𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐒✓

thirty-one

ARTEMIO

My eyes wandered over the screen.

My head was throbbing with pain but I was so close to finally getting the answer.

I was finally able to find at least something about Lilith's parents.

My research got me into a deep rabbit hole of missing children.

Nauseousness formed in my stomach at the thought of where those kids might have ended up. Majority of them have never been found.

I pressed on the news of November 2008.

A picture of a small girl appeared. It had to be Lilith. The face was the same, only the scars not being around her eye. She had a bright smile and the photo seemed to be taken in school.

Adeline Salazar.

6 years old girl disappeared without a trace while playing outside of her house.

I opened the article and started to read.

My eyebrows creased together as I continued to read.

There was another child abducted with her. Nine year old boy. There was not a clarification on how the boy ended being taken with Lilith. Maybe he was playing with her?

There was another photo of a boy next to the girl's that was more blurry. The boy was visible but it was hard to make out his features. He had light brown hair and his eyes looked to be dark.

Rafail Kuznetsov.

There was not many informations about him. He lived with his grandparents after his parents died in an accident.

His grandparents also died, two yeas after his abduction. No one was looking for him anymore. It looked like he became a forgotten memory, only his picture in the news a remaining piece of him.

I searched some more to find a contact of Lilith's parents. Adeline Salazar was her real name.

Her parents were alive but have moved away to a different town. The old house was abandoned. It should not be hard to find them.

Many hours passed. My eyes began to sting but I had few more things to do.

There was a couple of new informations on Luke.

I didn't even know if he was still in Brazil or not but I was able to track a photo taken two days ago, in Salvador.

He was on a yacht with a well known Brazilian businessman. The photo was taken from a far but I zoomed as much as I could on Luke.

He had a drink in hand, but he was not laughing like the other men and women around him. It looked like his was tense. Probably knowing that Lucian was looking for him.

He was shirtless and had a black shorts on.

There was a big tattoo on the left side on his stomach.

Some type of bird with the wings transforming into fire.

It was the only ink on his visible skin.

I printed all of the needed documents and saved them on my computer.

I had to also call Lucian and tell him all of the informations I was able to dig.

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