Stolen moments

Chapter 41 (B)

I put my hands on his tensed shoulders, he relaxed in the process, his hunched figure stood straight, he looks at me with tired eyes.

"Any luck?" I asked quietly, the shake of his head answered my question.

It has been five days, five good days that Leah had been kidnapped. Five chaotic days.

There had been no sign of her. It was like she disappeared off the face of the earth.

"They are looking for a lead. It is getting hard because her abductors did a clean job. Motherfuckers!" he cursed in anger.

I can recall the last time I spoke with my best friend on the phone, she shouldn't have left the estate.

The whole place is under lockdown and tight security. They may still be lurking around according to what the investigators said.

The door to the room we were occupying opens abruptly, Max stepped in with an excited look on his face.

"We have a lead"

This caught our attention, we rushed out of the room to go to the main living room were everybody was situated.

There were officers of the police department, CID's, even FBI's swarming around the house and estate. Different gadgets and equipments were laid down to help track down the culprits.

The media are not allowed into the estate, there has been no news of her disappearance, the Anderson's do not want it to get out of hand.

I look around to see Mr Gabriel seating in front of a laptop with a CID as the spoke in hushed tones away from the ears of everyone watching them.

The CID looks up from the conversation before clearing his throat which got our attention.

"We got a lead. Italy, Verona to be specific"

This caused a murmur in the room.

What is she doing on another continent?

"How did you get the lead?" Alfredo spoke up from beside me.

The man turns to look at Hunter who sitting opposite them. He looked like a wreck.

"I gave her something which was very useful" I stare at him with a cryptic look.

"A tracker was inserted into one of the jewelry she had on" the investigator said.

"The anklet I gave her, she still had it on"

Gabriel narrowed his eyes into slits while Alfredo grunts. The twins stared at him as if he was insane.

"We are having a very long conversation after all these" Gabriel said.

I tried controlling my chuckle. Did he give her a tracker engraved anklet, just to monitor her movements?

He is Hunter Paranoid Knight so am not surprised.

"Don't look at me like that Alfred, at least it is now useful" he defended. "if you were in my shoes you would have done the same"

Alfredo threw him a glare.

"Remind me after this whole drama and after i get my sister back that she should not take any gift from him again" he mutters into my ear while I simply chuckled.

It is so nice to find something to laugh about even in this situation.

"You dare not try this with me" I warned him walking closer to listen to what they were saying.

His annoyed grunts confirmed my suspicions, i need to do a recheck on all gifts received from him.

The man kept on typing, using some algorithms and codes when all of a sudden the screen went blank, he cursed out, mumbling some apologies before putting it on again.