Chapter 10
CHAPTER TEN
Seraphina
We’ve just landed back in Australia. It’s a little weird being back here and all I can think about is my parents and the twins. And how much I miss them. We check into the hotel and then meet up with the first group for dinner. They spent today looking for the facility.
We order drinks and appetizers, and after the waitress leaves, we start talking.
“We found the farmhouse. There are people there, but they didn’t seem like a family, I think they all might work at the facility you were at. There was a camera on the front of the house, but nowhere else. We ran a scan of the house for cameras just in case,” Keegan says.
“And now that you’re here, we need you to set up a better scan of the farmhouse. We also found a building that’s a thirty minute walk away, fifteen in the car. We think that’s where you were kept. But again, we don’t have the skills that Bastian and Franco have,” Zeus says.
“I’ll get on that after dinner, I’ll need one of you to show me where it is on the map. And maybe even drive out to the farmhouse so I can see it. I brought some equipment and I can have Franco send more. It’ll take a day to get here. But it’s possible.”Sebastiano tells us.
“Then let’s start there. We can all take a drive past the farmhouse and the facility we found. That way you can see the area.”
Our appetizers and drinks get delivered and I watch the waitress and the ones bringing the food stare at the guys on our table.
The waitress keeps smiling at Apollo and it’s starting to annoy me.
I never thought I was a jealous person, but now I’m pretty sure I am.
I don’t like this woman eye fucking my Apollo.
I feel him squeeze my hand, I look at him and he kisses me.
It’s like he can read my mind. I’m not sure I like that either.
“Can I get you anything else?” the twat asks as she leans in closer to Apollo, her boobs are right in his face.
He backs away from her. “No. But if you could please back up. You’re in my personal space, there’s only one woman who can do that and it’s not you.”
Calliope snorts as the waitress frowns at Apollo.
“I’d like to speak to your manager.” Zeus says to her.
“W-whatever it is, I can take care of it.”
It’s amusing how she’s trying to save herself now. I mean Apollo wasn’t hiding holding my hand and kissing me and yet she tried shoving her boobs in his face. What the fuck is wrong with some people.
“No, I think I’d like to speak to your manager.” Zeus says.
I can see the panic in the waitresses eyes as she turns and walks away.
A few minutes later, another woman comes over to our table.
She introduces herself as the manager and asks what she can do for us.
Zeus tells her the issue and asks if we could get another waitress.
She says of course and sends over a different waitress.
This one still stares at everyone, but at least she’s not invading anyone’s space. I can live with that.
“So Keegan and I can take Bastian to look at the house and the facility. It kind of looks more like a warehouse. But it does have a fence around it. And there is more than one building. Last night we drove by it again after it was dark and there are lights inside one building, but not the other two.” Armando says.
“We also saw people walking inside and they had guards outside. We can count them again tonight. Last night I counted five.” Romano adds.
“I wonder if they have the same amount of guards day and night? We need at least a day of watching the place non-stop.” Keegan says.
“I agree. We can start tonight. I want six of you going. I don’t care who, but six.
Just in case something comes up. And I don’t want any of you going in.
There should be three on the farmhouse and three on the facility.
We’ll rotate every seven hours so we can all get some sleep.
This way, hopefully we can get in there in two days. ”
“I’ll have Franco helping so we should be able to get the plans for this place.” Sebastiano says as he starts texting Francesco. “He said as soon as I get the exact location, he’ll find the plans so we can get inside.”
“Okay, let’s get back to the hotel and figure out who’s going and the rest of us need to get some rest. These next few days are going to go by fast and I want to make sure we’re ready for whatever happens.”
I see the waitress from earlier as we’re walking out. She’s glaring at us and I see her flip us off. Such a sad little twat.
Apollo
Dinner was definitely interesting, I’ve had women flirt with me before.
But it was weird this time because I made it known that I was with Seraphina.
But I guess things like this will always happen.
And I know when it happens to Seraphina, I probably won’t be as nice as she was.
In fact it annoys me now and nothing’s happened yet. Dammit.
