Chapter 150
Asher’s POV
I finished my meeting that afternoon and started out of the hall as my assistant brought out some papers for me to sign on my way to the car.
My pocket vibrated as I got the phone out to see a strange number. Great, now it was another random number calling me.
These days I have had so many people calling me. They had somehow gotten my number from someone and they were elated to be calling the president. I would soon get rid of the number to get a new one.
I decided to pick this one and listen to what this one had to say.
“Hello,” I sighed.
“Hello, I’m so sorry to bother you but I’m Aurora, Zendaya’s sister.”
“Oh,” I relaxed a bit. I was about to go on the offensive but this was not bad at all. I walked to the side to avoid talking to anyone but focusing on her. “How are you? I heard about your pregnancy. Congratulations.”
“Thank you so much Mr President,” she laughed.
The formality was not needed seeing as we were practically family. “Please, call me Asher,” I said to her.
“Sure thing Asher. I called to ask if you’ve heard from Zendaya?”
“Why? She is supposed to be home.”
“Oh the last time we spoke, she was on her way out and we were supposed to meet each other at the bus stop. I’ve tried calling her phone but it’s not reachable. I don’t know why.”
“Okay, I’ll get back to you,” I said, dropping the call as I called her phone but it was switched off. I got scared but shook the feeling off. It wasn’t the first time her phone was going off anyway. Maybe she had been too busy to charge her phone.
I decided to call home as the butler answered with his drab voice.
“Is Zendaya home?” I asked.
“She left almost an hour ago sir,” he said as fear gripped me. Something must have happened. Her phone was not going through, she left home a few hours ago and the person she was to meet had not seen her.
This was unlike her.
Alarm bells started to ring inside my head as I called Aurora back.
“Have you gotten to her?” she asked.
“No,” I replied. “Where are you now?”
“At the busy stop.”
“I’ll meet you at the clinic. Send me the location.”
I cut the call and walked back to join my assistant who had been patiently waiting for me to finish.
“Sir, the new papers have not been…” he started to say as I raised a finger to his face, shutting him up.
“Hold all calls and keep all messages until I return. I’ve got something more important to attend to.”
I jumped into the car as she sent the message.
“St Catherine hospital,” I said to the driver. “And hurry.”
He nodded, speeding out of the company and driving through the empty government road as we headed for the clinic.
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I got to the clinic just in time to see Aurora waiting for me at the car park.
“Hey,” I smiled as I got out of the car. It had been a long time since we had talked to each other face to face. Maybe that would be during my marriage with her sister and she had told me congratulations.
“Hello Mr Presi…” she caught herself before chuckling. “Hello Asher.”
“So where is this bus stop you both were to meet at?” I asked, walking to the main road.
She pointed to a bus stop close to the car park which was around ten feet from where I was standing.NôvelDrama.Org copyrighted © content.
We both walked there to see a key on the floor. It was the key to her car. She always carried it no matter where she was going.
She was here but something had happened. I looked to the pole across the road to see a security camera there. There were other cameras around the hospital too. This would be an easy one then.
I entered the hospital, asking to see the chief of security as everyone in the hospital wanted to talk to me.
I smiled at them before following him into his office. I explained what happened and we were allowed to go through the security footage.
We found that she had arrived at the bus stop but a van with blacked out plates had stopped and grabbed her.
“No,” gasped Aurora who started to cry. This was bad for her baby.
I turned to my driver. “Call the nurse and have her taken care of.”
He nodded, taking her away as I got out my phone. Since they wanted to play like that I would play with them. They had no idea who they were dealing with.
“Mr President,” he said but I was not in the mood for greeting.
“We’ve got another kidnapping, but this time it’s not Travis.”
He was shocked to hear this but he was going to go with what I told him.
“I want you to swarm this hospital with your people and get me results.”
“Where are you sir?” he asked as I sent him the name of the hospital through text. “We will be right there in no time.”
I thanked the officer and headed for Aurora’s ward where she was crying in her bed.
“This is all my fault,” she cried blaming herself. “I should have left her alone but instead I wanted her to go with me.”
“It is not your fault,” I smiled at her, comforting the woman. “It couldn’t be. How could you know that the woman had a target on her back?”
I had so many questions as to why she had not used her car as usual. Why had she decided that today of all days was the day she would go without her car. I found this strange.
I wondered if Delia had something to do with this but put it off that she wasn’t this smart to pull it off.