Gabriel has hired two bodyguards in case anything happened, he made sure they followed him in a second car to Mr. Smith's old house.

Now, I'm sitting in the passenger's seat looking from the window absent-minded. This isn't a good idea and I'm aware of it, deep down I know something isn't right.

I take a glance at Gabriel who's focusing on driving. His eyebrows are furrowed creating deep folds which means he's deep in thought, I draw a small smile on my face and take his hand from the steering wheel trying to make him relax. He looks at me confused but then smiles when realizing what I'm doing.

We intertwine our hands, his warm presence making me at ease. I talk trying the break the silence, " you need to relax that forehead of yours if you don't want wrinkles,"

He chuckles then retorts, "I think wrinkles are the last thing we should worry about," he sighs and continues with a whisper like voice, "we should worry about me not using protection last night,"

I snort thinking he's joking but get a nervous smile in return, "you idiot," I slap his head annoyed. I can't have another baby, Gabriel is enough. I don't mind one if the baby had his eyes though.

"I don't mind a mini-you," Gabriel says with a smirk. This is supposed to be cute, what's the smirk for?

'It made your heart flicker' my inner me said the obvious, duh why wouldn't it.

I lay on my seat and put my legs on the open window, when I get a glare from Gabriel I pout and put them down, "It's too soon for kids even though I don't mind them."

"We need to go to the pharmacy to buy plan b," I point out the moment we arrive.

We park a bit far from the said house then Gabriel gets down and opens my door, we walk to the body guard's vehicle to make a plan.

The air was tense, everyone was alert for at any moment an attack could occur. This feels like an action movie and I'm living for it, getting excited to see the beloved car I run to the place it was parked in.

"Oh my god!" I screamed in agony the moment I see the vehicle and fell to the ground to the image of the Mercedes Benz destroyed, "my baby!" I cried again. How could they? It was so innocent and kind. All the windows are broken, the paint is scratched from every side and the tires are torn.

In my moment of grief, I hear snorts coming from behind. I look back sending death glares at Gabriel who puts his hands in the air in surrender, I glare at the guards too when realizing it wasn't only Gabriel laughing at my misery.

"Don't you think you're overreacting?" Asked Gaby with a smile walking towards me. I glare at him again then argue on the verge of crying, "I love my car like my own kid, I worked so hard for it," I take the hand that he offered and stand up.

"All alright, alright." He says then asks one of the guards to call a tow truck. Meanwhile, Mr smith's back door opens showing the one and only bailey.

We all look at her and the bodyguards take place in front of me taking bailey as a threat, which she is. "What are you doing here?" I question moving forward so that I can see her better since the two men's huge corpses covered the view.

She laughs and then points out, "I should be the one asking you that, in the end, you're in my dad's property." She takes a glance at my car and giggles, "oh shit! What happened to your car?"

"I should be the one asking you that since it was in your dad's property," I shoot back with a smirk, nice comeback Andrea.

"A bear must have attacked it," she says, her signature devilish smile on her face.

Yeah, a bear broke all the windows and said why not turn around the car scratching the paint, I bet he was hungry too that's why he tried eating the tires, "more like a crazy bitch attacked it," I spit owning a death glare from bailey and Gabriel chocking on air. 'talking about being dramatic' I think rolling my eyes.

"What did you say?", I roll my eyes again, which is not good because they're hurting me. Is she deaf? Before I answer her simple question Gabriel beats me to it, " she meant a dog,"

She mouths a "whatever" then goes back to the house after she threw the trash she was holding. Bailey turns around for the last time," hurry up and take your car I don't want you walking around my property," she spits then goes her way, Rude much.

We didn't wait long for the tow truck to arrive, they did what they're supposed to do and started dragging the car.

I look back at Gabriel who was helping them this whole time while I stayed there talking with one of the guys about a plan to open a successful business. I call him so we can go back home but he was focusing on something on the ground, he picks it up and jogs to his vehicle.

"What was that?" I wonder out loud catching his attention.

"I'll tell you later." He says opening the door for me and drives back to old Carter's house.

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Walking into the living room, my eyes move to Gabriel's feet on habit. His nasty ass used to walk with his shoes in the penthouse which made us fight all the time. I made him stop with my 'don't test my patience' plan, it works every time.

Sadly, since I moved out he went back to his bad habit.

I call his name making my presence behind him known and send him a death glare once he turns around, it said: " take your shoes off or I'll shove them down your throat,". He tries to argue but I stop him with another glare, I don't know how I can have a baby when I have him in my life, his acts are so childish.

Talking about childish, old carter... No, Childish doesn't do him good, sometimes I see Gabriel's stupidity through him and other times I think Gabriel is adopted. But even with that, I love them with all my heart, they have been my family for the last five years and I wouldn't ask for anything other than their safety.

Back to the point, I haven't seen old carter since last night.

"Where's old carter?" I shout from the kitchen as I search for something to eat.

