Chapter 8

Chris and Ash were pulling up into the driveway of their destination. The ride was extremely bumpy die to the fact that it was a stone driveway. And Beau, who had already had a sick stomach as it was, was about to throw up. He tried not to, he really did. But it didn't work. Stuff went spewing all over the back seat, Ash saw this and jumped into the back and put his hand around Beau's throat, choking him. "Okay, Ash. You can stop now." Chris pulled Ash into the front seat. He didn't want Beau to die, not just yet at least.

"So that's all you wanted to ask me?" Stephanie asks baffled.

"Yup, and it wasn't as hard as you thought it was going to be was it?"

"Nope, but may I ask you a question?"

"Go ahead." He resumes his seat and waits for her to begin to talk.

"Firstly, when do I get to leave?"

"As soon as your bond is met..."

"How much is it?"

"50,000 dollars."

"Okay, I can do that. And secondly, who told you that I was hurting my kids?"

"We got an anonyms call, sounded like a young boy though..."

"Okay, thank you." She then takes her checkbook out of her purse and writes a check for her bail. She slams it on the man's desk and abruptly leaves. She needed to go and tell Paul what had transpired.

She quickly arrives back at the hospital only to find that Paul had slipped into a coma and is not responding to any of the medications that the doctors are giving him. They tried for hours to attempt to bring him out, but he is a stubborn mule and won't change. One of his doctors pulls Stephanie out into the hallway to talk to her.

"Ma'am, I'm not going to tell you what to do but I just want to let you know that it would be very wise to talk to him like you were having a regular conversation. Maybe bring his parents here too."

"Well, what about the kids, would they be able to come see him?"

"How old are they?"

"The twins are almost twelve, Cadence is sixteen and Beau is 5."

"The 3 older ones can come into the room. No one under 10 will be allowed until he awakes."

"Thank you doctor." She says courteously and goes back into her ex husband's room. She pulls up a chair and sits next to his bed. Close to ½ hour after she sat down, her cell phone rang.

Ash pulls Beau from the back seat and drags him to the front door. The little boy recognized this house; it was their Uncle Paul's. He sees a figure in the doorway, two figures actually. One was a tall, heavyset woman with black hair. The other was a shorter teenager with blonde hair with red streaks and hazel eyes. He remembered them to be his Uncle Paul's ex- fiancée Joanie and daughter Cadence. Cadence went up to Ash and took the Beau away from him. She hauled him up stairs to the guest room and threw him in the closet. They all needed to discuss some things and nobody wanted Beau to listen.

"WHAT?!?! MY BABY IS MISSING?!?!? SHANE!!!! TELL ME HE'S NOT MISSING!!! PLEASE!!!" Stephanie screamed into her phone when her brother had told her that he had arrived home to find that her son was missing and no where to be found.

"Steph, Look, I already called the police and they are looking for him right now. They'll find him, I promise."

"Shane, why wasn't he with Marissa? She should take him wherever she goes. I don't like it when he is alone all by himself and you guys know that."

"Steph, she went outside for two minutes to check on the girls. When she came back inside she couldn't find him. She looked everywhere, believe me."

"Why didn't you call sooner?" she asks, now in tears. Her baby, her Beau, was missing. Only one person could be responsible for this, and it's Chris, it just has to be.

"We were freaked out, sorry Steph. But why don't you just come over here."

"Paul's in a coma, I can't. I'll try to get there in the morning though. Call me if anything happens."

"Okay, bye Steph. And take it easy."

"Hold on wait!" she screams into the phone, "Can you get someone to get the girls to the hospital. I really just want to be around them tonight?"

"Sure thing. I'll bring them there myself."

"Thanks Shane. I'll see you in a few hours." She hung up her phone and put it back in its spot in her purse. Then she backed up into the wall and slid down it, tears pouring out of her eyes and down her pink cheeks.

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