Secured Sevenfold

Zacky’s POV
After Johnny told us about his phone call with the company and we knew that the van, stealing our girls, belonged to them, we had a lead… a lead we had to follow quickly.

Brian and Matt were trying their best not to go crazy but only succeeding barely, they were thinking about ways how to get the name belonging to the van.
But I on the other hand had already made a plan together with Johnny and Arin, we knew if Brian and Matt knew what we planned, one of them or maybe even both would want to come with us.
But that wouldn’t work, they needed to stay put.

I looked at Johnny and Arin, while Brian and Matt were sitting in the living room, discussing a possible approach on the company.
“Alright, Johnny and I will leave now. We got an appointment with the secretary, she knows who is responsible for the car. We will meet there and I will get the information.” I say confidently, there was just no other way.
“How are you gonna do that? And how am I supposed to entertain Brian and Matt, they would want to know where you are going and what you are up to.” Arin says his concerned gaze returning to Matt and Brian.
“Just let them call their dad again, maybe he can give us another lead… we need something…” Johnny shrugs.
“Tell them, that we went back to the company. Just don’t tell them we have an actual appointment there, we will call you as soon as we got something, afterwards you can tell him what we really did.” I say and Arin didn’t look too convinced but still he nodded.

Johnny and I left quickly before Brian and Matt would notice we were gone, Johnny knew where to go and we arrived after an hour drive.
“Should I go alone? Hallmann was the name you said, right?” I ask and Johnny nodded.
“I will be waiting here, don’t fuck this up Vengeance, it’s our only chance.” Johnny says and I nod.
“How can any female being resist this?” I motion down my body and Johnny rolls his eyes.
“Don’t worry, I will be back before you know it, with the information.” I say and close the door.
I walk towards the gate and had to say my name and then the door buzzed open and I was brought into a huge hall.

A young woman was waiting at the desk, thank god.
“Mr. Hallmann?” She asks and I nod in her direction.
“That would be me. Do we have the appointment?” I ask and she smiles at me and nods.
She gets up from her seat and walks towards me, “Please follow me.”
She led me to one of the conferences rooms “Please take a seat, can I take your jacket?” She asks still smiling and I nod.
I take of my jacket and hand it to her, she pours me a coffee and sits opposite of me.
She wore a pencil skirt, when she sat down like that the skirt was riding higher and revealing nice tanned legs.
“Mr. Hallmann, we are really sorry about the incident.” She says “My name is Patricia Atkins and I am the secretary of Mrs. Madison.” She finally introduced herself and I lean a little forward.
“Thanks, Mrs. Atkins. As you might have imagined, I wasn’t really thrilled to be driven off the road and then left there alone.” I say and she looks at me sympathically.
Of course, we will take over all the costs needed to repair your car. Our insurance will cover that, you just have to hand over the data sheets.” She says and I nod.
“I didn’t come here because of that, Mrs. Atkins.” I say and she shakes her head softly.
“Miss Atkins.” I smile at her and she blushes a little, oh this was going in the right direction.
“I just wanted the name of the driver. I wanted to have a small talk about right and wrong. I don’t need anyone to cover my costs, that’s not important to me.” I say leaning towards her, I let my hand softly brush her thigh, could be by accident, but it wasn’t. “It’s David, by the way.”
“Oh.. okay. But I can’t give you any personal information… David. I’m really sorry.” She says and leans forward a little, our knees brushing against each other, she knew it wasn’t by accident.

“What a shame… I just wanted to know if the driver is also all right, maybe something happened and that’s what caused this. I feel also responsible for this…” I sigh heavily and start to get up from my chair she widens her eyes and I saw her check out my ass, she was so hooked, I have seen that the moment I walked into the door and I was glad I still had it in me.
“Wait.. David. I mean.. I cannot tell you, but…” She gets up from her chair as well and looks around as if checking if anybody saw us.
“Give me a second.” She says but I step towards the door not letting her leave, she is only inches away from my body, she looks deeply into my eyes and I lick my lips, she mimicked my motion and she really had pretty lips, how would she taste like?!

I lean down a little and whisper in her ear, I let my lips softly brush her ear shell “Please, Patricia.”
She blushes even more and quickly walks out of the room, I knew I didn’t have the information yet, but I was so close, I would get what I need.
After a few minutes she walks back into the room, I was still standing at the door and she hands me a small note.
“You have to promise me, that you won’t tell anyone you got that from me. And on the other side is my number.” She smiles “I would like to see you again… maybe in a different location.”
“I would love to see you again, too” I tell her and let my hand brush the hair from her face, my fingertips softly graze her cheek and she shivers, I smile and her cheeks were getting hot underneath my fingertips.
“Thank you, Patricia. I will call you, you are an angel.” I lean down and kiss her cheek, I linger there a little too long, to make it innocent but not long enough to make it sexual.
Still she heaves in a sigh when I walk out of the door and throw her a last meaningful glance over my shoulder, she winks at me… and I walk with my information out of the building.
Easier than I thought it would be… and a new number to my phone book, but I should note that she got to know me as David Hallmann, if I plan on seeing her again.

