A Heart Caught In Crime

Chapter 12 - Missing in Action

*** Christians P.O.V.***

I woke up to Natasha not being in the bed with me, she must be at work. I get ready to meet with Detective Parluta, I will get whoever did this to Tasha. I get to the Police Department and head up to the 4th floor.

"Mr. Lovius?"

"Yes, I'm here to see Detective Puralta I believe. I made an appointment yesterday."

"Down the hall, second door on the left."

I get to the Detective's office and I sit down. With a stern look on the detectives face. "Mr. Lovius thank you for seeing me on such short notice." He shifted in his seat. "I have thoroughly reviewed the tapes you have sent over and I believe I have discovered some deeply disturbing evidence and we can build a very good case."

I shifted uncomfortably in the chair unsure of what he would say next. "I'm sure you seen on the tapes that I had nothing to do with the drugged juice."

He gives me a solemn nod. "I'm afraid that it might have stemmed from the issues that had occurred earlier that night."

I looked at him confused and felt a pit in my stomach. "Go on."

"The footage from Thursday morning around 3:30 am shows your former personal assistant, Kayla Hodge, after she had left your office moments prior." Parulta continued, turning his computer around for me to see the clips.

I watched in horror as Kayla was clearly seen retrieving a small glass vile from her pocket and pouring the contents into the glass jar of orange juice in the refrigerator.

"As you know it was fentanyl, as told by Natasha's doctor. What they didn't tell you is that it was an extremally lethal dose of the drug, had she taken more than just a small sip she wouldn't be with us today."

The colour drained from my face, I couldn't imagine going on with out her. "Oh my God, why do you think she would do this? How did she get ahold of the drug its self and why would she try to kill Tasha?"

"That's what we are trying to determine Mr. Lovius." He said, making careful eye contact. "We know that Ms. Hodge was fired from her position recently. Would you like to elaborate on why she was fired? Could she have a particular grudge against you or Ms. Miller?"

As the shock began to set in, I lowered my head into my hands, trying to make since of everything I thought I knew. I proceeded to tell him that I didn't fire Kayla, Natasha did due to the fact of Kayla's obvious flirtation towards me.

"Well that's motivation, and also answers the question of why Ms. Miller and not you. I believe that Kayla may be going after Natasha because she wants you, Mr. Lovius."

I ask about next steps and he said that we could go into witness protection but giving my reputation, my occupation, and since my family and I are very much in the public eye that probably wouldn't work so we had to come up with some better options to keep Tasha safe until this issue is dealt with. We talked for a while before we just had to take a break. I went home to check on Tasha and she was nowhere to be found.

I checked all her usual spots. Starting with her bedroom, I had checked the walk in closet and the bathroom while I was in there. I know she likes to sit out on her balcony and read on her days off to relax. i pull back the curtian to the french doors leading out to her get away and didnt see her. I walk out and up to the banister and look around.

WHACK!

I was hit in the back of the head. I hell over the banister and hit my head on the concrete next to the pool, out cold.

***Enzo's P.O.V.***

I check my watch and its now after noon, I normally get a call or a text from Christian by now. I didnt have plans on going by his house today but I figured I could drop in and see how Tasha is holding up.

I walked up to the front door and rang the bell, waiting a few minutes and nothing. Not even a guard answered the door. I pulled the 1911 I keep on my side and cracked the door. All the lights were off. I rang some of the guards I got at the house and asked them to come cover me while I do a sweep of the house.

I didn't wait for back up, I went into the entry way and turned on the light to my on my gun, I checked everything in the room and spotted a few drops of blood on the floor towards the main hall. I get down and inch towards the rest of the house. Bodies everywhere. I missed the fight.

I go into an immediate panic, holstered my weapon and run upstairs to Christian and Natasha's bedrooms are. I check Christian's room first and then I check Natasha's. Nothing. I know he has cameras all over the I run back down stairs and to the end of the hall and attempt to open the door. Locked.

I kicked it in and checked the cameras. I flip quickly through the cameras and seen Christian's lifeless body lying around back. I don't think I've ever moved so fast in my entire life than when I ran to him. I flipped him over and his face was covered in blood.

I picked him up and went as fast as I could to the truck and put him in the passenger seat, I jumped into the drive and took off to the hospital. Went straight to the ER and ran in. I explain that my son seemed to take a fall before I got to his house and he needed medical attention.

They brought out a gurney and put him on it. I started having a panic attack so they admitted me as well. But I couldn't stop thinking about one thing. Where is Natasha? What happened to her?

A few days later I was discharged and I went to check on Chris, he was on the 5th floor in the ICU. I don't think he was in critical condition, he was in a medical induced coma so his brain can heal from the fall. I wanted to make sure that he was okay before I left.

Leaving the hospital I went straight back to the scene. Everything was just as I had left it. I searched the house for any signs of Tasha and nothing I could see. Some scratch marks on door frames it might be hers but I can't tell for sure.

I go back to the office to check the cameras to see what actually happened to her. I'm watching the cameras back to earlier in the day that I found Christian. Is... is that Phillip? The cameras showed him dragging Tasha out of the house and throwing her in a van. He was smart enough to not allow the cameras to catch the plate, but dumb enough to not know how easy it would be for me to find where he took her.

"I will get her back, Christian, I promise." I say out loud.

"You may not be my boss but I'm behind you 100% Mr. Lovius."

I jumped at the other voice, I look up. It's De Luca. "It will be good to have a familiar face to Natasha on my team and helping me find what's happened to her. And why he took her."

"Christian, he loves her. More than anyone will ever know. I have Matthias covering my other duties after I heard what happened. You have mine and my teams full support, just tell me where to start."