Uncaging Bunny/LT Fanfiction

Chapter 31 - Where is Larry?!?

A couple thousand miles away on the same Sunday afternoon, Manny Sandoval was sitting in the chair at his big home office desk, confused and seething. His lips were firmly pursed. A vein prominently protruded at the side of his neck, and the smooth tan of his skin now had a russet red tinge to it. To say he was angry would be an understatement.

His mind was racing with all manner of possible theories of what has happened. Who took Larry and Sofia?! Who even knew they were here?  Why were they taken? When is the ransom call coming? Is this even a kidnapping for ransom...or is it a challenge to his empire by some rival trying to get his attention or take what was his?

He looked down again at his desk, his features contorted in seething rage. The drawer to the desk had been busted open. Larry and Sofia's passports were missing. How did they, whoever they were, know where to find the passports? He had a safe full of cash, yet nothing else in his office had been touched. How did they know where to look? And why not take the cash. That would have made more sense to him.

These and so many other questions churned around in Manny's head. Who would dare come into his home like this and take what was his? "Dammit!"  Manny's beefy fists pounded his desk for emphasis.  Manny continued to sit where he'd been sitting now for close to half an hour, thinking, hypothesizing...fuming.  He was frustrated. Nothing made sense.  Other than his cell phone, nothing else worked. He had no electricity. If nothing was done, soon he'd be sitting in a darken house.

"Diego!" Manny called out for his loyal henchman.

"Si, Manny?"

"Where are you?! What's taking so long?!"

"I'm here, Manny," Diego said as he stuck his head through the door of Manny's office. "It's Sunday.  They're—"

"I don't care what day it is! Did you let them know it's me?"

"Si," Diego said. "They're on their way. They had to call people in on their day off."

"And what did you tell 'em?"

"I just told them there was a break-in, just like you told me to tell 'em."

Manny sighed. "Good. No one needs to know anything more. Not until I know what this is."

"Manny, there's something you need to see."

"What is it?"

"It's downstairs, out by the patio."

Manny blew out a rough breath. He got up from his desk and followed Diego down the stairs and out through the sliders that led to the patio. Manny stopped, looking at the perfect circle that had been cut over the handle to the slider. This is where they'd entered, he surmised, his jaw tightening so hard it hurt.

Manny continued following Diego to the side of the house. "Here," Diego said, pointing to an electrical box. The lock on the metal door of the box had been cut and was open revealing three cut wires for the electrical system, which included the alarm system, and the backup. This was indeed a professional job, he determined.  No doubt about it now. "Fuck!" And they used glass cutters. They came prepared.  But how?  Why? 

"Call them again, Diego. I want them all here...now! Get them over here!  I want the electrician and the glass company here. I want the locksmith and the security system company. If they ask, tell 'em it's an emergency, and remind them who's calling. Get them all here now, today!"

"Okay, Manny, okay." As large in stature as Diego was, even he recoiled from Manny's considerable verbal wrath.

Manny stormed back inside the house, spewing graphic expletives as he went along heading back up to his office.