Chapter 121 Janet “How could she escape?” Dad demanded. “Calm down Dad.” I said, worrying about his blood pressure. “How can I be calm knowing that psycho is out there in this city?” “I thought she was in custody of the F.B.I? How could they let her escape?” Anna asked. “Good question,” Fran added. We were all pretty rattled after Kevin showed us the breaking news, that Claudia Rivers, a.k.a, Lois Gold, had escaped police custody. “I don’t know, I will find out more, but trust me she will be found.” Kevin promised. “What about Richards?” Dad asked. “He is still in custody.” Kevin said “Breed called you?” I asked. “Yeah, he saw the news online and felt I needed a heads up.” Kevin explained. “She may not even be in the city, she may be out of the state.” Justin said. “Wherever she runs to, we will find her.” Kevin said. “We shouldn’t allow this news to spoil our afternoon.” Justin insisted. “ I am sure she will be found and soon.” “Yeah. But I think I wil
Chapter 122 Kevin I sat in the living room impatiently looking at my watch. It was a Sunday afternoon and the weather was hot and stuffy. Being indoors with the air conditioner on full blast was like paradise on earth. Aside the weather I couldn’t have gone out even if I wanted to. I was waiting for Rita. In a few hours she would be paying for all she had done against Jan and I. I had called her the evening before after leaving Jan’s house. “So you called huh?” She asked. “ I was thinking you guys had changed your mind about wanting the baby.” “I am doing it for Jan. Left to me I don’t give a damn what you do.” I said. “So what will it be? Although since you have called me I can guess.” “I will give you five million.” I said. “Great and I thought you were serious.” “I am. Five million is fair.” “I am not negotiating. Ten million or nothing.” “That is too much.” I said pretending to be angry. “Seems I am wasting my time then,bye.” “Okay, okay. You win. Ten m
Chapter 123 Janet “You look beautiful Jan, you really do.” Jason said. “Thanks.” I smiled. “Looking at you one won’t know you have been solely in charge of a million dollar company this past few days.” “Not solely in charge, I had a lot of help.” I said. We were having lunch in my favorite outdoor café. I had called Jason the previous evening and arraigned to meet him for lunch the next day. “My dad is better than I thought,” I told him. “So let’s have lunch and catch up.” “I will love to. I was even about to call you,” he said. I know you were. I thought. We had agreed on when and where to meet. Now here we were having lunch in the near empty café, and chatting, while I waited for the time to carry out my part of the plan. I tried to concentrate on what I had to do. I had been distracted since Lois’s phone call yesterday. Dad had told the others and we had all been worried. We had called the police, who had promised to send a patrol car past our house often u
Chapter 124 Janet “Jan are you okay? How did it go?” Kevin asked anxiously “As expected. The police have taken him away. The jerk didn’t know what hit him.” He laughed. “Would have loved to see the look on his face.” “It was worth seeing. And Rita? How was she looking when the police showed up?” “Like she had been struck my lightening. Come over let me tell you all about it.” “Later. I want to see my family first. Now it's over, I think it is time to let them know what happened, before they hear it elsewhere.” “Good thinking, but you are coming over later?” “Hmmm..?” I pretended to think. “Please do. There is food in the house, we went shopping yesterday remember?” I laughed. “Sure I do. And I am guessing that is the first time you have ever gone food shopping.” “No it is not…okay maybe it is.” I laughed harder. “Glad you are laughing, even if it is at me. Please come. I have a surprise for you.” “Okay. I will.” “Good. I will see you then.” I hung up.
Chapter 125 Janet I was half hearing sirens and loud voices but my lids were so heavy, I couldn’t lift them to see what all the noise was about. After awhile, I drifted into unconsciousness and couldn’t hear anything anymore. When I finally managed to opened my eyes, I saw Kevin’s anxious face looking into mine. “Babe! Thank goodness you are awake!” He exclaimed. He touched my cheek gently. “How are you feeling?” I looked around. Where am I?” I asked. “Hospital. But you are okay, just rest.” “Hospital?” I tried to get up and felt a sharp pain in my wrist. “Relax,” He gently pushed me back onto the bed. “Just relax.” I winced. “What happened Kevin?” “You had a little accident. Nothing serious.” “An accident?” I tried to think. “It was a car coming towards me. I tried to avoid it and crashed. My phone was ringing I think-“ “That was me. I was calling to ask you something. You didn’t pick up. When I called again, I was told you had been in an accident and were bei
Chapter 126 Janet “I knew it!” Dad exclaimed. “ I knew there was something fishy about this crash. I had a feeling all along that it was no accident, but I was hoping I was wrong!” He began pacing the room. “Dad calm down.” Anna said. “Calm down? You want me to calm down when a crazy woman is after the life of the people I love? No way!” “She is bluffing.” Justin said. “Do you call this bluffing?” Dad asked pointing to me. Kevin came in. He had been working with hospital security to see if they could find out if Lois was still hanging around, or had left. “Any luck?” Dad asked. “Well I yes and no. The security took it serious. They called the cops and they spoke to the florist, who gave a description of the woman who had asked for the flowers to be delivered. Form his description, slim, blond, blue eyes, a scar on the side of her face, seems Lois is up to her old tricks. She is changing her appearance. Security went through CCTV and saw her leave immediately after ma
Chapter 127 Janet It was as if I was drowning. I again opened my mouth to try and scream, then I woke up with a start. The TV was on, the cartoon channel still playing. Kevin sat besides me watching it. “Hey babe, are you okay?” He asked, looking at me concerned. I looked at him slightly confused. “Bad dream huh?” He kissed me. I noticed he was eating potato chips and his kiss tasted salty. “I thought you left?” I asked puzzled. “Did you really think I would leave you all alone?” He grinned. “Well I did wonder, especially as you didn’t give me a good night kiss.” I pouted. He laughed. “ I just went to talk to hospital security again and stock up on….” He waved the packet of chips I laughed and opened my mouth, he put one in. “When I came back you were dozing off. I didn’t want to disturb you.” He said. “But how did you do it? The nurse asked everyone to leave?” “I have my ways, but really one person can stay. I didn’t want to let your dad know that, he wo
Chapter 128 Anna “Well what do you think?” Justin asked me. The realtor was looking at me expectantly. He had just finished given us a tour of the apartment. “The place isn’t bad,” I said. “ But the traffic noise coming in from the street is pretty loud.” “It isn’t really, it’s just normal traffic noise. You will get used to it.” The realtor said, trying to convince me. Justin shook his head. “I definitely don’t want to get used to that.” “Don’t you have anything else?” I asked. He shook his head sadly. “For now no, but I will let you know if something else turns up.” He promised. We thanked him and left. “The guy was really hoping we would take the place.” Justin said as we got into my car. “No way am I agreeing to rent such a noisy place. That traffic noise is dangerous to health.” “So where to” He asked. I shrugged. This was the second realtor, and the fourth place we’d looked at so far. And like the other three, there were okay at first glance, but look