revealed-who-dererick-had-trapped-inside-with-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=13650","title":{"rendered":"PART 10 \u2013 Jennifer\u2019s Warning Stopped the Police at the Door, Until a Second Message Revealed Who Dererick Had Trapped Inside With Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photograph of Jennifer holding the sign traveled through the room from one phone to another.<\/p>\n<p>DON\u2019T COME IN.<\/p>\n<p>Three words.<\/p>\n<p>No explanation.<\/p>\n<p>No demand.<\/p>\n<p>No indication whether she had written them herself.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Shaw left for the rehabilitation facility with Price before I could ask another question.<\/p>\n<p>This time she did not promise updates.<\/p>\n<p>She simply said, \u201cStay with Clare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then she was gone.<\/p>\n<p>I sat beside my sister in the hospital consultation room with an officer outside the door.<\/p>\n<p>For several minutes neither of us spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Clare eventually said, \u201cShe could be warning them about Dererick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOr about herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if they made her do something?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clare looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnna.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not blaming her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saying we don\u2019t understand what eighteen months with those people did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The phrase sounded inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>With those people.<\/p>\n<p>As though Jennifer had been staying with unpleasant relatives.<\/p>\n<p>I had seen the records.<\/p>\n<p>Sedation.<\/p>\n<p>Isolation.<\/p>\n<p>Conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Completion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if graduation means they make victims part of it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clare\u2019s expression tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw Jennifer\u2019s folder stop. Maybe that wasn\u2019t because Dererick finished with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it was because her role changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nodded.<\/p>\n<p>The possibility was hideous because it explained too much.<\/p>\n<p>Why Jennifer was alive.<\/p>\n<p>Why she appeared at the airport without visible restraint.<\/p>\n<p>Why she knew where Dererick was.<\/p>\n<p>Why she was now inside a building connected to the same network.<\/p>\n<p>But coercion could make participation look like choice.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered Dererick showing her his phone.<\/p>\n<p>Her body changing.<\/p>\n<p>Compliance arriving after one image.<\/p>\n<p>Someone or something mattered enough to control her.<\/p>\n<p>My own phone was still with investigators, so Clare gave me hers when I asked to search Jennifer\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>The missing-person reports were easy to find.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Collins, thirty-seven when she disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Administrative coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Divorced.<\/p>\n<p>One child.<\/p>\n<p>I stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clare leaned closer.<\/p>\n<p>The article said Jennifer had a fourteen-year-old daughter at the time of the disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019d be sixteen now,\u201d Clare said.<\/p>\n<p>I scrolled.<\/p>\n<p>The daughter\u2019s name was Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer had disappeared during an overnight business trip.<\/p>\n<p>Police initially believed she might have left voluntarily, though her family disputed that interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Her car remained at the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Phone left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Most clothing left behind.<\/p>\n<p>No confirmed financial activity afterward.<\/p>\n<p>A quote from Jennifer\u2019s mother said she would never willingly abandon Sophie.<\/p>\n<p>I put the phone down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what Dererick showed her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the idea fit.<\/p>\n<p>If Dererick had access to Sophie\u2014or merely photographs proving he knew where she was\u2014he would not need restraints.<\/p>\n<p>He could make Jennifer walk anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Clare searched Sophie Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Very little appeared.<\/p>\n<p>A school athletics result.<\/p>\n<p>An old fundraiser.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing recent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they protected her identity after Jennifer disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the photographs pinned to the Northstar wall.<\/p>\n<p>If they could follow me for eleven months, they could follow a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>The officer outside opened the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Hale?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked up.<\/p>\n<p>A different detective stood behind him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnna Hale?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Detective Brooks. Shaw asked me to update you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice haven\u2019t entered?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey established a perimeter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the sign?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks glanced at Clare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe can hear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThermal imaging indicates several people inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least four heat signatures with reasonable confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDererick, Jennifer, Elaine and Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not very helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s what we know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid Jennifer come back to the window?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan they call inside?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLandline disconnected. Attempts are being made through known mobile numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDererick\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won\u2019t answer me. Why would he answer police?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks ignored the edge in my voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also trying Jennifer\u2019s known numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter eighteen months?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a number believed to be associated with her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That surprised me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthstar records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey gave her a phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you track it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every useful verb seemed to end in -ing.<\/p>\n<p>Working.<\/p>\n<p>Checking.<\/p>\n<p>Tracing.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Dererick was inside a building with a woman he had helped erase from her life.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s another issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers found a vehicle behind the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat vehicle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA white transport van.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fake ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame plate as April fourteenth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlate is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame company?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo visible company markings now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould it be the same van?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s inside?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers have not opened it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be part of the secured scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked away.<\/p>\n<p>Clare touched my elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks said, \u201cThere\u2019s something else you may be able to help with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you recognize the phrase blue room?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I turned back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the laptop?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnywhere. Your husband. Home. Work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I searched my memory.<\/p>\n<p>Blue room.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Then something surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Not a room.<\/p>\n<p>A paint color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDererick painted our guest room last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat color?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe ten months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was it used for?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuest room. Mostly storage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid anyone stay there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I remembered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer\u2019s earliest photographs weren\u2019t in our bedroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks leaned forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t recognize the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat color were the walls?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My skin prickled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer on a sofa.<\/p>\n<p>Green sweatshirt.<\/p>\n<p>Another image in a bed.<\/p>\n<p>Behind her, a wall.<\/p>\n<p>Muted color.<\/p>\n<p>Could have been gray.<\/p>\n<p>Could have been blue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t be sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy does blue room matter?\u201d Clare asked.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorthstar documents reference transfers to a Blue Room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCapitalized?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it at the rehab facility?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts returned home.<\/p>\n<p>Dererick painting the guest room himself.<\/p>\n<p>He had insisted I stay out because he wanted to surprise me with the finished color.<\/p>\n<p>For almost two days he kept the door closed.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward the room smelled of paint and something sharper.<\/p>\n<p>I had assumed primer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was in our guest room before he painted it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBed. Desk. Boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny camera equipment?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered the doorknob.