Chapter 66
at on. In seconds, Bill's line was ringing with the phone
Down the stairs and out the door, the fished our his phone after successfully throwing his coat on. pressed close to his ear.
"Mr. Bryce, is something the matter?" Bill answered, asking the question almost as if he could sense the distress has employer was feeling
Inced-"
"Ball,
"You need me to do something?"
3? The assistant interrupted, surprising Gabriel who had entered his car by this time, "What is it, Sir?
"The surveillance footage from The Venue of Ms. Stellar's birthday party-"
"I already checked it out, Sir. After you informed me of the incident of being drugged, I checked out the surveillance footage personally." Bill interrupted yet again, surprising Gabriel. Talk about competence from an assistant.
Call him impressed.
"However Sir," Gabriel internally winced at the word "however. It was never something good. "It seems like the footage was tampered with and then deleted."
"What?" Gabriel's face was once again painted in confusion.
"Yes Sir. I've tried restoring the footage, but it seems like it'd tale quite some time." Bill informed, his voice holding some form of let down.
Gabriel sighed at this, trying to sort of at least calm his jumbled up mind. Today truly had been an assault of events.
"Get on it Bill. I want results, as soon as possible." He demanded.
"Yes Sir." Bill responded just as Gabriel ended the call.
Tossing his phone to the passenger seat, the male sighed out once again and placed his head on the steering wheel. The whole situation was too confusing, fishy even.
It was clear to him that Angelina was lying, but just what about?
What exactly was he missing? He quizzed internally, howare of the pair of eyes that was wat hing him from above.
Angelina remained at her window watching as his car drove off the premise of her property before she allowed a string of curses escape her lips.
"...fucking hell." She finished the string of curses with that, swiping her hand across the table near her window.
A couple of ornaments fell to the floor, shattering, but Angelina didn't care, now when Gabriel's reaction had been the opposite of what she expected it to br.
He had looked confused instead of happy and that in turn, confused her just as much as it annoyed her. Didn't he love her? Wasn't this what he wanted? Why was his reaction suddenly so different than what she had phantom in her entire imaginations?
The answer to her rampant questions came in the sound of a text message buzzing into her phone. The raging linette located the device, swiping it
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open only to see it was a message from the detective she had hired the first time Leunea showed up at the banquet,
Yeah, that Gay, Detective Reels.
Clicking on the message, she read carefully through it.
[Weekly update.) The first line read. Along with it was a few photos of Leonica and Gabriel in the hospital, placing a brown blanket over Leonica as she peacefully slept. As per news from my sources, Mr. Bryce and my target has been requested to make plans for another child in other to solve future complications that may arise for Ashley Romero.] Immediately she read those messages, her instant outburst was expected.
"That fucking slut! How dare she!" She screamed, kicking the dresser near her window. Yet another set of ornaments fell to the floor, facing the fate of it's comrades before them. But their owner didn't care. She was too busy cursing at a certain white-ette to care. "I'll ruin her. I swear to God I'll fucking ruin her! Her and that fucking useless son of hers, they fucking pay!"
Turning the screen of her phone on, she scrolled through her call list and clicked on the number at the bottom. It rang for a few seconds and the minute it was answered, she hissed venomously. "You fucking incompetence pig! One Job, One fucking job and what was that? Run the fucking boy over, but you failed. You fucking failed!"
"Ange, baby please listen to me-" The voice from the other side spoke, but before it could say anymore than the six words, Angelina harshly cut through.
"Don't fucking call me that!" Inhaling, she calmed herself. Or at least tried to. "Now you listen to me, you're going to get back out there and you are going to finish the fucking job! Or else before God and Man I swear I'll fucking abort this child of yours, Stuart." Too Buy For Romance.
"Gone, all of it." Placing the batch of information he had gathered over the past few hours on the table, Bill stepped back, giving his employer enough room to survey the different papers sprawled across his table
Footage details, Missing medical records, tampered medical documents, you name it. And each piece of paper in front of him, seemed to confuse Gabriel Firstly, the security footage from Stellar's birthday party. It was gone, deleted obviously from the looks of it. And then moving on to the missing medical records, Angelina's medical records to be precises. Just around the time Gabriel had called Bill with the situation of the security footage, the assistant had been wrapping up his work at the central hospital, trying to get Angelina's records like his boss had requested. However, just like with the CCTV footage, he ended up with nothing other than a blank slate. The medical records had disappeared like they never existed in the first place.
And then lastly, the evidence that each of this things had been tampered with Bill Anderson may look like a normal assistant, but he had skills tar surpassing normal. And with those sills, he was able to prove that each and everyone of their mystery target details had been tampered with.
But it's not like Gabriel needed a soothsayer to know that Everything, as vague as they seemed in the beginning was now becoming rather clear to him. The women around him, Leonica and even Angelina, weren't as honest as they locked.
Sighing, he placed down the current file he was reading through and ran a hand through his hair. "I don't know if I'm more upset that someone has managed to hack the hospital or that Angelina isn't as innocent as I thought. He said, glancing at his assistant.
Bill gave him a weak smile. Not wanting to say more wards that would upset his employer. "What should we do, Sir?
Gabriel was quiet for a while, staring at the files on his table. A part of him, a very big part, was confused.
Supposedly, he's meant to be Norway's biggest shot, yet the two women in his life always found a way to play around him. He was beginning to think he
However, that thought didn't linger long, because the next secund, the sound of his phone ringing cut through his darkening mi
Reaching for the device, his brows knitted together when he saw the caller was Leonica. One of the very same woman he had just been ruminating about.
A few seconds pasted before he answered the call with a sigh. "What is it?"
The voice that spoke wasn't the one he had been expecting. "Daddy?" Ashley's tiny voice called
Pulling the phone back, Gabriel confirmed that it was indeed Leonica's number calling. "Ash, is that you?""
"Yes daddy." The young child answered excitedly. "Mommy allowed me use her phone." He added the last part, answering the question that had momentarily taken over Gabriel's thoughts. "How are you daddy?!
Gabriel sighed at the question and allowed his body lean into the comfort of his chair. Hearing Ashley's voice had put his thoughts so much at ease. "I'm fine Ash." He answered. From beside him, Bill bowed his head, causing himself as Gabriel got comfortable in his call with Ashley. "What about you, how are you holding up?"
"I'm fine, mally fine." The child chirped. From the other end, Gabriel could hear the strings in his bed creek, indicating that the child had been jumping up and down. Leonica's voice followed after, lecturing him on how to and how not to move with his wounds. Gabriel found himself chuckling softly at the background sound
"Daddy, should I tell you something great?
Nodding to himself even though his son couldn't see him, Gabriel responded. "Yes, go ahead"
"My.my birthday is coming up, like real soon. And, and mommy agreed to throw me a birthday party!" He excitedly announced. "And this time... daddy's going to be with me. I'm gonna be celebrating my birthday with my daddy!"
Gabriel felt his chest warm at his son's enthusiasm. Hearing him so happy over a simple birthday party spent with him was a perfect cure for his crazy
day.