Home is You

Chapter 30

Steffy:

I called Bill, over an hour ago, and he told me to come to his office immediately. I am pacing his office, back and forth, wondering where he is and why he isn't here. Why would he tell me to come here, if he isn't even going to be here?

"Allison," I say peeking outside through the door. "Have you heard from Bill? Where is he?"

"No, I haven't. He did call a little while ago and said he was on his way, and that you would be meeting him here."

"Yeah, I know. I rushed over here, and now I am getting a bit worried."

"Aww, you were worried about me, Steffy?" Bill smirks coming into view.

"No, I am worried about Liam," I reply following him back into his office. "I'm worried if we don't act, we will lose him." I set the laptop that I brought with me down on the small table in his office.

"I know Steffy. I understand. I've been here with you the last year or so. I want to bring him home as much as you do," Bill says sitting back in his chair at his desk,

"What do you have?" I ask, getting through the small talk. "What do you think?"

Bill rubs his chin, "I think it is a very credible lead, and I already have the PI and Justin working on it."

"Good, but that's not enough. How long is that going to take? We can't fiddle our fingers waiting for them to figure every detail out. We could lose him before them. Time is of essence."

"I know Steffy, but right now there is not much we can do but wait."

"Do they even have some kind of plan on what they are going to do? I mean this is a long shot if it's Liam. How do we prove it's him and get to him before he realizes what is going on? Once he realizes it could be game over. He could run and then be gone forever. I am not losing him again. I can't I won't survive this."

"Take it easy, Steffy. This isn't good for you. You've been doing well handling this all the past year, don't let it take you now."

"I wouldn't exactly call it doing well, the past year," I confess. "It's still has been a daily ongoing struggle."

"Still, you don't want to let this consume you. You don't want to make this worse than it already is."

I bite my lip and decide to let go of his comment. "Tell me exactly what the plan is and what the PI and Justin are doing?"

"Well," Bill says leaning back in his chair. "They need to confirm, it's actually him, and then once they confirm, they can fly whatever it is and find him. They will track him a bit to see exactly what he is doing every day, where he lives and hope to find out a reason of why he decided that he needed to leave."

"How do they plan on tracking him?" I ask.

"We are going to see if we can track him through the IP address he is using. That's a start that hopefully we will be able to build on. Hopefully once we know a location of the computer we can narrow it down to where Liam is. Once we know that then we can make a plan."

"I am going when they find out for certain where he is."

"Of course."

"Actually, I change my mind, I am going as soon as they find out the location of the IP address."

"Steffy—we don't even know—"