The Hunter and The Prey

Getting Closer

Chapter 43

Getting closer 

Chasen took a very confuse Natalie on a shopping trip. The annual White House party is five days away and he wanted to take his wife with him. Therefore a dress that would stand out from the rest of the attendees should be wore by his wife alone. 

"I want you to bring out the best party gowns you have for my wife here," Chasen demanded at the clerks manning the well known store.

The females stared for a minute at him completely mesmerized at his presence and the ten bodyguards behind him. Natalie stood beside him looking out of place.

"Are you deaf or what?" he snapped at them.

They shuffled away in urgency locating the dresses they reserved for few well known people or the usual rich clientèle. Red, blue, white and every color they had were presented at Chasen and Natalie.

"These are the limited collection rack reserved for special clients of us. Ten grand is our maximum price and five grand is our least," the blonde sales lady brief, "the designs were recently presented to the public last week in the fashion show. We have dress from Vera Weng, Versace, Louis Vitton and many other known designers."

"I want you to assist my wife in choosing the perfect gown for her," Chasen told them while presenting Natalie. She was at the moment looking at the high value of the displayed clothes.  "Natalie?" he mumbled softly to catch her attention.

She moved forward to the watching personnel. A brunette girl immediately snatched the red dress and beckoned Natalie to the dressing room. 

"I will wait here and zip you up," the brunette assured, seems eager to sell their pricey clothes today.

"Thanks," Natalie mumbled as she closed the door. The dress was beautiful alright but she was uncomfortable with the backless style.

Sure enough when she was presented in front of Chasen, the man growled and snapped at the women to find something that doesn't displayed his wife's back from other men. The bodyguards surrounding him chuckled at his outburst.

"Your husband is too overbearing," the blonde this time accompanied her.

Natalie cringed at the word not that she had the bravery to explain herself on that matter. The only thing she could do was to give the clerk a fake smile.

"Here try this white one,"

Natalie removed the red dress first before she tried on the white one that only reach her knees. The style had an old vibe on it with the high neck and long sleeves. She actually love the ruffled style.

And Chasen seems to like the second dress himself.

It took an hour for Natalie to finish the whole rack and Chasen end up choosing the second one for her. The sales ladies brought her a matching high heeled shoes and diamond studded necklace and earings. Then they brought out the tuxedo for him. At this point Natalie took the chance to call Nate.

"Hey," he greeted when he answered on the first ring.

"Hi," Natalie gaze at the guards and in the direction where Chasen was trying his suit, "we are going to attend a party in the White house five days from now. As of the moment we are here in the store shopping."

"Okay okay I got it might as well watch it you know since the media will probably cover it, anyway about that picture maybe I can send it on that day, I don't know how but my friends will help me. They assured me though that they arrange things  and contacted their few friends to help me send that picture," Nate carefully delivered.

Natalie didn't release her breath for a few second upon hearing his reply. They will try to get her that day if her understanding of that message was correct. How on earth are they going to take her away from a building full of guards  and cameras following their every movement? 

"Are you quite sure with that?" Natalie clarified 

.

"Yes, don't worry," Nate comforted.

"Alright then, I better go Chasen is coming," she ended the phone call as Chasen came into view. He was wearing a dashing grey suit. Natalie could not help herself gawking at the handsome man smiling at her, even the ladies swallowed at the sight of him.

"What do you think?" Chasen asked her,

"You look great," she mumbled not even thinking of any bad description to privately criticize him.

"Alright then, I will take this one," he told the clerks offering his credit card to them. "Let's go eat our lunch after we are done here."

***

Three days later Nate landed in the US soil for the second time using a different name.  Catalina and Luis just gave him a passport and ID that had his picture on it but his name was different. They told him that Chasen might put a red flag on his name as soon as he enter the country. He didn’t know how they acquired such legit documents but he took it on his eagerness to rescue Natalie. He was blindsided by his longing to finally get the girl he wanted. This is only his chance to take back what is rightfully his all those years he waited for her. Not even the White House will stop him from acquiring what belongs to him.

"I got it," Catalina shouted four days before the celebration in the White House.

"What did you get?" he asked.

"This my friend is a server's passes I took from someone who is one of the fifty servers for the event," she chuckled. Nate was too busy looking at the note that he didn't see her throwing a nasty smile at Luis. 

Luis nodded in her direction knowing that she killed whoever that woman is and stuffed her body somewhere where no one could find it until they smell the decaying body.

If the plan works, the plane that would take them home at last will be waiting in the tarmac. This was the arrangement that Dragik Uzmali planned for them. A private plane for them to use.

"As the plan goes, " he told his two companion, "Catalina will lure her in the bathroom, from there find your exit and look for Nate who is sitting in the getaway car while I cause distraction from the entrance gate."

"How on earth am I gonna get inside the gate?" Nate inquired.

"You're not mate, the left side of the place have few guards patrolling it, Catalina will take over the men while she is with Natalie, me on the other hand will create the distraction as she call me about the situation in that way we know when to act."

"It sounds easy enough but very difficult to do," Nate grumbled.

"If our plans work out you get the girl Nate and we will all go home," Catalina assured him.

This announcement made Nate dropped every negative thoughts in his mind.