She Paid The Price More Than Once.

"Are you sure this is the place?" Chief Robert asked as he examined the building in front of him with his hands on his hips.

"Yup," Candace came up behind him, holding her laptop in one hand, while she typed with the other. "According to the tracker, Ms. Leonica Romero should be here, but," She looked up from her laptop at the building and her face scrunched up in confusion. "This place looks too...dead." Robert nodded, agreeing with his partner. The building in front of them looked abandoned, no movement of any sort and it had a very dead aura around it.

It looked like that one house straight out of a horror movie.

Scary and pretty dead looking, but he couldn't continue standing here. If Leonica Romero was indeed in there, she could be hurt.

The sound of his phone ringing had Robert looking away from the building. He glanced at his phone, seeing that it was the rest of his team calling.

"Report." He said as soon as the phone was pressed against his ear.

"Sir, we managed to discuss the identity of Mrs. Romero's potential kidnapper."

"Give me a name to work with."

"Irene Romero."

His brows furrowed. "The illegitimate child? Why would you think that?"

"We were able to get a glimpse of the license plate and ran it. Turns out the vehicle was rented under her name."

"Good job. You guys should still maintain your current route, I'll place a call back to the station and have them send out some men to bring Irene Romero in."

Ending the call, Robert made a call back to the station, requesting for backup. Once he was done, he sighed. At least they now had a suspect to work with, stops Benjamin from tearing their heads off, Literally. "Come on, we're heading In." He turned around and gestured for Candace to follow him. She willingly did so, placing her hand on her firearm once she had discarded her laptop in the back seat of their vehicle.

"I take back what I said, Chief," She began as the walked into the house, guns pointed straight ahead. "Ms. Romero might just have asked out of curiosity sakes."

"And the location tracker?"

"Perhaps it malfunctioned."

Robert chuckled. Candace was no wuss, in fact she was one of the strongest on the task force, his second in command, but she, unlike him, tries her best to avoid violence.

"You're such a softie." He commented and she rolled her eyes.

"I'd rather be a softie and be able to sleep than a heartless robot like you."

"That's hurtful," Robert was about to add more words when the sound of someone whimpering from a room beside them caught his attention. "Check it out." He instructed after sharing a look with Candace. Without hesitation, she headed for the door and pulled it open, pointing her gun towards the figure that sat by the wall.

"Don't move," She hissed and the figure froze, raising its hand up in surrender.

"Please... Please help me!" The man in the room weakly begged. Only when she directed her eyes towards his leg, which surprisingly had two hole, did she understand the source of his pain.

She grimaced. "Chief, come check this out."

sight. "Call for an ambulance." He instructed as he rushed towards the injured man, taking off his jacket so that it can be used to apply

looked at Candace who had just

the fact that the officer's question was reminding him off the disgrace

the man's opposite side. "Is there anyone other

am I meant to know? That fucking bitch might have harmed them

a look after his word and the latter stood up. "I'll go check it out, you

a few more minutes before

and heard

Ms. Leonica?" He called out, knocking on the door, but the voice suddenly stopped. "Please step away from the door, I'll get it

with one clean shot, the lock was

family and some other man. "You...you're not Mrs. Romero." "Bright as

pair of iron cuffs were slapped onto her wrist. Irene stared at them like she had seen

arrest." Chief Roberts

"On what charge?"

kidnapping of Mrs. Cassandra

were cut short when Robert placed

for whatever you say

her teeth. How was it that

out and he turned around, finding his partner walking

and shoved Irene towards her. "Take care

"Sure thing."

around to scan the room, ignoring the man who

tracker had said Leonica was here, yet there was no sign of

were once again interrupted by the sound

tol him as soon as he had

a total sweep of the place. So

past one of the room, the silence in

reaching into his pocket to pull it out, only to realize it wasn't his

sound, leading him to back to the room he and Candace

landed on the phone that sat on the

up just as it stopped vibrating and his eyes narrowed into slits when he saw

the tracker

beyond overjoyed when Leonica, along with Cassandra walked

dear wife, pulling her into a

into the hug offered by her husband, glad to have returned home

how...how did you do

flashed a smile at her mother who happily returned the smile. "And everything is going to be fine." "But..." Benjamin was still confused. How did his daughter manage to rescue her mother and put an end to the

much into

done well. He'd ask

police and inform Chief Robert of the development." Benjamin said, but not before ordering several maids to take Cassandra up and take

down on the

and the pain and fatigue had set

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