The Baby Contract????????????
????????????Chapter 21????????????
When Deville went home,he ran straight to Pearl’s room,everyone was there and they look worried,Mrs Phina was holding Pearl whose eyes were shut,he rushed to her be-d and sat beside her,
“Sunshine,what happened?” He carried her up and placed her head on his che-st,
“Deville,we don’t know,the only thing was she just started throwing up and the next thing was blood from her nostrils.” Deville was a hell of shock when he heard what happened to his daughter,
“Have you called for emergency?” He asked,
“Yes,but we’re yet to see them.” Cheryl answered carrying Ace.Deville’s glared turned to Millie,
“What happened?” Millie was shocked at Deville’s suspicion towards her,
“Sir…I….” He kept Pearl on the be-d and walked toward Millie,
“You prepared the food,so what happened?” Millie was now shedding tears,
“Deville, this isn’t time to throw blames,let’s get Pearl to the doctor since he isn’t here yet.” Mrs Phina said,Deville moved from Millie with anger and went back to Pearl.
“Sir, the doctor is here.” Marisa said,everyone turned and saw the elderly doctor walk into the room,
“Good day Sir,” Deville greeted the doctor and cleared space for him to check what’s happening to Pearl,
“You have to excuse us plea-se,she nee-ds fresh air.” The doctor said to them,everyone left except Deville and his mom,
“Sir I said you should all leave the…”
“Treat her in my pres£nce,its just the two of us and she’s my daughter.” The doctor sighed in frustration,
“Okay sir.” He turned to Pearl and did some diagnosis on her.
“Mom,why didn’t you call Williams?”He asked his mom,she shrugged,
“I called at the hospital but he wasn’t in and his cell phone wasn’t going throu-gh.” She told him,Deville sighed and mas-saged his forehead slightly,
“Any news on Anne?” His mom asked,he shook his head,
“I’m confused,Charles isn’t in and the only clue we have isn’t pointing to him,” he sighed, Mrs Phina placed her hands on his shoulder,
“So what do you intend to do now?” She asked him,
“I’ve asked Jake to call Archie, remember him?” Mrs Phina nodded,she knows all of Deville’s friends and Archie had been her least favorite.Her countenance changed,
“Why? For what?” She asked,Last she heard of Archie,he was a drug Lord in Mexico, why would Deville want to meet up with him?
“Mom,Jake told me about a device that can access the f!ngerprints on that cufflink, but the problem is that the device is in Mexico,” she nodded,dre-ading where all this is going to land.
“Mom,” Deville held her hands,
“Archie is the only connection I have in Mexico that can help me trace God’s Eye,”He added,she wasn’t buying that.Not that she hates Archie,no far from that,she regards the five boys as the children she never had but Archie’s business,his way of living and his mode of operation is what keep her a hundred from him,but Deville isn’t seeing that,for Deville his friends are the brothers he never had.
” Do you think this is a good idea,you can meet some of your contacts, your business…. “He frowned,
” Mom this isn’t business, Archie is the only solution to whomever the kidnapper is.”
“Mr Salvador,” Deville and his mom turned to the doctor,
“Your daughter nee-d to be taken to a paediatrician,she nee-ds to be admitted and given proper treatment.” Deville was not happy,he had Anne to look for now Pearl is sick,he can’t postpone his trip to Mexico.
“I’ll call the hospital now to come and get her.”
“But doctor, what’s wrong with her?” Deville asked,
“Mr Salvador, she has an overdosed Aspirin in her system.” He announced,Deville and his mom were shocked,
“How come?” Mrs Phina muttered still in shock of how Pearl got hold of Aspirin,
“That I’m surprised too,how a six year old child got Aspirin in her system,an overdosed one to be precised.” The doctor said,he re-moved his glas-ses,he breathed on it,clean it with his handkerchief and put it back on,
“So,doctor what do we do now?” Deville asked death worried,
“Like I said,she’ll be admitted in my hospital and un-dergo proper treatment, lucky enough for her,the aspirin hasn’t done much damage to her system.” He said to them,Deville turned to his mom,he felt angry and disappointed that his daughter got drugged even when she was un-der adult surveillance,
“Okay.” He said to the doctor and went to Pearl whose eyes was shut,
The doctor brou-ght out his phone and called the hospital,
“Salvador’s mansion, get an ambulance ASAP.” He kept his phone back in his pocket,
“Pearl honey,I’m sorry for what happened, sorry I left and couldn’t keep my eyes on you,daddy’s so sorry.” His eyes was moist with tears as he looked at his daughter who was still unconscious,
“Don’t worry sir,she’s gonna be okay when she gets proper treatment.” The doctor as-sured.
