Chapter 35: Suspect

Mick went through David's phone as he took the elevator down to the garage, his calls were to Josef then the call that went to his voicemail. In the garage Josef was getting out of his Ferrari as two large black SUV's pulled in and parked and more of Josef's men filed out. "What have you found?"

"Not much. Candice is upstairs, I think she's been drugged, but David was taken."

"What? Taken where? By who?" Josef looked at his men, "I want him found."

The team breaks off into groups to begin to investigate leaving Mick and Josef alone, "I scented the scene. I picked up a woman and two men, probably hired thugs."

"Who was the woman?"

"I…she looked vaguely familiar but I can't place her." Mick shakes his head frustrated that he couldn't be of more help. "I don't know where I've seen her before but she was definitely a vamp, I'd say younger than you but older than David."

"What'd she look like?"

"Attractive. She had long dark hair, bronzed complexion, I couldn't get a good read on her eyes but she was about six foot in those heels."

Josef takes it all in, "I can't place it either she could be one of hundreds of women."

"The message though…she sounded as though she knew David." Mick begins going through David's call history further back remembering David had a problem with Candice over a woman from his past. He found the calls with a Mia but there is no photo attached to the number anymore. "What do you know about Mia?"

Josef thought about the name but wasn't coming up with much off hand. He walked back to his car and pulled out his tablet and did a search and found her, "Oh yes I remember her I never had the pleasure of meeting her." he held it out for Mick, "Is this her?"

"That's her. That's why she looked familiar," Mick remembered seeing her before when he was doing some shopping online for a gift for Beth, she was a model.

Josef went back to clicking away on his tablet and pulled up Kostan Industries files and opened the one he had created on Mia. "Why do you have a file on her?"

Josef grinned, "When David first started to write to the woman he created a mini file with her information since she managed to get contact with him through the company. After she started dropping by the office I had some of my people do a work up on her. Then something happened and David made sure security personnel wouldn't allow her into the building."

"Yeah from what I overheard between Beth and Candice, Mia and David had a history and she wanted him back but he wasn't interested. David had no idea," Josef snorted at that, "yeah I know but he is guilty as the rest of us of not noticing the feelings of other women when we are perfectly happy."

"True," Josef amended. "So we know who took him…but why? If what you heard is right and she wanted him back what does she think she's going to do? Chain him up until he agrees to stay with her?"

"I don't know Josef but we have to find him."

"We will Mick my guys are going over the buildings security system now see if we can get anything from it. They are good at their job."

"Because you only hire the best," Mick knew this and the thought was comforting.

"You know it. Now lets go see about Candice."

Beth couldn't stand the idea of Candice being drugged and not knowing how long she would be out. She knew they were alike in many ways and if Mick were missing she wouldn't want to be knocked out while other people worked on saving the man she loved. Having an idea Beth quickly made her way to the kitchen and opened a few draws before she found the drawer with syringes and pulled out one of the blood bags she had brought from home silently thanking Mick for telling her to bring them.

Carefully Beth filled the syringe with blood then finding the vein in Candice's arm slowly injected it. Beth repeated this process four times before Mick and Josef walked in, Mick looking at her with a questioning look. Josef just smiled, "Good thinking Beth."

"Thanks Josef, I thought…if she is drugged then giving her blood will help flush her system." Mick realized what she was doing as she was explaining it and smiled down at her.

"Are you using the blood we brought from the house? We don't know what they were drugged with."

Before Beth could answer Josef picks up the bottle of blood on the coffee table, "I think we do." He sees the card beside it, supposedly from him, "I didn't send them any blood…not today anyways." He took a whiff, "I don't smell anything but I'll have it tested."

Mick took the bottle and took a whiff as well checking himself, "If the blood was drugged after the bottle was filled it should leave a scent, even a faint one."

"Not necessarily Mick," Josef looked at Candice who was still passed out as Beth gave her another injection. "How do vampires get drunk? Drink the blood of someone who is already intoxicated. If the person this blood came from was dosed with any number of things not even our noses could detect it."

"But if it's enough to knock out two vampires then the person would be…" Beth followed the train of thought as she refilled the syringe happy to be focusing on doing something.

"Dead," Josef finished.

As Beth injects the seventh injection of blood into Candice's arm she begins to stir. Beth finishes the injection and sets the needle aside moving her hands to Candice's shoulders, "Candice can you hear me? It's Beth, I need you to wake up."

To Be Continued…

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