The next morning Frank arrived at HQ alone. Cody, Sab, Maria and Monica are all there waiting on him.
"Great, you're finally here, we tried to call but you're phone is off," Cody said. "Sab and I watched the security tapes from yesterday. We found the person putting the bomb in Alex's car." Cody handed Frank the photo he made.
"This is Keisha, Quito's girlfriend," Frank said, looking at the picture.
"Last reported sighting of her was at the border going into Mexico. From there we have no sightings of her, she just disappeared," Monica told him.
"Where is Alex?"
"I dropped her off at the hospital when Cody called and told me about Keisha. She wanted to help Sonny watch Jake," Monica explained.
"Elaina isn't here yet either. We thought you two would be together," Cody said.
"We left separately this morning," Frank said, not letting them know they weren't together last night.
"Keisha has to be staying somewhere. Get her picture to every hotel, and dive she could be at. Check her old haunts and she if she's been seen around them. Let's find her before she finds one of us," Frank said as Derek came barging in.
"Dad! Where's Mom?" Derek said, worried. Becky followed him in with Sarah who was crying.
Frank took Sarah from Becky. "What's wrong? Didn't she leave you a note?"
"No and she isn't answering her cell either. We checked the apartment. She isn't there, but someone had been. We drove out to the ranch and she isn't there either. I'm worried Dad. Where can she be?"
"I was at the apartment this morning picking up something," Frank told him. "Maria, call Alex and see if Elaina has been there."
"Sab, call her office and see if she has checked in with them and ask Andy if he has heard from her," Frank ordered. "How long has Sarah been crying?"
"Since she woke up. She seems to sense something wrong, I think," Becky said.
"Alex hasn't seen or heard from her. She said she'd make sure Elaina called us if she showed up," Maria told him.
"No one has seen of heard from her this morning at the Bureau," Sab reported.
"Do you think that Keisha has gotten hold of her?" Maria asked.
"Why would she take her, she didn't know about Elaina?"
"She might have found out about her connection with you, and took her to get to you," Monica suggested.
"Was your mother's car at the hotel?"
"No," Derek said. "They have security camera's where she parked. Do you want me to go look at them?" Derek wanted to help.
"That would be a good idea. Call me the minute you see what happened," Frank said, knowing he could handle the job. "Take Becky with you, I'll take care of Sarah."
"I can watch her and work at the same time," Sab offered.
"I said, I'd take care of her," Frank said with an icy stare to Sabrina.
"Frank, I know you're worried, Sarah is picking up on that. She needs you to calm down before she will," Monica told him.
"I'll be in my office, let me know when you find anything out." Frank carried Sarah to his office.
"We will," Cody said, going back to the operations board."
******
At the hospital, Jake was taken for some tests. Alex went with him as Sonny stayed in the room to wait. He walked to the doorway and was watching the nurses and hospital volunteers walking the halls. He did a double take as one volunteer walked by the nurse's station and glanced at Sonny. "Damn, she looks familiar," Sonny said, out loud. He thought for a while and then it dawned on him it was Keisha. He walked down the hall to try to find her. He spotted her getting on the elevator. He turned on the headset mic to talk to Alex.
"Alex, Keisha is here. I saw her get on the elevator just now. It's headed down toward you. She's dressed as one of the volunteers. I'm taking the stairs," Sonny informs her, making his way to the stairwell.
"I'll be watching for her," Alex told him. The orderly was bringing Jake out from his tests as Alex watched in the direction of the elevator. "Keep him in there until I say different," she ordered.
"What's going on, Alex?" Jake asked.
"Keisha is here, Sonny saw her get on the elevator and it was coming down this way," Alex told him, then the orderly took him back in the room.
"I'm just about there Alex?" Sonny informed her.
"No sign of her yet," Alex said, still watching. "Maybe she got off on another floor."
Sonny opened the door from the stairway he heard footsteps coming from behind him. He went out the door and stood beside it to see who came out of it. The door slowly opened. Sonny stepped in front of it to see Keisha. She's surprised to see Sonny pointing a gun at her. "Welcome back, Keisha." Sonny smiled at her.
"Are you looking for Shaw too?" Keisha asked, not realizing Sonny was helping Jake.
"No. I know exactly where he is. I take it you're the one that shot at Shaw. Now you plan to get to him again?"