Awhile later,the ambulance c@m£,they took Pearl with them and Cheryl and Marisa went with them,while Mrs Phina stayed behind to see Deville off,
“Are you sure you want to do this?” She asked for the umpteenth time,Deville looked at from from his closet and nodded slowly,
“Gat no choice,have to look for Anne and make sure Pearl is alright.” He packed his clothes into a mini luggage,
“Sir,there’s a parcel for you.” Deville stood up and saw his driver Alex by the door,he walked to him and took the parcel,
“Get the car re-ady,we’ll be leaving soon.” Alex left immediately.
“Who’s that from?” Mrs Phina asked,
“I don’t know,got no inscription or note.” Deville was about keeping it on the table when something fell from the parcel,he kept it and picked up the paper that fell from it,
“BAM.” He re-ad it loud for his mom to hear,
“What does that mean?” She asked,
“Dunno,” He tossed it aside and continued parking his stuffs.Then his phone rang,
“Jakes calling.” He took the call,
????”Everything’s set man.” Jakes voice boomed,
“Okay.”
“But man,Archie suggested we all come to Mexico,”
“Why?” Deville asked,
“Dunno man,so I’ve called Will and Tim,they will be here soon and our flight leaves by nineteen okay.” Jake informed him,
“Okay, be there soon.”???? He hung up,
” Mom,I and the other boys are going to Mexico together, Archie insisted.”Mrs Phina smiled,
“Archie might be a bad bloke but he sure knows how to bring you guys together.” Deville wanted to smile but managed a grimace,
“Dev,don’t worry take it a little at a time,everything’s gonna be normal soon.” She patted his shoulder and helped him pack.
“Ma,keep me upd@t£d especially on Pearl,I nee-d every upd@t£s on how her treatment would go.” She hvgged him and he left,Alex driving him to Jake’s office where the others were waiting for him.
When he got there,the other guys were alre-ady there,
“When does the plane leave?” William asked,Jake stood up and c@m£ in their middle,
“The plane leaves by twenty but we aren’t going to the airport,” He broke the new,they all looked at him giving him the weird whys and hows look.
“And the ticket is to Cuba not Mexico actually.” Deville and the rest were confused,
“Why?”Jake brou-ght his l@pt©p,
” After concluding our trip with Archie, I got a voice message from a pri-vate number,”he brou-ght his phone and repla-yed the voice message,
“St©p wasting your time with this case,you’re fighting a loss cause,you can never find Anne or even have a clue where she is.” They were surprised at the message,
“For someone to s£nd such message,that person must have known how desperate we want to find Anne,” they nodded,
“When I called Archie,he asked me to change our destination to Cuba,then hell s£nd his men to bring us to Mexico while my men would go in guise of us to the airport.”
“Brilliant idea.” Deville remembered something,
“Guys I received this parcel today,” he went throu-gh his luggage and got the parcel still wra-pped,
“Yeah,I got something like that too.” Tim said,everyone looked at the both of them,
“Mine has this inscription, BAM.” He made more emphasis on this last word,
“Mine too.” Deville said,they were surprised,
“Let’s have a look at the content.” Tim opened his first,
“There nothing inside except this,” he brou-ght out a ball pen,disappointed at what he saw,he kept back the pen in the parcel and threw it by the side.
“Dev open……..” Jake’s phone rang interrupting them,he checked the caller,
“Guys,they’re here.” He motioned his friends to follow him and they did,four other FBI officers c@m£ toward them,
“These are the the guys that will go to the airport in guise of us.” They switched clothes with the other guys and wore FBI uniforms,
“You can keep those clothes,won’t be nee-ding it any further.” William said and they all laughed.They went throu-gh the back route and got into the plane while the FBI officers waited till nineteen before going to the airport to catch their flight to Cuba.
