Husband With Benefits-Chapter 589: Enemies of Enemies

Gabe held her gently as he realized that she was trembling over, even as she slowly recounted everything that had happened. He was glad that she had chosen to take a different route, however, it also made him worried. He needed to move her to a day duty, which would not require her to leave the resort alone eventually or at least at a better time.

Finally, when she had calmed down, and changed her clothes, they decided to check the phone.

"Its locked.." Autumn murmured as she looked at the phone in disappointment. She’d hoped that she would be able to find the number of who ordered the attack on her and then...

"It won’t be locked for long. I’ve already ask Lucifer to hack into it."

Autumn frowned," Lucifer?"

"My little brother..."

"Ah okay.. He can hack into phones?" Autumn asked concerned. As far as she was aware, hacking was not legal...

Gabe smiled and caught her hand, stopping the way she kept cracking her fingers out of nervousness. She looked down at their intertwined fingers and blinked. That felt too natural... but then, she realized Gabe was still talking and focused on what he was saying," He can practically hack into anything. Being the youngest, he was too sheltered so he turned to living on the edge by learning how to hack. Almost got caught a few times before Demon decided to throw him into the office lest he be thrown behind bars."

"But he still continues to hack?"

"Yep. And we tend to shamelessly use his skills..." As he said that, the phone in front of them suddenly powered off and restarted. Autumn widened her eyes at that... That was quick...

Once the phone was back on, Gabe navigated through it swiftly. "Let’s see what we’ve got here."

The call log showed calls to and from a few numbers, but no names or saved contacts. Gabe quickly cent out the last two numbers to Lucien to track, since they were apparently of the person who had paid the stalker to set up the trap and the last call had been the people who were in cahoots with him.

He then moved to the messages and felt a chill down his spine... There were two messages from the same number. The first one detailed her name and usual route as well as her picture. The second one was from an hour ago... Just when she had left work... And that is exactly what it said," She’s left. Do your job. And get that thing."

"Get that thing?" Autumn frowned as she repeated the words. What thing? Did that mean they wanted to not harm her but take something from her?

"What can they want?", she asked herself in confusion.

However, it was Gabe that answered,"I think they wanted the figurine that we are looking for as well. You know I’ve suspected that the burglary attempt was also for that..."

"But I don’t have the figurine."

"I think you do, Autumn. Think hard." Gabe spoke softly as she turned to look at him in confusion.

"What do you mean? I don’t have the figurine. Do you think I would have been hiding it if I did have it? When the hearing for the case is in a week? Do I look that foolish to you?"

"I don’t think you are foolish at all. Just unaware."

Autumn frowned at that. Was he trying to say that she did not even know she had the figurine? She’d already looked through her mother’s belongings a few times! What was she supposed to do now.

She opened her mouth to let him know what she thought of his claim but he beat her to it," I know you’ve looked everywhere. But you haven’t looked in one place."

"You think you know my house better than me?I’ve already looked everywhere..."

"Not among the things that Mrs Jenkins gave you."

Autumn frowned at that," Mrs Jekins? She didn’t give me anything.."

"She gave you something to store for her, didn’t she? According to Arabelle, Mrs J wanted you to stow somethings for her so she had you book a storage locker and pre pay for it for about a decade?"

Autumn widened her eyes and nodded," Yes. She gave me a lot of knick knacks. I remember peeping inside when she claimed that I could use those things to fight monsters. I thought she was losing her head so I simply booked a locker and..."

"The figurine could be inside that locker?"

Autumn’s heart raced as she processed Gabe’s words. Could the figurine really be hidden among the items Mrs. Jenkins had given her? She had almost forgotten about the storage locker, dismissing the old woman’s cryptic remarks at the time. But now, it seemed like a plausible lead. freёnovelkiss.com

"There is only one way of finding out, Autumn."

Autumn nodded and stood up, determinedly," Then I’ll go get the keys."

Just then, Gabe’s phone beeped with a message and as he read it, he cursed and stopped Autumn," I think, we might need to go to the police station first."

"The Police station? For registering this attempt to hurt me? You know they are all under that Gregory Savoy’s hold so it will be of no use... If this number blongs to him, he will simply make things disappear..."

"Its not his number. Its someone else’s."

"I don’t have any other enemies..."

"It seems like you do. It is your old friend Bianca’s number..."

Autumn’s eyes widened in shock. "Bianca? But why is she doing this? I have nothing to do with Pierce and she is married to him like she wanted..."

"The only way to get an answer for that is to let the police question her..."

Autumn shook her head," No... I want to ask her myself. Can we do that?"

Gabe frowned. " We can. But then this phone would be kind of useless. It would give her a hint and..."

"I don’t care. I want to ask her..."

Gabe nodded. "Then lets’ go and ask her."

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