His True Love

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Chapter Twenty Three – Good Intentions

SANDRA:

  I met Randy about two and a half years ago he was actually a pretty good guy, not normally violent or aggressive but recently with all of his troubles and problems he had times of becoming so. In fact his one vice was gambling.

He gambled his life savings away and mine; Plus a lot more when he really couldn't afford to lose at all and had incurred a rather substantial debt.

Randy only knew me by the name of Sandra Stephens, not by my full name which was Cassandra, and he loved me and I loved him so it took a great deal for him to come and confess to me about the situation he was in. Because I did love him, I mean we were going be married, I decided that I would have to stick by and help him.

The first thing I did was go to the people who he was indebted to we had a long talk I showed them some pictures and outlined a plan I had to make them back the money they had lost and then some but to do it they would have to let me leave with Randy to bring back the star performer. Randy needed an extension to pay but if my idea worked they would get it all back with interest.

I told them where we were going when we would be back and that we could call in at any time, also they could use what ever means they wanted to insure we didn't just take off and leave them in the lurch.

Lastly I gave them my own body as a down payment. It wasn't the first time I'd done such a thing, though it had been some years since I last used sex as a way of seeing to my needs.

Finally they permitted us two weeks, an old van a map with the route we were to take there and back again and a gas charge card, which would lead an easy to follow trail. The only reason they permitted this is they had the photos studied and verified and were sure that it wasn't a fake.

New York, which had been my home at one time, was now to be our salvation. The biggest gamble I had ever made in my life. It was due to the years I had spent in New York that I even knew about the mutants who lived in the sewers.

I had no desire to run into any of the adults but I was hoping that with luck on our side we would run into the young mutant turtle girl called Ramiela or Rama to her daddy.

I looked at Rama now her small form huddled under the blankets we had tied her arms and legs up with bits of rope to insure she wouldn't escape.

I fumed silently at how hard Randy had hit her I let him know he couldn't do that to her.

~*~

" You have to be more careful of her Randy," I snapped at him as we entered our room and I grabbed a change of clothes while he laid her on the bed. " She is no good to us dead. You could have hurt her."

" Sandra you know I didn't mean to hit her all that hard. I didn't even mean to hit you down there you know that don't you?"
I glared at him.

" Look at it from my point of view what little money we had is running out, our time here is also running out and you had us chasing giant turtles in the sewer on the other side of the country." He shook his head in disbelief " I didn't have any idea you were telling the truth about them."

" Yeah well learn to trust me because I won't steer you wrong." I shot back at him " we might have had her sooner if they hadn't moved."

Randy grinned, " Maybe we ought to go after one of the adults that you spoke of not just the kid."

I laughed at the mere thought, I hadn't told Randy every thing about them just what I felt he needed to know " I know her family well enough to know you wouldn't stand a chance of catching them out or holding them for that matter." I explained, "Her family has been trained in martial arts since they were young. She is also being taught it we can hold her because of her age only." I scowled at him " It might be an idea for us to pack up the van and leave now. If her family catches up with us they will most likely kill us."

I had told the cab driver to drop us off at a different hotel a few blocks away and we walked here. I knew how good those ninja were.

" Stop stressing babe we have the room until tomorrow we might as well use it. We can make sure she is all right for taking off about three in the morning. No one is going to find us" Randy assured me, " Next stop Las Vegas where we can show our freak to the world."

I growled at him " Randy don't you dare call her a freak. I told you they have human intelligence." I smirked a bit " think of it this way for all intents and purposes she is now your daughter and mine and if she is happy she will want to perform for us. It won't matter really what she does as people will want to see her for what she is."

There were all kinds of one of a type shows in Las Vegas but none of them had a mutant turtle in them. If scientist wanted to study her I might permit it as long as they didn't hurt her in any way.

But for the most part Rama would be treated as a member of our family she would just be expected to help us out a little at first and when you considered all she would get back it wasn't asking a great deal of her really.

~*~

Randy had left to get us all an early lunch and I was left to keep an eye on Rama as I waited for her to wake I recalled the silent way her family had of communicating with one another and realized that we might have to figure out a way to keep mental activity subdued just in case.

