ZACHARY'S P. O. V
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" I am extremely thankful that you came here to look into the matters yourself, knowing how busy your work schedule can be" Said Richard.
I had dropped by to visit Seabay University to discuss a few things.
"This is a part of my work Stevenson, as a member of board of trustees, I believe that it is my responsibility to personally know about a certain few stuff myself rather than relaying on another person for details" I said.
"You sound just like your dad" He chuckled and then asked , " How is your father doing?", bringing the conversation to a lighter note.
" He is doing good" I said. Dad and Richard are very old friends, ever since their college days. I usually hate small talks, but right now it would be rude if I don't try to.
"And how is Jessica doing? " I asked, Jess is Mr. Stevenson's daughter and we used to be classmates during our middle school.
"She is good too, just a little busy with her wedding preparations". He said and I just nodded.
I wasn't in contact with Jessica as we weren't that close before in school, in fact we never spoke. I just knew her as my dad's friends daughter. we occasionally would meet at parties or events, but never conversed more than what is needed.
"Hope you attend the wedding". I heard Richard say.
" Sure.. I will try to be there" I said politely.
Just then a girl ran into me and was about to fall when I instinctively caught hold of her wrists preventing her from falling.
The girl seemed to be in a hurry and she bowed her head and said "sorry". I frowned hearing the voice and looked a little closely and that's when I recognised who it was.
Out of sheer curiosity, I asked her " Do you always bump into people like this or is it only me? "
She snapped her head up and gave out a shocked expression. Such a small world it is, for me to run into the same person like this twice in different places.
Just this morning I had asked Evan, my personal investigator to fetch her details. Since I last met her in NZ, I thought that she is a resident there but to my surprise this clumsy lady is in Seattle, making it much easier to contact her later.
She took some time to snap out of her thoughts and then quickly bowed her head and apologize again before running away towards the exit. I found it even more amusing that she keeps asking me sorry all the time.
I stood there looking at her hurrying out when I heard Richard say "sorry about that".
I slightly shook my head and said, "That's alright Stevenson".
" We'd better be leaving now, it's getting late" I said, bidding him a goodbye and we got in the car.
In the car, I couldn't stop thinking about this mystery girl who keeps bumping into me. It's really strange for the same kind of incident to happen twice with the same two people in different places. Thankfully this time that girl didn't have any drink in her hand and neither did she throw anything at me, it would have been a thousand times more humiliating if she had done something like that in front of Stella and Stevenson. Not that I have forgiven her for what she did last time.
On reaching the office, I saw Evan waiting for me. Evan halter, is my most efficient personal investigator, a well built man in his forties. He has his unique ways of extracting confidential information, which have been extremely helpful in performing business with other companies, knowing their moves and intentions beforehand.
"Sir, here are the information which you asked for" He said, handing me a thick brown envelope.
"That was pretty fast" I said sounding impressed.
"Wasn't that hard to find" He said with a shrug.
"Thank you Evan". I said
"Anytime sir" He said, slightly Bowed his head and then left the room.
I sat on comfortably on my leather chair and excited tore open the sealed envelope. There was a few printed papers and another small white envelope inside.
Pulling out the contents, I placed the small envelope aside and read the papers first.
The papers had the details I needed, neatly typed as follows:
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NAME : KIARA ROSE MELKOT
AGE : 21 YEARS
GENDER : FEMALE
D. O. B. : 12/09/1998
HEIGHT : 5'4
WEIGHT : 110 POUNDS
FATHER : LUCAS JOHN MELKOT (54)
MOTHER : TARA GRACE MELKOT (49)
BROTHER : NICHOLAS MELKOT (27) [ currently residing in Sydney Australia, and owns a game development company - play buster ]
EDUCATIONAL STATUS : M. Sc IN DATA SCIENCE.
OCCUPATION : STUDENT [ Seabay University]
Part time work at BOOKWORMS UNION LIBRARY.
WORK HOURS : 5:00PM TO 8:00PM.
HOME ADDRESS : NO. 2GD, 2ND FLOOR, SHERWOOD TOWERS, 5432 25TH AVENUE NE, SEATTLE, WA 98105.
[ the flat is shared with two other people, Jasmine grand and Riya woods.]
RELATIONSHIP STATUS : SINGLE
PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS : NONE LISTED.
CLOSE ASSOCIATES : JASMINE GRAND (22), RIYA WOODS (23).
HEALTH ISSUES : NONE
HOBBIES : READING, ICE SKATING.
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I was reading these details, when I heard Alexa ring. Placing the papers on the desk, I ordered it to answer the call.
" Sir, you have a meeting in ten minutes " I heard Stella's voice remind me, through Alexa.
"I'll be ready" I said and the call ended. Exhaling loudly, I put the papers back in the brown envelope. There was still two more pages of information left for me to read, but I guess that'll have to wait.
Out of curiosity I just peeked into the small white envelope and it contained the three photos. One was a pic of the girl smiling widely. I must say she is beautiful indeed, with those lovely chocolate brown eyes, her oval face ever so flawless and her waist length black hair with cascading curls in the ends was let down and God damn! Her lips, are absolutely perfect,simply kissable. she was wearing a elegant blue colored dress in this picture and it looked like an old one since she has long hairs in this. Kiara is it?, the name suits her.
The next picture, was a selfie of her and two other girls. Which I presume are her flat mates. This one seems to be recently taken as her hairs are short, only reaching her shoulders.
The next picture was a family photo, apart from the girl, the rest of the family members looked strangely familiar, but just can't remember if I have met them before. I didn't have much time to ponder, quickly putting back the photos back in the envelope along with the papers, I placed them in the drawer where I keep my other office files.
I stood up from my chair and walked out of the office to attend the meeting.