Behind Blue Eyes
Copyright© 2025 by DB86
Chapter 4
Lobby camera footage showed Benjamin leaving the building alone with a backpack soon after he returned from school. The doorman remembered he had taken a taxi.
The police were looking for the taxi driver.
Robert had checked his son’s room and found out he had taken some clothes with him, and the money he kept in his piggy bank.
When the policemen arrived, they asked him the usual questions. Being a lawyer, he knew them by heart.
“Have you and your son argued?”
“No.”
“Do you think he may have run away from home?”
“No.”
“Does he have a girlfriend?”
“Of course, not! He’s just twelve.”
“Where do you think he might have gone?”
“I have no idea. I already looked in the usual places.”
The officers exchanged a look that made Robert clench his teeth. He could practically hear what they were thinking; another rich snob who didn’t pay attention to his son.
The boy was probably a spoiled rich kid who had grown out of control.
Nothing was further from the truth, of course, but the policemen didn’t know it.
If anything, Robert paid too much attention to Benji, he had always tried to fulfill the role of father and mother on his own. He knew everything about his son, or thought he did, until today.
“We’ll take a look at hospitals and bus stations, Mr. Campbell. Call us if he gets in touch with you, okay?”
“That’s all?” Robert looked at the policemen without believing his ears. “My twelve-year-old son has ... has...”
He waved his hands in despair. He couldn’t say it. Maybe if he didn’t say it, it wouldn’t be true. His son had not disappeared.
Robert took a deep breath and tried again. “My son is out there, alone, in a big city and all you’re going to do is take a look?”
“We can’t do much more, sir,” said one of the officers, avoiding his gaze. “Nothing indicates that it could be a kidnapping or any other criminal act. The fact that he took all his money and some clothes with him, suggests that he has run away from home. In those cases, the normal thing is that they return voluntarily, most of them do.”
It was the cases of those who didn’t, that made Robert’s heart shrink.
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