I take an apple and turn to sit at the dining table, "I don't know, maybe having a date?" He walks to the kitchen and takes the apple from my hand, "my father is a ladies man just like his son,"

"You're no ladies man," I start feeling a smirk taking place on my face, "you're just one lady's man,"

And with that, I give him a peck on the lips and take my apple back. "Damn, I like this Andrea," he says with a smirk of his own making me smile.

"Anyway, I'll call to check on him," I announce and walk to the living room with my baby...my apple and Gabriel close behind after he grabbed something to eat too.

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"He said he's with an old friend and asked us to have lunch because he'll be late," I inform Gaby the moment I hang up with old carter.

He hums then speaks up, his eyes fixed on his hands, "check this out," he passes me an iPhone, "do you know what this is?"

"Duh, a phone!" I answered wondering where this is going. " I know it's a phone I meant what do you think this phone is for or who's it belongs to?"

"Why don't you just tell me who's phone is this?" I ask.

"Let's not get into details, I did it because it gave mystery vibes. I found this in front of Bailey's house and I recognized it the moment I saw it on the ground, this is the phone Bailey was hiding when we were together," he recounts grabbing my full attention, that brings memories of the times we used to think she's cheating.

I nod giving him the sign to continue, "it's locked so I'll call my friend for help,"

"You have friends?" I say bluntly, kind of joking? It's rare to see Gaby with someone outside work, if he really had friends he probably left them in college.

His serious face drops, "Do you have to be so blunt? and yes I have friends,"

"Really?" I tease more enjoying this.

"Stop it Andy, of course I have friends," he argues more annoyed making me chuckle, "I even have girl friends," he adds smirking and making sure to wait some time between girl and friends, that's how he assures he'll stay alive.

I laugh once again and say patting his shoulder "you're very funny Gabriel, I find it hard to believe that you have guy friends so for girl friends, it's almost impossible,"

And with that Gabriel thought it would be a good idea to call his friend, Isaac, while we were having lunch because I refused to talk and chewing at the same time.

All I could hear was Gabriel's replies and they were like this:

"Sup bro,"

"It's been going good,"

And they kept on talking about work I think, until they got to the point, "yeah, I need a small service,"

"I need to unlock a phone but I need the data to stay safe,"

"Okay, I'll text you the address. See ya later,"

We finish our food and while Gaby was doing the dishes I head up the stairs to take a shower and change my clothes.

"When is he coming?" I wonder walking back down feeling fresh after showering

"In a bit," he says as if on cue we hear the doorbell ringing. Gabriel goes to open the door and I walk after him to the front. He opens the door and a very Stylish and good-looking guy appears.

Isaac, I think, gives Gaby a hug saying, "long time no see," then turns to me and smiles.

"Andrea this is Isaac, my old friend," he introduces pointing to the guy beside him, "Isaac this is Andrea, my assistant, and-"

"Damn Gabriel, why didn't you tell me you had such a beautiful assistant," Isaac compliments making me chuckle and Gabriel finishes his statement," and GIRLFRIEND,". I like the smell of jealousy after a refreshing shower.

"oh okay...shit sorry about that." Isaac scratches the back of his head and apologizes. I take a step to reach him and shake his hand smiling, "thank you for the compliment. You're very handsome yourself and I very much like your style."

"You have never told me that," Gaby whines grabbing both our attention.

"Well, you only wear suits and when you don't you're pretty basic. Sorry babe," I explain, was I too harsh? No, I didn't say he's not handsome. He's pretty basic and that's hot too.

Isaac laughs at my words, "I like you you're straight honest," he compliments, making me smile again, Gaby puts his arm around my shoulders protectively and Isaac puts his hands up in amusement.

We sit in the living room and hand him the phone to do his thing. If this is Bailey's phone then we should be able to find some clues, maybe threatening texts she sent to her father, to be honest, I'm not expecting much but anything at this point can be helpful.

After a couple of minutes, Isaac speaks up, "I'm in," he says with a neutral voice like he's doing an everyday thing, which for him it is. I was expecting this to look like the movies with the keyboard and equipment, I'm not going to lie I'm kind of disappointed.

"So now that I did my job, what's so important that you didn't want to be deleted?" Isaac asked resting his back on the couch, both me and Gabriel exchange looks that said:

'Should we tell him?'

'No, it'll get more complicated and could get him to danger'

Or something in those lines, eyes don't literally talk I just assumed Gabriel got the same idea.

I sigh after the silent conversation and decided I'll take the responsibility of saving Isaac's life but Gabriel beats me to it, "you don't want to know for your own safety," he threatens dramatically, his expressions serious.

"It's that serious, damn," he scans our faces as if to make sure we're not joking and continues, "now I must know,"

I burst out laughing not expecting that at all while Gabriel groans, "dude get out,"

Isaac said that we don't need the password anymore. After that we share our goodbyes, Gabriel gives Isaac a bro hug.

"Whatever you're doing stay safe bro," Isaac says patting Gaby's shoulder then turns to me, "you too honest girl."

"That's pretty long," I laugh.

"I'll come up with a better one don't worry," he chuckles and they both leave to the door.