"I'll get him this time with help from you," Keisha said in a sweet voice.
"Sure, you will. You didn't do a very good job on his partner. She's still alive, too."
"How did she live through a bomb? I had that rigged to her starter, it had to have killed her," Keisha confessed.
"She had a remote start on her car. She was nowhere near it when the bomb went off," Sonny told her.
"Mind if I join this party?" Alex asked, coming up behind Sonny.
"I believe you have the handcuffs. You, may have the honors," Sonny said to Alex as he held the gun on Keisha.
"You went straight? Why?" Keisha was surprised.
"Didn't you hear? An old associate of mine killed Carly and I turned on everyone I could think of, including Quito. I got tired of running. I'm a free man now and can do whatever I please. Too bad you and Quito won't have the same pleasure," Sonny said with a smile.
"You tell them to take Jake back to his room. I'll take her in. Call Donovan and tell him too," Alex said.
******
Cody went up to the office to talk to Frank about the call he received. "Boss, Sonny called. They have Keisha in custody. Alex is taking her in. He said it went with out injury to anyone."
"That's good to hear. Any news from Elaina?" Frank was becoming even more worried as time passed. He felt something but wasn't sure what exactly.
"Not yet," Cody said, turning around and leaving. Andy met him on the steps. "What are you doing here, miss us?" Cody joked.
"Frank in his office?" Andy asked, somberly.
"Yep, he and Sarah are reading files." Cody smiled and continued down the stairs.
Andy went up and knocked even though the door was open. "Mind if I come in?"
"Come on in Andy. Have you heard from Elaina?" Frank asked.
"In a way yes. This was delivered to my office an hour ago." Andy held a package.
Frank cell phone rang. "Hang on a minute, that maybe her. Hello."
"Dad. Mom looked ok when she left but she left at 3am. Did you know she left then?"
"I wasn't home last night. I'll explain, just get over here as soon as you can," Frank told him and hung up. "Seems Elaina took off about 3am to go somewhere. So what's in this package? You said it was from her?"
"There are letters addressed to you, Derek, Maria and Sabrina." He handed Frank his and Derek's letter as Sab and Maria came running in.
"What do you two want?" Frank asked, annoyed by their barging in.
"We read the letters," Maria said, out of breath.
"You have to read yours and quick," Sab said, anxiously.
"Why, what did yours say?" Frank asked, opening up the letter. Sarah tried to take it from him. "Maria, take her please." Frank gave Sarah to Maria, but she reached for Sab, who took her.
"Frank, I can tell by your look, you've the same feeling we do. These are suicide letters," Maria said with tears in her eyes.
"She had to be forced to write these. Elaina doesn't believe in suicide," Frank said, angrily.
"Don't be so sure, the other thing in the package was her resignation. She named her replacement too."
"She what?" Sab asked in disbelief. "What the hell is going on here?"
"I don't know! If I knew I wouldn't be sitting here," Frank snapped. "If she did leave on her own she had to take the plane. Have Cody call and see if it went out last night."
"Okie." Sab took Sarah with her as she went downstairs to tell him.
"Where would she go?" Andy asked.
"Back to the Double D." Frank dialed the Double D house. The phone was picked up by the answering machine. "Elaina, if you are there, please pick up. Lady, I'm sorry about the argument we had. Please answer me." When she didn't answer he hung up.
"Is Hank there, maybe he's seen her or she's out riding?" Maria suggested.
Frank again dialed Hank's cell; it took a while for Hank to answer. "Hank, have you seen Elaina?"
"No, I just got back from town and I haven't been to the main house yet today."
"Please go see if she's there. We need to find her. She left some very cryptic notes for us and they just don't sound like she'd write them freely."
"Hold on. I'll go see. I'll keep you on the line, so you two can talk, if she's there," Hank said, walking to the main house. Frank listened as he heard Hank call out to Elaina. "No answer yelling at her. I'm going up stairs," As he said it he heard a gunshot. Hank hurried up the steps and ran to the room. "Oh, good Lord."
"Hank! HANK! What happened?" Frank asked before the phone disconnected. Sab, Cody and Monica came in.
"I called your pilot. She did use the plane but it came back about an hour ago," Cody said. "She told the pilot that she wasn't coming back."