DANGER.....Curves Ahead!!

CHAPTER 21: I Think I Know Him.....

JON

Once we arrived in Venice, we all got a rental car and went to the address that her dad had written out on a piece of paper. 

We pulled up in front of the place. The house was long and narrow, perhaps only twelve feet wide at the front, but it stretched some thirty feet back like a giant shoe box. It was two stories high and had a one story extension at the rear for the kitchen. The wooden framed windows were propped open with sticks and the brick work, looked dirty with over a hundred years of  grime. It looked very unkempt. 

When we all got out, I took hold of Evangeline's hand and everyone else got out and we all started walking up to the door and knocked. 

It didn't take very long before the door opened up and there stood a middle-aged man. His hair, fighting a stubborn rearguard action against baldness, was an indeterminate mousy gray-brown. He reminded me almost like a doctor. 

"May I help you?" He greets us. 

"H-hello. My name is Evangeline Keaton. My father..." But before she could finish telling him anything. 

"Oh my god. Eva? Is it really you?" He asks with a big smile on his face. 

"Yes?" She replied unsure of what he meant. 

He then embraced her in a tight hug.

"My god it's been so long." He tells her before taking a step back to look at her. "You have grown up so much." He smiles. 

"Yeah. I'm sorry, have we met before?" She asks confused. 

"We did but, you were a baby and well, it doesn't matter. I'm a great friend of your dad's and worked with both of your parents." 

"Oh." She smiles. 

"Please, all of you come in." He says while taking a quick look around and the minute we step inside, he locks the door with the ten bolts and locks he has on the inside of the door. 

Which the inside decor looks very rustic and more like the inside of a cabin, yet still really nice. 

"Alright, now that you've all made it here, there isn't much time left." He begins and then looks at me.  "Do you have the flash drive that Mr. Keaton gave you?" He asks. 

"Yes." I reply as I take it out of my pocket. 

"Good, it's best if we all take a look at it, since we're the only ones who are left to help get this to the right hands." He begins. 

"Like the President?" I mention. 

"No. This has nothing to do with him. You'll see." He begins as he starts having us follow him into the living room where there's a big screen TV and he has me give him the flash drive as he plugs it into the USB slot on the side of the TV and he takes out his cordless bluetooth keypad and begins typing in his password to unlock everything. 

"What about the agency?" I ask him. 

"It's gone. That's why we're gonna need your friends here to help us." He says before clicking 'ENTER'. 

"So, are you saying that the future depends on us?" Joseph asks him. 

The man looks at him and rolls his eyes. 

"Yes. If you want to call it that." He says as he tries opening the file. "And just keep in mind everyone, that what you're about to see, are things you can not tell a soul about." He says. Then he opens the folder and suddenly the entire screen becomes flooded with all these documents and pictures of top secret information. It seems exciting to my friends but to me, I'm used to seeing all of this stuff. 

"Who's that?" We hear Evangeline ask when the man clicks on one of the pictures of a man that is older, bald, over weight and has a thick mustache. 

"Who?" I ask her. 

"That guy! The older man in the business suit, about to step inside the car." She points. 

"That's Rudolph Balk. Why?" 

"I've seen him before, when I was little. I think he knew my dad." 

"Are you sure?" The man asks her. 

"Yes. Other than the fact he aged, everything else about him looks the same. That man tried to kidnap me one day when I was fifteen and was walking out from school." She says while fighting back tears. 

We all looked at her in shock but both me and her dad's friend here were looking at her surprised because rather she knows this or not, he's one of the biggest traitor's to his country and seems to be in charge for one of the most successful trafficking businesses there is. How she escaped from that, well, let's just say that she's one of the lucky and rare ones to break free ever. In fact, she has got to be one of the ONLY people we have ever heard to have been able to escape from him. 

Next chapter will be posted soon! :);)