Chapter 21: Found Him

Maxx’s POV Four days. Alice was in bed, unconscious for four days now. The house got a heavier and more serious tone. Sev was dangerously quiet. I just finished checking transactions with other groups and checking Ralph’s possible whereabouts, but unfortunately, the first one was the only successful thing I’ve managed to have. “You’re smoking again?”, Herschel asked behind me, he was just closing the door when I turned to him. I puffed the smoke of my cigarette into the air. “Things are getting stressful. I’m just letting some out”, I replied. He dragged a chair close to mine and watched the monitors in front of us. Cameras had been activated again on the whole house and its vicinity. We couldn’t let anyone do the same thing that happened to Alice. She was drugged. We were not entirely sure what kind of drug was injected to her system, the very reason why she was still asleep like a dead woman, but on some occasions, she would wake up grunting in pain, panting or screaming as she