True to his words, Archie did track God’s Eye,he had one of his un-derground men do it for him,it was secured in Bancó de Mexico (Bank of Mexico). Since God’s Eye was a special device,the government found it safer in the bank that anywhere else,
“How do we get to it?” Deville asked,
“Leave that to me.” He stood up from his seat,
“Gat a young lad in the bank and he owes me a favor,”
“Boss,Marcelo’s calling.” One of Archie’s thvg c@m£ forward and handed him the phone,
“Marcelo.” A shrill voice was heard from the receiver,
“Get me to that young lad at the bank, tell him The Man’s coming to use a favor,” he said,Deville and the rest watched as he answered his call,
“Tell him The Man’s coming for whatyacallit.” Archie eyed Deville,
“God’s Eye.” Deville reminded him,
“Yes Gods Eye,hears his bank held it.” Deville founded Archie’s way of talking amusing,he talks like an Asian bloke,too much business with the Asians had done that,Devices thought to himself as he grimaced.Finally Archie was done with the phone,
“Got him to talk to the lad from the bank,we’ll go there tomorrow at sunrise.” He said,
“Renato!” A hvge man c@m£ inside,
“Guys this Renato,my right hand bloke,” The Renato guy turned to the others and grimaced,
“He’ll show you to your chambers since its sunset alre-ady and your head nee-d a bleeding rest for tomorrow work.”Archie hasn’t never changed a bit,he’s still a funny guy but in a rou-ghy way.They stayed up till midnight even after Archie left,
“Dev,you never got to open your parcel earlier, mind if you do it now.” William asked,Deville went inside and brou-ght the parcel,
“Open it,bet its gonna be a ball pen like Tim’s.” He said,Deville opened the parcel and there was a pen just like Tim’s in it,he took up the pen and peered at it,William snickered,
“Guys there’s something more to this,” Jake said,everyone turned to him,
“Dev,what was that word again you got on the paper you found?” He turned to Deville,
“BAM.”
“Same thing for you Tim uh?” Tim nodded,and you were the first person who got the case of Anne’s disappearance,
“Yeah,guess so.” Tim said,
“Deville, is there anything else on the pen?” Deville twisted the cap of the pen,it made a fli-cker sound and opened,
“There!” William pointed to something that has fallen down from the pen without their knowledge,Deville picked it up,
“What is this?” The object was scroll like,with thick t©p and un-der,
“Try open it.” Deville tried but it wasn’t possible since his hands were big,
“Tim,you’re the youngest and your hands are smaller,try open it.” He handed the scroll like stuff to Tim,
“Help..Anne..BAM” Tim f0rç£d it open and re-ad the tiny word written on it.The mention of Anne s£nt Deville alert,
“What was that?” He asked Tim,
“Help..Anne..BAM” he repeated,
“Someone’s trying to give us clue.” Jake said and the lights went out.
Chapter 22????????????
There were all shocked at the power failure,
“Guys don’t worry,its a minute power failure,we gat thing un-der control.” Renato yelled an apology from the rear end of the large door,
“Okay,no worries.”Tim said,not up to a minute later,the light c@m£ on.
” Told you it won’t buy your time.”Renato c@m£ inside,got something from the coffee table and left,
“Now where were we?”Tim asked no one in p@rticular,
” Let me have a look plea-se.”Jake took it over from Tim
“Let’s show this to Archie,he might be able to help us.” William said,Jake shook his head,
“Leave him to Gods Eye while we take care of this,” he turned to Deville,
“Who did they say this c@m£ from?”Jake asked referring to the parcel,
” Didn’t see no address, the person must have been hiding his identity.”Deville said,Alex hadn’t told him who brou-ght the parcel and he didn’t brother asking because he had been so tensed and angry at that moment.,
“There’s something fishy going on and we nee-d to figure that out.” He kept the scroll in his br£@st pocket,
“Remind me Dev,who else was with you on the day Anne was kidnapped?” Jake asked,
“Our wedding planner,Fred Sullivan.” Deville answered,
“Tim,run a check on him will ya?” Tim nodded,
“No! Fred’s kinda clean,” Deville protested,
“Everyone is a suspect.” Jake retorted,William shrugged,
“If you ever nee-d to run any DNA around here,let me know,I’m free willy to help.” They all smiled,
“Okay,were a team on this one.”He said,
“Yeah,when we go to the bank tomorrow,run a check on Fred Sullivan and Charles Zhang,” he turned to Deville,
“Hope you didn’t buy that cra-p of him being outta town for weeks now.”Deville didn’t say anything,
” Okay,”After some other discussions they all went to their separate chambers to test and as well get re-ady for tomorrow’s journey.