I walk towards the car where Johnny was waiting, he was on the phone, I could hear Matt and Brian yelling and Johnny sighs loudly when I open the door.
“And?” He held the phone to his chest.
“Got it, told you so by the way. So easy, you could have done that, too… Anyway… the guy’s name is:
Joanne Crowley.”
I look at the note again and frown…. a girl?

Matt’s POV
The tv was on, but I had no idea what was playing. We had been discussing how to best approach the company Johnny had found out the van belonged to. I didn’t want to talk about it anymore, I just wanted to go over there and force someone to tell me where my girlfriend was. I looked over at my two friends still talking in hushed tones and got up.
“I can’t wait around any longer! I’m going over there! Where are Johnny and Zack?” Arin looked at me with wide eyes and a blush came over his face.
“They… uh… they left”

“Left?! FOR WHAT?!” I took the few steps bridging the space between Arin and me and got in his face. At first Arin cringed by the sound of my loud voice, but then he stood up straight and looked me straight in the eye.
“Matt, calm down!” He pushed me away from him. “Zack and Johnny are finding out what is going on, you and me both know you are in no state to do that. Pulling people over the counter, beating them to confessions that aren’t true never helped anyone. Just trust their capabilities, Matt.”

What. The. Fuck? When did that kid grow balls? I stared at him, my mouth open in astonishment.

“Just take a shower, lie down a bit, I will let you know when they come back” Arin turned around and walked away from me again.

“No! I won’t take a shower or lie down!” I replied annoyed, Arin not responding for one bit. I let my hand come down to the table in frustration. I didn’t want to go to my room, it smelled like Joe, everything I saw in there reminded me of her, of how I had put her into danger, of how I didn’t know if I would ever get her back.
“Me neither!” Brian piped up. Apparently Brian had been standing next to me the whole time, maybe even said something, but I noticed him just now. I grabbed my phone.

“I’m calling them, I need to know what is going on”
“Matt….” Arin warned me “They might be in the middle of something, you will ruin everything”
“I don’t fucking care. You guys all act like you are the only ones trying to find them, Joe is MY girlfriend, I should be the one looking for her! Not you!”
I listened to the ringing of the phone until Johnny picked up.
“Yo!”
“DON’T YO ME! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING LEAVING WITHOUT US!” I yelled, quickly being joined by Brian, who snatched the phone out of my hand
“WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WE DIDN’T WANT TO COME…. OK! WAIT!” Brian replied annoyed and put the phone on speaker. He held the device out for all three of us to hear.
“Now both of you, slow the fuck down! Zack has already gone inside, leave this up to us, we can do things you know, we want to find them too! Hold up, Zack is coming back”
I heard some muffled voices and then Zack’s voice a little clearer but further away… “Anyway… the guy’s name is: Joanne Crowley.”
“JOANNE?!” Arin, Brian and I let out confused. “A GIRL?!”
“Yeah, we are confused too” Johnny let out “We’ll get back to the house now, see you in an hour”

With that he hung up. I took the phone again and put it in my pocket. What the hell was going on here?
“I can’t stand all this! It feels like we are not moving forward one bit, only more mystery!” Brian started pacing the room, I know what he meant and he was right. Every ‘answer’ we got, only brought us further away from getting the girls back.
“I’m trying Joseph again” I put the phone to my ear, but he didn’t pick up. We had been trying to call him all morning, but nothing so far. I couldn’t believe the guy, his daughters were missing and he didn’t even care to pick up his phone?
“That ass!” I started to walk towards the kitchen “You guys want something to drink?”
“Coffee would be good” Both Brian and Arin replied. I entered the hall when the doorbell rang. Who would that be? I didn’t feel like entertaining anyone at this moment, they better be making it quick.

“Hello Matthew” the face of the man greeting me was grey and he had seemed to have aged at least 20 years since I last saw him and for a minute I just stared at him. “Aren’t you going to let me in? I think we have enough to discuss”
I stepped aside to let him pass me and motioned for him to come in “Of course Joseph, come in”. I watched the man walk away towards the living room. I know I wanted him to answer the phone, but now he was really here…
For the first time since the girls were taken, the thought of Joe being abducted didn’t fill my mind, another panic set in.

That man wasn’t my father’s old friend anymore, he was my father in law and he didn’t even know it.

Notes

Uh oh, daddy in law is in the house!

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