DAY THREE: "YOU ARE TRYING."

The moment Jake left Dee's room and came back into the living room. Everyone went silent. It's like no one was talking some few seconds ago. They moved to their positions. Dominic was making calls, Pete was busy arranging some files while Josh and the other team went on inspecting the area.

"Any information?" He asked Dominic while looking at his phone. He had compulsion deficiency. He keeps checking his phone even when something is not in his phone.

"Sir, the only information that we can get is of Kim. We took some camera footage from the dinner and removed the parts of assault just like you said and returned everything to avoid any suspicions." Said Dominic while handling Jake the tablet containing the videos. 

"And sir, the simple reason why no one could have heard Dee scream was because the dinner is soundproof. Only the person inside can hear what you are doing, so it was hard, but she tried with her might to defend herself. What we still don't know is who is this guy and what connection does he have with Kim's death?" Said Pete.

Jake kept pacing up and down, he didn't know what to tell his team. He knew that if he made some rash decisions now, everything will fail. He remembered that Dee still doesn't know that Kim is dead that will be another problem. 

"Do you think we should tell her parents what has happened to her or Edith?" Jake asked while leaning on the sofa seat nearby.

Pete and Dominic looked at each other and shook their heads disapproving what he was saying.

"But they all be worried about her and might file a report of a missing person," said Jake.

"Dee is over eighteen, her parents will probably assume that she has gone to her boyfriend's place and will come back tomorrow," said Pete while looking at Dominic for support.

"Then tomorrow we can take Dee to a public hospital and look for a fake police who will act as the rescuer and will inform her family," added Dominic.

Jake looked at them but didn't seem to go with the idea. He looked at the possibility of everything going wrong again while he can save Dee in this situation.

"What if he comes back to end her life?" He asked with anger in his voice.

"Jake, we will have some of our people inside, they will be the ones to take care of her," said Dominic.

He looked at Pete and Dominic and nodded at their ideas. They always know how to solve problems. Even big things that seem quite difficult, they know how to make them looks so small and be solved in minutes. 

The only problem they haven't solved in quite a while was finding Jake a woman. Every woman they send him would come back crying for being harassed or even at some point they will brag about how Jake loves them but later go to the tabloid to say that Jake is a bad person who used them.

Jake sighed before fixing his suit and looked at the men who were busy in their laptops and phones trying to look out for some information, "that is a good idea, work on that, I will be in my office working and sorting some things out while also looking at how the business went on today," 

He walked back into Dee's room and found her fast asleep. Her silent snores were like music to his ears. Her lips were parted a little and her hands were still intact.

"I am sorry Dee," Jake taught to himself. He doesn't know why he was beating himself up because of this but every time he talked about something, all he had in mind was Dee. The way her eyes were in pain, how she felt scared. 

He moved closer to her. He placed his hand on her forehead but she shook her head and Jake removed his hands away. Sue suddenly started shaking. She was throwing her legs and using her hands. Jake wanted to move quickly to her but stood for a while to look at how she was behaving. At first, he thought that She had a seizure but after seeing Dee fighting and pushing nothing in front of her, she knew that she was dreaming.

"Please, please stop it, please get off, get off, you are hurting, hurting, what are you doing, please, somebody, somebody," those were the words that were coming out of her mouth. 

They were being said in a weak and broken voice. Jake knew Dee had fought for a long-time and was now weak to fight again.

He quickly moved to her and hold her in his hard chest. Her breathing a were heavy and tears were streaming down his face. 

He shushed her down and caressed her hair to make her comfortable. He didn't know if she was doing the right thing cause he kept on turning her just so he could feel that she was okay.

"You are trying, I can see she will be okay," Jake was startled by Pete's voice by the door. 

"Are you sure am doing it in the right way?" Jake asked again. He has never done this. He jas never sat down to care for a person who was in a bad situation. Comfort them sing to them. Right now he was finding all this little difficult to do but he was determined to try it out on this lady here.

Pete tilted his head and looked at the way he was holding Dee and nodded, "just stop squeezing her so much, you will kill her," he added before going out.

He tried to adjust her properly but he still felt like he was doing the wrong thing. After she had called down, He placed her back to bed and tucked her in. 

He switched the bedside lamp and decided to move bit Dee grabbed his fingers. He looked at her and at the finger that she was grabbing. Her eyes were still closed. 

"I am in the next room, nothing is going to happen," I said to her while placing her hands back to bed and going to the adjacent room to do some studies.

"Hello papa, I am fine. Sorry I was not in the office I had some other business but tomorrow I will be available for the meeting. Yeah, papa, how is she doing? Tell her I have said hi and I will come for her birthday I can't miss that," 

After the phone conversation, he dropped his phone and focused on some documents that her secretary had dropped by.

He checked every document with utmost scrutiny, giving each document ample time before moving to the next. When he was done he decided to look at the dinner footage. 

He didn't want to pressure Dee to tell him what had happened, he took it upon himself and divided to look at it he might come up with some I detail that his team had missed.

The team had provided him with the footage for the whole day. He focused on the video from the time he started serving customers. Checking closely at what was happening. She was not doing a lot outside the counter unless she was forced to.

Checking through, he saw a certain customer coming in twice and didn't order anything. He moved to the outside cameras and saw the customer moving in the area for a long time. Then he saw Dee laughing at something someone who was eating at the counter said to her and she was laughing. He quickly moved to another side. He didn't know why he hated to see Dee happy with someone else. 

Then he saw Dee following Jim out when he received a call about Dee's pictures. 

"Why was she concerned yet we just argued some seconds ago?" He asked himself while looking at the cameras closely.

The black cap guy was not there, instead,d Dee just stood out watching him climbing inside the taxi. He looked at that clip for a second time and he realised that he had missed something. She was trying to calm her back and had something in her hands that she was trying to give him in a small envelope.

He buzzed the intercom in his office and called Josh.

"Yes sir," said Josh while fixing his tie.

He turned at him and showed him the clip, "if you are asking about anything we found in the cafeteria, there was nothing even the cash was gone," Josh said and Jake dismissed him.

Curiosity was killing him. He hated when he doesn't know something that he wants to know very much. He stood up and was undecided about where he was going. His feet led him to Dee's room once again. 

He took a stool and sat next to her. He didn't know what he was doing but his head needed answers.

He stretched his hands and placed them on her forehead, "what were you trying to tell me?" He asked silently even though he knew that she won't listen to him but he still needed answers.

When she didn't shift, h was left to admire her beautiful face.

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