Abigail was sitting on her chair, slowly rolling it in circles. She skimmed the papers Dylan gave to her. Room lights were off, and the only illumination source was light from a projector connected to Blake's laptop.
Chloe and Kimberly were marking places on a map spread on the wood table they were sitting around. Dylan was accumulating information about Martin's family.
"How come you never research your mother's family?" Dylan asked her, eyes fixed on a screen in front of him. Abigail glanced at him and continued reading documents.
"Dad and Mum never mentioned her family. She was 16 when she left her home due to her stepmother's abuse, and my father was from Lyon city. When they met, he was in Paris due to business work, and he helped her by bringing her to Lyon."
They all listened to her carefully; they couldn't find any suspicious info from this.
"Only information I could gather right now is that your mother’s stepmother’s name is Charlotte and she has two sons Nicholas and Marco.” Everyone in the room was listening to him carefully, from today onwards every point was their key point as they don’t know which information will provide them with lead
“Only this?” Kimberly scrunches her nose, Dylan shook his head
“No, not only this. Aunt Adele’s family owns Martin Enterprise which deals in selling and buying properties in France, currently, they are leading in the top five businesses of France.”
“I don’t know, but it feels difficult to digest” Blake commented, his finger under his chin
“Why so?” Kimberly asked
“I never knew my mum belonged to a such rich family” Abigail’s words forced all to turn their faces to her with a shocked expression
“And here I thought you hide it from us intentionally,” Chloe remarked
Abigail ignored their expressions and took the laptop in her hand to read the page from where Dylan had fetched the info
“When you don’t know anything about her family background how did you get to know the suspect belongs from there” Dylan’s detective abilities escalate and raised questions at Abigail while others were looking at her silently waiting for her answer
“A detective from France contacted me and give me all details” Abigail stood from her chair and crossed her arms on her chest
“And you trusted him?”
“Why he will give you details?”
“Isn’t it could be a game of that person?”
Several questions were thrown at her from her group mates and she knew she has to answer after all they had great input in this case and she is standing here firmly is because of her mates’ work
“Sebastien contacted me and said he has some evidence which can help me in this case, he also mentioned he has to work hard in order to get to me because in France it is assumed that we all are dead. Every detail he shared with me is from the dairy of his father in which he writes his task whenever he works on any case”
“Who is his father and what does he has to do with this case?”
“Gabriel, Gabriel is his father who was also murdered while he was working on our case, dad hired him and Arthur from England” Abigail fed further information to his fellows
“So, where is Arthur?” Dylan asked, noting down all points
“After Gabriel was assassinated, he refused to work and after that, we don’t know what happened to him. It was heard he left the country” Abigail leaned against the wall
“A detective was murdered and no one worked to find who was behind it?” Kimberly was sitting on a chair she raised her concern
“Well, what can we say” Abigail shrugged her shoulders
“So, what is next? After we land in France what will we do?” Blake holds his laptop, ready to type their all planning on it, assigned task, and everything so they don’t blunder
“Sebastien will help us in accommodating, we will work as what is our professions. For a few weeks we will make ourselves adjust and make others believe we are just normal people who came for jobs, so if anybody doubts it is removed” they all nodded and Blake starts typing that onto the laptop
“After that, we all will be assigned different tasks and from there, we will continue our mission.”
“Will Sebastien join us?” Chloe asked her she nods
“Yes, the moment we will land in France, he will join us and will be part of our team till the case is resolved”
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Sebastien was reading all emails to whom he has sent queries and now, he received their responses. Abigail and her friends were to depart from England airport at 9 am and in France clock had struck half past nine in the morning. The flight will take around 2 hours, in this way he had to make arrangements before 11 am to avoid any mishap.
He already had arranged cars and accommodation for them. The jobs in their respective department, joining documents prints and other material and documentation that her team member has emailed to him all were ready and kept in his car.
