The Last Agosti ✔

~* 13 *~

 A few hours ago

A meeting on the new developed firearm technology was put on hold when Diego could not catch a word said by the person from the other line. Multiple voices spoke at a time, Diego walked out of the meeting room and answered the call again. 

"Hello" he heard double voice again, Diego took off the phone from his ear to check if it's still good. 

"Hello? Hello?" double voice again.

"Shut up kids. You are in a conference call. There is Ella on one line and Diego on the other." boomed Thomas as he tried to control the too many 'hellos'.

"Oh okay" both muttered and kept quiet allowing the old man to speak. 

"I called you both to inform that I have found one of the girls Demetrio had been sponsoring for long time" 

"How?" Diego asked, surprised. 

"Well I used my ex-job position as a way to get information from the police officer who dealt with Demetrio's case. Unfortunately, by the time he could extract more information from his system, he had to leave for some other case." Thomas explained. 

"Who is the girl,  Thomas?" Ella asked this time. 

"Her name is Mia Boni, age 22, lives in San Nicola a Nilo Orphanage" Thomas read out the information in his hand. "Do you guys want to meet her?"

"Yes" Ella replied immediately

"Yes, of course. Maybe after work I'm in a meeting actually"

"Alright, six in the evening we will leave to San Nicola a Nilo"

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The flash news of Mia Boni's murder that have been doing the stir in all news channels kept running behind her mind. Ella couldn't shut her mind from the constant guilt hovering her. "If we had gone earlier today, we could have saved her" tears rolled down her cheeks. 

Ella was now seated in the back seat of Diego's car with Diego behind the wheels and Thomas in the front passenger seat, heading to the spot where Mia Boni was found dead. The news had hit all of them like a massive earthquake, they just couldn't handle it.  

That very morning Thomas informed them about her and now the news of Mia Boni is dead did not make sense at all. How? Was it coincident that the time Thomas found out about Mia Boni and the murder happened in the same time or was it all planned?

Diego had been constantly checking on the Ella through the rear-view mirror who's silently sobbing right from the time they picked her up from her office. The strong woman Diego knew for so long, now mourning for someone's death whom she doesn't even know. Sometimes Ella just stuns him with her actions.

"What are we doing here?" Ella's soft voice came from the back seat right after the car came to a halt.

"Thomas wanted to check on the location where the murder happened" Diego said as his eyes followed Thomas inspecting the area marked with the yellow-black caution barricade tape. 

Walking to Ella's side, Diego helped her out of the car. "This is going to be long" he said knowing that Thomas's inspection might take more time that he told. Both stood silently watching Thomas working the best out of his former job position to extract more information about the murder from the on-duty police officers.

"What can Thomas possibly find in here?" Ella asked wiping the tears off her face. 

"The first hand information"