Husband With Benefits
Chapter 195: A Clue

Chapter 195: A Clue

As Erasmi walked out of the airport, he questioned the investigator, " Have you found anything new?"

The man walked along hurriedly as he answered," Not much, sir. But we do have a clue."

"What is it? Its been more than twenty-four hours and you’ve only found a clue? Do you need me to teach you to do your job? By now, you should have found Demetri and Nora!"

The man shuddered, already disconcerted at looking at this man who looked exactly like the person they were looking for and spoke slowly," Sir, those men were a mixture of professionals and mercenaries. Those people used the mercenaries to attack Mr Frost and his guards and while the two sides were engaged in fight, they abducted Mrs Frost.

But they were careful with other things. Instead of leaving behind clues, once they had captured Mrs Frost they got rid of the mercenaries as well. By the time we boarded the yacht they’d been gone. One of Mr Frost’s guards was able to give us some information but then he succumbed to the injuries. However, we did find someone later. He’s a mercenary. Tells me he hid when he realized that these people were killing their own people as well."

"And what does this man want to say?" Ian questioned sharply.

"He refuses to talk to us unless..."

"He wants money? Tell him we are willing to give him whatever he wants." Ian continued the conversation.

"Of course, I know that, sir. But that man is also asking us to help protect him and promise him that we will allow him to leave without any harm. Once he is safe, he is willing to recount everything."

"If in his eagerness to negotiate we lost the opportunity to save Demetri and Nora then tell him that we can promise him a safe departure from this world! So he better open his trap and start talking." Ian growled.

Erasmi stopped the man and spoke in a deadly voice, "I’ll go."

The man inside had been chained to the wall and as he heard the door open and close, he spoke harshly, " You can torture me however much you want but I won’t tell you anything until....AHHHHHHH."

The man screamed in horror as Erasmi walked closer to him, his eyes wide in fear," GH...Ghost!" Soon he started to chant a prayer for protection from evil while making a sign in front of him as he stared at Erasmi in fear.

The actions would have amused Erasmi if not for the meaning of what they meant. This man was assuming that he was Demetri’s ghost. That meant according to the man Demetri should have been dead.

Erasmi stopped directly in front of the man and looked down at him," This is not going to help you, you know. The lord does not help evil like yourself. Now, where is Nora? What did you want to talk about..."

The man gulped and spoke, "You survived. The lord must bless you. Two gunshots and drowning in the sea and you survived! I’ll tell you everything I know. I promise I did not mean to kill anyone. "

"We were told that we had to only engage the security guards and be careful not to hurt the girl. That was a warning. So that is what we did. we only tried to injure the guards so that they would not be able to interfere. All of us were promised a million dollars each and yet those people started killing us the moment they had her. They were the ones who made sure that all the guards were dead as well. I’d slipped and fallen under another guard which is how they missed me and took me for dead or I would not have survived either."

"What did you see?"

The man did not think why Erasmi would want to know what he did but he continued fearfully," I saw you kill that man and then throw him into the sea and then you jumped off..."

Erasmi nodded," Is there anything else you can tell me about them?"

The man nodded quickly and spoke," I heard them talking. They were planning to take her to another country. But they were very careful of her when they handled her. It was almost as if they were being reverent..."

Erasmi raised an eyebrow at this and turned to go back. He’d already noticed from the pictures of the yacht that the lifeboat had been missing. Demetri must have tried to follow those people who had taken Nora in the lifeboat. And he was severely injured.

Walking out of the interrogation room, Erasmi quickly strode out and spoke, "Check the direction of the wind from that night and then visit all the smaller islands to look for Demetri. He was heavily injured so he could not have gone far. As for Nora, it seems they did not want to use her for ransom but something else. There is something fishy there."

"Didn’t Demetri insist that Nora was in some kind of danger even after you got rid of Lara Anderson?" Ian asked slowly. "It is why he sent her to country N in the first place."

"Yes. But we don’t know what the danger is. Also it seems that he’d discovered something before coming here which had reassured him that she might not be in danger. It was why he had asked the guards to relax a bit..." Seb added.

"So whoever it must be had probably pretended to back off and cooperate but had then attacked him."

"Only Demetri can give us the answers we need. Ian, Seb, lets divide the group into three parties. We will each lead a team to look for Erasmi along every island. Be careful to ask for any person who might have knowledge of medicine..." Erasmi spoke slowly as he tried to formulate a plan in his mind. Whoever these people were considered Demetri a threat and at the moment, they had probably no idea that Demetri was missing...

Updat𝒆d fr𝒐m freew𝒆bnov𝒆l.c(o)m