Ad Astra Per Aspera

Chapter 12

"What is love if not an obsession."

Enzo's POV

Where is she?

It's been fucking weeks since her kidnapping. Is she even alive?

I tried looking for her. Selene tried tracking her. Rio tortured people to find any information but nothing. It's like she vanished.

Selene even connected to satellites for facial recognition and nothing. Absolutely nothing. Like she isn't even on fucking Earth.

Part of me was actually considering that they might have a station in the space, but that sounds too much. Plus how am I supposed to get there anyways. Go to NASA and say 'hey, someone kidnapped my girl and she might be somewhere in space, mind giving me a lift there?'.

Doubt that will work.

And I don't even know if she is my girl. We have one hell of the connection, I know she felt it too. But I also know that right now she wants to kill me, but she also wants to kill pretty much everyone, maybe it's her love language. And the fact that I'm stuck at this stupid safe house is making everything worse.

"Enzo!" Mira screamed. She has been screaming a lot lately.

"What?"

"I called your name like four times."

"Sorry, I'm just thinking."

"Is your thinking going to help get us out from here or get my sister back?"

Her fucking attitude. Makes me want to kill her. The only thing that's stopping me is that she means a lot to Astra. So I just give her a look.

"Stop giving me that fucking look."

"I dont know what you are talking about. Any news?"

"No news about Akela or Astra. And we are like fucking sitting ducks in here."

"I'm trying to figure something out."

"Well try fucking harder, because you and I both know, if my sister was here, she would have figured all this shit out." Ouch.

I give her another mean look, "Any news from Demarco?"

"No. Except for him saying that he is about to shoot someone, most likely Selene." I start laughing at that. If Demarco is losing his shit that's how you know its getting bad.

"Hey I found something." Rio said walking in.

"What?"

"A crew on the border patrol ship said that they found a girl in the middle of the ocean on the boat that was destroyed by the storm, and when they got in the port she managed to escape from the locked room and knock a few of them out. And her description is spot on."

"Astra." Mira said.

"We don't know that yet. It could have been anyone."

"A girl survived in the ocean during the storm and then escaped a whole crew of cops. Yeah, definitely not Astra. She has this weird ability of surviving against all odds."

"You might be overestimating your sister." Rio comments clearly choosing violence.

"Suck my dick, Rio!"

"You don't have one!"

"Wanna bet?"

"I don't feel as confident anymore. Are you in the closet?"

"No, I'm in the office."

"You know what I mean."

"I don't think I do."