How do I feel? I have so many answers to this question right now. The baby that I almost died giving birth to has been kidnapped by someone who I thought was a friend, I am so confused. Why would she do such a thing?“Jen,” I hear a distant voice but I pay no heed to it.I had a feeling about Cara from the very beginning, but I was way too stubborn to pay attention to it. I knew something was not right about her, she just inserted herself into our lives and wanted to know everything about us. How was I so blind and oblivious? This is not my character, not at all.Why was I so stupid? And because of my stupidity, I just lost my baby. Maybe I am just blaming myself, but I won’t lie, there is some truth to it. I trusted Cara without Chad doing a background check on her or anything.I remember one time when I was still pregnant and Chad was adamant about doing a background check on Cara, he had his own suspicions. And being who we are, we are always on alert of who we meet and who we int
Have you ever been in a situation where it feels like you are dreaming? And not just any dream, but a nightmare. That is how it all feels right now, it all just feels like I could wake up anytime and still be pregnant, that would be epic; I would really love that.“She must be joking,” Robert’s voice pulls me from my thoughts and I look at him incredulously.“A joke?” I ask him in disbelief. “She has our child!” My voice fills the entire room, and everyone stares at me for a few seconds.“Jen, you know what I meant, this all just feels surreal,” Robert says to me and I hand him the phone.I did not mean to shout at him, I think I am just way too stressed right now. Robert stares at me as he takes the phone from me. He does not know what to do with it.“Call her again,” I instruct him and he hesitates.“Jen, I think we should take some time to think about all this,” James suggests and Robert and Carlos nod in agreement.“Call her,” I say stubbornly.I need to know whether my baby is o
In my career as an assassin, I have learned to expect things to go wrong. I have learned to accept tragedy as it comes, but this tragedy is different, it involves a piece of myself being taken from me in my most vulnerable state.Robert has decided to sell his company, and that would be able to give us the money we need to get our child back. I think a question that keeps running in my mind is whether all this is worth it? Will Naomi even give our baby back, will she stand by her word, or is this all part of her plan to rob us of all we have and then never give Jake back?I have so many doubts, so many fears, and there is so much that could go wrong, but that does not mean that I should not try or stop trying. If it causes me to go to the ends of the earth or swim in a river of acid to get little Jake back, I am fully prepared to do so.We have a deadline to give the money that Naomi requested, and that is midnight. Chad has already wired a billion to her and is now trying to wire the
“Come on, you can’t be serious. I gave your one billion back, and I also added another billion,” I say to her defensively. Billions of dollars are not pennies that one can find on the street.“Yeah, but you have to pay for damages,” She says in a sing-tone.“Naomi, give us more time,” Robert pleads with her. He sounds calm and collected, but I don’t think that is how he feels right now.“I have made arrangements to sell my company, but I would not be getting the money until tomorrow. A few people have to sign off before the deal can be made,” He informs her, in hopes of her giving us more time.“Oh, you mean the company that you finesse your way into? Boy, you stole what belonged to another. It was Victor Sans who was to take over that company, he worked for it and damn well deserved it. Not you, you are just a manwhore that has finally decided to settle down with an assassin,” She taunts him and I notice how his facial expression changes.Robert’s jaw clenches as he controls his brea
Doctor Evans looks offended that I asked him such a question. He adjusts his body in the chair he is sitting on and his frown deepens.“Why would you even say that?” He asks me, and I shrug in response.“Miss Davis, I apologize again for what happened with your child, but I hope you know that I do not take the lives or safety of my patients lightly. If I tell you that you are ready to be discharged from my clinic, then I am more than sure that you are ready to be discharged,” Doctor Evans explains to me.“Okay,” I say as my eyes land on the clock, it is midnight and my body is not even making an attempt to hide my tiredness. I yawn as I swing my legs onto the bed, I lay down and I stare at the ceiling as if the doctor is not even there. He stands on his feet and sighs deeply before speaking.“Please do consider talking to your husband about the lawsuit,” He begs again and I look at him.“How much is he suing for?” I inquire.“Around a million dollars,” He replies to me.That seems so
My heart is beating so fast due to how much I am exerting myself and also because of the adrenaline coursing through my body. Cara is still struggling with the door and trying to open it, whereas I am running towards all.She is not getting away, not this time.As soon as I skip the last stair, she manages to open the door and she goes straight into the busy lobby. Her blouse is ruffled and so is her hair. As she runs, she keeps looking behind to see whether I am still following her.I dash through the opened door and I follow her. I see Chad and James talking to the receptionist and I call for their attention.“It’s Cara, don’t let her get away!” I yell and I don’t think I can keep moving my legs, I am too tired. I am a great runner, but I have not been going on my routine runs since I got pregnant, I only did light exercise. I stop running and I hold onto a random man while trying to catch my breath. James and Chad are already chasing Cara, and I know that James is an excellent run
