"Don't be ridiculous Aliya what do you mean you don't care and how's that even of any help".
"Yeah Aliya how's them having footage have anything to do with us?" Sofia piped her question from the backseat with nose scrunched up.
"You girls don't get it,they having CCTV facing the road or capturing it means we can see the killer's vehicle and the plate number to track him down simple" Aliya said with a gesture emphasising the simple logic.
"Look at the road that meet up with this one Aliya,how sure are you he's like the only one that passed around that time?" Amanda asked with a raised brow as if challenging Aliya's theory.
"We'll follow the lead of all the cars that passed to know their owners or the rented place" Aliya said matching Amanda's challenging gaze.
Amanda sigh giving into Aliya's demand and it isn't like she can win a match against the stubborn curly haired lady who's as stubborn as the word was defined in the dictionary.
"Yeah we can try it" Sofia also encouraged sticking her tongue childishly at Amanda through the mirror.
Aliya turned the car around and drove to the route that lead to the mansion on the hill.
She stopped when the securities at the gate stopped their car and approach the driver's window.
Aliya slides down the window glass as the taller security guard stand to her window.
"Who are you and what do you want?" He asked in a gruffy voice staring at her.
"Am Aliya Sultan Malik and I wanna see the owner of the mansion" she stated with an equally heated gaze, one with no yield.
"I'll be back in a minutes"he finally said after what felt like minutes and left.
Few minutes after he went in he came back and motioned them in as the grey gate open up showing the mansion hidden behind it which is also grey in color designed with the gravel of the same hill rocks.
A flower fountain adorn the middle of the residence and the sides of the building enveloping the air with blissful scent from the flowers.
They got out of the car after parking and the same guard led them into the house and stopped after they were inside the living room returning to his post and leaving them with the lady of the house.
"Good evening" the elder woman who looks to be in her late forties greeted them as they stood in the middle of the living room staring at her with an anxious smile and body language while Amanda only rolled her eyes at Aliya's standing figure mentally.
"Good evening ma'am, am sorry for the interruption of your time and..."
"It okay young lady take a seat please" she motioned them to the blue soft looking sofas in the room with a soft kind smile on her face.
"I heard that you're Sultan's daughter" Aliya nodded at her with a small smile.
"Am 'Fareeha Zanwar', 'Mr. Fawaz Rasheed's wife and...am sorry about your loss"
"It okay Thanks and do you know my father?"
"He's a business man so...that's how I knew him"
"Oh!. I'm actually here for you to do me a favour" Aliya stated and she watched as the woman's face furrow in confusion and she quickly added.
"I know you actually don't know me and it isn't like you must but I really need this from you..."
"It's okay say it if I see I can help you then I will".
"Do you have a CCTV camera that's facing the highway?".
"Yes we do"
"Thanks God...I wanna check a certain footage of the date of the murder to see if I can find the killer's car or any vehicle that will help?".
"Oh!" The older woman exclaim quietly in thought before she nodded.
"Sure why not, let go I'll take you there".
Mrs. Fareeha got up and led them outside to another building entering the security room where they could access the CCTV camera's footage.
"Good evening ma'am, how may I help you?" A short chubby man asked as soon as Mrs. Fareeha entered the room with the ladies behind her and Aliya next to her.
"Evening Mr. Rox. I actually want you to help Aliya with a certain footage of the highway" she said gesturing to the curly haired lady beside her staring at the screens in the room.
He gestured them to the seats and they sat down with Aliya beside him eyes focused on the screen footages.
"What date..."
"18th of February from 2:00am to 4:00am or 5:00am" she answered before he could finish his question.
"Why from 2:00am?" Sofia asked Aliya whose attention was etched on the screen.
"Rayyan told me he did patrol of the whole mansion around 1:00am and everything was alright" She answered her without taking her eyes off the screen.
The security guard Rox as called by Fareeha searched the footage and played it,the group watch the blank and empty boulevard on the screen for about 5minutes before a black Camry Corolla car passed by the road up ahead.
"Stop it and zoom the car's plate number to view, am gonna take it down" Aliya gestured to the car on the screen as Rox zoomed and cleared it before she wrote it down on a small book with her.
"It's APC 213" Rox called out as Aliya wrote it down and they waited,watching the footage as the clock tick by.
Thirty minutes after the first car,another car passed with a plate number of "B221AC" and Aliya wrote it down as the second suspicious car. They waited to see the return of any of the cars,two hours passed before another car drove in return but not one of the cars that first passed,still Aliya wrote the two cars down.
"APD-201"
"GHO-841"
Twenty minutes passed again and around 5:20am the car with the plate number "B221AC " returned and passed at a high speed and Aliya's anxious hand marked it as a returned and suspected car.
"I think this is it, it's the killer's car" Amanda said getting up from her seat.
"Yeah Aliya we got it so let go home am hungry and tired I really wanna eat and sleep all the stress off".
"No Com'n we should wait maybe there's something more" Aliya argued.
"What again, we've got the killer's car Aliya and tomorrow we will check it out since we've got a lead".
"Look it's the first car!".
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