Jessica’s POV
“Am amazed by your smartness, you spent more time on the fucking painting, staring intensely at it like you are onto something ”
“Is that why you are suspecting me? Like I said it was a mysterious painting, I was intrigued by it but I can’t steal it, it was too big and it isn’t for sale too”
“Hhahahhahahahahh”
After that maniac laughter, he left me there and went inside, I was dehydrated and my shoulders hurt a lot from the binding, my sockets feels like it will be removed at any slightest touch, my shoulder blades feels so tired and hurts like hell.
I hope they have found me, I had no choice than to swallow the tracker, hope it can be removed later on without surgery.
I was alone with the other two for a very long time, they gave me water from time to time to keep me hydrated, am sure by the time I leave here I will have a tan skin.
I fell asleep again perhaps due to the drugs not wearing off yet but I slept off and then suddenly I was jolted awake, I thought they were trying to use electric current to torture me into talking but it wasn’t in fact they were looking at me like I grew two heads.
It came again, I flinched then realization dawned on me, they are here, that’s the sign they are here, it came again I rolled my eyes, I hope he wouldn’t be doing this again, since they are here it means they tracked me, I didn’t hear any site which means that they didn’t call the police yet or they switched their sirens off.
The door opened again and the young man walked in, this time with three other dressed corporately as him and are all members of the art gallery.
“Isn’t this Mr McCartney’s wife?”
One of them asked, fear evident in his voice and face, they way he looked back and forth at his companions were hilarious and I would have laughed if this was another situation.
“Why? Chickening out already?”
“You all must be crazy, that family can make us go bankrupt in a flash and you are joking about this”
“He doesn’t know we have his wife and besides they aren’t that omnipotent ”
“Well whether he knows or not, am out of this”
“Don’t forget our deal, quit and you pay for it”
“Are you threatening me like now?”
“Am not threatening you, am stating a fact”
“Facts that are meant to shake me up? You are spitting rubbish, am out”
It was getting boring to listen to them quibble like kids dragging which candy is the best, I saw something flash by then after a while it took a guard with it, someone is here, I couldn’t make out the features of the person,
“Are you ready to talk?”
One of them said to me drawing my attention from the person, I know it’s one of us but who exactly?
“She is still keeping quite, let’s just let her go, if she knew something don’t you think her husband would have known already?”
“Stop being a coward ”
“It’s not about being a coward, if she really did know about it, her husband would have known but you kidnapping her will make them suspicious and probe”
“Aya, Aya, just go away, go home, you are practically useless ”
“I hope you all don’t regret this, am out”
He left, they watched him leave, disgust and scorn written clearly on their faces,
“So ma’am ready to talk?”
“I have told you all that I know, I don’t know what more you want to know”
“I checked her and she is telling the truth ”
“What are we going to do now?”
My attention went back to the person there, unbeknownst to them he took one more guard and replaced him, they didn’t know two of their me are down, I looked at him and he turned towards me, its….. it’s Xavier.
“I think she should be silenced in order to keep it a secret”
I glanced up so fast that I heard the wind whistle in my ear, the person that has been keeping quiet just watching us was actually the most dangerous and worse of them, he wanted me dead, I almost looked at Xavier in shock but I was able to hold myself back.
“W… What? Silence her? Is it what am thinking?”
“Yes, let’s do it the normal way”
“Then it will get suspicious, it will be traced back to us definitely ”
“Have you forgotten what happened twenty years ago? Do it the same way”
“Oh right why didn’t I think of that, Hey you there take her and tie…”
Everything happened in a flash, I was still panicking about their conclusion when suddenly Xavier is holding the fool by the throat with a gun on his head,
“Move and I will put a fucking bullet through his dirty head”
Everyone panicked, they raised their guns pointing it at Xavier, who didn’t move or tremble an inch, I was scared for him, what if that person isn’t important, what if they can bear to lose him, what will happen to Xavier then?
“Who are you and how did you get in?”
“Are you questioning me first or should you be untying her first?”
The other man wasn’t saying anything, he signaled them to untie me and they did, my shoulder felt so weak and battered, they all dropped their guns on the floor, then it happened, I heard the second before I felt myself being held and thrown over the roof, how I become so close to the roof I don’t know.
The wind whistled in my ears, my hair covered my face, I felt someone embraced me tightly as I fell no we fell, air was knocked out of my lungs when we fell and we bumped, my head was throbbing badly and my ears ringing, the last thing I saw before darkness took me was Xavier’s pale face.