“Hey Sebastien, morning man” his colleague John greeted him while offering him coffee
“Thanks, man, much needed” John smiled at him
“What are your plans for today?” John asked after taking a long sip from his coffee
“Not much work for today, I have my mother’s guests getting here, and I have to receive them” Sebastien pulled his chair under the desk and reclined himself on the chair comfortably
“Aha, so today will be your busy day”
“Probably” Sebastian agreed and looked for messages on his phone to check the confirmations, finishing the cup he placed it on the desk beside his laptop and picked up his car keys and wallet to leave his office. He was heading towards the exit door when was stopped by John
“Hey, we have received a call, and they are asking for the information of a girl”
“Why is she missing?” Sebastien took the writing pad from his hand and read the details of the call that were written on it
“No, the picture we received looks like years old and they gave only basic information and want to know the whereabouts of her” Sebastian’s hand stopped he narrowed his eyes
“This name?” he pointed to pad through his finger
“Yeah, that is the name of the girl they want information” Sebastian shut the writing pad and gave it back to John
“Okay today I am busy, tomorrow we shall work on it” He turned to leave
“Sebastian the caller said he wants this matter to be sorted out on an urgent basis” John shouted from behind
“It can wait till tomorrow” Sebastian yelled back at him without turning his back, he unlocked his car and slid into the driver’s seat, he was on his way to the airport.
Abigail and her team all were standing at the airport outside of the international departure with their parents“Stay safe and do call me daily okay” Chloe’s mom advised her daughter“Enjoy your time there but let me know if something happens” same was Kimberly’sThe boy’s parents hugged their children and warn to stay safe while Abigail was holding Charles’s hand smiling at all of their chit chat, Charles can feel the sadness hidden in his daughter’s smile“Don’t worry one day your mother will be among us, and we will cherish that moment” kissing her hand top he patted his daughterAbigail bit her lip and nodded at her father, hugging him tight“Take care of yourself and mum for me, I have only you guys”“Same is for you, I only have you and your mum. Keep remember, no matter in what condition you get stuck, you will fight and will come back to us. Promise me you will not let our enemy win this time” He ran his hand at her back comforting and encouraging her“I love you dad” She kiss
Denis left the meeting room shaking hands with the clients, happy with the terms of the contract. This was the second biggest contract Martin Enterprise has achieved in the first quarter of the year. His secretary was following him behind shuffling papers looking for his next meeting venue when they were stopped by his father’s assistant“Mr. Denis, your father is waiting for you in his room” Mr. Jack informed him keeping his head low in respect, Denis stopped in his track to listen and moved to his secretary inquiring about his schedule“When is our next meeting?”“Sir in thirty minutes” Denis nods at him and rubbed his index finger on his chin“Ask them if we can delay the meeting to some other day or change the time if it has to be done today” Denis gave work to him and motioned him to go back to his office and he headed to his father’s office which was one floor above his.Exiting the lift, he took a turn to his left where a long straight corridor was brightening with lights, carp
The airplane lands at Charles de Gaulle airport and announcements were made to passengers, Abigail and her friends passed through checking taking their suitcases, and walked towards the exit where Sebastien was waiting for them. Concern was evident on their faces.“Abigail?” Abigail was ahead of her group, striding with a poker face, Kimberly called to her but her voice came out as a whisper which Abigail didn’t hear, Kimberly took long steps to match with her steps and hold her hands from the elbow to halt herAbigail turned her head and raised her eyes in question“Are you sure we should in our steps on this land after what Sebastien told?” Abigail shushes her, moving her gaze to other members of her group, signaling them to join, once all gathered in round Abigail spoke to them in a low but the authoritative voice“We have landed, and now there is no going back. The moment plane lands our mission has begun and I am confident we will succeed”“But Abigail if something happens to you
