The Accidental Wedding novel Chapter 56

Rameen

"Waleed, have you seen Red?" I asked Waleed who was busy typing mail on his laptop.

"You know Mia, I try to stay as away from that thing as possible", He replied with a smirk.

"She has a name you know, you don't need to call her anything", I replied irately.

" Whatever", He just shrugged his shoulders.

I came back into the bedroom from the terrace, I had last seen Red last night when I fed her when in the morning I looked for her before going to work she was nowhere in the house.

It was unusual, Red never used to leave the house, she always stayed indoors because of the dogs. Did I tell you, Waleed had five pet dogs, can you imagine? Who keeps five dogs?

I never liked dogs, they terrified me, once in my childhood our neighbor's dog chased me and he had bit my calf. I still shudder when I remember the injections I had to take afterward because of it. His teeth had torn through my skin and I still had the bite mark on my left leg.

After that day, I tried to stay as away from them as was possible, I don't know how Waleed tolerated them and that to so many. Xander was his favorite one, he was a double coat German Shepherd the size of a wolf. And hairs long and thick, when he roared it felt like the walls were vibrating. He was a nasty beast and he terrified me more than that bitch in the movie Grudge, with black hairs and pale face, just crawling out from everywhere.

I shivered even thinking about her, she was evil and she gave me creeps. I walked back down the stairs to the living room, I checked the kitchen and other rooms but I didn't find Red anywhere.

"Jeena, did you by any chance see Red?" I asked Jeena who was in the kitchen, busy baking apple pie.

"You mean your cat?" She asked me with wide eyes.

"Yeah, I haven't seen her since morning, I am worried where she is, she is always around somewhere", I replied to her.

I looked around the kitchen, making cat sounds and meowing, hoping she might come running to me from somewhere, but there was no sign of her.

"Ask Waleed, maybe he knows the reason your cat is missing", She said in a hushed and mysterious voice.

I looked at her, she was looking at me with an unknown expression on her face, what was she trying to imply?

"What do you mean, Jeena?" I asked dryly, not liking her mysterious ways.

"He hates cats, doesn't he?" She asked coyly.

Was she suggesting that Waleed had done something to her? But why would Waleed do anything to Red? She has been with us for three months now, and I had seen he was getting used to her.

"Waleed adores Red", I answered furious.

"Does he, really?" She had that mysterious smirk on her face, which I wanted to scratch from her mouth. "I will ask the maid to look for her", I said leaving the kitchen.

Within half an hour the whole house staff was looking for Red, the security guards and the driver were looking in the grounds, while the maids and the cook were looking in the house.

Waleed had joined the guards to look for her, he was worried after seeing my concern for Red. I was pacing on the porch when I saw Waleed coming towards me from the driveway. I looked at him, with hope, he shook his head in a no.

He wrapped his hands around me when he came close to me, I didn't say anything just placed my face on his shoulder. I was getting more and more afraid by each passing minute.

" Sir", A guard called Waleed, had just come from the backside of the house.

Waleed pulled away from me and looked at the guard, I noticed they were having a silent conversation,

Waleed then turned and looked at me and said.

"Who could do this to Red? She was so adorable", I said looking at Waleed, my gaze fixed on him to catch any clue from his expressions.

"It could be the dogs", He replied.

I noticed he was in deep thoughts, his usually calm composure looked rattled, I saw he was also sick to his stomach, by the sight of Red's body.

"Waleed you know it, that it wasn't the dogs," I said emphasizing each word.

"Who do you think they can be?" He asked, looking at me alarmed.

"You think I wouldn't have killed that person by now if I knew who did that," I asserted.

"I will ask the security to look at the CCTV footage", He said, standing from the couch.

I was still not able to divert my mind from her body, she was so small and harmless, what kind of monster might have done that to her?

I was stinking from the vomit, I stood up and went to the bedroom to take a bath. I was soaking in the warm water in the bathtub when Waleed came into the bathroom.

He sat on the edge of the bathtub, his eyes fixed on my face, he was trying to know what I was thinking from my facial expressions.

"They are checking the footage, we will find out really soon who it was", He said as he caressed my face with his knuckles.

I didn't say anything to him and just nodded in reply, I don't know why but I had the feeling that we won't find anything from the footage. Whoever it was would know the estate was under the surveillance by the cameras 24X7, there was no way an outsider could breach the security of this place. It was a fortress, guarded by arm guards and trained dogs.

It had to be someone from inside, and whoever it was I wasn't able to figure out.