Hostages (Book 2)

Chapter 34

I looked at her and the word took some time till I remembered the definition. "Why,would we need to go there?"

"To search for anymore clues--"

"But we did that already," I sliced through "we found all we could."

"We only checked their offices. We think that there might be more elsewhere."

"We?"

"All of us. Offices is somewhere someone would think to look first. There was a lot of land in the backyard. .maybe there is something buried back there." Liam said.

"You think that two grown men went outside and played in the dirt to hide something from us and now you want us to go and find it?" I clarified.

Their faces said yes when I closed my eyes and remained calm. "Okay,when are we going?"

"Uh," Naomi started then looked back at the screen "there's two days till we have to drive to Nashville so. .we can  go the day after tomorrow."

"Why then? Why can't we just go tomorrow?"

She pulled her lip between her teeth then in a lower voice she said, "I'm not ready to go back just yet."

I leaned on the couch and frowned my eyebrows when everyone was still looking at me,now including Niall. "Okay,we can leave on that day then. And why are you all still looking at me like that?"

When everyone tried to avert their stares elsewhere I pushed up and went through the hall.

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It has only been an hour or two since the new news and the other incident that went to in depth for me to play out in my head. I decided on a shower not so sure if I took one already then I wandered the penthouse,which I'm still doing. You probably have questions when you heard me say no that I don't love Zachary and I can assure you I wasn't lying. The reasons can vary but the main second reason is because of Jason,that was a messy relationship and I've been cautious on who I give myself to ever since.

I think its traditional in the Serrano family to pick all the wrong people to connect with,and speaking of,why is everyone after us? The Serranos' I mean. What did we do so bad that everyone is trying to wipe us out? Me personally I think Serrano has a badass vibe to it and me and Naomi live up to it. There was a home video that our parents made once and Tim showed it to me and Naomi when we first started hacking,the video was of the very first time we were taught to hack (I guess 12 wasn't our original start date).

Actually my parents and BG started teaching us the minor ways to hack right when we were able to hold things,and not only with computers but bioly if that's a word. How to make someone do as we wanted with just a few batted eyelashes and bottom lip puckers,I aced it in the video which wasn't surprising. And now, thinking back to that day and how I looked in the video,when I watched the video and now, I see that I've really grown up. I circled back in the hallway and made a last minute stop at Niall's room,the door was cracked so I walked in and only Niall was there lying right side up on his bed.

I looked at their bathroom door,saw it open then asked him, "Where's Zayn?"

"I think he's still in the living room,do you need him?" He responded,not looking at me.

"No,I was just asking." I walked over to the side of his bed and sat down.

I looked at the stand next to us and saw his phone with the screen lit up,I saw signature colors of Twitter and pointed to it. "May I?"

He looked to where I was pointing at then moved his hand from behind his head, picked it up and handed it to me. I felt like a child given candy when I sat back till my back touched the wall. How many people would freak to be signed in to Niall Horan's Twitter account? I scrolled up and down at the recent posts then clicked on photos, "I'm glad I had no media account recently. Trying to handle what I was going through then the hate,I wouldn't be able to do it."