Page 17 of Unraveling Connections

“Well, it means you can get back out in the field now,” Riot points out.

“Yep, I don’t mind surveillance, but I hate not being with you guys; it’s fucking terrifying if I’m being honest, and I don’t think my nerves can handle it,” I tell them honestly.

“We noticed,” Atlas replies with a knowing smile.

“We missed you guys in the field too,” Rage says, “it will be nice to get everything back to normal.”

“That I can definitely agree with,” Luc says. He smirks, “So, did you convince him to give you a letter to give to our girlfriend, who isn’t going to be impressed that you guys got your casts off already?”

I grin smugly, “I did.”

They all burst out laughing as Rage says, “No fucking way, seriously?”

Cash nods, “Yep, seriously.”

Right on cue the doctor pushes through the door and grins, “Luc, you’re free to go.”

“Awesome, thanks, doc,” he says, hopping up from the bed, already fully dressed.

The doctor turns to us, his smile widening, as he hands a letter and two folders to me, “As requested, a doctor's letter and both of your X-rays for Ever.”

The guys burst out laughing, the doctor unable to hold it in any longer chuckles too and waves as he leaves the room.

Once everyone has calmed down again, Atlas says, “Alright, let’s head back to the safe house, hopefully the others won’t be too far behind us. I am really curious about what they have found.”

“Me too,” I reply, as we finally leave the hospital and get into the truck, Atlas behind the steering wheel because I have only just had the cast off, and he has been driving while we have been here, so it was almost automatic.

I can’t stop smiling. Finally, my leg is free. I feel infinitely lighter and happier, and I didn’t realize just how much it was weighing on me and affecting my mental health. Thank fuck it is off. Now, just to make sure Ever knows we have healed before she freaks out that we have had the casts off before we should have.

Chapter Six

Ever

“Right, the program is all set up and is doing what I need it to do,” Pete says after ten minutes. “Let’s have a look through the cameras and see if we can find any footage of this mystery third person inside the safe room. The camera set up here is pretty sophisticated, far more so than I would have expected a home security system to be, but then again, knowing what we do about Luc’s father, it shouldn’t surprise me that he has such a good security system in place.”

“Hopefully, it means that it is complicated enough that whoever did something to the cameras made a mistake somewhere,” I reply with a frown.

“Hopefully, but there are a lot of cameras and a lot of footage to go through. I'm going to have to check it from when that firstguy that we caught entered the house. There is a possibility that he came with someone else.” Peter suggests.

“I hadn’t even thought of that but it’s a really good point,” Jensen replies. He then claps Peter on the shoulder and adds, “If you need a hand to go through it all let me know, I can pull a couple of all -nighters.”

“Thanks, man, I’ll probably take you up on that,” Pete replies.

The room falls silent once again as Peter does his thing.

“Anything?” I can’t help but ask after twenty minutes; I have never been good at being patient.

Pete nods, “I think I may have found a camera inside the safe room. There are so many cameras in this place we might all have to go through the footage, or it is going to take me weeks to do it by myself.”

“I’m pretty sure we can do that,” I reply, and then add with a grin, “Besides, that means we can do it in our PJs, and I will never say no to work that means I don’t have to get dressed.”

Both Jensen and Pete chuckle, but neither of them disagrees with me, and I know that they love pyjama days as much as I do.

“Alright, so this is from the camera that’s in the safe room; as far as I can work out, I may be wrong, but for now, this is as good as we’re going to get until, I can go through them all properly with a fine-tooth comb.”

“Got it,” I reply, as I lean closer, my curiosity has been running at full throttle ever since we realized there was a mysterious room, and I have been musing about different scenarios of what could have happened in there and where the fresh blood came from.

We all watch the screen, and it quickly becomes evident that the person knows exactly where the camera is. There is a tall, broad figure dressed entirely in black with a balaclava over his head and covering his hair. I'm assuming that the figure is male purely from the height and the broadness of his shoulders, ofcourse I could be wrong. We watch as he stands completely still and silent as if he is waiting for something.

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