The Eye Witness

Chapter - 27

Almost to the end of this little adventure - Hope that you are enjoying it! Your comments are always welcome!

If I write something else it might have to be fluffy. . . . .

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Eda and Serkan were drinking their coffee when Engin arrived with Efe, Leyla and Kaan.

"Did Sarachan show up?" asked Serkan.

"Yeah, he's talking to Fikret bey now. Dumbass. Apparently Selin has been using him for the past six months or so to keep tabs on you. He's the one that has been following you and I around. That was why he freaked out last week when you were in Antalya, he didn't know where you were."

"So do we stay here? Do we head out to my parents? We have the guards there, I wouldn't say no to more manpower if you guys could come. If things went sideways there's always the saferoom, that thing is built to take an explosion, I can stash Eda, my parents, Melo, hell all of us in there. Draw them out."

Engin scratched his head, "It's hard not knowing what we're up against. Deniz swore that he wasn't kept in the loop on any of their business plans, he said that he and Selin never talked about business. He did say that she talked about you a lot. How about we get out of here first and figure it out when we get to your place."

Leyla had been scrolling through her phone while they were talking, "Uh guys, I think that they're going to know pretty soon who Eda is and where she lives. We should get out of here now." She held up her phone showing a gossip site that had some of their modeling photos. The caption read that the elusive Serkan Bolat had finally been captured by Eda Yildiz, artist and high fashion model. Well, they weren't wrong Serkan thought.

"Crap. Let's go. Engin, can you drive? I'll ride with Eda in the back. Efe, you drive with Kaan and Leyla in the back, we'll head out to my parents. Efe, I hate to ask it but can you take my car? It will put more of a target on you but Engin and I will be right behind you. All three of you are armed and wearing vests right? Do we have an extra one for Eda?" Engin handed him the two that he brought for them.

Serkan turned to Eda, "Honey, it's going to be okay."

"I trust you. Let's do this and get it over with." Serkan helped her on with the bulletproof vest before he put his own on.

Eda handed Leyla a hat and sunglasses, "Here, I'll wear them too. If we both pull our hair back no one will know. Kaan, you wear sunglasses too. If they don't look to close you can pass for Serkan."

Kaan laughed, "Gee thanks Eda, that's real nice of you to say."

Leyla looked at Eda, "We're going to take care of you, you know that, right? It's what we do." Eda just smiled at her and hugged her tight, trying to hold the tears back. These people were all so special.

She placed the ballcap on Leyla's head with the sunglasses, and gave her some gloss for her lips, turning her to the mirror she said, "See Leyla, we look like twins now. Okay, we're ready."

Efe took the lead, then Leyla followed by Kaan and Engin, Eda went next with Serkan bringing up the rear and locking her apartment. Serkan was thankful that he had Engin park in the garage so that they didn't have to hit the streets just yet. They split into the cars and followed closely out to the street.

Paparazzi was waiting at Eda's front door and at the garage entrance. The camera flashes temporarily blinded both Efe and Engin but they were able to pull into traffic. Efe turned left and Engin turned right, they met up a couple of blocks later without a tail that they could see. Both Serkan and Kaan were watching for tails.