BXBX NOVEL Chapter 612 - First Result
Sarah and Aiden had late breakfast and saw that JoAnna shared an audio recording from their interrogation of Enrique from previous night.
Sarah and Aiden listened to the conversation between JoAnna, Jeff and Enrique in silence.
Aiden saw that Sarah is getting upset and he held her hand. He knows that she would take this much better if Enrique was plotting against her. Sarah is always reacting much stronger when her sisters are in danger. And JoAnna seems to have a talent of attracting creeps.
Aiden told himself that he will talk to his brother and give him a scolding to take better care of his woman. If Jeff took better care of JoAnna, there will be no need for Sarah to get upset over this.
"Wow…", Sarah exhaled when recording ended. "I hope Anna is OK." She was reaching for her phone with intention to call JoAnna.
"She is. Jeff is with her.", Aiden assured her and stopped her from making the call.
"Number and email that Blanca used for the Boss appear in Enrique\'s contacts as well.", Aiden confirmed, and successfully pulled Sarah\'s attention to their investigation.
"Jeff wants us to look into list Enrique got from his Boss."
"I found it… it was in Enrique\'s email." Aiden was a step ahead.
Sarah leaned closer to see list which showed on Aiden\'s laptop screen.
List was saved in a file with title: \'Relatives-3.txt\'.
Title didn\'t make sense, so they moved on into looking at names.
"Six names. I don\'t recognize any… other than Jeff\'s." Sarah admitted.
"This one…" Aiden pointed to second name on the list. "Fabian Rae."
He started typing on his laptop and few seconds later confirmed. "Yes. He is from Spain and has a company in Portland."
"How do you know him?" Sarah was impressed that Aiden can identify the man from the list. She is bad with remembering names, so unless it\'s a close friend her memory is of no use here.
"I don\'t." Aiden admitted and explained: "I just heard about him. From some magazine maybe? I thought that name is familiar."
"I see."
Sarah forwarded list to Eve. "Eve, analyze names on the list I\'m sending you. Cross-reference names and see what they have in common."
Aiden agreed that Eve will be much faster and probably investigate possibilities two of them would miss.
Sarah and Aiden looked up phone number and email used to contact the mysterious Boss and found that they are not active anymore.
"Enrique called this number yesterday… and it\'s disabled already?" Sarah frowned.
"That can mean one of two things. Either Blanca or Enrique managed to warn him, or the Boss had someone watching them. In any case, he knew that we can use these to find him and he removed his tracks." Aiden was also concerned.
Sarah\'s frown deepened. "I don\'t like this. Normal thugs or businesspeople would not act like this."
"I agree. Having a list of people to blackmail and then killing off communication like this… it\'s not something that a regular person will do." Aiden inched closer to Sarah and pressed his index finger between her furrowed eyebrows. "But that does not mean that my future wife should get wrinkles because of that person."
Sarah blinked few times and then smiled. "Future wife… I like that."
Aiden got visibly nervous. "While on the topic of future wife… did you think about when do you want us to get married?"
Sarah inhaled and held her breath for few seconds. "Not yet.", she admitted.
She could see that he is disappointed, and guilt washed over her.
"Uhm… did you think about the wedding?" Sarah reluctantly returned the question.
"Maybe a little bit.", he mumbled.
Now Sarah really felt guilty, and she can\'t just drop the topic because it will look like she is avoiding it. "Tell me more."
"There is not much to tell." He was avoiding her gaze.
"I don\'t believe you. Did you think about when? Or how? Knowing you… it\'s probably how. Am I right?" Sarah looked at Aiden trying to read his expression. She saw a smile creep in.
"I knew it! Tell me… now you must tell me…", she pleaded.
"Nothing too specific. It\'s just that I want to make you happy." He will not admit that in his mind he saw her wearing a beautiful white gown with an endless train, a diamond tiara on her head, surrounded with flowers and butterflies, and probably some tropical birds she was going crazy about on that island where he proposed… looking like a princess… smiling at him while saying \'I do\'.
Sarah can tell that he thought of more details than that, but he doesn\'t want to talk about it. She decided to ask again when the mood is better. For now, she will enjoy the thoughts that he wants to make her happy.
"You are the sweetest guy, ever! I hope you know that I am happy. And I will be no matter what we decide… even if we get married while I\'m sleeping, as long as I wake up with you by my side, I will be happy."
"Married in sleep? I just might do that.", Aiden teased her while scratching his chin. It made him look like he is actually considering it.
Sarah laughed. "How about… both of us think about the wedding. We have this snow adventure weekend, and then our graduation… first half of September will be busy with Anna\'s birthday and their wedding… Can we talk about our wedding after that? Who knows… maybe we get some ideas from them?"
To Sarah\'s surprise, Aiden smiled and responded with a nod.
She was not confident that he is comfortable with it. "Are you sure that is OK?"
"Yes.", he nodded. "Honestly, I was fearing you will say something like: let\'s talk about it next year. Compared to that, waiting less than two months is much better."
Normally, that sounded like her: postponing things that push her out of her comfort zone. But she decided to change, and this will be a perfect opportunity to prove herself.
Sarah didn\'t get a chance to respond. They got a notification from their security system (aka Eve) that a truck is approaching the house.
"It must be furniture delivery. I will go and take care of it." Aiden kissed her on the cheek and headed toward the front door.
As soon as he stepped away, their laptops flashed with notifications that Eve found a connection between six names on the list which they found in Enrique\'s email.
Sarah checked logs and saw that Eve is still searching for additional results, this was the first one.
The resulting report showed that all six people on the list are holding prominent positions in the business:
"
Maria Chavez is a fashion designer behind billion-worth brand \'Scarfs\'.
Jeffrey White is a CEO in White corp.
Fabian Rae is owner of Rae Inc.
Sebastian Dull is vice president of SoftUnlimited.
Miriam Steele is CFO of SoftUnlimited.
David Mock is director in MyMusic.
"
Sarah looked at this report and details provided trying to find something that connects them. Is it possible that Eve provided all this and missed something?