Chapter 7 REYDA HARVEY

Grabbing a t-shirt and a handgun from my closet a pair of sneakers and a cap I got into the Toyota I stole and drive to the bar, my guards behind me in disguised cars to not alert anyone.

‘Little inn bar I've passed by this place many times but never have I once gone in and had a drink, I pull my cap down low bent my head, and walked into the bar.

A young girl asked me what I’d like to have,

“A double whiskey with a cherry and no ice.”

She paused, tried looking under the cap, and looked away,

“Ashley, you have a visitor.” She shouted,

“Are you Rose,” Ashley asked,

“Yes.”

“Come with me.”

She clasped me by the arm and drags me to the back of the bar, I see my father sitting next to Reyda whose feeding him a bottle of water and wiping his face at the same time.

“Dad, are you ok.”

They both look up at me, dad looks relieved that I'm here, Reyda on the other hand, I’m not sure what facial expression she had going on.

I take my time reviewing every inch of him, and then I turned to Reyda who is standing in bloody clothes with a bandage wrapped around her right arm.

“What happened, are you ok.”

“I’m fine.”

I grab her by the arm, and she lets out a little scream,

“That’s not how someone sounds when they're ok.”

“I’m fine, it will heal, now let’s take your father home, he needs a bath and his bag needs to be reattached.”

“Use the way you came in, no one would see you,” Ashley said,

“My car is parked up front,” I reply,

“Go get your car, I’d meet you out back with Mr.knight.”

“Can you lift him?” I ask Reyda.

“How do you think he got here.”

I walked through the crowd and took one of the cars from my guards and drove round back, watching shockingly as Reyda carries my father on her back,

“Are you going to help or just stare?” she shouted,

I got out and took father then placed him in the backseat of the car to lie down and Reyda sat next to him placing his legs on top of her lap, she closed her eye as the car drove off and so did father.

Dr. Smith was already outside the house as he was called by Jarrod to attend to my father once he arrived. Reyda baths him, fed him and doctor smith did the rest, once he was finished, he took her into one of our empty guest rooms closing the door behind him.

I wanted to move away from the door, but I also wanted to stay just until Dr. Smith came through that door and said she is alright, I paused from pacing back and forth when I heard a scream.

The door is locked from the inside I know because I tried opening it, I kicked it opened and saw Dr. Smith placing a bandage over a cut he’d stitched up.

They both looked at me like I was some sort of madman, and then looked at each other,

“ She’ll be fine, just a flesh wound, in a few days she’d heal and be back to new.” Doctor smith said standing to his feet,

“Thank you, and Reyda, thank you too for saving my father.” Doctor smith eyed her suspiciously and then turned away.

“It’s all a part of the j…”

THUD…

She passed out, head hitting the floor after her body did, I rushed to grab her up and then placed her on the bed before Dr. Smith checked her pulse.

“She’ll be fine… her body must be exhausted from carting your father that far.”

“Ok.”

“ I still have some cancer patients to attend to, could she rest here for a little while, and I’d get her once I’m done.”?

“That’s fine.”

With that he left, I sat behind the desk in the guest bedroom and looked through the video footage of what happened, the guard was correct he did get off the water truck and hid in the store room for the day.

Once everyone left, he came out and switched off the lights and placed them back on that’s when Roy was taken down after he stabbed him in the stomach.

After that, I saw his mouth moving and turned up the audio to hear what he was saying, he told Reyda to leave and that this is her last chance if she wants to live.

She picked up her bag and told my father goodbye, but she didn't leave, when the man walked closer to dad she took her bag from her shoulder ran towards the man, and wrapped the straps around his neck.

They are fighting, he's trying to get her off his back and he was successful when the knife scrapped her on the side of her stomach.

He forgets about her grabs his father and pushes him out of the room roughly causing the wheelchair to turn over and the father to fall to the floor, Reyda gets up grabs one of father's floor vases and hits him behind the head with it.

She then grabs father puts him on her back and runs down the stairs, down to the kitchen, and then out the back door, she's lost after she runs out the back through the heavy metal gate which her father gave her the code.

I slam the laptop shut and rub my hands through my hair, if It weren't for this girl my father would have been dead because I highly doubt the blonde I wanted to hire would have done what Reyda did.

“Daniel I need to see you please.” my father called through the mind link

He's laying in bed looking at the ceiling thinking about what only he knows, and then he turns when he hears me enter, he looks at me dead in the eyes and I can see it's serious,

“Who is she, who is Reyda Harvey?”

“The background check I did come back clean.”

There's no way in hell I could tell him she's connected to Balrus, mainly because he'd have someone kill her before she could come clean.

“Are you certain?”

“Yes. Why?”

“Did you see the video footage of what happened?”

“No, why.?”

“She fought like she was trained to kill Rose, that’s not normal, it’s not normal for a twenty-year-old woman to try and strangle a man with a bag strap. Normal people can’t lift a floor vase. She’s a trained killer, Rose.”

Little flashbacks of the video played through my mind and the question came back to me, the same question father asked.

I'm now standing in the doorway of the guestroom looking at her as her face turns up while she sleeps.

“Who is Reyda Harvey?”