Undercover

31. Finding Her Alive

Aiden's P.O.V

Sitting on the living room floor with all of my pictures spread out on all sides, I was trying to find the picture that would give me the answer to where she was. I didn't have that many pictures, but there seemed to be so many as I was sitting here among them. I had gotten the call of my mother's death a little over two years ago. I wasn't really expecting to see her again, but I also wasn't expecting it to hurt so much. She was my mother, and even though I hadn't been with her, she was still the woman who had given me life. A part of me would always want her approval. But I knew that her approval was something that I could no longer obtain. So when I was informed that she had put me as the sole heir to her estate, you could understand why it was so hard for me to believe. She didn't have much, but she had kept her most prized possessions. To her, it was the little things, pictures, videos, gifts. All the little stuff. So that's how I had gotten so many of these pictures just sitting around. She had had them all organized, but when I had gone through them, I kind of just put them wherever I could. I was really regretting that decision now.

The phone was sitting on the table next to me, on speaker phone, while I was here searching through a bunch of photographs for the only clue that gave me a definite answer. It was interesting to me, how things worked out sometimes. But I knew that I needed to figure this out now, because Natalia was running out of time. I had already excluded like three stacks of the photographs. But I had half a dozen left.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I was getting desperate. And I knew I was, but I also knew that I had to take my time. Because if I was too desperate going through everything in a rushed manner, I could lose the opportunity to save her. Go with your intuition, I thought to myself. If it was anything that Natalia had taught me, it was to go with my intuition. Time and time again, she taught me that intuition wasn't so useless. So I picked the stack of photographs that was the farthest away from me and started looking through it.

"Finn. I found it. I'm coming back to the station now."

"Alright. We'll be waiting for you here."

I couldn't help but feel a little bit re-energized. It was something that gave me hope and at this point, that was what I needed. I needed to have something to go on, because if not, I was going to lose her forever. I just wanted to see her again, to make sure that she was okay. And if she decided that she never wanted to talk to me again, that was fine. I just needed to see her. I didn't care about anything else. I couldn't let him take someone else that I loved away from me like that.

Once I got to the station, I parked the car and got out. I was basically sprinting at this point. This was the last piece that was needed. We had all the basics but a specific location was the only thing that was missing. If I could get this, I could get her. And that was the only thing that mattered at this point.

I walked through the doors and everyone was waiting for me. Grayson approached me first and asked me for the picture. I didn't have a specific name or location, but I got a picture of it. I didn't know if that was going to be enough but in theory, we had the place. I just needed to figure out a way to actually find the address of this place.

"This is good, Aiden. We might not have the complete coordinates, but if we have a picture, chances are that something like Google maps will have the place. Don't worry. You did a good job. We'll find her."

I nodded to him. I went over to the conference room. Everyone was in there waiting for the go ahead to start the extraction. I walked in and addressed everyone in the room. "I want all of you to be careful. This man is most likely going to be armed and is going to be dangerous. He has a hostage, Natalia Castillo. The mission here is to get her out alive. We want to get Daniels out too, but the most important thing is to get the hostage out alive. Do you understand?"