hey guys im so sorry for the late update. i tried to update mon but my laptop crashed and yesterday was my birthday so I was gone l day.

Hope you enjoy a lil more Henry Ivy, talk of victoria and some more on the investigation

Ivy continues to work on a contract agreement draft for the new shopping center Victoria is building, after all she does have actual work to do other than stalking her mother. She finishes up the draft, places all the documents in a folder in the filing cabinet, she tidies up her desk and gathers her things just as her phone rings, she clicks the speaker phone option to answer. "Henry, hey. Whats up?" "Hey Ivy are you busy? " She's at the door at this point, purse on one arm and phone in her bra so she can lock the door. "I'm just locking up the office actually so I'm about to be free, why?" "Well I just got done helping Jacinda with my shift on the food truck and thought you might want to grab dinner." "Sure, we can try the Italian place that just opened up. I will meet you there in a few minutes. I'm getting in the car now."

Ivy pulls up to the restaurant and sees Henry standing outside with his big grin and she smiles. "Hey Henry, been waiting long?" She asks as she walks up to him and clicks the remote to lock the car. "Not at all. How was your day?" They walk into the restaurant. "It's been ok, everything at work is super busy, my mother is quite the slave driver." Henry laughs as they are seated. "Yeah I bet it's been rough since Roni kept the bar." Ivy sighs "Yes but Roni's can stay there, we made new plans to work around her building and honestly since she has been bringing in so much business it might be a good thing for us as well." Henry's eyebrows shoot up "Oh well that's great!" The waiter comes and they place their orders, Ivy sips her water "Yes it really is, so how are things with Jacinda?" Henry chokes on his water a bit. "Things are good you know, I've been helping with the food truck and Lucy. Lucy wants to have dinner with me Tuesday actually. I just wish I knew how Jacinda really felt. She stays so guarded no matter what I do to help or prove she can trust me." "Well at least you are getting time with her, just give her some time. She likes you, she will come around."

The food comes "Thank you." they tell the waiter as they start eating. "So is your mom all freaked out like Roni is about these recent missing women in town?" Henry asks Ivy changing the subject from Jacinda. "Missing women? What do you mean?" He shrugs "Oh you haven't heard? The police came by the bar asking around about some missing women, they came to the food truck too. It seems one woman in particular they think has something to do with it so they are looking for her as well." Ivy swallows her bite. "That's awful. What do they think she is doing with them?" He shrugs again. "I don't know, maybe helping people kidnap them or something. They won't say much but Roni and I spoke about it briefly she has been a little worried because she has some friend staying with her and well...two single women alone can be kind of a target." Ivy takes another drink to wash down her bite "I can imagine. What friend does she have staying with her?" She takes another bite and looks up to Henry expectantly. He swallows his bite. "Some woman named Emma I think, I haven't met her, Roni says she is from out of town." She nods "I didn't know she knew anyone outside of town." He shakes his head "Me either but I'm sure she had a life before she moved here."

"True. Thanks for inviting me out." Ivy says as she wipes her mouth with her napkin. "Yeah I know it's been a while since we hung out and I'm glad you were free." Henry smiles and Ivy smiles back "It's nice to have a friend, I never really had much of a life outside of work before, it feels good to have someone to talk to especially with my mother acting so weird sometimes and working me so hard." Henry furrows his brows "What do you mean acting weird? Is she ok?" "Yeah she's fine, I think. She just keeps using the elevator at times she has no need for it, when there's no meetings and no need for the offices the elevator leads to. And I found some weird symbols, I'm sure she is using it as some new icon for the advertising but something doesn't sit right with me about it." "What kind of symbol is it?" Ivy takes out her phone and shows Henry "I took a picture just in case." "Ivy this looks like some kind of pagan or cult symbol." She puts her phone away. "I know but I can't imagine my mom being involved in anything like that." "Still you should be careful." Ivy nods "I will. I was going to go back to the office tonight since she is out with Lucy and look around more. I thought I could search her office again but without interruption this time." Henry grabs his coat. "I'll go with you." They pay the check and head back to Ivy's office.

