Little Bride Alvaro

12. Track Location

"San, Azlina's coming with you, isn't she?" Salwa's sister, with an anxious face, called her sister Ahsan, who was still busy with her client's wedding. Ahsan immediately pulled over, looking for a place that was a bit quiet from the hustle and bustle of guests that turned out to be so crowded.

Ms. Darmini was very anxious when she contacted Salwa, asking her eldest daughter for help in finding Azlina. Salwa patiently reassured Ms. Darmini that Azlina would soon be found, so that the old woman was not too worried about the existence of her youngest daughter.

"No, Ma'am. He should have come home from the office. I just asked Azlina for help to take care of it until the time to come home." Ahsan looked at the clock on his wrist which showed it at eight p.m. His face also looked anxious, lest something happen to his sister.

"He's not home yet, San. She called her phone, but it wasn't active."

As Ahsan recalled her sister's phone call earlier this afternoon, when she and her team were so busy preparing for the party, Azlina contacted her for permission to look for flowers, take one job for customers who come to the Aurora Event Organizer office. Until he immediately thought of one place where they could get fresh and hard-to-find flowers.

"Sir, not Azlina to Asri's place."

"What?!"

...***...

The information from Ahsan was quite helpful for Salwa to search for Azlina's whereabouts. Until when Sean Paderson - his husband - had finished his night shower after coming home from work, he intended to let him know. Salwa accompanied the husband to enjoy dinner together, but the man seemed to notice the anxious face of the woman's countenance.

Sean stopped his activities enjoying Salwa cuisine. His gaze was full of inquiring, but wrapped in a noticeable gentleness when he noticed the woman. He stuck out his hand, touching Salwa's fingers that had been on the table.

"What's wrong? What are you thinking?"

Salwa shook her head, then thinned her smiling lips. Her fingers touched the hand of the husband who had now grasped his left hand. "Recycle your food. I'll tell you after this."

Sean nodded in greeting to Salwa's words. He calmly enjoyed his meal. However anxious that Salwa was feeling, did not make the woman tell her husband to speed up the meal. So that Sean can taste the dish calmly so that the stomach is easy to digest the food well.

"So, say! What makes you nervous?" sean asked then, after chugging away at the drink provided by Salwa.

"Azlina's missing, Mas. Will you help me find him?"

...***...

Salwa's explanation was enough to get a clue. The man immediately hacked the CCTV in the Aurora Event Organizer by setting the time when Azlina contacted Ahsan.

Sean Paderson owns a company that works on security systems. Just hacking sister-in-law's own CCTV is not a difficult matter. Quickly the screen in front of him was showing a recording of the incident a few hours ago.

His eyes were astonished to see who someone was having a conversation with Azlina. He looked furious, how could the man approach his sister-in-law. Does he really want to take revenge for not being able to get his brother?

In the past, Sean Paderson had a quarrel with the man, Alvaro. At that time Alvaro was trying to catch up with Salwa right when Sean went abroad to finish a need. They had a fistfight until Alvaro ended up battered in the hospital.

Sean got up from his seat, immediately contacting Mr. Agus to ask him where his son was. However, what had become the answer of the man, made Sean even more angry.

Mr. Agus explained that Alvaro suddenly turned off the call when contacting him so he did not have time to find information on where Alvaro was at that time.

"He's back to running away my brother-in-law" Sean said coldly on the phone. "Hurry up here, get your cell phone! I'll trace their whereabouts from the last call your son made." Sean said in full order to Mr. Agus who is one of his business colleagues.

***

Salwa lowered her head with an occasional rejuvenation that had fused. The worry that whack for the safety of his youngest brother was unable to hide. Sean could see that, until he sat down next to his wife, and wrapped his arms around her and hugged Salwa's back.

"Calm down! Everything's gonna be okay."

He remembered Alvaro, how the man had once been desperate to hide himself behind the campus building just to impose his will on Salwa. Alvaro is deliberately targeting Azlina because he wants revenge. Salwa should have realized that when she got the report that Alvaro had taken Azlina away.

However, Azlina's explanation that she accidentally met Alvaro and ended up in a fast food restaurant makes Salwa think that it was just a coincidence. But why did Alvaro take his brother away? What are they doing right now?

Until the grip of the hand tightened, making Salwa look towards her husband. "Please find him."

"I'll find her" Sean replied later by hugging Salwa, calming the woman down so as not to worry too much about Azlina's whereabouts.

***

It was not only Sean and Agus Cahyono, Alvaro's father, who had been searching for Azlina, but Salwa and his two younger brothers Ahsan and Alfatih were also searching. They set off after they had finished preparing themselves and got their intended location at exactly twelve p.m.

The motorcade was inevitable. There were three cars speeding through the drizzle of rain. Mr. Agus with his wife sat in the passenger cabin with a car driven by his personal driver. The other two cars were boarded by the Azlina family, including Sean and Salwa.

"Mas, did they not do anything bad? I'm afraid Azlina why-why?" Salwa bit the tip of her fingernails, too anxious about what happened to Azlina. May Alvaro not destroy his eldest brother's future.

Sean only clasped Salwa's hand without answering his wife's question, his right hand was busy driving with a straight forward view because heavy rain had disrupted his visibility.

The further they move up the urban area, the more rain pouring makes them unable to get to the location quickly. Until an information if on the high land they will go is a storm, making anxiety more haunting Salwa. He wanted to find Azlina immediately, but conditions were not possible.

"They're fine. The man's last call was at a hotel. Unfortunately, they only booked one single-size room for the night."

Sean's words about the information he got from the results of hacking several hotel databases that Alvaro visited made Salwa more agitated. What are they doing right now? May Alvaro and Azlina not sin by doing what they should not.

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