Back again with more. I promised I would finish it even if just for me so here's another chapter. Let me know how you're liking it and I'll update again soon. Thank you so much for sticking through it.

Spov

It's only been a matter of minutes since that douche bag Davis had left the room. And man was I glad he had. I was sore in places I didn't even want to think about. And the pain killers were barely taking the edge off.

I better be getting an all paid beachside vacation after this shit show…

I keep thinking of being home when I close my eyes. I must have missed so much. Oh God, poor Grandma Mazur. She must be missing me as much as my father is. Doesn't pay me much to think too hard on my mother.

Oh Grandma Mazur would get a kick out of all of this. She could finally play her destined role of a Clint Eastwood stunt double and blast our way out of here.

I wasn't too far into daydreaming about my up in age granny in a shoot out before the door was thrown open again.

"We've got a big problem thanks to you Miss Plum."

Forcing my eyes open and peering back at reality was hard.

"Yea? And why is that Mr. Davissss"

He looked right then like he could spit fire at me and catch my hair on fire like I'd accidentally done at 16 using too much hair spray on it and trying to sneak a cigarette.

"Maria and her husband have conveniently come up missing. And I can't even imagine why they would be missing if they had a dead baby body with them."

Just hearing that made me shake. Thinking of my child as dead chilled me to my core.

"Yea well I don't know either alright? So why don't you go ahead and ask someone else to get me some better pain killers because a girl is dying herself in here from all this pain after pushing a watermelon out of a water hose guy. Not that you'd know nothing about nothing when it comes to that. But hey, maybe one day when you shit your head out of your ass you might feel an ounce of what I am right now."

I should know better than to be playing on the thin ice I'm already on. Davis was straight red and I could see his hand twitching by his side. I'd already been roughed up before what was a little more. It felt way too good to throw that last jab in at him and I am not regretting it one bit.

"If Maria is not back here within the hour darling you're not going to like the hand you've been dealt if you're wanting to play this game."

"Yea well Mr. Davis don't let the door hit you in the rear on the way out. You slammed it hard enough earlier it would probably lodge your head a good 2 inches further up."

And with that he was shaking but walking away and out of my solitary confinement hell of a room.

Please Maria, please get farther away and fast….

Rpov

"Mr. Ranger sir, we need to do something now if you can. We've been gone too long and I don't think little Ricardo's mama will be doing too well if too much more time passes…"

I looked up and saw so much concern on this woman's face. She'd risked her life to bring me my son and yet I was still reverting back to my rational side and choosing to be leery and suspicious until I could know without a doubt this wasn't a trap or that she was here just to feel us out.

"My men are working on it. We can't be flying in half cocked with her life on the line as it is. But until then I need you to start talking, and answer some questions."

She took a deep breath and I started laying into her asking everything I could think of. I knew that she had been there since the beginning. That much we were sure on since she'd been on the screens I'd stared at every day for just as long. She spoke to me how the cartel of the area was already taking over whenever one day at her shift in the hospital two men came up and offered her an after hours job. She'd declined but they'd nabbed her husband and threatened both of their lives if she didn't. So for months she'd watched over my Babe and for months she'd monitored her pregnancy to make sure the baby was ok. She had done the job I was meant to do and had been stolen from me.

"You're telling me he'd had her sedated the whole time?" My vision was tunneling and I was fuming.

"No…not the whole time but a good majority of it. I told them that it would cause the baby to be harmed if he did it for too long. So there were days I had her conscious and made her get up and walk in the room and I would let her sit by a window to get some sun. But the next dose would make her muddled again and she would forget."

I thought of Stephanie waking up and reliving the horror each time of being kidnapped and drugged while pregnant and me not being there each time she came to.

"And Stephanie is ok?" I knew she had to of been because Maria would have said otherwise from the get go, she was a very forward woman. But I still feared the worse.

"Si, she was doing great….when I left. I upped her pain medication and did everything I could before we snuck out. I wanted to wait and take her too but there was no way we all would have left and survived to get here. But as soon as they realize what's happened I'm scared of what Mr. Davis will do to her."

"Mr. Davis?"

"Yes he's the one in charge there. He has 8 men making rounds regularly but they all pretty much answer to him. I've never seen him answering to anyone else not even through phone calls."

I heard a loud quick round of knocking on the door and knew it was Tank telling me they were ready. And I felt like my heart was being ripped out of me knowing what I needed to do next.

"Maria…Thank you…thank you for risking your lives to bring me our baby…but I have to ask you for another tremendous favor. I have to go get her. I can't take the baby home and return for her. If anything happens to her…I just can't let anything happen to her. You've been there for him when I was unable, can you please stay for just a couple hours more and watch over him till we return."

I was waiting for her to tell me no way in hell, and high tale it out of here with her husband now that they were finally free. But instead she just stared into my eyes and was silent. I'm not sure what else to plead with.

