Elsewhere, inside Alfa securities, in the room where Elizabeth and Aaron Gabriel had once endured torture, new guests had arrived.

Roman and his knife were ready and eager to get to work, he was being assisted by Arrow Castille whose turn up had been unexpected.

The red eyed man was simply bored and Luna's arrival plus the assassins had provided a new entertainment source.

In the monitoring room, David was quietly observing with a unfathomable look in his eyes. On the keyboard at the desk where he was sitting lay a book on the different ways to torture a human being.

David had read the book from front to back, at the back Roman had added some creative torture methods he had come up with.

"Bring the chains and string them up." David spoke into a microphone. "Let's begin." he added.

Roman and Arrow, aided by three other men got to work and soon the screams started, but beyond the walls of Alfa security, nothing was heard.

******

The next morning as Phoebe prepared to leave for work after filling up on a milkshake which Maria delivered to her bedroom, she was sent for. Edward sent Maria to escort her downstairs.

Maria waited patiently outside the bedroom door after knocking twice. She always respected Phoebe's privacy and never wantonly barged into the bedroom without permission.

"I'll be down in a minute." Phoebe responded from inside in a breathy voice as she struggled to put on her tight jeans.

The ill fitting jeans were a reminder that she had gained about 4 to 5 pounds, a thing that delighted Jennie so much.

Jennie was on a mission to fatten Phoebe up because she thought her daughter was unfashionably skinny. Words that she had used which confused Phoebe very much.

But these pounds that she had gained were a reminder that she needed new clothes, better fitting ones.

"Phew!" She wiped invisible sweat and sat on on the bedside stool for a minute before rushing downstairs while shouting for her father.

"Dad, daddy, father, papa....."

When she found him, he wasn't alone, the entire family had gathered in the foyer with a team of three police officers including Shark.

She had not seen Shark in person for a while, he had been busy with other cases that did not involve ghosts. Phoebe wondered why he had come to her home. It certainly wasn't to ask for her help because he would not have come with other officers if that was the case.

Her second suspicion was that he was there because one of the fifteen ladies had perhaps reported the baby killing surrogacy matter to the police but as far as she knew the founding council had put a ban on the matter, stopping them all from taking it public.

There was no way somebody had gone to the police to report a crime of witchcraft when it could not be proven. They would be risking having their family punished or even removed from the founding families.

"You have no idea how glad I am that you are okay Pheebs. I have been calling your phone but its unavailable. " Shark's formerly tense face relaxed.

"Why wouldn't I be? My battery died yesterday night but i am charging my phone right now. What's going on?" She moved to stand in between her brothers, she felt safest with them.

If the officers had come to condemn her about something or take her away they wouldn't let them do so, especially Collin. It wasn't a figment of her imagination, former police officers Sully and Amaro had once arrested her illegally.

"There was an attempt to hurt you last night dear." Came Grandma Mayfair's almost inaudible voice.

On hearing her grandmother's words, Phoebe took a step forward. "What do you mean? Was it one of the ladies that were here last night?"

The Saxon spirit shook its head. "It cannot be, those poor women were too devastated all they did was cry."

"No not them." Jenny became hysterical immediately. "It's because of that damn foundation! You shouldn't have taken it."

Edward moved to calm her by holding her trembling hand.

Phoebe put one and two together and figured out that it was the Verdemonts. "Was it Ekhart and Emilia? They hate me the most."

Shaking his head vehemently, Shark said no. "It was Gloria Verdemont and her eldest son, Peter. They hired assassins from the Dohwa family. The four men walked into the station freely and confessed."

"What?" Luke couldn't contain his shock. According to the information Luna had shared, Midnight had taken the assassins. So how come the men had willingly walked into a police station and confessed their crime? "Are you sure it's the assassins from the Dowha family?"

He suspected that Midnight had maybe swapped the assassins, it was simply impossible for them to voluntarily turn themselves in. Dohwa assassins all took vows to die if they happened to be arrested, they had poison capsules in their teeth to ensure this.

Luna had injected them all with something to neutralize the poison when they were captured. But with their training, they were the kind to throw themselves off a building, stab themselves, smash their heads into walls. They would do anything as long as it resulted in death.

Shark looked at his phone, he was receiving regular updates on the case.

"Yes i am certain, they told us so themselves. Mr. David pulled some strings and got general Drusus involved. Politics has intervened in the matter and as of this morning, pressure is being applied on Silver nation authorities to step in and do something about the Dohwa family.

It will not be easy of course because the Dohwa's are almost as strong as the Elithera's. We have to wait and see how things progress."

Phoebe tried her best to recall Gloria and Peter Verdemont. Out of all the crazy bunch they were the most quiet and barely submitted anything. To think that the rabbit was biting before the lion!!

"What happens next?" she asked.

"We need you to come with us and make a statement detailing any fights and disagreements between you and them. Also the commissioner was suggesting that you are given police protection but...." Shark's lips curled to the side

"I already have enough of that, believe me." Phoebe interjected. "What about the Verdemonts? What if they try to hurt me again or my family?"

She watched Andre squeezing the protection ring that she gave him. His jaw was clenched so hard, he was really angry.

"We are going to deal with this our way." The Saxon spirit told Phoebe.

She could not agree more, it was time to put the Verdemonts to bed.

Shark scratched his head, his eyes were suddenly laced with confusion. "That's the bizarre part, on our way here a frantic Paul Verdemont personally delivered his wife and son to the station. He strongly claimed that he knew nothing of what they had done."

"Why? That's very unlike him." Collin's brows pulled together.

A sigh came free from Shark's mouth. "I was as confused as you are, he said something about how it's the only way the rest of his children can stay alive. In fact as we speak the most of the older generation Verdemont's fled Fog country during the late night. It's almost as though something is chasing them out."

Phoebe chewed on the insides of her mouth and laughed on the inside. Who else but Luna was crazy enough to go after the Verdemont's without a second thought?