422 Finding Peter’s Sponsor

Elijah didn’t join her in the bathroom and Adele seems to have pretty much gotten the point because she didn’t speak on it and it was almost as if last night didn’t happen, thankfully.

At least she was a pretty reasonable person and didn’t allow that to ruin their working relationship and Elijah had to admit he admired that. She was a strong woman.

Adele was determined to look into him and for some reason, goosebumps climbed Elijah’s arms as he wondered why she was so obsessed with finding him. However, he wanted to know who sponsored Peter Ivanov, the man who employed his services through the dark web – not that the others knew.

From the records so far – the papers scattered on his table before them – there was no evidence to show that Peter had the resources to hire Elijah aka him, hence someone had to have sponsored him to make that move. Someone rich and had a vendetta against the Luciano family.

Just like him, Marcel seems to have no clue as well and thankfully, that was enough reason to convince Adele to give up finding Elijah – for the moment – and concentrate on finding Peter’s sponsor, because finding the weapons was equivalent to finding Elijah.

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Unfortunately, Peter Ivanov was a dead end because the man – when he was alive – was an orphan, meaning he had no family, except the dog he heard now lives with Marcel, which wasn’t surprising honestly – Marcel had quite the habit of taking what doesn’t belong to him. Elijah hated his guts. But not for too long, he could see his plans already coming to an end once he made a breakthrough with Peter.

“I told you, there’s nothing we can find in here,” Adele complained, giving up on reading Peter’s records she claimed to have gone through over a hundred times.

Elijah gave her an unbelievable look, “So you give up easily on things that bug your mind?” He hinted that he wouldn’t rest until he found out the truth.

“Clearly we don’t share the same type of obsession,” She would rather chase the phantom ghost to the end of the earth than finding a dead man’s sponsor’s

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“But we share the same passion in bed,” Elijah was almost tempted to say and was revolted at the thought. Where did that come from?

“Come on,” He stood up, urging her to do the same, “When you want to find a dead man, you go to his grave, when you solve cases like this one, you start from the beginning.”

“What beginning?” Adele groaned, standing up reluctantly. She looked at Aziz, his hair was ruffled from running his hands through it while thinking earlier, but even at that, the man looked good.

However, in the next minute, her mind decided to play a special trick on her by reminding her of the way her hands yanked that hair last night while she was lost in passion. Damn it, this wasn’t the time for this.

Moreover, he had made it clear to her that last night was just a one-night stand and she wasn’t that type of girl that went for emotional attachment. If he wanted it that way, she would play by his rules and hoped he kept it as well. She wasn’t ready for any emotional whiplash.

“So, where are we going?” Adele asked, readjusting her clothes. Although it was the same as last night because she hadn’t gotten the chance to return home but at least she had showered – in his bathroom and applied his perfume as well.

Elijah’s eyes couldn’t help but notice her movement and his eyes lingered on her chest a little too much and took his eyes off her before she thought he was into her or something. Nothing of that nature would happen between them. She hated Elijah and would love nothing but to kill him, but then, he was Elijah and very much loved his life.

So he answered her, focusing on the task at hand, “You’d know when we get there.”

Hours later, they arrived at Peter’s place and Adele sighed, “Had I known that this was your idea of a beginning, I wouldn’t have come here,” She ran her hand through her hair saying, “We’ve searched here thoroughly, and trust me, there was no stone left unturned.”

“His accomplice could have been here,” Elijah argued, stepping towards the bungalow.

“He has no accomplice, trust me, I’ve been there. Moreover, there’s one of us keeping an eye out for this place in case he indeed has an accomplice.” She rolled her eyes as if he was wasting his time here.

“Then be with me this time,” He grinned at her, breaking into the house.

Once in the foyer, Elijah instructed her, “Take downstairs, I’ll take up,”

“Sure, boss,” Adele mock saluted him but did as he said. If there was indeed evidence that they overlooked, she wanted to find it.

Adele was right when she said there was nothing here because her people ransacked the whole place and even if there was evidence here, he couldn’t find it with this mess. However, he didn’t give up on his search when he suddenly heard a scream that belonged to Adele.

Without even a second thought, Elijah ran downstairs with his heart pounding in his throat and his body prepared to fight thinking that there was an attack or something only to find Adele standing on a table while a rat scurried away at the last minute.

“Help me! Rat!” She screamed girly which was unlike her. So the iron lady wasn’t that brave after all.

Elijah burst into laughter while Adele jumped down from the table seeing that the rat was gone, red in the face.

“Stop that!” Adele warned him, embarrassed to the core. She just hated those rodents, they disgusted her and made the hairs on her body stand on edge.

“Fine,” Elijah said, but there was still amusement in his eyes and she knew that this wouldn’t be the end of it.

“Now, you listen to me,” She was irritated. After the damn rat episode! Now he knows her weakness! Men are so stupid and annoying!

They both made it outside and were about to leave when Elijah suddenly spotted the mailbox out of the corner of his eyes and stopped.

“What?” Adele noticed the change in him.

“I think I just discovered the only place you didn’t search. ”