"I can pay you. I can get both of you out of here and set up far away and safe. I just have to get Stephanie first. She's part of the deal for your freedom and I can't give you anything until she's back with me."

"Bring her back to her little one. My husband and I can fare well on our own here. We built our life here before the cartel took over. I just needed to know you were serious about getting her out and not just abandoning her now that you have little Ricardo."

"Thank you Maria…thank you."

And with everything I had left in me I walked out of the safe house and forced one foot in front of the other. I hadn't even held my son, I couldn't until I knew his mother was here safe and holding him first. She'd been deprived of so much and I couldn't bring myself to believe it was all real until we were all together and whole. I also did fear that it would be like Maria said and the second I held him I would want to run for the hills and get him hidden away and safe before I went back for Steph. I didn't have the luxury of time on my hands and I had never been that type of man before and I didn't want to be. But helpless children change you, especially when they're your own.

I'm coming Babe. I'm bringing you home….

Spov

I must let myself doze off because I woke up to loud banging and I swore Davis was back and laying into my door because I had used up the last of my energy to push a shitty storage cubicle in front of it hoping for some kind of protection.

Hah, that would have bought me five more seconds of breathing with the way Davis was built.

But no, I realized it wasn't him…and even though my mind was fuzzy it took half a second of looking around for it to snap through me.

GUNSHOTS!

I was so sore. And in so much pain. But if they were gunshots then that could only mean someone was attacking. And I was a sitting duck.

Jesus why can't they just kill themselves away from my damn room….Ok Stephanie time to get up…

I tried to hoist myself off of the bed again like I'd done earlier to barricade the door but all the medication was worn off and damn if I didn't feel like I would die right then and there.

"Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!"

A loud bang sounded close to above my head and adrenaline decided to grace me with its presence.

All of a sudden fight or flight kicked in and my body chose FLIGHT. My legs became 10 times lighter and the pain subsided enough that I was slow, but still moving my ass out of there. I pushed the cubicle out of the way and opened the door. No one was there. I'd peeked through each time Maria had gone in and out and two beefy men had always been a few steps out. But now? Nada.

Alright Plum move it!

I had moved only ten feet from the door whenever I heard the shouting followed by more gunshots.

"GET THE FUCK DOWN!"

It was a voice that tickled a memory in the back of my mind but I honestly didn't want to spend the time I had to think it through and started hobbling in the opposite direction. It was a damn maze here with all of these outdoor buildings and I had no shoes on so my feet I'm sure they were getting a beating.

Come on Stephanie don't be thinking dumb right now, focus on getting out of this compound hell.

I was rounding corners and using the buildings as leverage to hold my body up. The adrenaline was wearing down now that I was farther away and the pain was coming back.

I was sure I only had a short time left to get further. I went to take another step and heard someone yelling again. It was closer than my liking so I shoved myself forward even faster.

"You fucking bitch! You damn fucking bitch!"

Turning around would waste time. I didn't know who was complimenting me so much but better not turn around and look death in the face I say.

A loud pop sounded followed by a thud and I knew gunfire was coming closer. I didn't know which way though and I didn't care I just wanted to be the opposite of it.

Just a few more steps and I'll hide in a building to catch my breath…come on…come onnnn….

"Ooof" I felt like I'd hit a brick wall and looking up I'd realized I'd ran into a tank of a man….but like THE Tank of a man.

"Bomber?!" I saw heaven in those eyes…because I saw home. Tank would take me to Ranger, and Ranger would take me home…and to my baby.

"Oh fancy seeing you here Tank."

I don't think I've ever been picked up off of the ground so quickly in a hug…and I am NOT a hugger usually in these situations but damn this one was great…until the pain started shooting back through my body reminding me to take it easy.

"Tank…ouch…."

"Oh fuck! I'm sorry!"

"All good, all good. Umm I'm just still feeling a little fresh off the pain meds so can we get the fuck out of here and rejuice me with some and rejoice later?"

I suddenly heard a whizzing noise right by my ear that played into Tanks low laugh and it wasn't long after I felt a splatter across my face.

Oh Jesus Christ. TANK!

Tank was bleeding from his neck and his hand covering it wasn't doing anything to slow the flow of blood either.

"Tank! TANK!"

"Bomb..go…go now…"

"No. I can't. Come on. Get up! I just birthed a human and if I can do it you can too with that paper cut. GET UP!"

I was attempting to hoist this three hundred pound mammoth of a man up and even with his help we weren't getting far.

"If you don't get up now I'm not leaving and we will both die together and Ranger will never forgive you."

It must have been motivation enough because he was definitely lifting a lot faster now.

"Hurry…" He was pleading with me…

The word was gurgled and I couldn't think on that. Instead I started pushing us forward. Only to be thrown back by a hand yanking at my shoulder from behind.

"Where the fuck do you think you're going bitch?"

I looked up from the ground into those damned green eyes I wished I could claw out.