The bad boy and me

A strange letter

River's POV
I had finally fallen asleep when the sound of my phone going off woke me up. It's been really hard to sleep knowing that Cove is so far away from me.

With a small groan, I opened my eyes and clicked on the notification once I saw it was from Cove. A picture popped up, and it took a few blinks to clear my vision before I saw clearly what it was.

She sent me a picture of a list, it clearly wasn't written by her due to the sloppy handwriting.

As I read the list, chills went up my body and my hands clenched unconsciously. What the fuck.

A chat appeared from Cove and I quickly read it, feeling anger course through my body the more I read.

Whoever this guy is, he must be really stupid to think he'll ever get away with doing this.

Once I asked Cove to try and sleep, I got up and opened my computer. I then spent some time composing an email with everything I know about Xander with the instruction to find out more about him, then sent it over to my tech guy.

It should take him at the most an hour to get back to me with valuable information. He's really good at finding things, he taught himself ways around the dark web a few years ago, and now works for me.

I stared at the ceiling blankly for the next 50 minutes, willing myself not to fall back asleep. I won't rest until I know that Cove is safe and sound.

A ding sounded from my computer, and I quickly saw a new email. When I opened it, a bunch of writing popped up. He's really outdone himself.

Hey boss, this is what I found: Xander Keen Black is his full name. He has one sibling, Luke Lee Black. Here is a link to his Instagram: https://instagram.com/Luke.black_?utm_medium=copy_link.
His mother, Cherry Reem Black (maiden name "Pell") has a recently deactivated Facebook account. Before it was deactivated, I found some of her old posts.

He proceeded with a long list of pictures that had captions at the bottom. I don't know how the hell he even found this.

Here is the interesting part. His father, Alex Deen Black, seems to have had connections with your dad's old business partner. I found an old yearbook photo of Alex and Kai Lopez (the old business partner) together voted as "best friends." Of course, this could all be coincidental, but it leaves the possibility that Alex may have met your dad before. I'll look further into this, but I wanted to give you all of this information now while I dig deeper.

Kai Lopez, I recognize the name. I've heard my Dad talk about him before, they use to work hand in hand. I haven't heard about him recently, though. All I know is that they went their separate ways once their contract ended.

I just don't understand why my dad would have anything to do with Xander's dad Alex. I need to know what Alex does for work, maybe that will give me some answers.

Find more on Alex. I want to know what he does for work, all of his past jobs, where he went to college, and what he majored in. Also, let me know if you find anything or anyone else that connects Alex with my father.

After sending my instructions, I put my computer to charge and got up. It's almost 6 now, I should get my day started.

Once I got downstairs, I saw my dad sitting on the counter drinking coffee. He's leaving today around noon, I can't wait to have the house back to myself. Well, me and Azalea.

"River," dad motioned me over when he saw me enter the kitchen. I sighed quietly and sat on the stool beside him. Silence filled the room as I waited for him to say something.