The Eye Witness

Chapter - 25

Since the girls were all together they wanted to take the opportunity to FaceTime Fifi. While they were inside doing that the group outside reverted to talking about their current case.

"We made good progress on the appointment book. I was explaining what I was going to do to Efe and he made a different suggestion. He scanned the pages into software that he had that recognized the names and dates and then gave a count of how many visits the people had and when their first visit was." Leyla was excited with how well the program worked.

"When Leyla said she was going to enter them in manually I cringed at the idea, so I suggested this software, it was a lot quicker. Bedo had freakishly neat handwriting too." They all got a laugh out of that.

Leyla waved that off, "Anyways, Serkan when you and I were talking about how often people got their hair done I thought about it. So I had Efe go back a year. Maybe someone only came every three months or something. I really wanted to be able to isolate this to new people within the past six weeks, and you know what? There are only four. Bedo had a loyal clientele and stays busy."

Serkan and Engin were intrigued by what Leyla was saying, "Do you remember the names? Wait that this a stupid question, of course you do, why else would you tell us this. So?"

Leyla fidgeted a little bit, "Well, this is where it is a bit awkward, one of the names was Fikret bey. I was kind of surprised by that. The other ones were women, Selin Atakan, Yasin Atakoy, and Marin Zaraya. The three women are all wealthy socialites."

Pyril raised her eyebrows at the mention of Selin's name and looked at Serkan. Her encounter with Selin the other day had left a bad taste in her mouth and then Ceren's comments on the woman made Pyril wary of the name.

"Serkan," Pyril said, "Ceren and I had a run-in with Selin the other day. That is one unpleasant woman."

"I can't disagree with you, I left the holding company this morning with her screaming after me. My father sold out of the business yesterday before his accident. I went into the holding this morning to introduce the new shareholder and sign over the shares to him. Let's just say it wasn't pretty. I talked to Sinan Basar, Ceren's father after the meeting, he said it didn't get much better."

"Abi, if I were you, I'd watch your back. I'd take special care to watch Eda too. You know how crazy that woman is."

Pyril agreed with Engin, "Ceren says that Selin thinks she owns you. That she is hyper jealous of any woman that looks at you or she even thinks is interested in you."

"I've never understood it. If we had dated, maybe, but we haven't not once. Engin will tell you about the time I went to a business dinner with her and she put an engagement notice in the papers the next day."

"Ceren told me about it, it would be funny if it wasn't so warped."

Leyla, not even thinking about Serkan telling her not to mention it, "She'll go ballistic when your pictures come out." When he looked at her and she realized what she said her eyes got big and she covered her mouth.

The other four turned to Serkan and said, "Pictures?"

An echoing scream from the house was heard at about the same time, Eda stuck her head out the door looking at Serkan and mouthed 'sorry', she had forgotten that Fifi and Serhat were close friends. Serhat had told Fifi all about Eda's cop boyfriend and the modeling shoot and sent her some of the pictures which Fifi had promptly shared on the call.

"Now Eda, this one in the swimsuit, damn, he is fine, real fine," said Fifi. "I told Serhat that I would just crop you out but he sent me one of him all on his own, look ladies."