Chapter 4

Kelly explains her story from the day she was kidnapped to the day she was kicked out. During college, she researched about why they had taken her and ask so many questions was because they wanted Constance Dove's treasure that was meant to be theirs. The treasure was somewhere in America and they had the key all this time.
Thankfully the treasure hunters never thought of studying the family Dove history.

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Clive takes out his pocket knife and looked up at Kelly. "So there is more to this life than meets the eye?" He asks. She nods her head and hands him her necklace as he hands her his pocket knife.

Kelly looks through the pocket knife and it was reflected by the fire onto the wall. "Look." She gasps at the light against the shadows to see it was a description.

"It says 'start off where it all begins, at the center of the rose.'" Clive reads the description and looks at Kelly's necklace. He then gets up and walks over to the microscope and looks over the rose to see another picture of a rose, but this was more like a bird's eye view point of view of a rose.

Kelly looks over his shoulder and gasp. "I know that shape."

Clive hands her the necklace. "Where is it?"

She leads him back to the window in the living room. They look far out to see central park to see a pattern of the walkways that formed a rose. In the center was a statue.

"Well that was easy; we should look at the statue tonight when no one's at the park." Clive smiles over the park and then turns to see Kelly looking over the park herself. He hugs her from the side and whispers. "Until then, we can explore the park and start our relationship where we left off."

She blushes and nods her head. "That would be nice." She whispers and they head off to the park.

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Kelly shows Clive every inch of the park, even the boulders that couples would lay down on, but sadly they were all taken, but that didn't stop Clive showing her how much he missed her.

He has her sit down on his lap on the bench as the sun sets and people started to leave that weren't the couples on the rocks. Kelly lays her head on his shoulder as they watch the sun go down.

"I like you, Kelly" Clive whispers.

"I like you too, Clive" Kelly whispers back and then sun disappears completely.

They wait until all the couple left and then set off to the statue as the almost full moon light their way. "So this is our first clue?" Kelly asks as she climbs onto the statue.

"Yes, but I don't see anything. " Clive starts, but then he sees that the messenger bag had a slim hole in it. He takes out his pocket knife and opens it up.

Kelly notices and quickly gets off as Clive sticks the blade into the hole. The statue slowly turns around and its arm unbend the right arm straight and onwards.

"It couldn't" she states as she looks at what it was pointing at.

"Yes it is." Clive sees it as well and he takes out the pocket knife and stares at the famous statue as the man statue turns back to its regular position.

"Here we come, Lady Liberty" Kelly states.

They hurry to Manhattan and were able to get tickets to take the last ship to the statue of liberty.

When they aboard, she saw someone that she made her panic and pulls Clive to the upper deck. "Come on." She whispered worriedly as she tries to get him to climb up the stairs faster.

Clive grabs her arm and looks into her eyes. "What is going on?' He asks in a whisper.

"The man with the pale eyes, he's here." She whimpers and Clive slowly climbs downstairs to see a bald man dress in black at the stand.

The man turns his head slightly and Clive saw his grey pale eyes.

Clive decides to go back to Kelly, who was looking down at him as her whole body shakes. "What did he do, Kelly?" He asks her.

"H-he took me away from you." She flustered and hugs him.

He hugs her back and then notice that the man was walking up to the desk. "Come on, let's hide." He whispers and pulls Kelly to the shadows with him.

The man didn't notice them as he passes by and they climb downstairs to the lower deck just in time to get off the boat to the statue of liberty. They cautiously hurry to the statue, trying not to draw attention, and bury tickets to the statue of liberty.

They decide to pass through all the displays until one tour guide says. "Some say that the heart of the statue of liberty is in her eyes." Kelly and Clive look at each other and hurry out of the museum and up the steps or riding the elevator up for a price.

Clive takes out a ten and hands it to the lady. "We would like to use the elevator please." He smiled and the lady unlocks the elevator door for them. They rush in just in time because the man with pale eyes came in when they were already up two stories and rising. When they reach the top, they quickly start looking around inside the head to find anything like a heart.

Kelly stops and looks closely at her necklace and up at liberty's eyes that she was looking out now. She walks up to the window eyes and hung her necklace up against it. Then the glass turn into a picture of the moon and the empire state building.

Clive notices and smiles, "We are so close," but then his smile fades as the elevator rings and the strange man comes in.

He was completely shock to see the two, recognizing them the moment he came in, but then he smiles at the glass picture in front of Kelly.

She notices and quickly puts the necklace back on. Now the man pulls out a knife, they know too much and must be killed. Clive tries protecting Kelly by blocking the man's way, but it was no use. The man pushes him away and was going to tackle poor Kelly, but she takes out pepper spray and sprays it on his eyes.

He screams out as Clive grabs Kelly's hand, "Come on!" He commands and they went inside the elevator and went down. On their way down, Clive didn't want to let go of her.

She notices as the elevator opens for them and grabs his hand and drags him out until the exited the building, with his hand still in hers. "Clive, are you okay?" She asks.

Clive shakes the shock out of him and nods his head, "Yeah, I'm alright," he then gives her hand a squeeze. Kelly smiles some and leads them to the boat in a fast pace. They safely got on board with no suspicious following them and Kelly practically fell asleep on his shoulder. Clive looks over his watch to see it was close to midnight and they had to get back to her apartment before they continue their adventure. He looks over at Kelly and thought about how he was so close to losing her again to the same man and on the night they finally become a couple.

Clive didn't want to lose Kelly. He wants her to stay by his side. No, he needed her to stay. She's the only person who cares about him more than he deserves and that makes him feel important in some way. He had no idea how, but being with her made him feel like he was needed for something important. He almost committed suicide a few times after she disappear, but when he was close to actually doing it, Kelly and her twinkling eyes would come across his vision and he would stop. If he lost her for good, that would be the end of him.

The boat comes to their stop and he carries her to the subway. He didn't mind people watching, for all they know, they were a couple of young adults that just went to a party with a lot to drink. Kelly wakes up in Clive's arms, but he has her fall back to sleep. The subway takes them to New York City and he carries her to the apartment where the night worker furrows their brow at them.

Clive gives them a smirk and goes into the elevator, wishing he didn't have to wake her, but he did. "Kelly, we need the keys," he whispers and she wakes up as he puts down. Kelly unlocks the panel and pushes the button. The elevator rises to her apartment and they get out of the elevator. She leads him upstairs to her room where there was an old fashion London décor along with a king size bed.

Kelly crawls onto one side a Clive gets on the other and he pulls her into his arms as she pulls the covers over them. "Goodnight," she whispers.

"Goodnight," he whispers back and falls asleep.