Course I didn't want Randy constantly knocking her out so I started to consider other options that might do the trick in keeping her family from tracking her that way.

Rama looked like she was starting to stir and come around I expected her to be a little groggy and disoriented at first but hoped that would be the extent of it. I saw her eyes snap open and heard a low whimper escape her lips as she struggled for a moment against the ropes that bound her before lying still her chest heaving.

" Its all right honey. We really don't want to hurt you."

" Let me go!" she ordered glaring at me.

" I can't not right now. Maybe later tomorrow after we leave New York I might let you loose then if you promise to behave and be a good girl for us." I moved over to the bed and sat down beside her stroking her dark hair " You are going be a part of our family now" I explained gently trying to be as comforting as I could.

" I all ready gots a family" she declared petulantly her voice sounding perilously close to tears. Thought there was a hard stubborn look on her face.

" Yeah well you have been with them for seven years now but you deserve a better life. Randy and I have freed you from a lifetime of living in the cold dark sewer to live topside with us" I gave her a coy smile " Isn't there something special you want in life Rama?"

" Ramiela!" she snapped as she tried to kick me " Hows you know my name?"

" Sorry Ramiela, I know because you are very special to me." I said then switched the subject " There must be something that you want or dream about Ramiela," I paused as I considered options that would not involve the martial arts " Why you could play with children your own age if you wanted to, or have a big pet like a horse perhaps" I suggested.

I hadn't met many young girls that didn't have some sort of affinity for horses. Young girls were drawn to horses like they were magnets. I saw something come up in Rama's eyes as I mentioned horses and I knew I had scored a hit so I smiled knowingly.

" Horses cost lots of money and need lots of space and all kinds of things that you don't have in a sewer but if you help us I'll make sure you get a horse of your very own" I vowed.

" But what about daddy?" she asked worriedly.

" Randy is going be your dad now Ramiela."

" I wants my dad Mikelangelo" she insisted.

" Well honey after a while if you want we could maybe arrange for you to come and see him for a visit." I stated, knowing all the while it wasn't going to happen.

Michael had Rama long enough, now he could learn what it was like to not have her in his life. He deserved to suffer some after what he had done to me. Cutting me out of Ramiela's life all because I had wanted to give her a life outside of the sewer. A normal life not one in a clan!

Of course it was only to be expected that Rama wanted her dad and the life she lived, she knew no other way of life but once we got her outside of New York and she got used to us I had a feeling she wouldn't want to go back to living underground with the Clan.

After all with Randy and I she could have everything her heart desired, any thing she had dreamed about, toys, playmates she would never go back after tasting the freedom of topside.

Mike could only give her a poor existence of fear and hiding. Randy and I would give her so much more then that.

Yes she would have to earn her keep the first little bit but I wasn't going sell her to a zoo or some science lab I wasn't that heartless. I didn't want her to be hurt.

Mike hadn't understood that before and he wouldn't understand it now.

I shuddered as I recalled Mike's last words to me when he denied me every thing and shut me completely out of their lives.

" I spared your life tonight, which is far more then you deserve. If you ever come back here and try to hurt me, or my daughter again I won't be so generous. Now get the hell out of my sight before I change my mind and don't forget we don't exist to you any more. You are no longer welcomed any where near our home."

I had only wanted to give her a life, which she deserved and Mike felt that I was trying to cut him out of her life and harm Rama.

He had no right to threaten me; he had no right to deny me or to tell me that I couldn't see her any more.

Rama wasn't just his daughter!

That was what I hadn't told Randy yet.

I had yet to tell him that I had once known her family very well in deed. Or had when I lived in New York, of course Mike and his family referred to me by my street name or my nickname Shay.

I was Ramiela's biological mother and I felt that I had just as much say in how she was to be raised as Mike did.

If he could cut me out then he deserved the same treatment back. Let him live the rest of his life without his only child. He had her long enough, it was my turn for custody.

I didn't look on this as kidnapping not in the least because she was my child too and nothing was going keep me from her especially when I could provide her a far better life then he could.

I fully intended for Rama to want for nothing. I intended to give her a wonderful life full of happiness.

My life with my daughter had just begun.

TBC