Dagur punched the wall behind him. "That scumbag is really asking for it now!"
They had just received Savage's mutilated corpse in a body-bag from an unknown address. Dagur was starting lose the little patience he had left.
"He is clearly planning to target one of us next," Viggo commented. "Judging by the pattern here, I believe Alvin's turn is up next."
The bearded man in question clenched his rotten teeth. "Why don't you send your men after him? What are we waiting for?" he shouted, knocking on the table. "Let us track him down right now and get this over with!"
"It's not that easy," Heather seethed as she entered the room, wearing a long coat that covered up her chopped limbs. "He is armed with explosives and isn't afraid to play martyr if it comes to that. And that's if we even managed to get that close to him. He has at least ten to fifteen people on his watch," she reminded them. "What I don't understand is how he was able to capture Ryker? How did he get past our security system?"
"Something interfered with all the cameras in the building," Viggo explained. "Even managing to switch off the tracking device Ryker wore. This gave Haddock and his men plenty of time to execute their plan without getting caught."
"It still doesn't explain how he was able to sneak inside. Someone must have let him in," Heather insisted.
Eret rubbed his eyes, sighing. "Hiccup has always been very intelligent. Hacking his into the building would be like child's play for him."
"This is why I wanted to upgrade our locks and system," Viggo muttered. "At this point about anyone can break in."
Dagur finally turned to face his comrades. "We need a decoy," he said.
When Eret arrived home Astrid appeared to be in the shower.
He sighed, shrugging off his outwear and slumping down on the couch in the living room.
He ended up taking a nap while he waited for his wife to finish up. Roughly two hours later he woke up to their housekeeper vacuuming the upper floor.
What caught him off guard was the fact that the shower was still running.
Concerned, Eret barged up to his wife's bedroom and forced the bathroom door open with a hard shove. It left a crack in the wall but he couldn't be bother by it at the moment.
Wasting no time, he hurriedly rushed over to draw the curtains back.. and found the site empty.
Astrid was nowhere to be found.