The next morning, Archie and his men drove Deville and Jake to the bank while Tim and William stayed back to do some research on both Fred and Charles.
“Archie,nice to meet you again,” a young man walked out of the bank to welcome them,he shook hands with Archie,
“Marcelo told me you would come visit today,”Archie nodded,
” And who ate these blokes?”He asked,he had been expecting Archie to come alone or bring his right hand man,Renato.But now,not only Renato but with two other stranger,
Hope I don’t get caught and lose my job,he thought to himself as the men walked past him.He went after them,
“Mr José,mind if you go in front,you’re leading the way not us.” Renato spat,
How I hate this cunt of a bloke,Renato thought.
“Okay.” He hurried in front of them and led them past the IU and them c@m£ to the Vault,Mr José brou-ght out his card and slid it across the ID machine,the door opened and they all went in.
“Here we’re,” they c@m£ into a glas-s like room,
“Here’s what you’re searching for,Gods Eye.” He pointed to the highly technological device in the room, it screen took almost half the room,
“This is the real thing Jake,” Deville whispered,
“This is the solution to our problem.” Jake handed his bag to Deville and took out the evidence bag containing the cufflink.He placed it on the Data Center (DC) of the device,it scanned the cufflink, accessing the the f!ngerprints then a mans picture appeared on the glas-s screen and so did his data,
“Dimitri Rudgoy,”It showed,
” Dev,copy that.”Deville brou-ght out a pad and pen and wrote the man’s name down,his origin and other necessary data’s to be copied,
“Get his current location.” Jake swiped the screen and cli-cked on ‘locate’ icon.Suddenly the globe appeared on the screen and a red arrow pointing at London,
“They’re in London?” Deville asked,the red arrow flew to another place,
“We’ve got a second match in Beijing,” Deville said when the arrow flew to another place,
“And Tokyo,” it flew again,
“And Wyoming,”
“As well as the whole cities on this map.” Deville said in frustration,
“What’s wrong with it?” He asked Jake,Archie and the other were surprised too,
“They must be using a flee rel@yfor Gods Eye to be giving us all this random location.”Jake said,
” So just track it back to the origin and get his true location.”Mr José said,Jake nodded and did it.The false arrows kept vanishing tillnthere was one left,it continued to fli-cker,
“Baja California.” Jake said,
“They’re in Baja California.” He said aloud,Deville took that down too.
Meanwhile, Tims search on Fred and Charles was a bit of success, Fred was found clean except for his family who were last seen over a week ago,
“Wasn’t that same week,Charles checked out of the h0tel?” Will asked,Tim nodded,
“There’s something fishy going on,” Tim took his gaze from the system and faced William,
“Charles checked out over a week ago and according to our source,Fred’s family were last seen over a week ago,don’t you think that’s incriminating?” William nodded but didn’t really un-derstand what going on,
Police men and their silly instincts, he sighed.
“Let’s call Dev,” he brou-ght out his phone and called Deville,
“Hello Dev,we got some quite unclean info on Fred and a no nothing on Charles.”
“Okay,get re-ady were going to Baja California tonight.” Deville said to him over the phone, T g@sped,
“Why?” He asked at the sudden change of environ,
“Got the bloody cunt that’s holding my Anne.” He said,
“Okay,you guys coming back here first?” He asked,
“Yeah,Archie said we nee-d to get a couple of thing re-ady before we cart over there.” Deville said,
“And why are you talking like Archie?” He asked,
“Never mind,get yourself and Charles William re-ady too.” Deville said before he hung up,
“Man,we’re going to Baja California, Dev said the cunt that’s holding Anne is there.” Tim informed William as he kept back the phone,
“Baja California, is between America and Mexico right?” William asked,
“Yeah…Yes I guess so.” Tim said wearily,
“Then BAM means border between America and Mexico.” Tim g@sped,
“True,true bro.” He was excited,William was happy at his effort,he never expected himself to be a smartas-s like Jake and Tim were.
“Then whoever s£nt that parcel must have known where they are and was giving us clue.” Tim added,
“Yeah,I think so,now we nee-d to figure out who that person is.” He continued.
Tbc
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