But it wasn’t a fortunate one.
Xavier didn’t want to believe his very own father could be related to Anastasia’s kidnapping. The odds were almost impossible.
"So, what did you find out about him?" Xavier asked, facing Ezekiel this ti around.
Ezekiel handed a file to Xavier. "Bruce owns a company in Glamourwood, but he barely visits there. He has soone in charge who manages the company for him. A few CCTV footage have captured him going to influential parties and he just attended one yesterday. And not once had any of the footage caught him with Xander before."
"He doesn’t seem to be hiding at all, unlike Xander," Tracie murmured.
"Maybe that’s what he wants us to think," said Xavier. "If Xander is still with him, then all we have to do is get to Bruce."
"He’s currently in Glamourwood," Ezekiel inford.
Although they still didn’t know where Anastasia could be, they’d found soone who could lead them to her. And as for Mr. Wallace, they could only hope he was not involved in what was happening.
Xavier had only seen Bruce once, and that was when he’d arrived with his father at the sa ti at the hospital, which ant it was not a re coincidence.
Ever since he asked his father about Xander, Xavier never saw Bruce and his father together. Neither did he see Xander until the latter ca from out of nowhere and snatched his wife away to sowhere he didn’t know.
"Since that’s the case, we don’t need to question him. If he finds out we’re suspecting him of being in cohorts with Xander, he might decide to go into
hiding and we’ll never see him again."
Ezekiel nodded in understanding. "I’ve already asked my n to keep an eye on him. We’ll monitor him for now and wait to see if Xander pays him any visit."
"But we can’t just sit and watch now, can we?" Tracie interjected. "And also, Bruce is not the only one we need to keep an eye on." She didn’t have to say the na for everyone to know whom she was talking about.
Xavier knew he needed to keep an eye on his father, and he’d made a ntal note to do so. Each ti he recalled how his father had demanded he forget about Anastasia simply made his blood boil. However, this could just be a coincidence. It still wasn’t enough to prove that his father was working with Bruce.
And if he was, Xander wasn’t sure what he was going to do to his father...
"You don’t have to worry about that," he assured her.
Tracie cleared her throat.
"I want to officially partake in the search for Anastasia," she suddenly announced, catching them off guard.
After waking up in the hospital a few days after the incident took place, Tracie had beco more isolated than she’d been.
"I know my help probably wouldn’t make a difference but I just want to do sothing instead of just staying ho and crying all the ti."
A grin played on Ezekiel’s lips as he stared at her.
"You’re talking like you need so kind of an official permit before you can join in the search."
"Shut up." She muttered.
A smile graced Ezekiel’s lips, happy that Tracie was willing to co out of her cage now. But that smile faltered when he realized sothing.
"Xavier, regarding Arabella, was her killer ever caught?" He asked with curiosity laced in his tone.
Xavier shook his head. "They were never found and the case was closed the day my father bailed from prison. I wonder who could have killed her and put the bla on ."
"Did she have any enemies in high school?" Kael asked this ti.
"Only competitors since she was the most intelligent girl in our class. And even if she did, I don’t think they would go as far as killing her. Years ago, I tried to get my father to check for any CCTV caras in the area but unfortunately, there weren’t. And the worst part of it, there were no eyewitnesses," he explained.
"That’s odd," Ezekiel mumbled.
Before the separation of the Clark and the Wallace families, Ezekiel and Tracie had t and heard of Arabella a couple of tis since they’d all been childhood friends. But after the separation, their father forbade them from being friends with the Wallace children and even their friends. So hearing Arabella die from out of nowhere was not only shocking but also suspicious.
"I tried asking my classmates back then if they knew anyone that held a grudge against Arabella, and they ntioned Fiona because she was jealous Arabella was dating Xander."
"Did you get the chance to speak with her?" Tracie questioned and Xavier shook his head.
"I texted her a few tis asking for us to et and talk. She read them but never replied. She stopped coming to school too and a few days later, I heard her family had traveled out of the country for her to continue her education abroad."
"What the—she knows sothing," Tracie confird. "Or perhaps she’d the one that killed Arabella."
Xavier gave it so thought before he shook his head in denial. "I don’t think so. Arabella was stabbed several tis in the stomach, and her fingers were cut off too. It’s sothing too grueso for Fiona to do."
"Her family is rich! She could have had her father order his n to get rid of Arabella for her all in the na of jealousy." Tracie scoffed at the end of her words. "We need to find her and get her jailed imdiately for what she’d done."
"And once again, you’re jumping into conclusions. We can’t be sure of anything until we do our research first," said Ezekiel.
"In that case, I’ll be in charge of looking for Fiona while the both of you continue searching for Anastasia, because I’m sure whoever changed the fingerprints on Arabella’s body did that so that there would be a cold war between you and Xander," she responded, looking more determined than they’d ever seen her.
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