I have been officially discharged from the clinic and my bills that were really high has been waived by the hospital due to my baby being kidnapped right in their facility. Doctor Evans has not brought up the lawsuit filed by Robert yet, and I have not had the chance to talk to him about it yet. Chad, Carlos, and I are in Doctor Evans’ office, waiting for him to get the security footage. It has been roughly twenty minutes and we have been sitting in silence. Chad keeps glancing over to me, and when I look back at him, he averts his gaze.As for Robert, I have not seen him since this morning. It is raining heavily outside and the smell of dust floats in the air. I believe he is finalizing the selling of the company, there are so many steps and processes involved and he is trying his best to speed it all up so we can have the money before the deadline that Naomi gave us.The door of the office opens and Doctor Evans enters, he is not alone, a guy enters with him. The guy he entered wit
James is driving at a moderate speed and we are just minutes away from the house. I was just on the phone with Robert and he told me that he finally finalized everything and he has the money already. Chad agreed to help him to transfer the funds to Naomi as soon as he comes home. “Have you tried calling her again?” Carlos asks me. He is talking about Naomi, since I dropped the call with Robert, I called her right away but she is not picking up. This raises my anxiety to another level because I want to know what is happening with my baby.“I am trying,” I reply to him as I try to call the number again. This time she finally answers and James makes a turn, causing the car to swerve to the right. We have finally arrived.“Hello Jen,” Naomi speaks in a usual cheery tone.“How is my baby? Has he eaten, how are you taking care of him?” I shoot my concerns at her.“Your kid is fine, I have him here with me. I had to go the extra mile to keep alive and healthy but I guess it’s worth the mone
My eyes widen and I immediately try to open the door of the moving car so I can jump out but all the doors are locked. Adrenaline floods every part of my body, it is like it is all happening so fast and I have no control.“What are you doing? Stop that! Do you want to get yourself killed?” Russell shouts as Usman increases the speed of the car so jumping out would seem more painful to me if I decide to do so.“Stay the hell away from me!” I reply to him aggressively when he tries to reach out to me and he raises his hands in surrender.“Okay, okay,” He says and then he settles back into his seat.“What the hell is going on?” I ask after a full minute of silence. I am much calmer right now, I was acting out of instinct when I realized that the person that was sitting next to the driver was Russell.How is that even possible? Was he not in an induced coma a few days ago? “Are you finished with trying to jump out of a speeding car just to avoid me?” Russell replies to me and I hear Usma
“Natalie is smart, I will give her that. She had all the video evidence cleared before we could get our hands on it,” Taylor explains and I at everything else in the room but her.“May I ask, who are you professionally?” I ask her, and she smiles lopsidedly.“I work with the police department in Russia, I am the police chief,” She informs me and I nod slowly. “As I was saying, Natalie made the investigation a lot more difficult for us. Her skills in covering evidence are impressive, but I believe that she got some inside help,” Taylor continues what she was explaining.“And?” I beckon her to explain more. If Natalie covered up our tracks so well, how does she know that Natalie did it? That she was the one that pulled the trigger and not me.“I know you want to know how I know that she was the one who pulled the trigger, and I am going to explain just that to you,” Taylor tells me.“Okay,” I drag the word as I wait for her to tell me what she knows.“I am Russell’s third wife and it h
What in the world is happening? Why am I even being arrested? Even if this is about Russell Marshall’s investigation, the person they should be arresting is Natalie, I was not the one that shot the man in the head.“This has to be a joke, right?” Chad laughs but when he sees that the military guys are not even smiling, he realizes that this is serious.I gave the piece of document that they handed to me, I read it quickly and it authorizes them to arrest me, but what I don’t see is the charge.“Your hands, please,” One of the military guards says a bit softly and I do as he says. I place my hands behind my head and I hear Chad scoff.“Do you want us to do something?” The guards that we have at the entrance ask me but I disagree by wagging my head. It would only make things worse, from experience, going peacefully with the authorities is always the best thing to do.“I am calling Robert, and then the lawyer. We would get this settled in no time,” Chad tries to comfort me as he makes a
