After Divorce Billionaire Ex Found Me Pregnant (Leonica and Gabriel) novel Chapter 229

"Are you sure this is the place?" Chief Robert asked as he examined the building in front of him with his hands on his hips.

"Yup," Candace came up behind him, holding her laptop in one hand, while she typed with the other. "According to the tracker, Ms. Leonica Romero should be here, but," She looked up from her laptop at the building and her face scrunched up in confusion. "This place looks too...dead."

Robert nodded, agreeing with his partner. The building in front of them looked abandoned, no movement of any sort and it had a very dead aura around it.

It looked like that one house straight out of a horror movie.

Scary and pretty dead looking, but he couldn't continue standing here. If Leonica Romero was indeed in there, she could be hurt.

The sound of his phone ringing had Robert looking away from the building. He glanced at his phone, seeing that it was the rest of his team calling.

"Report." He said as soon as the phone was pressed against his ear.

"Sir, we managed to discuss the identity of Mrs. Romero's potential kidnapper."

"Give me a name to work with."

"Irene Romero."

His brows furrowed. "The illegitimate child? Why would you think that?"

"We were able to get a glimpse of the license plate and ran it. Turns out the vehicle was rented under her name."

"Good job. You guys should still maintain your current route, I'll place a call back to the station and have them send out some men to bring Irene Romero in."

Ending the call, Robert made a call back to the station, requesting for backup. Once he was done, he sighed. At least they now had a suspect to work with, stops Benjamin from tearing their heads off, Literally.

"Come on, we're heading In." He turned around and gestured for Candace to follow him. She willingly did so, placing her hand on her firearm once she had discarded her laptop in the back seat of their vehicle.

"I take back what I said, Chief," She began as the walked into the house, guns pointed straight ahead. "Ms. Romero might just have asked out of curiosity sakes."

"And the location tracker?"

"Perhaps it malfunctioned."

Robert chuckled. Candace was no wuss, in fact she was one of the strongest on the task force, his second in command, but she, unlike him, tries her best to avoid violence.

"You're such a softie." He commented and she rolled her eyes.

"I'd rather be a softie and be able to sleep than a heartless robot like you."

"That's hurtful," Robert was about to add more words when the sound of someone whimpering from a room beside them caught his attention. "Check it out." He instructed after sharing a look with Candace.

Without hesitation, she headed for the door and pulled it open, pointing her gun towards the figure that sat by the wall.

“Don’t move,” She hissed and the figure froze, raising its hand up in surrender.

“Please… Please help me!” The man in the room weakly begged. Only when she directed her eyes towards his leg, which surprisingly had two hole, did she understand the source of his pain.

She grimaced. “Chief, come check this out.”

Robert was beside her in second, grimacing at the sight. “Call for an ambulance.” He instructed as he rushed towards the injured man, taking off his jacket so that it can be used to apply pressure. “Hey, who did this? Are they still in the building?” He asked.

The man was pale and his lips quivered, but he still managed speak. “That bitch, she…she did this.”

Robert’s brows creased and he looked at Candace who had just finished calling for medics. “Who?”

“Who else, it’s that crazy bitch!” The injured man snapped, clearly not liking the fact that the officer’s question was reminding him off the disgrace he had suffered half an hour ago.

“Don’t strain yourself,” Candace fell into the empty space on the man’s opposite side. “Is there anyone other than you in this building?”

“How the fuck am I meant to know? That fucking bitch might have harmed them for all I know.”

Candace and Robert shared a look after his word and the latter stood up. “I’ll go check it out, you stay here.”

Candace nodded at his words as he walked away. It only took him a few more minutes before he came across another door, except this one was locked.

He pulled on the handle and heard muffled noises from inside.

“Mrs. Romero? Ms. Leonica?” He called out, knocking on the door, but the voice suddenly stopped. “Please step away from the door, I’ll get it open right away.”

Saying this, he points his gun at the handle of the door and with one clean shot, the lock was shattered, allowing him to easily push the door open.

“Mrs. Romero-“ Robert flinched as he walked into the room, surprised to see that it wasn’t Cassandra and Leonica tied up, but rather the illegitimate child of the Romero family and some other man. “You…you’re not Mrs. Romero.”

“Bright as a fucking light bulb,” Irene spat, watching as the man made his way over and undid the rope that had been tied around her. “Finally.” She mused while rubbing her wrist.

Suddenly, a pair of iron cuffs were slapped onto her wrist. Irene stared at them like she had seen a ghost. “What the hell?”

“You’re under arrest.” Chief Roberts simply stated.

“On what charge?”

“The kidnapping of Mrs. Cassandra Romero,”

“That fucking whore-“ Irene’s word were cut short when Robert placed the metal cuff on her.

“I’d watch my language if I were you, for whatever you say or do can be used against you.”

Irene gritted her teeth. How was it that everything always turned out against her.

“Chief Robert?” Candace called out and he turned around, finding his partner walking into the room. “Back up arrived.”