Caleb drives like a mad man, Aiden glances at him with a worried look.
“What Mona said to you?”
“Nothing, I just heard a scream, and then the phone got turn off.”
“Sh*t!! No wonder you're so worried.”
“She’s a nice elven, I support her for like fifty years now, oh heaven I hope she’s okay.”
“Don’t worry brother, she will be.”
Caleb wasn’t answering Aiden anymore, his eyes fixed on the road and into the red light district of the city.
Meanwhile, Aileen was sitting on the sofa in the living room staring at the fireplace, the crackle of the fire with a soothing sound, while Daniel sitting at her right and Emir at her left.
Fenrir still at the office trying to investigate what actually happened to Mona. Aileen turns around to face Emir, who’s actually reading some kind of book with a weird and grotesque cover.
“Hey, how Fenrir is going to investigate about what happened to this… Mona?”
He glances a bit at Aileen and then goes back to read the book in his hand. “Don’t worry, Fenrir has… resource, plenty of it, just like Caleb.”
“Oh… how?”
He sighed and close his books, he put them at the table, Aileen staring at the book with an eerie feeling. Emir sense it, he sees her face begin to pale.
“What happened?”
“That book, I… I don’t like it.”
Daniel saw her and hold her closer, he checks her and warned Emir.
“Emir put the book away immediately, it absorbs her energy.”
Emir hastily takes the book away from the room. Daniel still holds into Aileen.
“Honey, are you okay?”
“Yeah… yeah, I’m fine, thank you, Daniel, that book I sense a dark aura emit from it.”
“You can sense it?” Daniel looks at her with a puzzled look.
“Yeah, I can.”
“How?”
Aileen got confused but when she wants to ask him for more, Fenrir rushing in and look around.
“Where’s Emir?”
“Goes away hiding back the forbidden book, any information? “
“Actually, yes.”
Emir already walking to the room, sees Fenrir and asks him if something happened, Fenrir told him everything while he’s fetching a glass of whiskey.
“There’s a commotion on the red light district, my cop buddy told me.”
Emir shrug. “There’s always a commotion on the red-light district, we all know that.”
“Not on Red Clover.”
“F*ck, Mona's place, no wonder Caleb got agitated.”
Fenrir got settled on the barstool, sipping his whiskey, Emir goes out once again from the room, Daniel follows him.
Aileen looks at Fenrir, her eyes full of curiosity, Fenrir is so amused by her. “What? Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Do you have a job?
Fenrir’s snorted, he give Aileen a huge bewildering smile. “That’s a strange question indeed”
“I mean, look at this place, a mansion, you have house staffs, I mean… you guys are loaded.”
“Yes, we are indeed rich, but no, we don’t have a permanent job, do you remember the first time we've met?”
“At the food truck?”
“Yes, we were actually waiting for Caleb and Aiden to secure a contract as the new shareholders on one of the financial buildings, your workplace, actually.”
“Yes, I’ve met the two of them there.”
“That’s how we obtain this large fortune on human realms, first stock market and then becoming a shareholder for the trendiest buildings or companies.”
“I see…”
“Now, if you don’t have any more questions why don’t you go to rest now, I will check on Emir and Daniel.”
“No!”
Fenrir looks at her face with such astonishment, he raises one of his eyebrows towards Aileen. “No?”
“Yes, I’m not a child or some fragile thing, you guys promise me, no more secret, and I will help you in any way I can.”
Fenrir's laugh, he goes up and then rests his chest on the sofa's headrest, Aileen looking up to see that his face now are coming closer to her.
“What are you doing?”
“Pssst…”
Fenrir's face are now inches away from her, he then grabs her face and kisses her gently. Her eyes widen with surprise, when he took his lips away, he saw a tingling of desire on her face. His eyes burning with passion once more, and this time, he's ravaging her lips with so much haste and hunger.
Aileen still in shock but now tries to match his passionate kiss, his tongue lingering a bit, tasting her small lips, and then come through to the mouth, Aileen opens her mouth and now does the same rhythm with Fenrir, both of them full of the lust for each other.
But Fenrir immediately stops, he distances himself from Aileen that's now in shambles, her lips swollen and full of desires.
“I believe I already give you some energy? Now let’s go to the office?” He stares at her, who’s now try to fix her hair and her appearance. “Oh heaven, I cannot wait to taste you more.”
Fenrir was mumbling, while Aileen looks at him with some confused looks. “What?”
“No, nothing, just… let’s go, they are waiting.”
Both of them go out from the living room, any heated moment still lingered between them.
Back to Aiden and Caleb, they finally reach their destination, there are police cars everywhere, they parked on one of the small alleys, and then walk a bit to the crime scene.
