Blind Case (Completed ✔️)

Chapter Twenty-six

We rung the bell again and the same man opened the door. We smiled at him and he looked at us warily.

"What may I do for you?" He asked.

"We are house inspectors." I replied and brought out a book and a pen.

"House inspectors?" He asked looking between Hayden and I.

"Why yes my good sir. We inspect houses and ensure they are clean and all." Hayden said mimicking a British accent.

"Okay?" The man looked at our dressing and back at our faces and we smiled again. He frowned a bit. "There's no need to inspect my house. It's neat. Thank you."

"Wait! We are the ones meant to say that not you. We work for the government." I said.

"Then show me your ID." He countered.

So, upon the overalls and boots and face cap and nosecovers we both used so he won't recognise us and we'd look like real house inspectors... If there's anything like that... He's still asking for an ID. This man as really gone mad.

"ID? You want our ID sir?" Hayden laughed and tapped me and I joined him in laughing too. "He wants our ID." He said to me.

After laughing and mimicking him for a while, we stopped and found him frowning.

"Oh! Are you serious?" Hayden asked.

"Yes." The man replied.

"Uh!" We both rubbed our temples.

"So funny story, we are really government agents but we haven't been given our ID yet so all we are gonna do is inspect your house and leave." I said and the look on his face was really disappointing. "You are not buying it, are you?"

"Not one bit." He replied.

We sighed.

"Okay mister, we are FBI agents and we have some questions to ask Amelia's dad so don't waste our time and here's our ID." Hayden said and stretched out his ID card.

What did he just do?!

He just blew your cover, dummy.

I know that! I meant why?

Ask him.

Just shut up brain!

I slowly took out my ID and showed the man.

"Come in." The man said and opened the door wider for us.

Seriously? That's all we had to do?

Dammit!

The man closed the door behind us and I looked around the house.

"Your house is nice." I said truthfully.

"Nice but empty." He replied and we faced him. "I'm the only one living here." He said.

"Really? Where's Amelia's dad?" Hayden asked.

"I am Amelia's dad." The man replied.

"Really?" We asked.

He smiled. "Yeah." He said and we walked into the parlour. He gestured for us to have our seat and we did. "What can I offer you? Tea?"

"No. I'm good." Hayden replied.

"I...I'll just take water." I said not wanting to turn him down as well.

"I'll be right back." The man said and walked away.

"Whoa! Amelia's dad is really old." I said.

"I wasn't expecting him to be this old. I'm sure he'd be in his fifties."

"I guess so."

"Here's the water." The man said and walked in with a tray. He dropped it on the table and took a mug while I took the glass of water.

"Thank you." I said and he nodded.

"Why are you guys here anyway? And how do you know Amelia?" He asked.

"Firstly, why do you live here all alone?" Hayden asked.

"Why I live here alone." He smiled and sighed. "Raquel and I separated three months after our wedding. I had accused her of cheating and even I found out she was pregnant, I rejected the baby. I threw her out only to find out she wasn't really cheating and I searched for her. I tried my best to find her but I couldn't. So I lost all hope on finding her again."

"Oh. That's... Sad." I replied.

"It is, isn't it? I really loved her and I was deeply hurt when I was told she was cheating and all the pictures I saw proved that too. But that doesn't really matter. Why are you guys here?"

"Amelia has been kidnapped." Hayden said.

"Kidnapped?! Why... What... How?!" He asked in shock.

"Because of a diamond." I replied on Hayden's behalf. "We came to find out if you were maybe kidnapped recently."

"Which diamond? And why would I be kidnapped?" He asked.

"Have you perhaps noticed anything strange? Like someone is tracing your every move?" Hayden asked.

"Nope." The man replied. "What do I have to do with any of this? Just safe my daughter okay?"

"We will." Hayden said and we stood up. "We should leave now."

"And sir, inform us if you have any news or notice anything strange going on around you." I added.

"I will. Let me see you to the door." He said. We exchanged numbers and he walked us to the door.

"Alright bye now." I said with a smile.

"Bye." He replied. Hayden just waved and the man closed the door.

"So we didn't get anything from this visit. Instead, we just got the poor man worried." Hayden said with a frown.

"Do you really think that man is Amelia's dad?" I asked.

"Honestly, I don't believe it. He looks too old to be her dad but what can we do? I mean, we didn't even know he was alive not to speak of seeing him before."

"Something is definitely not right. Thomas didn't give us all the details on this case. We just keep on discovering new things everyday all by ourselves." I said.

"Wait... You don't think Thomas sent us on a suicide mission, do you?" He looked at me questioningly.

"I don't know." I said hit my hands together.

"But he's your friend. I don't think he'd want you dead."

"No one can be trusted in cases like this Hayden. Or haven't you noticed that since we got here, Thomas hasn't called us to ask about how the case going and we haven't been getting information plus we are the ones uncovering some things we should we have known since the beginning of the case by ourselves. To top it all, we haven't been able to get through to Ashton that's meant to help us with searching for things. Doesn't all these affect you?" I asked.

"I know they all link up somehow but what I don't understand is why we'll be sent on a suicide mission. That doesn't make any sense."

I faceplamed myself. "It might not exactly mean a suicide mission, dummy."

"You know what? Let's figure out where Amelia is first."

"Okay then." I said and got on his bike. This case was becoming harder to solve especially with Amelia now missing and her supposed dad now found. I do know Amelia was kidnapped by the same people that killed her mum mainly because of the diamond but...

Wait! Amelia isn't wearing the diamond anymore...

"Shit! We need to get to the hotel and fast!" I shouted.

"But why?" Hayden asked.

"Just drive and don't ask any questions! I'll explain once we get there."

"Okay. Hold on tight." He said and I obeyed. He sped up.