Seeing Gabriel around his friend was refreshing, even if it was for minutes. It made me want to know more about him and I know a lot of things already, it's kind of weird that I never came across Isaac. Maybe he was an internet friend or they're both okay with meeting every four years friendship.

It Doesn't matter at least he got a friend. Talking about friends which have no relation with what I'm about to say, the phone is laying on the table, few inches away from me, begging me to check its content, how can I say no to a genuine offer?

I grab it and swipe up, the first thing that I see is a basic front. The phone doesn't have many apps showing that it wasn't used that often.

Gabriel joins in watching from beside me, and while we're checking the apps we open an app that had a camera on it, I think it's one of those that are connected to a CCTV.

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so turns out the app had a password too, shocking! and we tried Gabriel's birthday, Bailey's birthday, her Father's birthday which was written on calendar and my birthday because I'm her rival, rivals love each other.

And I thought I'd search for the day she killed that dude and I found the night he was found and tried the day before it, it worked. that's how you know I'm smart, I think like a sociopath.

Now, we're looking at files and files named by dates.

"What's this?" Gabriel asks. To answer his question I click on a random file, a video starts playing, more of a record and I recognize the place immediately the moment I catch Mr smith moving into his house. The one where I escaped last time.

"Isn't that Bailey's dad?" Gabriel asks again to which I nod.

"I think Bailey disconnected the CCTV cameras so we can't have a live stream but we can still see what happened the day I heard the gunshot," I explain, I search for the said date and look at it. Scared, or maybe just afraid of what the tape hides so this time I give Gabriel the honor to click on it.

The video starts playing early in the morning, we jump until I see myself in the front door's camera.

"IT'S A TRAP," I scream at the phone startling Gaby, I chuckle mischievously remembering that my poor old self can't hear me. Poor her she'll be traumatized.

We sit there watching from the lobby's camera in boredom. There are only two cameras, one that shows the lobby and the other shows the front of the house where the front door is.

When a person catches my eye in the front camera I point at the camera for Gabriel to look. It shows a girl, from her form and hair it's bailey. She had something in her hand, she rings the bell, or I should say rang, and then Mr smith opens the door after a wait, that's the time he warned me.

He steps outside and that's when bailey says something and points her hand at him with the thing, it's not a thing it's a gun, and she shot him making him drop to the floor. She talks more to his corpse then empties the gun on him, I put my hand on Gabriel's eyes to stop him from watching but he takes them off giving me a confused stare.

At that time I only remember hearing one gunshot, maybe it was because of shock.

"Oh my god!" I gasp in shock, speechless of what I just saw. Gabriel pulls me to his embrace for comfort.

"I can't believe she killed her father in such a brutal way," I say again in shock.

"I should've believed her father the first Time he warned me," he utters, in shock? We're both shocked I don't know what to say else.

I exit the app once the video ends, and click gallery. We scroll through pictures of Gabriel, one in front of the company and another when he was in his var and so on... I take a look at Gabriel to see his reaction, he was looking at the pictures not bothered by the fact that he was stalked.

"I look fine," he states pointing to the photos, I roll my eyes saying, "it's not the time to make jokes," but when I look back I catch one where he looks hot, "but you look fine in this picture wait,"

We keep going down, there weren't many things to see. One picture had two teenagers that one of them looked like Bailey and the other one was Blake, at least she didn't lie about him being her childhood friend.

One that captured my eyes had bailey in it too but she was smiling, not her fake smile, her smile was genuine she looked innocent and...happy, she was looking at the guy I recognized from the search I did. It was her ex and he was looking at his phone.

Suddenly, Gaby's phone starts ringing showing Bailey's name on the screen.

"Answer it and put it on speaker," I instruct Gabriel and he does as told.

"Hello, fuckers," her voice issues through the room.

"Hi, Ba..." I start before Gabriel cuts me out rudely. I wanted to say hi!

"Hope you guys had fun going through my stuff," she talks with a fake happy voice. Well, she found out time to play with her a little bit.

"What are you talking about?" Gaby asks acting dumb.

"Cut the crap, I know you have the phone," she explains, I thought by now she would know. Maybe because we didn't turn off the location.

I glance at Gabriel asking him to speak up, when she had no answer she continues, "so anyways I really want that phone back I have a lot of memories in it, so why don't you guys be good and give it back. And please don't play heroes and call the cops or anything like that, I got a little surprise. Andrea check your phone,"

I check it and get pictures sent from an unknown number, they were all showing old carter sitting in a cafe-like place. I show them to Gabriel the moment I understand what she's planning to do.

"I know you guys are smart so I don't need to explain further. I'll send a location and a time be there with my phone or else things would get complicated," she threatens and ends the call.

Silence falls on us, this turn of events made things harder. We can't put old Carter's life at risk but we can't give up easily.

"We can't give her the phone," I whisper to myself, enough for Gaby to hear.

"What should we do then?" He asks.

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The guy in the picture is Isaac, Gabriel's old friend.