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‘Is there anyone who would have taken her?’ I asked as I paced the sitting room to the kitchen.
The pictures were strewn on the table along with Valentina’s laptop and phone. We couldn’t find anything.
I went back into her room, searching for something, anything, that would lead to finding her. On the carpet near the far wall of her bedroom, a small pile of white dust gathered in one spot next to her wardrobe. It was only a tiny amount, but significant enough to be odd.
Following the wall in a straight line up the edge of the furniture, I found a tiny hole with a smooth glass fitting inside.
‘Who lives on the other side of this wall?’
‘Our neighbour, Tim. But he’s been home all morning. Muhammed said he got home just after Valentina left. He wasn’t with her.’
‘Tim’s been spying on her.’
Lara’s eyes widened before her face pulled into a frown. ‘I’ll kill him. He’s always had a thing for her, but I didn’t think he was an actual creep.’
She tore from the room and I ran to catch up with her as her knuckles rapped hard on the neighbour’s door.
‘Hey,’ he said as he opened the door. Confusion turned to fear when he saw me, trying to slam the door closed. Pushing my foot in the gap, I blocked the door from closing fully before forcing my way into the apartment and holding the scrawny little loser up by the throat.
‘Where the fuck is she?’ I growled as Lara went into his bedroom, coming back with a pin-hole camera in her hand.
‘You sick fuck!’ she yelled. ‘You’ve been watching her room non-stop, haven’t you?’
‘Only after the guy asked me to. He said that I needed to get him proof so he could make Logan go away and I could have her back on the site. I’m Footguy. I’d never hurt her. I love her.’
I punched him in the face, his nose bursting a red torrent down his shirt.
‘What fucking guy?’
‘He’s her brother or something?’
‘She doesn’t have a brother,’ Lara said.
Hugh. It had to be Hugh. But there was no way he knew about us. Unless he’d been watching Valentina for a while. Fuck.
I pulled out my phone and dropped the snivelling creep to the floor. Nicole’s Instagram did the trick.
‘Is this him?’
‘Yeah,’ Tim nodded while wiping at his nose. ‘That’s him.’
‘Fuck.’ I put my fist through Tim’s plasterboard wall as he squealed. Storming to his room, I smashed anything electronic I could find. Hard drives, his laptop, even his phone.
‘Stop!’ he shouted.
‘Get out of this flat and stay away from Valentina and Lara for good. If you ever set foot in this building or within a mile of them again, I’m going to split your ballsack open and feed you your nuts.’
‘Lara, go home and lock the door. I’ll send some of my guys round to make sure Tim here listens to me.’
‘I’ll call the police,’ he said.
‘You think we don’t have them in our pockets? That they’d give a shit about a peeping-fucking-tom?’ I rounded on Tim and laid a boot into his ribcage. ‘You’re lucky I haven’t suspended you out of your window by your guts. If I didn’t need to go get my girl, I would.’
Sending a text to my tech guys, I had them destroy any trace of Tim’s online backups while I got into my car and headed straight for the Valetti mansion.
CHAPTER FORTY FIVE
VALENTINA
