Kaleb POV
“We searched the entire room and found nothing,” Denlian spoke from my side while we both stared at Kimberly sleeping on the bed.
“What! That can’t be possible! She clearly saw something or rather someone there. So how can you say you found nothing!”
Denlian remained quite for a while before the finally spoke up. “Do you think mum has a hand in this? Maybe she’s just trying to scare Kimberly.”
“No. This isn’t her doing. Kimberly saw something she wasn’t supposed to see. I’m going back to the store, maybe I can find something you guys missed out.”
“I’m coming with you”, Denlian said.
“Okay. I’ll tell the doctor to watch over Kim”. We both walked out of the room and shut the door behind after I made sure was safe.
At the store……..
“Now tell me everything that happened in that room”, I commanded the manager standing before me.
“Sir, we both went to the dressing room to try some clothes and while she was inside trying one of the dresses a lady came and informed me that my presence was needed at the front desk. But when I got there, the receptionist said that information was false, I tried looking for the lady but couldn’t find her anymore it was like she disappeared. And then when I was heading back to the room I heard Miss Brown screaming and ran here”.
From her explanation she clearly was hypnotized. That means whoever Kimberly saw and the mysterious lady were both working together.
“You can leave”. I told the manager.
I took long strides to the dressing room and draw the curtains open to enter accompanied by Denlian. I stood at the spot where Kim had collapsed. My reflection was what I could see at the dressing mirror before me. Why was Kim looking at the mirror when she was trying to speak?
“Denlian are you sure this room was searched thoroughly?”
“Yes, Kaleb”, he replied looking around.
I stepped closer to the mirror and examined it. The 80″ inches mirror was attached to the wall, so I would need help to bring it down.
“Dan, I need your help over here”, I beckoned to him.
We both held the opposite side of the mirror and brought it down.
Shocked was an understatement of what I saw. A large passage had been bore through the wall. It was big enough to fit one person. Dan and I exchanged looks, suprised clearly written on our faces. Whoever Kimberly saw must have used this passed to get in and out without being noticed. I climbed inside the passage with Denlian tagging behind. We walked silently through the long passage and got to a door that was locked. I then used my shoulders to bump the door open with force and there we stood face to face with the side wall of the Hunters council. Well this is interesting!
“I’m guessing someone in the hunters council clearly doesn’t like me” I turned facing Denlian.
We made our way into the council and marched to the office of the head of the division. Bursting in, we meet her and other members in a meeting.
“Prince Kaleb! Prince Denlian, what a surprise!” Came then quivering voice of Tiara Patrick.
Of course she must be scared. Coming to meet her in person and not just me Denlian as well means that she’s in deep trouble.
“Save the pleasantries to yourself,” Denlian said furiously. “Everyone out!” The rest of the members hurriedly ran out of the room leaving just us and Tiara in the room.
The temperature of the room dropped as I strode to where she stood. The anger in me was at the peak and at this stage I could burn down the entire building.
“You have two seconds to provide the name of the shooter that attacked me at my office, Now!” I spat out.
“S-sir…. p.. please…. we’re still looking into the case”.
“It seems like you don’t like your life anymore”, I gripped her by the neck and raised her from the ground as she began choking.
I’ve given her enough time to find out who’s behind all this but now my patience has ran out and she had better provide answers now.
“Kaleb that’s enough!” Denlian roared. “Strangling her won’t get the answers you’re looking for. Now put her down!” This second time was more of a warning than a request.
Fumbling I dropped her and she began gasping for breath.
“Now speak!”
After she regained her composure she began. “For the past week, I’ve been monitoring the movement of all the hunters under my jurisdiction, none of them seemed suspicious at first but just last week, I found a certain hunter was having secret meetings with someone outside the town. So I hired a secret investigator to monitor his every movement and found out he was meeting with Lady Melinda of the Valentino clan.” She paused and looked up at us waiting for us to give her the go ahead to continue. We nodded notifying her to continue.
“He found out for some months, that they’ve both been having secret meetings at the restaurant . Apparently she approached him first and due to his greed he accepted the job and followed her plan hence leading to your attack at your office”.
Denlian and I were surprised with all that we we’re hearing. We both know how menacingly evil Melinda was but with this, she’s Crossed the line. No one comes at me and goes Scott free. But who was the man she was meeting?
“What’s the name of the man she was meeting?,” I asked impatiently
“He’s name is John Smith. He’s been working with us for a long time now. I never believed he would do something like that so we’ve been observing him closely to get concrete evidence against him”
“You had better”, with that I stood up from the chair and walked out of her office.
“Kaleb you have to be very careful, who knows what move Melinda has up her sleeves” Denlian finally spoke up halfway back to the hotel.
I gripped the wheel tightly at the mentioned of that viper’s name. “Don’t worry brother, I’ll keep her under my watch”. That bitch is going to pay dearly for what she’s done.
Kimberly POV
“No! No Dad come back!” I screamed and opened my eyes. Turns out it was a dream.
“Kimberly are you alright”, kaleb’s asked in a concerned tone.
I turned to my side to meet a pair of golden eyes staring at me curiously. The same eyes I feel in love with.
“Yeah, I’m fine” I croaked out.
I was feeling dizzy and my throat felt dry. Kaleb hugged me tightly and whispered in my ears “you had me scared, babe”. He unlocked his hands and immediately kissed me tenderly.
“Ummmmm, guys I’m still here” Denlian cleared his throat indicating his presence.
I didn’t even know he was in the room, all my attention was on Kaleb. And now that Denlian saw us kissing I felt kind of shy and hid my face in his chest.
Both Denlian and Kaleb chuckled at my reaction.
“Wait you’re not going to ask any question?” Kaleb said.
“Well, I figured out that you two were going to become an item sooner or later but I never really thought it would be this quick. So what did I miss,” he said wriggling his eyebrows mischievously.
“Oh really, what are you now? A love expert of some kind?” Kaleb asked amused.
I chuckled at kaleb’s reaction and faced Denlian.
“Hi, Dan”.
“Aah now you’ve finally noticed me, now that your mouth isn’t in Kaleb’s”
“Dan!” Kaleb called exasperatingly.
“So how are you feeling, kim” Dan asked in a more serious tone.
“I’m fine now, just a bit dizzy”.
“So kim, can you tell us what or who you saw at the dressing room”.
My hands began trembling as I recalled the incident.
“I saw my dad”.
“Your dad!” They both exclaimed.
“You’ve never talked about your father, so I thought he was dead” Dan said
“So did I. My mum told me that when I was five, my dad left for work and since that day he never returned back. It’s been more than 18 years since I last saw him and yesterday I saw him in the dressing room while I was trying a dress.”
I closed my eyes to recall what happened. “I had just wore one of the dress but my phone fell from my hand, I bent down to pick it and when I looked back I saw my dad standing by the mirror. He called my name and said I looked beautiful just like my mother. I thought I had seen a ghost and screamed. I really don’t know he left the room” I began crying.
“Sssshh, it’s okay babe”, Kaleb hugged me and try soothing me.
“We’ll get to the bottom of this, Kim” Dan said.
After some time they both left me to rest and went to the living area to discuss.
‘Why was dad back? Had he really been alive all these years? If he had has he been watching me?’
Questions kept flooding my head, I placed my head on the headrest and fell asleep.