CHAPTER 2

Ana's POV

In my hand was a CCTV image of the camera outside of Rose's bedroom and there was my baby, unconscious, being carried away by someone dressed all in black. This made my blood run cold. How did this person get in without security picking up anything and how did he even get in without making a noise? We need to find her and NOW!

Christian is pacing the room 'FUCK! SHIT! TAYLOR GET THE CAR WE NEED TO SEARCH FOR HER!'. Everyone was rushing around panicking but I was in shock to much too even move

'Ana, baby you need to stay, please look after the children' he was rubbing his thumb across my knuckles which always calmed me, and somehow it did the trick and the fact that I had two other children I needed to stay strong for

'Christian, please find our baby' I was pleading to him.

'I will Ana!' he said as he walked out of the door and got in the car and Taylor drove off

'Mom? Will we ever find Rose? ' It was phoebe, looking pale and had been crying.

'Yes of course we will baby, you dad has gone to find her'

I wake up by the sound of a car engine coming up the drive, I am in Rose's room and my eyes are swollen from the crying. I get up and walk to the door entrance to be greeted by Christian coming through the door, he looks worn out.

'Anything?' I ask hopefully

'No, nothing. I am going to review the tapes and see what I can come up with, see if I can see the fuckers face'

'Should we phone the police?' I ask, but in the back of my mind I already know the answer

'No Ana, I don't want the media to get hold of this at the moment, what happens if this is someone from the past? I just don't want to take any chances yet'

'OK, just go do what you have to do!'

I walk into the lounge to find my two children staring at the switched off television, pale and puffy eyed and I see Gail has woken up

'Morning Gail, I'm sorry to have woken you on a weekend' I said apologetically

'Ana, it's quite all right, you, Mr Grey and the children are like family to me and I am rather worried as is everyone else. Now please, is there anything I can get anyone?' Miss Phoebe? Master Theodore?'

'No thank you Mrs Taylor' Phoebe and Teddy both answered in unison

'You must eat, children, you need to keep your energy up.' Gails voice was stern but they still didn't want anything to eat which I know will concern Christian but now is not the time to argue

Taylor comes down the stairs looking grim and walks towards me. 'Mrs Grey? Mr Grey would like to see you in his study right away'

Oh no! What has he found? I make my way to the study where I find Christian with his head on the desk .

'Christian?' I say barely audible. His head shoot up and I can tell he has been crying. I go over to him and sit on his lap, he pushes away from the desk to give me room, and I kiss his head

'Ana, I have found some footage of the cameras around the building and I need you to take a look', so he plays the video, it shows the unsub appearing through the bush at the back of the house and then they disappear from view while one of the guards, I'm not sure who as its dark, make his rounds then when he has gone, the unsub takes out a grappling hook and swings the hook and it latches on to something, probably rose's bedroom and then climbs up it. I sit there in shock for a few minutes unable to move when suddenly you see the unsub down with my little girl slumped over their shoulder and run off towards the same bush they appeared from only 10 minutes ago and that was it, I have just seen my baby get took from her own bed.

'Christian, you need to phone the police! We need to find her and NOW! If the media find out then that's a good thing, they can spread the message and help us find OUR baby!' I am frantic now after seeing that

'Ana, the unknown sub may not be so unknown to us! As you can see, they have avoided the guards and know where to hide and that they appeared from the bush, that we need to look at, they have probably stalked the house since we came here on holiday and they know that we have security and that they would be patrolling the house. Yes we will involve the police but we need to go and look for something to give us evidence of our own. I will check the perimeter of the house. Please ring the police' he slides me off his knee and leaves the room whilst combing his hand through his hair in expatriation.

My poor baby! I quickly get out my phone and dial 999 and quickly the operator answers

'Emergency services, which service do you require?'

'Erm, police please'

'One moment please'

Then another person answers the phone'

'Police, how can I help?'

'My daughter has been taken from her room'

'Are you sure she isn't somewhere in the house?'

'Yes, we have seen her being taken from her room on the CCTV camera'

'OK can I take your name and address please?'

'Anastasia Grey, 213 London Road, Steventon, Hampshire'

'OK stay calm Ana and we will get someone out as soon as we can'

'Thank you'

As I put the phone down, I take a look at the house we have spent the last 2 weeks in, the house Christian bought me for a valentine's gift 3 years ago, in the birth town of one of my favourite authors Jane Austen, its huge just like our home in Seattle. These two weeks has been perfect, Christian has been so relaxed here than he has in the 16 years I have known him, but now all I can think about it Rose and who has got her and maybe Christian was right, if this IS someone we know then his secret might come out but on the other hand the police will help us.

I look at the clock its midday, I make my way to the kitchen and find Teddy there staring into his bowl of Frosties just stirring it and Phoebe is on the sofa staring at a photo of Rose. I walk over to my son and hug him 'everything is going to be ok' I say to him in a soft voice

'How do you know that mom?' he asks

'I don't but I don't want to think anything else so I'm trying to keep positive'

'Yeah ok but...' his sentence is interrupted but the door bell going

'Tay...' I stop realising he is out with Christian but before I can get to the door Sawyer opens it

'Mrs Grey?' it's the police

'Yes, please, come in' I say shaking the officers hand and just at that moment Christian enters the hallway

'I'm Mr Grey, thank you for coming'

'Can any of you tell me what's happened please?'

So I start talking first

'I woke up this morning by my son having a nightmare and realised it was time to get up as we were leaving to go to the airport an hour later, so I went to wake up Teddy, my son, then I woke up Phoebe, my eldest daughter, then I went into Roses room and she was staring out of the window at the moon because Teddy's shouting had woke her, so I went to get her clothes out of her closet and she then told me that she wanted to get herself dressed so I left her in her room and went down stairs to the kitchen and when it was nearly to leave I shouted my children and when Rose didn't appear I went up to her room to find her and she wasn't there so I looked in the bedroom and also shouted her incase she was playing a game and then Mr Taylor, our security, brought us a still of someone running from the camera with rose slumped over the shoulder of the subject then Mr Grey called me into the study and showed me the CCTV footage of the subject'

'Thank you Mrs Grey, Mr Grey can you show us this footage?'

'Yes sure, right this way' and off they went to the study

I turn to go up stairs, but the ringing of my phone shocks me. It's an unknown number so I answer it warily

'Hello?'

'Hello Ana...' says the female voice on the other end

'Who it this?' I ask

'Never you mind who this is, all you need to know is that I have Rose'

'WHAT?'

'You know, you really should up your sercurity, taking Rose was like taking candy from a baby'

'Just tell me one thing...is Rose safe?'

'Yes, for now...'

The phone went dead

'CHRISTIAN!'