Ivy unlocks the door as they both look around to make sure no one sees them going back inside. She could always tell her mother she forgot something, she would just rather not get caught in the middle of snooping. She sends Lucy a quick text to make sure they are still occupied and is relieved with her reply. They head into the office and leave the lights off just in case. Once they get to Victoria's office Ivy flicks the lights on since there are no windows in that office, no threat to being caught. Henry goes through Victoria's desk while Ivy searches the filing cabinet. Henry spots the papers with the symbols. "Ivy is this what you showed me?" "Yes" she nods while thumbing through more folders. "These pages look like they come from a book, did you find a book at all?" "No, all I saw were those, at first they just looked like doodles all over the pages but they seem to evenly spaced to not be on purpose and none of them look like any kind of symbol she would brand a company with." "I think if we could find the book these pages came out of we would have more information. It must be old, they look discolored and worn."

"There's nothing in here" she sighs as she flops into the chair deflated. "What about the other offices?" Ivy shakes her head "No, we only have a few other employees, none of her stuff would be in those offices as they are assigned to the chief of design, head of finances and roles like that. That will all be their belongings. And the meeting rooms are always empty because they're used when there is a staff meeting, meeting with bankers or other companies. I think we should call it a night. I can do some more spying on my own but it's getting late and mother expects me to check in." Henry nods " Alright, well if you need me let me know." Ivy smiles " I will." She locks up and drives Henry back to his car. " Hey Henry...ask Jacinda out already." she calls to him from the driver seat as he exits the car. He laughs and shakes his head. " Alright, alright."

Ivy shoots her mom a quick text that everything is wrapped up for the night and locked up, that she already had dinner with Henry and she is heading home, that way she doesn't get suspicious of the time it took for her to check in.

Henry heads over to the bar to see Roni before turning in for the night. The bell dings as he enters, Roni's head shoots up and she smiles. " Henry, what are you doing here so late?"

"Well hello to you to." He laughs "I know you're closing up, I just came by on my way home from dinner with Ivy." Roni's smile falls and she looks more serious "Dinner with Ivy? Like a date?" Henry laughs "No, no date, just friends, she actually told me to hurry up and ask Jacinda out."He laughs before continuing "I ended up helping her look around Victoria's office, she thinks she is up to something but we didn't find anything except these weird symbols." Roni lets out a deep breath "Good, Jacinda likes you ya know." she then squints her brows in the middle of her nose and asks " What weird symbols? Why is she snooping on Victoria? I mean the woman is always up to something business wise but what has Ivy roping you in?"

" Well she said Victoria had been acting suspicious, I had asked her to find out anything she could to help Lucy for us to 'prove there is no curse' but it seems she actually found something that was unsettling." He took out his phone and showed her pictures of the pages he had found.

" That looks like what Weaver showed me!" Kelly calls from behind Henry as he almost falls out his chair with a jump. "Jesus woman, a little warning next time?" Kelly laughs and Roni says " yeah she's good at sneaking up on people." " Sorry." Kelly shrugs " Anyway yeah Weaver was in here asking about that woman again when he wanted to talk to me and showed me a picture. One of the women has this symbol right here tattooed on their wrist." Roni turns to Kelly " When did he show you that? He only showed us the woman they were searching for." Kelly holds her hands up " Now don't freak out but the two women missing are actually dead and they had that tattoo. He didn't want to scare you and your little girlfriend but yeah that's the symbol, you need to tell him about this Henry this is serious Victoria could be connected to the serial killer." Roni looks a mixture of shocked and angry "First Emma is not my girlfriend, second are you serious they're dead and you're just now telling me?!" Kelly steps back "In my defense I'm not even supposed to know that much about the case as a civilian and I'm only telling you now because Henry just found evidence."

"Ok guys let's focus, if this symbol is connected to these murders and Victoria has a connection, Kelly is right she could be dangerous. Roni you need to somehow get Jacinda to keep Lucy from her and tomorrow I will go to the station and talk to Weaver." Roni runs a hand through her hair and lets out a deep breath " I will try but Henry, she has a court order for visitation so Jacinda can't hide her from Victoria." " I know but just keep an eye out for her while I go to the station, I know she will be in school but I just worry you know." Roni smiles lightly and places a hand on his "I know." Roni steps back and finishes cleaning the glasses. " I gotta lock up Henry, but keep me posted ok?" He nods "I will. Oh and uh- when am I going to meet this mystery girl of yours?" He wiggles his eyebrows suggestively. Roni just laughs and shakes her head "She's just a friend and soon. She's already upstairs for the night but you can meet her soon." With that statement he nods and waves " Ok then. Have a good night guys." "You too." They call back to him.