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe replaced the lock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks\u2019s pen stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegular knob with a key.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said the old latch was sticking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you have a key?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never needed one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis key ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks stepped into the hallway and made a call.<\/p>\n<p>Clare looked at me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think he used that room?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But my house was already full of spaces I had not understood.<\/p>\n<p>A hidden compartment.<\/p>\n<p>A surveillance camera.<\/p>\n<p>A briefcase.<\/p>\n<p>Why not the guest room?<\/p>\n<p>Brooks returned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers will examine it under the existing search authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything else?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He left.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty minutes later, Clare\u2019s phone rang from an unknown number.<\/p>\n<p>She answered cautiously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her expression changed.<\/p>\n<p>She held the phone toward me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s Shaw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I took it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnna, listen carefully. Did Dererick ever mention Sophie Collins?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer\u2019s daughter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. I only learned about her from the missing-person article.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he ever talk about a girl named Sophie without a last name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I searched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeenager?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny young person he claimed was a client\u2019s daughter, relative, intern?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe received a text from Jennifer\u2019s phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did it say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo sentences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My grip tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat sentences?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw read them.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie is here.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll hurt her if you enter.<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The airport suddenly made sense.<\/p>\n<p>The sign.<\/p>\n<p>The obedience.<\/p>\n<p>The warning.<\/p>\n<p>Dererick did not need Jennifer to trust him.<\/p>\n<p>He only needed to hold the right person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Sophie inside?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to confirm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s sixteen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeventeen now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The correction hurt for reasons I could not explain.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer had lost eighteen months.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter had grown older while her mother existed somewhere inside Dererick\u2019s system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you see another female heat signature?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSize?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould be younger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does Dererick want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hasn\u2019t stated demands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen why bring them there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I thought about tonight\u2019s planned transport.<\/p>\n<p>My graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Something had disrupted his schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Me.<\/p>\n<p>Pouring out the tea.<\/p>\n<p>Finding the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Crossing to Mr. Peterson\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Calling police.<\/p>\n<p>Dererick\u2019s entire operation was collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>He had gone to the airport and collected Jennifer.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Not escape.<\/p>\n<p>If he wanted to flee, Jennifer and Sophie were liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he needed Jennifer for something.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if he\u2019s cleaning up?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shaw was silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnna\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows you found Northstar. He knows you have the notebook. He knows I copied the files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what he knows about the flash drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knew I was at Peterson\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat came from location sharing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been preparing for discovery longer than I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I heard movement on Shaw\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>Then Price\u2019s voice, indistinct.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw said, \u201cI have to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer\u2019s sign said don\u2019t come in. Not help me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s protecting Sophie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLikely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if police force entry, Jennifer may do whatever Dererick tells her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re aware.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease don\u2019t mistake that for choosing him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The call ended.<\/p>\n<p>I gave Clare her phone.<\/p>\n<p>For the next hour, nothing happened.<\/p>\n<p>Then Detective Brooks returned.<\/p>\n<p>His expression told me the update was not about the rehabilitation facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did you find?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour guest room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the carpet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I waited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a floor access panel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t a basement under that side of the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a basement. A shallow concealed cavity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was inside?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks opened his notebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisposable medical supplies. Restraints. Camera mounts. Packaging material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clare went pale.<\/p>\n<p>I heard myself ask, \u201cAnything belonging to Jennifer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room went quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA necklace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know it\u2019s hers?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears in several photographs from her missing-person file.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I sat down.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer had been in my house.<\/p>\n<p>Not merely as an image on Dererick\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Physically.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly in the guest room.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly unconscious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I met Dererick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer came too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I looked up.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks realized what he had revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He hesitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome packaging recovered from the cavity has dates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat dates?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the last two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had been married to Dererick for four.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer disappeared eighteen months ago.<\/p>\n<p>My house had been part of what happened to her.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered sleeping one room away from the guest room.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered nights Dererick told me he was working late downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered the strange smell after he painted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid he bring her there after she disappeared?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need forensic analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My hands began shaking again.<\/p>\n<p>Then Brooks\u2019s radio sounded.<\/p>\n<p>He listened.<\/p>\n<p>His face changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He did not answer me.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke into the radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Static.<\/p>\n<p>Then a voice.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks looked toward the hallway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShots fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clare stood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the facility?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSophie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDererick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt the room contract.<\/p>\n<p>Then another transmission came through.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks listened.<\/p>\n<p>His eyes shifted to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He lowered the radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne person came out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFemale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJennifer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He waited for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The radio crackled again.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks exhaled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs she hurt?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe appears injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s Sophie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDererick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer had made it out.<\/p>\n<p>But her daughter had not.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/?p=13651\">Click here to continue reading: PART 11: Jennifer Escaped the Building With Blood on Her Coat and One Secret That Changed Everything We Thought Dererick Was Running<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photograph of Jennifer holding the sign traveled through the room from one phone to another. DON\u2019T COME IN. Three words. No explanation. No demand. 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