Where Is Anna

“He seems okay and would be a good assistant,” Michael said walking towards the door and locking it.

“Men would do anything for money, loyalty is what’s important,” Lee said, before pulling his suitcase to the master bedroom.

“Boss we forget to ask him about the orphanage,” Michael said before entering the guest room on the opposite side of the living room area.

“Didn’t we already find it?” Lee asked.

“You mean the house we stopped in front of is the orphanage? How do you know that?”

“Don’t ask any questions, just get some rest,” Lee said and then locked his room door.

Lee head to the shower and take a cold bath, he found that this country was too humid for his liking, a good thing he brought a lot of cotton t-shirt and jeans pants, or else he would feel suffocated in only wearing suits the whole day.

By the time he got on the bed, it was midnight in Trinidad but he couldn’t sleep as his body clock would wake him at five in the morning, which would be the time in England at that moment. He sighed and rubbed his eyes, ‘Why can’t sleep come?’ he asked himself.

He closed his eyes and thought of those hazel brown eyes that were looking at them from the window, ‘I wish she is really my mate, but she looks so young just about fourteen to fifteen years. How come I could see her and the others couldn’t? Could it be because I know who I am looking for and that is why I can see her? Please let her be my mate, if she is, I promise to marry her on the nineteenth of this month.’

For some reason, after he had the thought of marrying her once she was his mate, his body relaxed and his mind calmed down. Soon he was consumed in a deep sleep, unknowing to him because of his relaxed state Michael also slept well and there was a calmness that passed through all the members of his subordinates, and a desire to protect immediately consumed them all.

Lee was awakened to the sound of someone knocking on the door, he got off the bed and just as he was about to open his room door he heard Michael say, “I’m coming.”

‘Someone is here,’ he thought, he went to the bathroom and freshened up as he had sweat a lot from the heat in the country. He changed into a comfortable set of clothes before opening the door and walk out. He saw there was a middle-aged woman sitting on the sofa with a young lady that seemed to be in her early twenties.

“Good morning,” the woman said as soon as she saw Lee. “Welcome to Cedros and Trinidad. I am your landlord for these two weeks. Davis told me you all arrived home last night and because I didn’t want to wake the both of you, that is why we only came now. If we knew that you were still resting we would have come a little later.”

“What is the time?” Lee asked, looking at Michael who was frowning while looking at the young lady that was eyeing Lee like a candy that she wanted to eat.

“It is only two in the afternoon. Oh, this is my daughter, she is also awaiting a job just like Davis. If you want you can get her to help prepare meals, clean, and even do your laundry,” the woman said. “Oh right I forget to introduce myself, I am Mrs. Patiram and this is Abigail, but you can call her Abby.”

“Thanks for the offer, we will let you know if we need her,” Michael said.

The front door then opened and in walked Davis followed by a man, “Mom, how could you do that? The boss and his assistant need enough rest before they head out to work from tomorrow,” Davis protested.

“Yes love, the two of them just arrived from England and they need to get over their jetlag by tomorrow,” the man said.

“Fine, if you guys need Abby for anything, and I mean for anything just let Davis give us a call,” the woman said as she grabbed the young girl’s hand and pulled her out of the house.

“Excuse my mom, she believes that one of you might be interested in my sister. When I returned home last night she questioned me about the two of you. I didn’t finish that interview until around one this morning. She is hoping some foreigner would marry my sister,” Davis said.

“Oh, well my boss already has someone and I believe I already have someone,” Michael said.

“Oh, well I would inform them. Anyway, I would leave you guys to rest. I am heading back home,” Davis said.

“Where is that exactly?” Michael asked.

“Across the road,” Davis said pointing in the direction of the master bedroom.

“Good to know that we wouldn’t have to wait for you if we need you,” Lee said before heading to the kitchen.

“Anyway, later or maybe tomorrow,” Davis said and then leave.

“Boss you wouldn’t believe this, but my body felt so relaxed last night,” Michael said while unwrapping the sandwiches and putting them on a plate before reheating them in the microwave.

“Same here. After breakfast, well snack we would take a stroll along the road until that house. After visiting we would ask Davis to take us to the supermarket to get a few things. We wouldn’t want the people to think that we don’t eat now, do we.”

“Sure,” Michael said.

They each ate two sandwiches and then they organized for the stroll. When they arrived at the orphanage they could see a range of kids walking through the gate. Lee and Michael could tell that there were some kids that were not human among them, but they couldn’t tell exactly what they were as their true scent was mixed with something else.

Lee smiled at all the kids that passed them by the gate as they entered, the smaller ones would wave and smile, the older ones would just wave or nod their head, but then there were three girls that were around the same age that stopped and was just looking at them.

“Hey handsome, came to see me?” a girl that had a slightly different scent asked. She seemed to be the ring leader.

Lee however was looking at the girl with hazel brown eyes, black unevenly cut hair and was standing behind the three girls that seemed to be blocking the entrance. “Hello,” Lee said and stretched out his hand to her.

Michael saw his boss stretching out his hand behind the girls, he thought his boss was going crazy or he was pretending to be blind so the girl that was speaking to him would ignore him.

“Girls get inside, you know the rules. No talking to strangers,” a middle-aged woman said from by the door. “Where is Anna? Did she come with you?” the woman then asked.