We make a schedule of who’s going to do the stake outs and for how long.
My baba doesn’t want anyone to be alone, not even here in the hotel.
He said if these assholes can take a family of seven, they can definitely take one or two of us at a time.
Situations like this make me appreciate being back home in Lake Renegade.
We don’t have to worry as much. When there is a threat to the family, we can lock down the property and keep everyone safe.
Which also frees up more of us to get the work done.
This situation is harder because we don’t have the option of adding more family to help us do the surveillance.
And then when it’s time to get into the building.
Sebastiano, Eros, Keegan, Armando, Calliope and Kostas take the first shift.
The rest of us relax and try to get some sleep.
We have 5 rooms and they’re all on the same side of the hotel and connected by internal doors.
I didn’t think I was really tired, but the next thing I know, my baba is waking us up.
“Is everything okay?” I ask as we both sit up.
“Sebastiano’s back and he wants to update us. He thinks we can plan to get into the facility tomorrow.”
Seraphina and I get up and follow my baba into one of the other rooms.
“First of all, I need to say that I saw Matilda and Paul at the farmhouse. I don’t know if they saw all of you when you took the clothes off the line, but they do live there.
I had Franco look up that house to see who owns it.
It looks like it’s a rental, unless it’s under someone connected to Omni BioCorp. ”
“Do we know the layout of the house and the facility?” I ask.
“We have the layout of the house from the listing we found. But the facility is taking a little more time. We’re hoping to find at least some kind of layout. The only problem is that they could’ve done renovations and we won’t know. So we’ll still have to be careful when we get inside.”
“Are we hitting the farmhouse first?” I ask.
“Since we know that layout, I’d say yes. But I worry that if we do that without doing the facility, they could hurt any shifters they have there. Or destroy anything experiments. So I’d rather hit both at the same time and we have enough of us to do it.” Baba answers.
“I’m just waiting on Franco. The internet here at the hotel isn’t as good as back home. So he’s looking for the blueprints of the facility. When they took you for the experiments, was it at different times? Or do you think there was a schedule to it?”
“There wasn’t a clock in the apartment. And no windows either so we never truly knew what time it was. But it felt like they had a schedule. After every meal, they took us to milk us. It was always our parents and the twins. And then the three of us.” Seraphina answers.
“We used that as our schedule to figure out when to sleep. My dad slept in the living room with Oliver. He said that way he’d know if anyone came in while we slept.”
“Did they do anything else to any of you?” my baba asks.
“No. They just wanted our venom. But like we told you, we made sure that they only got the non lethal one.”
“Did you ever hear what they wanted your venom for?” Sebastiano asks.
“There was a couple of them that liked to talk while they milked us. They were trying to make a serum that would make it easy to kill shifters. And they heard that our venom could do that. I don’t know if they realized that it won’t kill them.”
“And you said none of you saw any other shifters, right?”
“Nope, none of us did. I’m the one who smelled others, but never saw them.” Oliver says.
“That’s something we have to be careful of. We don’t want to hurt any other shifters. But they’re going to be scared. So keep that in mind when we go in.” Baba says to us.
“YES!” Sebastiano yells, scaring all of us.
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” Valentino yells back at him.
I chuckle after my heart stops trying to jump out of my chest.
“Franco found the blueprints for the facility. The date is two years ago. So they could’ve done interior renovations.
But I want you all to look at it and see if you can tell where you were or even the route they took you on.
And let’s hope they built it to their own specifications. And that they didn’t change anything.”
We all look at the blueprints on the computer. Seraphina and her brothers are trying to figure out where they were.
“We need to see where the loading dock is. I can trace back from there.” Oliver says.
I lean back on the couch to give them all more room to look at the computer screen.
I make sure I keep physical contact with Seraphina.
I can feel her body getting rigid as they look at the plans.
I can’t imagine how she’s feeling. The memories she must be going through of her parents and the twins.
I’m going to make sure Matilda and Paul pay for all of this.
No one hurts my girl and gets away with it. Never again.