They’re waiting for someone in front of the police line, one of the detectives gets closer.
“Aiden, Caleb, Fenrir already informed me, please come with me.”
Both of them nodding towards the policewoman who let them into the crime scene. Aiden and Caleb are devastated by how Red Clover's conditions. Smashed glass is everywhere, tables and luxurious sofas are now in disarray, everything destroyed.
The female detective is giving them a report. “Sorry you have to saw all of this, this… facility is one of yours I presume, Caleb?”
“Yes, that’s right, detective, what happened to my girls?”
“Please, call me Katie, your girls are all upstairs.”
Caleb gives a sigh of relief, he excuses himself to go check in his employees. Aiden stays around to ask the detective some more questions.
“So, detective.”
“Katie, Fenrir is one of my drinking buddies and you guys basically are his brothers.”
Aiden sense, detective Katie is not just merely a drinking buddy from the looks of it, but, that wasn’t his business at all, they always tried to not push themselves into one another private lives, all of them have a flesh companion for their needs, even a human flesh companion.
Aiden then gives her a very pleasant smile. “Yes, then Katie, were there any areas beside Red Clover that got destroyed tonight?”
“No, this is the only place that got destroyed, a bit peculiar if I must say.”
“Yes indeed, and I’m guessing they took the cash and every valuable? “
Detective Katie looks at Aiden with an amused smile. “Well, are you here asking me or interrogating me?”
“So, sorry, charming people isn’t my forte.”
“Yes, Fenrir told me that, as for your questions, no, your cash register and your safe were actually intact.”
“That’s odd.”
Aiden's blue eyes sharpen his hand on his chin, thinking very hard about all of these commotions. Detective Katie staring at him, she can see that he’s a very handsome man, more attractive than Fenrir, Fenrir is handsome too, but this one, a fine beautiful man.
Aiden glance at her and smile widely, he knows his charm he got it since birth, Nephilim Clan are Renown as one of the most beautiful clans in face value, not alone that beautiful wings. Almost every elven woman and sometimes men, want him, of course the same thing happens in the human realm as well.
Detective Katie trying to talk to him, when he’s observing the damaged back room. “Hey, can I ask you something?”
“Yes, Detective?”
“Please, call me Katie, uhm… are you and Fenrir… uhm… just bestfriend?”
Aiden turns around and then chuckles. “Are you thinking that Fenrir and I are more than just a brother?”
Her face got flustered. “Well, not just you, Fenrir always talking about you all the time, about Caleb too and another man, Emir.”
“No, the four of us, well… we exclusively in one gender only, woman, that is.”
“Oh, okay, I always think that… well, of course, you know about he and I… well.”
(Poor woman) Aiden thinks to himself. (She’s in love with Fenrir.)
Caleb came at the right moment, Aiden always dreading whenever every flesh companions of his brothers come crying or have a heart-to-heart with him.
“Aiden.” He called Aiden away from detective Katie.
“What is it?”
“Mona has being kidnapped.”
“What? But the police says?”
“All of the girls have been paramours, I saw the sign, it was Daef.”
“f**k, we have to go home and discuss this immediately.”
Caleb’s agree and both of them ask for permission to leave the premises, Katie's agreed and make a promise to call Fenrir when they have more evidence.
Aiden and Caleb drove back as fast as they can, hurry themselves to the office where Aileen, Emir, Fenrir, and Daniel were investigated any possibilities about Mona's Disappearance.
Fenrir looks at Aiden. “We have something, I got a phone called just now from Kate, she got a witnessed that saw a tall and blonde man with a scar on his neck goes to Red Clover and never goes out, the man was accompanied by a small man that used a walking stick.”
“Allsad and Daef, f*ck!”
“There's more.”
“What is it?”
“Well, another witness knew Allsad as the owner of The Doom.”
Caleb smacks the door makes Aileen jumpy. “Really? Finally! We have more evidence, I assume that Mona will be there.”
“Yes, I believe so too, but we must be careful, this could be a trap.”
Daniel, drinking a glass of wine and then laughing. “Oh handsome, it is not ‘could be a trap' but IT IS A TRAP!”
“s**t, the grandpa is right, we have to go there, but we must get ready.”
Aiden agrees and all night they make a plan to storm The Doom, Aileen even voicing her suggestion to the plan, they take a light rest and then go to The Doom at dawn.
Caleb, riding the car with Fenrir and Aiden, while Aileen with Daniel, and Emir tailing Caleb's car.
Aileen, a bit nervous but also excited at the same time, must push through, this is her life now, a life full of danger and adventure. Life of an Amyra for the throne of Arbediin.
-End of Chapter 10-