Chapter Thirty-Three

~The night of the fire~ Jasmine leaps from the car before it had time to stop, she had one thing on her mind and needed to get it done before she exploded. She types the pin to the metal outside door of the warehouse, the seconds it took to open felt like a lifetime. In no time at all, she was running into the warehouse shouting Travis, who was always in his office around this time. Everyone ends up running over, Travis being one of the last to walk down the stairs. "She's alive" is all Jasmine manages to say at first, she had all these feelings and words bottled up inside her yet, she couldn't fully get them out. "Who's alive?" Dominic, who was Travis's brother asks, from beside Travis who also didn't understand what situation he was in right now. "Taylor! She's alive I've just spoken to her! She was at the party!" She exclaims which does make everybody's eyes go wide and begin to look up at Travis, who had an unreadable expression "I'm not lying and I haven't been seeing things, she was there with her mate Alpha Toby" she explains just trying to prove to everyone she was telling the truth, she knew no one was believing a single word that was leaving her lips. "You don't know for sure that it was Taylor-" Simone tries to say but Jasmine cuts her off, she knew it was Taylor with her whole heart. "I know it was her! You know that alliance agent that fought all our guys and arrested them, that was her!" She exclaims pulling her phone out, when Taylor wasn't looking she took a photo as she knew what reaction she would get from everyone "she's human and I'm guessing it's because of Richard" she explains passing the phone over to Travis, who takes it looking down at the photo in front of him. "My little Taylor, it is you" he mutters tears forming in his eyes as he spoke, just from looking into her eyes he knew it was his daughter "what's been happening?" He asks the girl in the photo, his tears running down his cheeks as we spoke. "We have to know for sure it is Taylor, we can't just be chasing some random girl" Dominic says knowing how likely it was that this Taylor girl, was just another girl with the same name. "If she's an alliance agent, we hacked into their systems a few months back, let's see if there's a Taylor Westlake" Mason, who was Dominic's son suggests walking over to his laptop, they had saved the files they managed to download before the system blocked them out. It was silent for a couple long minutes, everyone was on the edge of their seats in wondering who this Taylor girl was. Now she did look like their Taylor, but they could be seeing similarities that aren't even there. "I found her, Miss Taylor Westlake, let me look at her personal information" Mason says beginning to open up the information such as her age, date of birth and things "when was your Taylor's birthday?" He asks Travis who had now found an old photo of Taylor as a baby, she was around 7 weeks old in the photo. "The 20th July, she would be 22 years old now" he says hugging the photo of his daughter, Mason stops in his tracks taking a look up, he doesn't speak but only nods his head "it's her, she's okay" Travis cries the tears just escaping from his eyes once again, his little girl was still alive out there. "I told you! I knew it was her the minute I saw her" Jasmine exclaims getting out her of chair, she was so happy that she hadn't got it wrong after getting Travis's hopes up. "I need to see her myself" he says standing up his tears still falling down his face, now he knew she was alive he wasn't going to wait another day to see her "find me a way to see her" he tells his family who all sat around gobsmacked, everyone just assumed that Taylor was killed by Richard and left somewhere. "The problem I see is she's an alliance agent, the alliance is after us which means she's going to be after us" Dominic says with his hand on his chin "by the sounds of the fight she put up with our guys, she's incredible at her job which would mean, if she's sees you she's going to arrest you" he says looking up at Travis who shook his head, his daughter wouldn't want to arrest him. "I have an idea, the alliance has took over that mansion to search for evidence, she's probably one of the agents investigating that which would mean she would go there" Mason says closing his laptop, successfully getting Travis's attention "their people are everywhere, but they don't know about the building we own just across the road, we'll be watching from across the road without anyone knowing" he says which causes Travis to quickly move from his desk and begin to gather his things, he was leaving now. "We're moving operations over to that building for the time being, if my daughter is there I'll see her" he orders everyone before walking out to gather more of his things. ~~~~~~ "I'm glad you two are finding this funny!" Julian tells us while still doing the running man, Brandon pulls his phone out starting to record him. "We all had to do things like this when we started, it just comes with the job" I laugh as he grabs hold of the bin to hold himself up, but his legs were still slipping around all over the shop. I begin to feel eyes watching me, I turn around to look at the surrounding area. All I could see were agents going in and out of the building and the vans parked outside, but none of them were even remotely facing my way. I turn my attention to the street, where I find the source of my feeling. Jasmine was stood on the opposite side of the street looking directly at me, why is she back again? "I'll be back in a minute" I say walking away from the guys and towards the street, but in seconds Brandon was stood beside me. "Morgan said I need to be by your side like glue, if you were to walk off I wouldn't be glued at your side" he says before I could protest to him following "Morgan's order out rules you telling me to leave, so where we going?" He asks linking his arm with mine, I just roll my eyes accepting that he isn't gonna leave me to do this alone. "Remember Jasmine, the one that helped me out the fire and told me about my dad?" I ask looking over at him slightly, he just nods his head not understanding why I was bringing that up "she's right there" I say turning my head to look back at her, she was still stood in the same place as before and was now looking at me right in the eyes. "Why has she came back, we know who she is now so we could just take her in?" He asks as we go under the alliance tape, we only had to cross the road and we'll be there. I look both ways before crossing the street, she looked nervous but still didn't move from where she's been standing this whole time. "What are you doing here?" I ask standing on the edge of the road, Brandon just behind me so it didn't seem like he needed to hold my hand. "I've came to see my cousin" is all she says which does start to tick me off, how do I even know she's family and not just some idiot?! "That was stupid of you because you're a part of a group we're investigating" I say placing my hand behind my back, making sure my weapon was fully accessible just in case. "But I know you're not going to arrest me, we're family" she smiles as I take look back at Brandon, who also had his hand on his weapon "your dads here, he can actually see you right now, he was so happy when he found out you were still alive" he tells me which does make me whip my head around to look at her, before my eyes start to scan the place once again for my dad. "You won't find him, he was so sad to hear that you're now a human thanks to Richard" she sighs looking down, this immediately ticks me off even more where I do actually pull my weapon out. "Get on ground!" I shout pointing at her, she looked majorly taken back at what I was doing "I said get on the ground!" I repeat taking slow and cautious steps her, by now Brandon and a bunch of other agents who heard me shout were now behind me with their guns. "But we're family Taylor, please!" She cries before she bolts away, but in seconds I had already tackled her to the floor "please Taylor!" She cries as I get handcuffs and cuff her, she fights a little but lays her head down crying. Screeching of tires fill the air, in seconds a car was barrelling down the road towards me. I feel someone jump into me and push me out the way, we both land on the floor while gunshots start to fill the air. Once I look up, I spot the car driving away and Jasmine nowhere to be seen. Brandon moves from on top of me before holding his hand out, I take it letting him help me to stand where we both watch the car speed away. "Like glue" he says standing beside me, I just nod my head holding his arm. Maybe it's gonna be harder than I thought to catch my....family.