The Eye Witness

Chapter - 4

Serkan made his proposal to Fikret bey, "One of the women, Fifi Yildrim has indicated that she will relocate to Greece for a short time. The blonde Ceren Basar is not on the list of potential witnesses so she will return to work. It is the other two, Melo Yucel, who is not the witness and Eda Yildiz, who is, who are my concern. With your approval I would like to move them to my mother's. You know her home is a fortress. If I can get them to agree to relocate the temporarily, I think that they would be safe there."

"And you think that you can get your mother to agree? You think that you can get the women to agree?"

Serkan shrugged his frustration, "We don't have a lot of options sir. I have to try."

"You have my blessing, just keep me in the loop as to what you end up doing."

Serkan stepped into his office to call his mother, "Anne, good afternoon."

"My dear, how are you?"

"Good, good. I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind having a couple of house guests for a bit. Two young ladies in need of safe haven. I can explain later."

"If you feel they need to be here then you don't need to explain. They are welcome here as long as they need to be here. Come when you are ready."

"Thank you Anne."

Serkan walked back towards the conference room, he wondered how this conversation was going to go. He knew that Fifi and Ceren were set, now to get Eda and Melo on board with the plan. As Serkan neared the conference room he noticed the men hanging around the doorway.

"Can I help you?" he asked.

"We hear there are models in there, we just wanted to get a look."

Oh they would get a look all right, Serkan opened the door slightly and made a hand gesture to Sirius. The growl emanating from the room had the men on the other side of the door scattering. Good boy he thought, good boy. Eda wondered what had caused Sirius to stand up and growl like that but he quieted almost immediately, he must have heard something. He was such a good boy.

Serkan knocked on the door before letting himself back into the conference room, "Thank you for doing the photos Eda hanim. Ummm," Serkan was uncharacteristically nervous about this next part.

"Detective Sezgin has already spoken with Fifi hanim about the need for protection and she has agreed that she will be joining her family in Greece for the next few weeks until we can locate the suspect in the murder."

Melo and Eda looked at Fifi who just nodded.

"Melo hanim and Eda hanim, we would like to offer you a secure location and protection as well. I know that you both have lives to live but our concern is keeping you safe. We will do everything that we can to keep you safe." Serkan could feel himself starting to ramble but this was important, so important.

Melo and Eda looked at each other, they had already known that this was coming, Fifi and Ceren had given them a heads up. The two women agreed between themselves that they would try for a short period of time if this was offered. Melo had the stipulation that she be allowed to work, Eda had the stipulation that her painting supplies be brought wherever she stayed.

Eda let Serkan off the hook, sort of, "Detective Bolat."

Serkan was a bit disappointed when Eda called him Detective Bolat, she had never called him that before, he had always been Serkan bey or Serkan when she slipped.

"Melo and I will agree to your offer of protection at least for one week. However Melo will need to be allowed to work, She would need protection assigned to her so that she can manage her job." Serkan agreed to this, "I will need all my painting supplies and canvases brought from my studio. We will of course need clothes and things like that."