Prologue.
Elizabeth stood there shocked. She didn't know how to respond. She wanted to throw something at him. Anything. No, what she really wanted was to wake up from this nightmare.
But in her heart she knew this was real. She looked up at Jason and took a deep breath.
"So you're choosing that life…of violence over me and the boys?" she asked looking up at Jason. His eyes widened and he shook his head.
"No, I-" he started but Elizabeth didn't want to hear it.
"I think you should leave" she said as her heart broke a little more with each passing second. She looked up at him with a tearful gaze.
"Elizabeth…" he said but she closed her eyes and walked toward the front door. She opened it and gestured for him to leave. Jason walked out the door but turned around to face Elizabeth.
"I love yo-" but the door clicked shut before he could finish. He heard a thud which he assumed was her hitting the floor. And then he heard it.
Her sobs, from the other side of the door.
Jason wanted nothing more than to kick down the door and scoop Elizabeth into his arms. But instead he walked away. His heart breaking with each step took.
Elizabeth walked down the stairs and went to sit on the couch, but there was a knock on the door. Her heart hopped into her throat. She was hoping it was Jason as she walked towards the door. She opened the door and gasped.
There was a man holding a gun to her head.
"If you scream I will blow your brains out" he said still holding a gun to her head "You and your boys will come with me or you can all die"
The next day.
Jason sat with Carly asleep in the chair next to him. The tired man just sat and watched 12 year old, Michael. He was in a coma because he was shot in the head. Jason couldn't help but blame himself. All the choices he had made for Michael, he thought were safe. But look where they got him. In a coma. He promised himself that he would not make the same mistakes with Jake and Cameron.
Suddenly, a Nadine walked in with Michael's chart. She looked at Michael and started taking Michael's vitals. And this struck Jason as odd, since Elizabeth was his assigned nurse. Was it because of Jason she didn't want to help Michael?
"Hey, where is Elizabeth?" Jason asked.
"She didn't tell you?" Nadine said with a puzzled look.
"Tell me what?"
"She resigned. Rumor has it, supposedly, she met this guy and he offered her the world. So, she ran off with him. Her and the boys" Nadine said as she went back to taking Michaels vitals. Jason sat there dumbstruck. He just couldn't believe it. He couldn't believe that she had just run off with another guy. Who could be the guy?
Hang on. He thought. She had accepted his proposal. That had to mean something. She wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. Well, Nadine said it could just be a rumor. She could have just quit so she could spend time being a full time mom. Jason had to see for himself. He kissed Carly's forhead and walked out of the room.
When he got to Elizabeth's house there was no car parked in the driveway. He quickly started to panic. He opened the front door and took a look around. The whole house had been cleaned out. As if there had never been a family inside. It felt cold and dark without Elizabeth's and the boys stuff scattered around the living room.
Jason took one step inside and felt something under his feet. He took a step back and looked down. A white envelope was on the floor with his name on it. It was Elizabeth's hand writing. He quickly pulled out the contents. Inside was the most beautiful picture of Elizabeth and her boys, and what seemed like a letter.
He took a deep breath and opened it.
Jason,
They are making me write a letter of goodbye to you and to my family. They said I'll never see you again. But maybe it's a good thing, since you don't want to see me anyways. But they said they only wanted me to get to you. But I told them they can have me as long as they don't come after you. Please don't come after me. They'll kill the boys. And I love them and you too much to have all of you die because of me. So Jason, please forget about me and us. It the only way the boys can live. They say we're in no danger as long as you don't come after them. They say I have to go now.
Elizabeth.
Jason crumpled the letter in his right hand. Suddenly his phone went off. He looked at it and noticed it was Sonny.
"Sonny, they took Elizabeth"