Austin was sitting on a chair around the dark brown desk that was set for doctors in a city hospital, he was reading a file of his patient. Austin is one of the best neurosurgeons in town and his schedule is always packed. He hardly gets time to rest or manage his other work, and by any chance, he gets time he prefers to sit alone and enjoy the quietness or he read his patient’s progress which is criticalAustin was writing down points on his pad to discuss later with his co doctors, he was engrossed in his work when Ethan entered in doctor’s room and kept files on the desk, removing his coat and placing it at the back of his chair he greets Austin who responded by nodding onlyThey both were working not disturbing the peaceful environment when Ethan raised his head from the file and broke the silence by starting the conversation on a topic currently on everyone’s tongue"Did you know the management is deciding to give the hospital for acquisition to a company" Austin drops his pen to
Leo was sitting on his chair, watching the view from his window that was a couple of feet above from floor, and reached to the ceiling. Josephine came holding chopped fruits in a bowl for him.“Honey, I’ve cut fresh fruits for you” giving the bowl in his hand she went to close the windows“Let them open, the view is amazing” Leo took a piece of apple with a fork and bit itJosephine rolled her eyes and returned to sit beside himThey were discussing politics when Zoe’s loud chirp took their attention, without giving them time to turn at her she hugged them from behind tightly“Momma, dada I got the job at Austin’s hospital” releasing them and coming to the front she jumped in happinessThe couple was happy seeing their child cheer“I’m so happy for you sweety” Josephine was proud of her daughter and so Leo“When will Austin be home?” Zoe asked her mother“He said he has gotten free early today so I think he will be home anytime soon” answering her she looked at her husband whose happi
Zoe was holding her shoulder bag’s strip, following Austin in the corridor of the city hospital, she wore jeans on her full sleeves t-shirt, with double strap sandals. Her shoulder-length honey-colored hair covered the sides of her face. She was smiling at every person who passes her keeping her steps on track with her brother who was walking fast.“Zoe” she was waving at a child in a wheelchair when Austin called herZoe shifts her gaze at him where he was gesturing her to come near him when she went close to him, he repeated his lecture which was filled with a warning rather than advice that she listened to all the way from home to here“I told you I will not do any stupidity, if you lectured me one more time, I will call dada” she scowled at him for giving her continuous lecture since he came to know of her appointment at the same hospital as his“I am not giving a lecture to you, I am just informing you of the rules and codes of here” rolling his eyes at her he explained himself“
Abigail and her friends entered into hospital’s center area, their eyes were searching for the way they have to go, reading each plate outside the door Abigail’s eyes fall on the reception desk where a young girl was talking on a callShe nudged Chloe and walked slowly to the receptionist, girl smiled at her and asked for a few minutes using her fingers, Abigail nods to her and start looking at her surroundingThe city hospital was built on a large area and has all updated equipment, they work hard to maintain their service and make sure their patient left the hospital healthy and satisfied“Hello, how may I help you?” getting free from the call, the girl asked her in a sweet and soft voice“Yes please, today is my first day here as a doctor and I don’t know where I have to report. Can you guide me” Kimberly and Chloe were at vending machine picking chips and chocolates for them to eat later“Oh sure” the girl called another girl and ask her to take them to the office of the managerT
Blake was working on his laptop when he heard the voices of girls, locking the screen he went out to meet them“Hey you all left early today” Blake’s attire was rough“You were sleeping, we didn’t want to disturb you,” Chloe said to him while beating the coffee for them in a cup“One for me also” Blake requested her“How many you had in today?” Abigail asked him, munching snacks that Blake had left“Just 4”“I don’t understand why we have so quirky people” Chloe scoffed, while all others laughed at her“Hey everyone” They all were busy talking when Dylan entered the house and joined them“Hey Dylan, Chloe says we have quirky people which includes you as well” Blake wrapped his hand on Dylan’s shoulder and said with an evil smile on his face“I didn’t mean that” Chloe tried to defend“Oh yes, Chloe we know what you mean” Kimberly also took part in Blake’s game,Dylan shook his head smiling, Chloe always gets caught in their web“Blake, do you want your coffee or not” when she saw them