Sinfully in love

Start of torture

(20 hours later)

POV: Jewel

"I told you, the last thing I heard was a scream and struggle then we got disconnected," I said, yet again to Donato was who kept asking me about my last interaction with Hayley.
"Any-"
"For the last time, all she screamed was no. Nothing else that I heard." I said and sighed. "You think that mad man took her? Xavier?" I asked him.

"Who else would want to kidnap an assassin or have enough determination to get inside my property and take her?" He replied, sitting on the table in front of me. "Of course, it is that Bastardo (Bastard)."

"What will we do now?" I asked.
"Don't ask me that question. I don't have any idea..." He seemed hopeless and had a tint of fear in his words.

"I think he hides somewhere within the city and not outside." Hunter came up behind him.
"Why do you think that?"
"Trackers are picking up no digital activity from that email sender. That account is not going active in the outskirts. " Hunter replied to Donato.

"How do we scan the whole New York? That would take up so much time, who knows how she is being kept?" I said.
"That's what I am saying. We need to narrow our field of search. We need to find something related to the location they took her to." Hunter said.

"Did Hayley record her calls?" Hunter suddenly asked me.
"What?" I replied.
"Did she have a habit of recording her calls?" He asked yet again.
"I don't think she did that often," I replied.

"She didn't have that habit. Phone recordings wouldn't help us anyway." Donato said. "If we are to take into account Jewel's last call with her, the phone didn't record much of the struggle even if it was recording." He said.

"What about the email? What IP location did it have?"
"Aaron said it would take time to decode it. It's encrypted." Donato said to Hunter.
"You guys talk...I'll go upstairs..." I said and went out and upstairs.

POV: Donato.

"You read the email right?"
"I didn't...I didn't have the heart for that." I said to Hunter.
"Read it, Donato. It talked about 'taking the brunette apple from the garden.' What does that refer to?" Hunter said.

"The fuck are you saying? Apples aren't brunette." I said.
"Hayley's hair color is and she was taken from the garden." My mind clinked as Hunter said out his words.
"Are you onto something?" I asked, sitting on the couch.

"They planned it. Xavier and the person who kidnapped her."
"I think that was apparent."
"We should examine that email. We should just dig up the place it came from once we have it." Hunter replied.

I nodded and opened the email copy on my phone. "I have eyes on the fruit, it often lays in the garden. I will pluck it as you wanted me to and will bring it to you. Keep my pay ready as I pluck the brunette apple from the garden, leaving her savior in grief." I read it out loud.

"He is hired...whoever kidnapped her," Hunter said.
"The kidnapper will meet up with either Xavier or someone to collect his pay."
"We need to act quick. We can't let the kidnapper disappear from the grid." I listened to Hunter.

" 'It often lays in the garden' ...What does that mean?" Hunter asked.
"It refers to her I think...She used to go out to the garden almost every day..." I said. "It has to be someone from the gang, Hunter...no one else can have enough resources and insight on my guards' placement and her routine," I said.

"I'll gather the guards that were around your house..." He said and walked out of the room.

POV: Hayley