My Crazy Housemate: What Makes You Happy - Chapter 275

Mia stood outside the police station, trying and failing to keep her anxiety in check. What if her father was in there? Seeing him for the first time in 8 years, she wasn’t sure how she would react. But what if it was a bad news?

She went inside and it didn’t take long before someone approached her. After telling her who she was here for, the policewoman led her to an office where she found her mother and Mary bawling their eyes out. There were two other officers inside the office—one was middle aged and sitting in the main office chair while the other one who looked ten years younger was standing beside him. It looked like they had just given them a bad news.

“You must be Miss Mia?” The elderly police asked. When she nodded, he asked her to sit which she did albeit reluctantly as she looked at the other two who hadn’t bothered to look at her. They were busy crying.

“I am Superintendent Clark.” He introduced himself. “This is my assistant, Officer Gray.” He gestured at the man beside him.

“Is… my father okay?” Mia asked even though something already told her she would be getting a bad news.

“I am sorry Miss Mia but unfortunately, your father died a long time ago.” He broke the news sadly. Although he tried to break it to her in a way that wouldn’t seem too painful for her to take but apparently, there was no better or easier way of breaking such news to the victim’s loved one.

Surprisingly, she didn’t begin to cry immediately just like her mother and sister. Her body was shaking and the news hit her hard, but she tried to keep her composure as she asked, “How? What happened to him?”

“It is actually a big case that isn’t supposed to go into the public at the moment since thorough investigation is still going on, but we have to let the families of the victims know especially for those who filed a missing person report.”

“Victims?” She took note of that particular word and sat up.

“We have a rough sketch of what happened. A few days ago, we received an intel about some illegal activities going on in a secluded house in the southern axis away from town. The police infiltrated the building and after a few digging into it, we realised it belonged to a loan shark.”

He stopped talking. Even though he had just broken the news to the other two women, it was still difficult talking about it.

“My father has something to do with it?” Mia asked when it seemed like the man was not going to continue.

“We took hold of a lot of journals which we spent days going through. It seemed like your father borrowed a lot of money from this man 9 years ago but could not pay up.”

“A whole lot of money.” He added for emphasis.

Mia deduced it was probably around the time when his business was going down and he was borrowing from everywhere to revive it. Unfortunately, everything crashed and he had a pile of debt to repay which he couldn’t.

Mia nodded to let him know she was following so he continued.

“We interrogated the few suspects we found in the premises so they gave us a report of how things worked there. Apparently, their boss was able to make a lot of money through human and organ trafficking.”

“What?” Mia almost jumped from her seat.

The two women’s cries grew louder.

“Naturally, people who borrow a lot of money find it difficult paying up. So according to one of our suspects, he mentioned that those people were given options. If they had daughters, then the debtor could give up the daughters for trafficking which more or less equals prostitution. If they had sons, their boss might consider having the son work for him until the debtor could pay up. But if they didn’t have children, or if they were not willing to give up their child, then he could give himself.”

“For organ trafficking.” Mia said in a quiet voice. The policemen finally saw a tear escape her eyes.

The policeman nodded. “And he isn’t supposed to tell anyone about it. There is a contract.”

“We are still searching all over for their boss. I am positive we are going to find him soon and bring him to justice.” He swore.

“Is this… for real?” Mia asked. She was finding it difficult to believe. She didn’t want to believe it.

“We found his name in their journal. Name, date, time. It was all in there. We’ve been looking through the journals for the past few days.”

While they were searching all over for him all these years, he already signed his death for his organs to be sold off because he could not pay up his debt? Mia thought.

“Ex…cuse me…” Mia stood up while clutching her stomach. She wanted to throw up.

The second policeman was quick to lead her to the bathroom outside the office so she ran into one of the toilet cubicles and began to empty her bowel. She didn’t have the time to close the door. It was the least of her worries.

The more she gagged, the more tears ran down her eyes.

“Mia?” She heard Linda’s cracked voice before the woman appeared behind her and began to pat her back.

Mia turned around immediately and slapped Linda’s hand away. “Don’t you dare touch me!” Mia said, her eyes brimming with tears.

Linda looked shocked and could not utter a word.

“You are a horrible person. Everytime I see you… I get… to confirm… what a Devil you… are.” Mia said in between sobs while choking a few times.

“Look at the sacrifice dad made. He had two daughters but didn’t think to offer us. Hell! He could have offered just me if he hated me so much. But he didn’t!”

“But you…” Mia shook her head as more tears escaped her eyes.

“Just to pay your stupid daughter’s debt, you sold me off without any remorse. You are a devil. And I will never forgive you even if I die!” Mia swore before pushing her out of her way and walking out.