Chapter Twenty eight.

Elena's Pov.

I was surprised to hear from Katie that Rosette was actually a step sister to Amelie Banks, I did not know how to feel about this revelation, I mean I had seen them interacting like friends on the day of the shoot, but I did not expect them to be  relatives, step sisters at that. 

If that was the case, then Amelie will know where I live by now and yesterday, Lorenzo had paid me a visit, what if she had seen him, I was in a state of dread.

Katie too looked like she  too was contemplating the possibility of being discovered, no one was supposed to know about my connection with Lorenzo or that mI had his aegis.

"So what do you reckon we do" I asked.

She turned from reflecting to u bothered.

"We wait, for her to take action,  if she does, we bite back,if she doesn't, that means she does not know anything so we wait for the right time to strike and take her out of the equation." She pumped her fist and smacked it hard into her open palm.

"Sounds like we are conspiring against her to me" I commented.

"We are not, I'm only saying that if she strikes us, that will definitely make us strike back, we can't have you falling off your feet in the game." She reassured.

"Oh I will not be falling off my feet anytime soon dearie, so there is no need to worry. Now that I remember, are there any leads on the murder case?" I demanded, raising one perfectly arched brow at her, it is so because I just returned from the salon.

"Well, that is what led me to find out about, Rosette's and Amelie's  relationship, so according to my sources, apparently, a bunch of friends were to go on a vacation, they consisted of our darling, Amelie Banks, Bree Johnson, Tyler Biggs, Will Baker and Dylan Sowers. Dave Parker was invited by his friend Dylan sowers who was dating Amelie Banks at that time, turns out only four people came back." She explained.

"It's obvious that it was Dylan sowers that was murdered, I'm guessing Bree Johnson is the girl in the video, it's settled then, Amelie Banks murdered her then boyfriend Dylan sowers,Bree was in love with  him at the time and was also at the murder scene and Dave Parker was aware of the murder." I pointed out like it was blatantly obvious.

"You don't get it, nothing happened to Dylan sowers, he came back with them, the only two people that did not return were Will Baker and Tyler Biggs." She replied, looking confused.

But her confusion did not match my own. I was completely astounded and dumbfounded.

"What do you mean by that, what could possibly be the connection between them."I asked,eager to know more.

"That is what I don't really know,they were all said to be friends, but there was no deep connection between them, or so it seems." She spoke up and my face fell.

This was one huge puzzle with absolutely none or well hidden clues.

" Maybe we should just involve the police or Lorenzo, this seems too deep for us to handle alone." I suggested.

"No!, involving the police now will only help to get you embroiled in one huge murder case and it will implicate some innocent individuals. Getting Lorenzo involved will only serve to bother him more, he has so many burdens, you are not supposed to add to it. We need to show them that we can do it alone, we will get this case solved and get justice for the deceased, on our own. Do you understand what I am saying to you" she ranted.

"But.." I began.

"No buts!" She cut me off. "We are doing it alone, that's it." She commanded.

"Ookayy, I understand, but you don't have to do it with such vigor." I teased.

"Better"she said and the lines on her face disappeared.

"I have a bad feeling about something" I started.

"What is it" she asked.

" I don't know, I just have a really bad feeling" I started.

"Not to be superstitious or anything, but that's a bad omen." The lines came back to her face.

"It's probably because I am worried about getting caught by Amelie" I told her.

"Anything she does, she will take care not to mess with the boss, because only a limited number of people have the power enough to do that" shehtold me.

" I guess I don't need to worry about that, plus we have evidence against her, when she tried to sabotage me, I guess we could use that." I answered.

We agreed on that one, I still felt a twist in my gut.

"How did she even get to know someone that was close to Dave Parker, The Dave Parker" I asked out if the blue taking Katie by surprise.

"Okay, so before Mr Parker became so famous, he was a bartender and he stroke an admirable friendship with his co worker David sowers, by that time Amelie was not even close to being famous, and she was dating the co workers brother. So when David sowers died from a heart disease, Dave Parker took Dylan sowers as his own younger brother and they soon became best of friends."

"I get it now, that is pretty sad, for Sowers I mean."

I sat  weighing down the whole situation, trying to find a clue as to what could have transpired at the vacation, who could have been the accomplice because Amelie alone would not have been able to murder someone singlehandedly, she definitely had back up, who was the victim and what had caused Amelie to kill him, it was all mixed up and entangled, and we had to loose the thread one by one, the problem was, the whole bunch was intwined and we did not know where to start looking.

"I wonder, what is the connection between Bree Johnson and Amelie, it's obvious they don't like each other, at least Bree doesn't." I wondered.

"Well, maybe to take revenge on Amelie, maybe Amelie is blackmailing her, maybe she is there for Dave to use as a messenger to communicate with Amelie, the list goes on." She proposed.

"That might be true, but I don do not also think that Amelie would be oblivious of her vengeful intentions, what could Amelie be holding over Bree's head that would prompt her to stay by Amelie's side when she obviously does not want to, plus, Dave could directly talk to Amelie, if not, what could be the reason." That was a food for thought and Katie looked deep in thought, there were too many questions that were yet unanswered, we had  not even scratched the surface of scandals that lay waiting for us.

"You know what?" Katie jerked as if she just came out from a trance.

"What?" I asked, looking up at her. 

"I need a break" she sat down again and my face fell.

"So do I."I concurred.

"Why are we even doing this again?" She asked.

"To get justice for the deceased and to get evidence that we would use against the murderer" I divulged.

"Oh right." Her phone 'pinged' and I looked at her with renewed interest.

"What" she asked when she met my eye.

"You just received a message, look at it" I told her.

"Sure" She picked up her phone and looked at it, her face contorted in an expression that looked like anger or was it..fear.

She dropped the phone, looking back at me, her expression had gone back to the original one.

"Who was it" I asked, searching her face.

"It was my boyfriend" She answered, unsmiling.

"Then why do you look scared and angry"I investigated.

"I am not scared nor am I angry. I don't know where you get your ideas from" she taunted.

"From your expression." I stated blandly.

"I am not scared nor .angry, we just had a little fight is all, you don't need to worry, you have gotten it all wrong" she replied.

"If you say so, then I believe you." I smiled and she smiled too, but her eyes told me she was not exactly comfortable with the discussion.

I did not mean to make her uncomfortable at all and so I changed the topic asking about her absence yesterday.

"The boss called and told me specifically to make myself busy at the office, why?" She asked.

That man deserves a good spanking.

"Nothing, I just missed you a lot, and he came over and cooked for me, we had lots of fun"

He jaw dropped to the ground.

"He cooked fro you?" She screeched.

Author's Note:

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