13 Chapter 13, The beginning of another investigation

The guys went into a cafe and looked at the menu. They didn't want to order until Erica got back. And almost ten minutes had already passed, and during this time Andre was panicking like no one else. Rainer and Theodore tried to calm him down, well, what will happen to her?

"Everything. I've had enough, I went to look for her, ask who saw her, " Andre snapped.

He approached the guests and importunately asked, mentioning the appearance of the brunette. But no one saw anything, so he decided to ask the staff and the first person he approached was the bartender.

"I'm sorry, but a girl ran in here to you, not tall, with long brown wavy hair. Did you see where she went? " the guy asked.

"And for what purpose are you interested in it?" the bartender asked.

"Because this is my girlfriend," the guy suddenly replied.

"Unfortunately, we do not distribute information about our visitors," the bartender refused to say anything.

"Do you understand that something could have happened to her?! She's been gone for a long time, " Andre was angry.

"We can't do anything," the guy replied again.

"Call the administrator means! Otherwise, I'll smash everything here!", shouted Andre, almost climbing on the counter.

"Security! Help!". the employee was scared.

When the guards wanted to take Andre away, and Theo and Rainer tried to explain the situation so that this would not happen, a nice girl approached the whole mess.

"I'm sorry, I'm the administrator, what happened here?" she asked, turning to the still rebellious Andre.

"Well, finally! Even longer...", the guy stopped his speech, realizing who was standing in front of him, "Agatha?", he was surprised.

"Andre, and you haven't changed at all," the girl replied, "Let him go," she immediately ordered the guards.

"So what's your problem?" she asked the conflict.

Theo and Rainer were still in shock from what had happened and so far, they took the money from the bartender, which they wanted to offer him in exchange for information. And Theo already knew this girl.

"Our friend disappeared here," he replied and, looking at his watch, continued, " About twenty minutes ago."

"And what do you want from us?" the girl asked question after question.

"I wanted to ask if anyone had seen her," Andre replied.

"And you don't really pay your employees for your campaign, "Theo began to say," Your bartender refused to talk just like that, which is why the conflict was formed. You see, those can't spread information about customers when a person's life depends on it. But for twenty thousand euros it can, " Theo expressed everything.

"Okay, I understand you. I can offer you to look at the CCTV cameras, " the girl offered, which the guys naturally did not refuse. While Theo and Rainer went to watch the cameras, Agatha decided to talk to Andre in her office.

"And what brought you to Grasse?" she asked, closing the door on the latch .

"Business. And what did you think?", sitting down on the sofa, he replied.

"Maybe I am," she replied without hesitation.

She leaned forward, hovering over Andre, "You know. I love you, " she said, unbuttoning her shirt.

The guy grinned and, of course, was not going to do anything with her, just wanted to look once again at her attempts to return the relationship.

"I'll remind you. I didn't jump into the bed of a local major. Who, as I see, has safely left for his islands, " he put his hand on her neck, slightly embracing her and slowly pulled her to him.

She was hoping for a kiss, but the guy abruptly pulled her ear to his mouth, "He left without you," he whispered and leaned back on the other end of the sofa.

"I've told you a million times and I'll keep telling you. Even if I wildly want to, but not with you, you have already shown yourself, " the guy repeated.

"That is, even with his girlfriend?", Agatha began to provoke.

He didn't answer and left the room, angrily closing the door. In the hallway, he straightened his shirt and hair. And he went to the car. He was sick of this place.

There were already guys in the car. They were looking at the photos in their hands and talking, noticing this, Andre tensed up and approached them as quickly as possible.

"What are you doing?!" he asked angrily, and when he saw the photos from the surveillance camera, he visibly calmed down.

The guys were shocked by Andre's reaction, but decided to ignore it and after everyone got into the car, they began to discuss what they saw.

"Here she comes into the institution, approaches a man and a woman, after that she and the woman leave and after a while the man takes their things and also leaves only from the front exit and not the woman, not Erica did not return," Rainer explained the sequence.

"And in which direction did Erica and the woman presumably go?" asked Andre.

"This is the question I expected," Rainer said, " In the direction of the toilet and the service exit, but the service exit is closed. We've cleaned the toilet, it's empty."

"We are at an impasse," Andre was upset.

"Don't lose your temper, not everything is lost," Theo tried to cheer him up, "Okay, let's go, we'll think about it."

Andre started the car, started to turn around, and the same bartender was running in their direction. They waited for him and asked him what he needed.

"You offered me a sum for information," the bartender said.

"So what?" Theo asked.

"I have what you need," the bartender said...