Yes, we certainly need to talk. I put Jake down from my arms and he protests that he wants to tell me secretly. James, Natalie, and Cara watch my exchange with him with smiles on their faces.“Okay, what is it?” I ask him as he gets close to my ear.“I love you,” He whispers in my ear and I can not help but smile. Some people say having kids is a nightmare, and the truth is that it is at times, but most of the time, it is the greatest joy anyone could have.“Mommy heats you right back,” I reply to him in a whisper, and he giggles before he runs onto James.I stand upright and I bid James and Jake goodbye as I join Natalie and Cara in the living room.“We have a serious hiccup in our plans,” Cara begins when we have all sat down on the couch.“I know,” I reply to her, and Natalie chuckles but I can hear the worry in her voice.“Of course you do, it is all over the news,” She tells me and I stay quiet, not knowing exactly what to say.“So what are doing?” Cara asks no one in particular
“What do you mean that he’s alive?” I ask Robert as he stands to his feet, he looks worried but that is in no way compared to how I feel right now. Gosh, does Natalie know this? I need more information.“Which news channel did you learn that from?” I fire another question at Robert, not giving him the chance to answer the first. “Here, take a look, it is all over social media, and all the big news broadcasters are airing it,” Robert says as he hands his phone to me. The last time I held it was when I found out that he was partially cheating on me.I can not say that he was actually cheating because he did not sleep with Amanda, but he did receive nudes from her and whatnot. In my book, that is cheating, but I am just going to call it partially cheating in light of what Robert and Amanda explained to me.But that is not the issue at hand right now, we have a huge freaking problem. I need to get dressed and let Natalie and Cara know what has happened.I take the phone from Robert and I
Some might say that we are moving a bit too fast, but I have known Robert for close to a year now. Still, it seems like such a limited amount of time to decide to spend your entire life with someone, but why wait any longer?Robert and I have had our fair share of storms and problems, but we have weathered everyone one of them, plus we have a great support system. Chad, James, Carlos, and Jake are sure to be there for us if we happen to begin to feel the storms of life raging again, and of course, we will.The amount of crazy that I have been through individually is insane, my entire life has been far from normal and I am starting to stop wanting normal. Besides, normal is a bit overrated. Marrying someone you have known for only almost a year is not very expected, or should I say, normal? But that is the thing, I am not normal and do not even want to be anymore.“Well?” Robert asks me as I drag my body off the unmade bed. He suggested that we should get married next week after I ment
I can not believe that this just happened, Robert proposed to me! This is amazing and I feel so good, but I also feel like this is too good and I don’t deserve it. But I am just going to sum that up as insecurity trying to present itself in the form of me not being worth it enough to get proposed to.After I said yes, I think Jake was more excited than everyone else. Chad and the others came out soon after and I have a strong feeling that they somehow knew that Robert was going to propose. Robert placed a very expensive ring on my finger and he rose from his kneeling, I placed Jake in the chair where I was sitting and Robert and I embraced. We then shared a kiss and everyone joined Jake as he clapped. As soon as the applause died, the rain ceased gradually and the sun began to shine through the dark clouds. It seemed too perfect that I literally had to pinch myself two times to make sure that I was not dreaming. Good thing I was not, because I would have been so mad at myself.We e
It is usually sunny here, but today is different, and besides, it is a Saturday. I think the weather chose the best time to be like this, I don’t have to drive Jake to school and I get to spend the entire day with him.Yesterday was so eventful, I had to explain all that happened to me in Russia to Robert, James, Carlos, and Chad about three times before they finally could grasp it all. I also had the responsibility of explaining why I have suddenly decided to trust and forgive someone that caused me so much trauma, Cara was quiet when I took my time to make them all understand that I have finally decided to bury the hatchet concerning what she did.I am not going to pretend like I don’t feel a stab of emotional pain when I look at her, but I am going to try my best to move on. I am currently sitting on the porch alone while listening to the beating of the rain on the ground and roof, it is very soothing and I have never felt so relaxed in my life. Everybody else is in the house and
I open the door of the house and I walk in as Cara follows behind me slowly and tentatively. We are out of Russia and in Cyprus, though only Cara came along. Natalie took a later flight because she wanted to come with Susan, her grandmother.It took us a couple of hours to fly from Russia to Cyprus, especially because I did not have my passport on me. Cara had to pull some strings and call in some favors at airport security, and to my pleasant surprise, it all worked out smoothly.“Are you sure that they would want to see me?” I hear Cara’s voice as we walk further into the house. Everything looks pretty much the same, but I don’t see anyone here. “Where is everyone?” I say to myself in a low tone as I continue to explore the house.Suddenly I hear heavy footsteps and I look toward the source, someone is walking down the stairs. As soon as the person's eyes meet mine, they stop in their tracks.“Whoa, am I tripping, or am I seeing Jen Davis?” Chad asks me and he continues his descent