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His uncle's sweetheart Chapter 80
"Where is she?" Alexander cut, his voice only marginally controlled as his eyes scanned the empty lounge.Clara jumped with his sudden entrance. "She didn't say exactly, sir," she stammered as she hugged Mia tightly into her arms. "She just asked me to look after Mia until she returns with Luca."A feeling of falling hit Alexander's stomach. He turned away from Clara, running a hand through his hair as a wave of panic overcame him. "She's gone to the hideout, hasn't she?""I…I don't know," Clara stammered. "She didn't say anything about a hideout. She just left all quiet. I thought she-"She went alone," Alexander muttered to himself, his eyes narrowing as realization came to him. "Of course she did. Dammit, Bernice!”Clara stepped back, her eyes rising at the storm brewing in his eyes. "Sir, is she in danger?”Alexander did not say another word. His fingers were already flying across the buttons of his phone, dialing Detective Marcus' number, and he was furiously storming across the
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"Yes, positive?" Ethan's voice finally cut into the tension pacing the room, hands sunk deep into his pockets. Threw Olivia a sidewards glance, his face furrowing slightly with his doubt.Olivia did not raise her head from the phone still clutched in her hand. Her eyes were as cold as ice, calculating. "We do not have a choice, Ethan. She is coming. With or without the police, Bernice will not make it out alive. "Ethan froze from pacing up and down in the room; all his agitation was scribed across his face. "You are talking of killing her and the child."Olivia's gaze snapped up; her lips arced wickedly. "Precisely. The moment she steps into that hideout, it is over for both her and the child. They are loose ends, Ethan. We can't afford to leave loose ends behind.”He felt his back quiver as she said this so calmly, with not the tiniest hesitation, it shook him. "And what if she doesn't come with the police? If she shows up alone?""Then she's even more of a fool than I thought," Oli
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"Where is he?" Bernice's voice betrayed a slight quake through her eyes that stared solid as rock. She was in this hideout with two men standing over her, both carrying guns."You think you just walk in here and demand your kid like it is nobody's business?" the scar-faced man sneered, hoary as weathered leather.She straightened, fists bunched against her hips, her heart racing. "I'm alone. No police, just me. I came to take Luca and leave. This doesn't have to go sour."The other kidnapper stepped closer; he was bigger and more threatening than the first one, his gun showing at his hip. "We know you're alone, lady. But it's not up to you how this goes down."A lump swelled in her throat, but she refused to back down. Their stare weighed on hers, cold and unfeeling, but everything else fled from her mind now that there was Luca. Each second dragged like a lifetime."Where is my son?" she tried again to ask, this time her voice carrying well. “I need to see him.”The little man snorte
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"Get down!" Alexander boomed into the room as he burst in. He saw the gun against Bernice's head and in less than a second, launched himself forward.The next second, a shot rang in the air. Bernice screamed as her world came crashing down and her mind refused to believe that horrific scene playing right in front of her eyes."No!" she screamed, her voice hoarse and animal, as Alexander fell before her, his body heavy upon the ground. Blood flowered across his shirt, dark and bright.The room exploded into chaos. The tall kidnapper whirled about, gun now shaking in confusion, but it was too late. Liam and Marcus flowed forward like a tide, pinning the gunman to the floor."Secure the room!" Marcus yelled as he drove scar face down onto the floor, wrestling the gun from him. "Take them both out of here!""Alexander!" Bernice gushed as she dropped to her knees beside him. Her hands shook as they hovered over his chest, uncertain where to touch or how to help.Alexander breathed shallowl
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"You can't leave me. Not like this," Bernice whispered, shaking. She sat in the cold sterile waiting room. Staring blankly at the double doors of the operating room. Her hands clasped tightly in her lap were stained with dried blood. His blood. She had scrubbed them repeatedly but could not seem to shake the feeling from them.Liam paced further, his gaze always back at time. "It has taken too long. What's taking them so damn long?""Surgery takes time," Detective Marcus finally said, trying not to break his voice. Not that he was that kind of man, but tonight was an exception. "We just have to wait."How am I supposed to just wait?" Bernice's voice broke; her eyes came up to theirs. "He's in there because of me. He took that bullet for me. I should've-""No." Liam's voice cut sharp as he stopped his pacing, turned to face her. "Don't start that. You didn't make him do anything. He did it because he cares about you. You know that."She had dragged in a chest, by Liam's words so desper
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The shrill ringing of Olivia's phone cut into the thick atmosphere of silence hanging in the air. She turned to Ethan, then picked up the call with fingers that shook just a little. "It's them," she muttered, hitting the answer button and pressing the phone against her ear. "What happened?"Ethan watched her closely, his heartbeat racing, as one could already tell something was not right; there must have been someone on the other end talking with her as Olivia's face darkened.“You're telling me it was a shootout?!?" Olivia spat, the knuckles white on the phone. Hot anger flashed through her eyes as she listened, her heart fluttering at an incredible rate as she paced left and right across the room. "You were supposed to just kill her, without any problems! How in the heck could this go so wrong?”Ethan's gut clenched, his jaw twisted. He could catch only snatches of their words, but that was enough: kidnapping failed, and Alexander got involved. The unease that had so recently taken
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"Aunty Bernice, where is Daddy?" Lily's soft voice cut the silence in the house as she stared upward with her big innocent eyes.Bernice knelt down before the little girl, pushing one stray curl of hair behind her ear. "He is still in the hospital, sweetie," she said softly and in a low tone, the slightest quiver crossing over her voice momentarily. "The doctors are helping him get better."Luly turned to her, raising one eyebrow. "But when does he come home?"The painful will that she could give Lily the answers she needed, even though she did not know whether Alexander was coming back or not, made her heart constrict. "I don't know, Lily," she whispered, trying to hold down the sorrow inside her. "But we're gonna hope and pray that he does, okay?”She nodded, the small hand extended for Bernice's fingers. "Okay."Pitter-patter running up the hall turned Bernice back to her twins, Luca and Mia, as they burst into the room. "Mom, can we have dessert?" he asked, eyes lighting bright in
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"Was it real?" Rafael muttered, pacing with the length of his study where his mind was already swollen with memories. Yet he could envisage it. That image seared upon his brain; Bernice with another man. He fisted his hands at his sides, this doubt which gnawed at him for years. Had he seen all that the thought he did or had he let his anger blind his judgment?He looked forth by the great window over the garden, but his gaze was far indeed from the peaceful scene. It was years, yet never a whit had the torture worn. The vision of Bernice with that man seemed some hideous nightmare from which he could not wake. But now… now something has altered. Something stirred in his mind and woke him to doubt all that had gone before.The knock cut through his reverie. Rafael heaved a heavy sigh, ran a hand over his face, and called out, "Come in."The door creaked open, and in came Madam Looking so grave. She was more than the confident head of the house to him, even more so in stormy moments
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