The Mafia's Obsession

Chapter 8

And hurried into the conference room.

Immediately, the meeting kicked off. The lady was cold and her voice was sharp and intimidating. But Julia's mind was far away from there, she was wondering if the resemblance was just a coincidence or there was something more to it. She felt a strange connection that she could not explain, but unfortunately there was no one to explain as her parents were dead. She was still lost on her thoughts when a sharp voice brought her back to reality. 'Miss Julia......?' The voice continued resounding in her head then it clicked!

That voice! It was that voice that called her dad on the day of his death! She raised her head abruptly startling every one except the cold lady. 'Yes? She answered. "I asked for all the financial statements since the beginning of the month". The lady repeated. But the more she spoke, the more the voice became more familiar. She handed over the documents without holding eye contact with the lady. Soon the meeting was over, the lady stood up and began to head outside the company ignoring everyone that tired talking to her.

Julia hurriedly ran out of the company, brushed against one of the car discreetly planting a little tracking device in the exhaust. Soon the convoy took off and all the staffs breathed a sight of relief. "I could breath all the time that girl was here, she is such a terror!" The logistics manager Mr Graham joked to Mr Eric his assistant as they walked past Julia. 'The lady looked so much like Julia initially I thought it was her' another group of girls gossiped as they passed. Soon everyone was whispering and pointing at her anywhere she went in the company.

She prayed for the day to end, meanwhile, she didn't stop monitoring the tracker she placed on the car from her tab. She was surprised, the vehicle was heading towards the outskirt of the city! 'How can the outskirt of the city be the headquarters?' Julia was puzzled then she shrugged. 'I don't care, no matter where it is I will go there and they must feel my wrath!' She swore under her breath. Then suddenly a voice came from the tab. 'We have arrived miss Juliet' a composed and professional voice said. Then the sound of clicking heels were heard and soon faded.

Julia quickly wrote down the location address and began to write her resignation letter. Since she had found her next clue what use was the company to her? She had to go after miss Juliet! The earlier the better afterall she is still a doctor, that was enough for her. Few days later, she resigned and began to prepare for her journey to the outskirt of the city. Niles tried to stop her, telling her to leave revenge to God. Samantha and Martha weren't left out, but she refused to listen insisting they don't know how its hurts to watch your parents die.

Finally, she was mentally and physically prepared she headed there knowing that she will have a lot of obstacles before she locates miss Juliet. Following the direction she wrote down, she began to regret going alone because as she drove, she only went deeper and deeper into the jungle. Suddenly, she got to the front of a river! Luckily for her, she saw it on time if not she would have drove into it. She quickly packed her car and got out 'a river in the middle of nowhere?' She thought to herself as she walked around.

Then it clicked! It must be a camouflage, if not how will a river flow in the middle of a dense forest where there was hardly sunshine? She began to search around for clues or a opening, but after searching for more than an hour, she began growing weary. She sat dejectedly on the grass, these people were very good at hiding. Absentmindedly, she plugged her hand In the water and began to scoop it. Then her hand brushed against something solid! She hurriedly looked for it again and felt it. It was like a tap head but a little bit bigger 'a tap in a river? How clever!'

She chuckled and turned it with her both hands. The river began to flow backwards and a staircase leading inward appeared. As soon as she stepped on it, it began to descend on its own! An elevator!. Soon after minutes of descending, it stopped in front of a sliding door. It required a palm print to enter, Julia felt frustrated! This people are really something else! So clever. Then she heard footsteps, she,quickly his behind a pillar careful not to lean on it.

It was a bodyguard as soon as he put his palmprint and the door opened, she stuck him hard on his head with her gun. Yes! She has a gun now. He fell and she quickly stepped over him and entered into an empty hallway. Although it was empty, Julia felt the presence of people in the offices that lined the hallway. Everywhere was so calm and quiet that she could hear her own calm and soft footsteps. Suddenly, one of the office door swung open! Julia quickly dived behind one of the pillars but she was very unlucky this time. She bumped on the pillar and a loud alarm began to beep all over the place.

Julia stiffened almost scared to death regretting why she was so careless but the alarm showed no sign of going off. Immediately, lots of bodyguards began to pour out of the offices."There is she! An intruder!" someone shouted and they all rushed toward her. She looked around but there wasn't an escape route, so first she needed to defend herself. All the nine years she had spent outside the country, she had been practicing martial art. All the bodyguards hurrying towards her were just ordinary people but even at that she was still at disadvantage because they were much and she was just a girl.

She realized even if she shot them, there will be casualties, so after dealing with the ones in front of her, she looked up there were curved irons fixed on the roof, she jumped and and began to use the irons to move forward as they were arranged in a straight row. When she got to the end, there was a hole in the roof that could accommodate her so she entered the roof and began to crawl forward. After crawling for what felt like eternity, Julia finally found another hole and came out which landed her in another part of the company.

She must confess even though it was underground, it was very large. The part Julia landed in, was much quieter and she sensed there were fewer people there. As she took in her surroundings, the door in her front pinged and a middle aged lady walked in. Julia quickly hid trying her best not to touch the pillar she his behind. The lady that came in began to walk briskly forward deeper into the building, Julia began to follow her discreetly. Suddenly the lady stopped and turned back, but Julia was really quick and hid immediately.