Chapter 34
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"Have you seen Royalty?" Neveah burst into my room asking
"No why?" I asked
I had just finished taking a shower and had a towel wrapped around my v-line and Neveah just barged in without knocking. Well it didn't matter whether she saw me wet or naked since we took baths with each other up until we were fifteen so I knew every inch of her like she did to me.
"She was supposed to meet me about half an hour ago and she never showed." Neveah explained "She's not in Damanico's room either and Geovanni said he got off work early."
I realized her concern now.
If she's not with Damanico where the hell is she?
Something felt off and it felt wrong.
"Let me get dressed." I said to her and she waited outside the door.
I put on a shirt and blue jeans with sneakers and a grabbed my two white guns and put that into my pocket before walking outside and grabbing Neveah's hand and running down the hall to Cristiano's room. I barged in not caring that a girl was riding him.
"Sorry to cut knocking up time short but we've got trouble." I yelled
"What's going on?" he asked me sitting up with the girl still on him
"Royalty's missing!" I said
Those words bore a whole in my heart.
Where was she? Was she alright?
"WHAT??" Chrissy exclaimed then turned to the girl "Sorry Alicia but we'll have to cut this short."
The girl nodded and quickly put on her clothes and left and Cristiano went into his closet and came back out dressed and grabbed two guns. We left his room meeting Geovanni, Jianan and Damien on the staircase.
"Royalty is gone!" Geovanni said to me
"I know." I said then turned to Damien "Take charge of Neveah."
"Si maestro!" he said and Neveah flew into his arms crying
"SULTAN!!" I yelled down the hall and the man appeared a minute later "Get six others and patrol this whole mansion NOW!!!"
He flew off and I marched downstairs at full speed. We flew into the kitchen and I flew orders around. The whole house was awake and knew Royalty had disappeared but no one had seen her or Damanico.
Where the hell is she? Xavier calm down! You'll find her! C'mon if you worry you might miss something important so calm down and focus.
Everyone was on edge. A lot of the men were really good friends with Rei and so were the girls and everyone liked her.
"Xavier?" Jianan asked me waiting to get orders from me
"I don't know what the hell to do." I said slamming my hand down on the counter in frustration "This just happened unexpectedly and although we had plans to protect her in case of an emergency we never expected her to be taken from right under our very noses."
"Don't be so hard on yourself Xavier." Geovanni comforted me.
I shook my head and just then Sultan came running in and started running his mouth in rapid Italian.
He was 100xs faster than the Road Runner!!!
I slammed my hand down hard on the table making everyone jump and him to stop talking.
"How the hell am I suppose to know what you're saying if you're talking like a blasted Road Runner?!" I snapped "Cut the shit and get to the point!"
I really wasn't in a good mood.
"Sorry." he said in English "We found soda cans in the garden with both their fingerprints on it. Should we investigate Maestro Xavier?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm coming." I said then followed them outside with the others following me.
I went out back into the garden where men were busy scanning two soda cans.
"What have you found?" I asked
"Both prints are warm so they weren't out here too long." one reported to me
"How long?" Geovanni questioned
"About ten to fifteen minutes ago." he answered
"So where the heck did they go?" Jianan said
"The direction is unknown sir." Sultan said
"Maybe it's not after all." I said to myself looking down at the flowers "They passed through here. The flowers have broken leaves."
I took a few steps into the darkness.
"Flashlights." I called back and two men came up with flashlights.
"Can I come?" Neveah asked me "Please. She's my friend too."
"Fine but don't start screaming if you see an insect." I told her switching on the flashlight.
"Ok."
Cristiano and the others followed as me and I followed the broken leaves until I came to footprints in the grass. The trees here were really close so I wonder what the heck the two of them were doing in here. I came into a little clearing and I pointed the light everywhere until Neveah screamed and we all turned to look at her.
"What did I say about screaming?" I asked her furiously.
"Not that look." she said and pointed at something
"Blood!" I exclaimed and went over.
"Sultan have this analyzed now." Cristiano said as we all gathered around
"Look there's a plank over there." Jianan pointed
"Check for fingerprints." Geovanni ordered
Sultan bent down a swiped a cotton swap in the blood and put it in a tester until it beeped
"The blood is Royaltys's." he announced
"Royalty's?" Neveah asked "How?"
"This is all making sense now." Cristiano said "Check the fingerprints on the plank."
Sultan did as he said quickly.
"It's Damanico's." Sultan announced
"As I thought." Cristiano said "Damanico isn't one of us. He's an imposter! He knocked Royalty out and must have gone with her."
"What!?" We all exclaimed
"Doesn't it make sense?" Crissy asked "He's not one of us. He's probably one of the Swedish so he's after Rei. We've got to find her fast before they do something to her."
"I'll kill that asshole when I find him." I said "Sultan! Get someone to clean here up tomorrow morning. We need to have a meeting and fast! Royalty's in trouble."
