The agents were jaw dropped as they watched the Men from Apex security, setting up the equipment they came with....Most of them, they hadn't seen before or even know how it works.
The president, Damien, Damon and Derek were by the side, away from earshot conversing, while the whole division wondered the relationship between the four.
No one in the country knew of the three until last week when Damien came out as the CEO and Owner of Apex conglomerate, and surely no one had ever seen them with the president anywhere, not in pictures in the internet, not at the White house and certainly not in any occasion, what exactly is their relationship? Everyone wondered.
Damien heard each and every of their thought but gave no mind to it. Whatever they want, they can speculate on.
"Since there is no buzz about serena's disappearance, I take it the media hadn't gotten a wind of it" Damon asked.
"Yes they haven't, we've tried to keep a tight lip about it so that the buzz doesnt affect the case or tip the kidnappers off" the president said.
On a closer look, anyone could see she was barely holding on because of her status, which is tough because Serena is her only daughter and last baby.
Damien could perceive the anxiety oozing from her pores and could hear how hard her heart was beating behind her ribcage. She was terrified for her daughter.
"We will find serena I promise, once we know exactly where she was last seen in the country, leave the rest for me, we will definitely find her, and whomever took her for whatever reason, will pay with their lives" Damien said calmly while patting her on the back.
"I trust you, I know you guys will find her" she said smiling warmly.
"Is there anyone you suspect, that might go this far to harm you and your family" Derek asked.
She laughed softly at the obvious question.
"Being the first female president is enough reason to be hated and targetted by bunch of misogynistic men that think a woman should never head any position no matter how competent she is, so derek the list is long" she repiled
Meanwhile...
"What exactly is their relationship?" Stephanie whispered to Lauren..
lauren shrugged as she too have no idea, not like she knew them personally.
Looking at the four sitting far off from everyone else, she could see how close they were, and if not that the information of the president was available in the public domain she would have thought that they were her distant cousin.
She was still in her thought when the IT teams from Apex announced that they were set up and ready..
"Our satellite images shows that the kidnappers were last seen at the summervile underground train station last night " Tony, head of the IT team at the NDI said pointing at the large screen.
"Zoom in on the image of the man beside her with a tattoo of snake on his face" Damien said as he had a hunch of who that might be.
"As you can see, they avoided the camera very well so we couldnt get any clear picture, but we did run a facial recognition on all data base to see if anyone with this type of tattoo will come up but so far nothing" Tony said.
"We have the video of when they drove in and packed just outside the station, sweeping the mirrors of the car now to get his face" the team from Apex announced.
'These men literally hacked and cleared every CCTV footage of them from when they came out of her apartment to the train station, how did they get the video' the director and everyone wondered except of cause the people from Apex.
They watched as the men worked their magic and in less than ten minutes the picture of the man with snake tattoo showed clearly on the large screen.
The NDI team ran his facial recognition but nothing came up again, the director was already fed up with his team, they are clearly losing and that in front of the president in such a crucial moment.
He made a mental note to request for increased budget in the next shareholders meeting for his division, they need to keep up.
"Mazariou" Damien said calmly.
"You know him?" The Director asked the question on everyone's mind..
"Oh yes we do, we had an encounter with him in the past, he is certainly not a nice guy" Derek said..
"That's describing him in nice way derek, Mazariou is a monster, he is always involved in the most unspeakable crimes known to humanity since the beginning of time" Damon said, cryptic as he may sound, they understood the gravity of the situation.
The people where still wondering if what they heard were true or an exaggeration, when the team from Apex pulled up every information on Mazariou..
They were beyond shocked with the things they read and images they saw.
"My goodness, he is worse than a monster" the president said and thats when it dawned on her that it will take a miracle to save her daughter.
"Where did you get this, this information is not anywhere in any of our data base and we have ran his facial on the data base in almost all the continents including the dark web" the director said as a matter of fact.
"It was redacted from the server in Russia, so we ran every redacted file on the system and found it" the man said.
"If I'm not mistake she might not be the only girl that he took, has there been a case of missing girls over tha past couple of weeks or there about" Damian asked.
Lauren came forward, as she was the leader of the alpha team and it was her case.
"Yes unfortunately, five ladies had been declared missing over the past three weeks and every of our attempt to find them had hit a dead end, no trail of their disappearance or video evidence that could point us to the right direction,its like the women vanished into thin air, thinking about it now, it's similar to this one" she briefed.
The three men were impressed on seeing how she worked first hand, if not that the situation their were in was dire they would have complimented her.
"They are taking her to Italy?" Damien asserted,sighing he remember what time of the year it was.
"How would you know that, nothing about this case points to Italy, we should be looking at Russia since they were the ones that redacted his files and might give us more information about him" Alex said as a matter of fact, his case sounded like a valid point but only to the humans there.
"I promised the president that I would get her daughter back to her safe and sound, I am not obligated to your agency and definitely not taking orders from a mere human" Damien snorted as he turned to leave with his team.
"Wait Mr Voltorie" Lauren called out, he stopped instantly and turned to look at her.
"How do you know that she will taken to italy?" She asked.
"Because I know who Mazariou is and exactly what he planned to do with the girls" Damien said calmly, everyone was suprised how his tone changed when he answered her, unlike how he answered Alex a moment ago.
"Sir, I suggest we go to Italy then, they are the only ones in this room that knew of Mazariou before us and might help us find the other girls " Lauren turned and reasoned to the director. The director thought for a while before giving the go ahead for the mission.
"Since it's a mission outside the country where we have no jurisdiction, we will be going undercover quietly, get the girls and leave immediately....and Lauren you will head the mission as always, while Alex will join your team on a consultancy capacity" the director said.
"Lauren your team are welcome to join me in my jet, we leave in 5 minutes" Damien said before going into the conference room with Damon and Derek to wait on them.
"This seems like a trap Damien, and you might be the actual target, Mazariou knows of our connection to the president and might be using the daughter to lure you again" Derek said as soon as they entered the room.
"I know it's a trap, but this time I will not let him live" Damien said curtly.
"What if the trap was not Damien but Lauren, who says we are the only ones who knew of of the prophecy?" Damon asked the most unexpected question..