Raphael thought about what Henry was saying. "I always try to do everything I can to help someone, and I feel like I'm not if I leave Judy."
"You've already done everything you can to help her; there's nothing else you can do. But you can go out there and help Denella. She's out there with Celcus. Celcus! Who knows what he'll do to her. Judy's doing this because she can't take Celcus anymore. I don't even want to know what he did to her. If you're not coming, I can't make you. But, I do know that I'm not leaving you. Once a friend, always a friend. Or, that's in some cases."
Raphael took one more look at Judy. She was down on her knees trying to take the pain, but she couldn't. He turned his head and looked down at the earpiece in his hand. He looked back at Judy, and then down at the earpiece. Judy or Denella?
Gregnory Harbour, Gregnory, 10:46p.m
The white van that Denella had been following for about half an hour finally came to a stop. Denella stopped her car and parked farther away from the van. She quietly got out of her car and hid behind a big crate. She watched as Celcus came out of the car and opened the back doors. He grabbed her mom and John and dragged them into a big crate near a dock.
The dock was big and wooden. There were boats tied to the dock. Denella instantly recognized where she was; she was at the Gregnory Harbour. That was where people loaded items on the boats and they were shipped off to another country. Denella saw the driver in the black hoodie come out of the car. He and Celcus stood there and they were waiting for someone. But who?
Denella waited and finally, she saw another car pull up beside the white van. It was a black car. The windows had a really dark tint. Denella took a picture of the license plate with her phone. There was a bumper sticker that had a bunch of numbers: 8-21-13-1-14 20-18-1-6-6-9-3-11-9-14-7. It could have been a code for something; maybe two words since there were two different number patterns.
There were four men in the car. They were also dressed in black and looked like they belonged to Celcus. They got out of the car and went over to the crate. Spreading out along the edge of the crate, they each grabbed an end and lifted the crate into the opening of the boat.