Anna || HS

Anna 2- CHAPTER 22

*** A/N: This chapter was originally one LONG chapter, but I had to split it up when we got to 8,000 words and I was still writing. Here is part 1. I am hoping to have part 2 finished tomorrow!

Halloween to November 18th, 2017~

Harry- 23
Anna- 23 (34+ weeks pregnant)
August- 1 YEAR OLD!!!

Harry POV:

------Reminder from the end of Chapter 21------

"It looks like a gift, but I don't know a Patrick do you?" I offer as he starts to tear the brown paper it is wrapped in. He shakes his head, but Harry knows lots of random people, and even more random people send him gifts. So, I push the thought to the back of my mind as he tears more of the paper. Then, I see the black lines that form into a butterfly peeking out from under what he has uncovered.

My look of shock causes him to turn the artwork around and his face goes white like mine. I instantly get up to go and find August and Viv, as I hear Harry yell, "Paul you need to get up here, now!"

"What is it?" Paul asks, Viv and August now standing in the doorway with Tony coming right after them.

"Someone left the Picasso in the nursery. Someone named Patrick."

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Tony and Mark are both in a state of semi-calm panic. Tony gathers everyone on the property, meaning Anna, Viv, August and myself in our master bedroom, leaving Mark to stay with us as he makes a sweep of the rest of the property. Meanwhile, phone calls are fielding between Tony, Mark and who I assume are the other members of our behind-the-scenes security team. At some point, the police are also brought in, quietly, because there is an ongoing case open from the previous break-ins at our other London house. A house that we have since sold.

Anna and I haven't said a word to each other since Tony got involved with the mystery gift and we were relegated to the bedroom, instead both focusing on August. You can tell from Tony's level of stoic professionalism (that only comes out when he is 'in the zone') that this is a big deal. Probably a much bigger deal than even I understand in the moment. The fact that someone was able to find the property, possibly breach the neighborhood and the property gates, and bi-pass our security system, has him on high alert. I guess rightfully so.

Anna doesn't know about all of his extensive weapons training, which most of the other team members do not have, or at least not to his level. He was hired after Anna got pregnant. The terrifying reality that children are often the target of people who may try to hurt me by getting to them is not something that I was willing to risk. It was also something I knew I couldn't tell Anna in the same words it was told to me. So, we just brought Tony on as a 'new member of the team' with no other explanation, even though I knew why. Hence why I always try to send him with Anna whenever possible.

About an hour after discovering the painting, police are peppered throughout our until-now private residence in London. I am praying to all things holy that our new address being added to the police database doesn't get out to the general public, but I fear that it will. The worst part of it all, our daughters nursery has become an active crime scene. Three people are dusting things for fingerprints and taking photographs of the special space we created to bring her home to. Once again tainting the space we built for the littlest of our loves. What the actual fuck.

One of the detectives brings us away from the scene and to the kitchen table for some questioning. After explaining how we found the painting, and that we do not have any idea who Patrick is, he tells us his thoughts on the situation based on what they know. "It was likely done when nobody was here. This 'Patrick' person seems to know that you were not on at the property, knowing your tour schedule. If they have been watching you, which we know they have, then they know your family now has a  one-on-one security team at this point, making it very unattractive to approach you, or your family, directly. But, this indirect approach is something to be concerned with because until now, this was an unknown property."