Chapter 25

Laxton Hendrix slide his right hand to intertwined their fingers while driving.
"Can't you just focus on driving? We have all night to be together---" Cza teased him but her words disappear after she saw his serious face.
Their eyes met for five seconds and it was disrupted by the honk from the other car in the opposite lane.
"Damn! I told you to focus your eyes on the road!" She screamed.
Laxton Hendrix shrugged his head and brought the back of her palm on his lips. "You're too beautiful to resist, brat."
Cza rolled her eyes.
*****
When they arrived back to his house, Czarielle's eyes darted to a black, box-type Toyota Corola parked in two blocks away from his driveway.
"That car looks familiar--"
"All types of cars are the same. Don't mind them. What matters are our precious time together, don't you think?"
Cza was speechless. She kept her thoughts to herself although she's hesitant in some way.
They slept the remaining hours of the night cuddling.
Until Czarielle's peaceful sleep was disrupted by the doorbell.
With her droopy eyes and dishelved hair, she went to the doorlock, unlocked it--only to be stunned at the two people standing by the doorstep.
Two blacked masked man put a handkerchief with unfragrant sleeping pills on her nose before taking her forcefully out of the house!
Czarielle tried to distract the one holding his waist by pulling the mask beyond his eye sight but she was unsuccessful because after inhaling from the handkerchief, her sight eventually got blurry before she totally blacks out.
*****
Laxton Hendrix woke up because a cold breeze touched his left arm.
With groogy vision, he open his eyes only to see that his sliding windows facing the tall, bricked wall surrounding was ajar!
He instantly get up from the bed and checked Czarielle but he only saw a few hairs left on the pillow she had used last night!
Alarmed, he quickly run towards his lawn; to the garage and even on his bathroom but she was nowhere to be found!
"Shit! What did just happen here? Did she leave without saying anything to me?"
Laxton Hendrix went back to his bedroom, got his phone placed in his bedside table and dialed his secretary-slash bestfriend's number, Billy.
"I thought nobody knows my house other than the three of us?!"
"What are you talking about, bro? Of course, I won't compromise your own security!"
"Get your ass out here, immediately! Somebody tresspassed in my house and--"
"I'll be there in twenty minutes--"
"You know I can't wait that long--"
"Then call the cops!"
"You know I can't--everything will be compromised once this was reported to the authority! I'm just worried about Cza--"
"She'll be fine, don't worry. I'm driving on the car now. Pay for my overspeeding ticket, will you?"
Laxton Hendrix worriedly chuckle. "Do I have a choice?"
"No."
Then the call was disconnected.
Laxton Hendrix quickly went to his bathroom and took a shower.
Just what Billy said, he arrived at his house ten minutes later and found him still sitting on top of his bed.
"Hey, man. What's up?"
"How secured was this place when you bought it for me?" Laxton Hendrix said, fear written on his facial expression.
"It's the safest place I know--"
"Then why did this happen? I mean we were so happy last night at the Amusement Park, everything went smoothly until--"
"Until what? Did you see anyone suspicious?" Billy sat down on his carpeted floor, parallel to his bed.
"We saw Katarzyna last night and I just blurted out that Czarielle's my girlfriend and--"
"Then that answers your question. She can be the mastermind. I alwas hate how psychotic that woman is. I wonder how you liked her in the first place, tsk." Billy went to his kitchen counter and turn on the electric kettle. "How did that glass panel got opened, though?" He pointed the window facing his living room.
"I don't know. I woke up that it's already opened---"
"It's a sliding door but you can only unlock it from this side." Billy went to the open glass panel and demosntrate how it can be opened from the top. "Unless the intruder went inside, stand here in front of this door--"
"Shit! Why did I forget that I have camera installed around my own house?" 
The two eyed each other, unanimously run outside--towards the room labeled 'storage room' near the garage!
Laxton Hendrix quickly turn on the desktop monitor and hover the mouse on the screen. He replay the video from eleven thirty last night and saw the two men in black jacket roaming around the front gate.
It's twelve ten in the morning when they reached his parking lot and two minutes after they went inside, one of the two men tried to went over his cemented wall but failed. He landed butt first on the driveway gutter.
"Black coffee?" Billy asked while pacing back and forth.
"Iced black coffee please." Laxton Hendrix answered while his eyes are fixated on the video.
"Do you have freshly baked bread and strawberry jam?"
"Does my house looked like a grocery store?" Laxton Hendrix snapped at Billy.
"Sorry." Billy turn around back to the house while scratching his head. "I shouldn't have asked."
Laxton Hendrix reviewed the video from five thirty in the morning and stopped it at exactly five fifty five written on the time stamp.
Two masked men, the same wearing black jackets last night hit the doorbell. Then thirty seconds later, Czarielle opened the door and that's when the taller man put the handkerchief on her nose.
Laxton heard what he said before he pulled her outside forcefully. "Sorry, sis." 
Three other men wearing masks opened his front gate and put Czarielle on the black Toyota car before they drove off.
His teeth clenched after he saw Katarzyna went out of the other car parked in front of his house. She walked like a model in a fashion show, went inside his house casually and open the glass panel from the inside.
Billy saw it all. The iced coffee he's holding slipped on his right hand and the coffee mug broke into pieces. "I told you--"
Laxton Hendrix glare at him in disgust. "Right. I need trusted men to investigate why she's back and her families dirties secret. Also, hire someone to locate Czarielle's family and I need their profiles later tonight. See you in the office at noon, alright?" Laxton went back inside the house to get his car keys.
Billy was left dumbfounded. "How about your compromised doorlock?" He shouted after a few seconds.
"Call the repair men and have everything replace to smart devices and link it to my phone and at my office computer." Then he went out of the house, walk to his car in the garage and drove away.
"I'm not your personal asisstant! I'm a friend and your personal secretary!"
"I can hear you from your smart watch, Billy! See at noon!"
"Okay! See you! Shit." Billy muttered before he closed the storage room and went inside the house to call the repair man from the landline.

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