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Regret

Chapter 7 – Just dreaming

As Jordan polished off her ice cream, she slowly made her way around the mall. She noticed an adorable pink outfit for a baby and felt herself drawn to it. She walked to the window and stared at it. She knew she some day had hoped on having children, but now she felt perhaps its best if she didn't. The only man she could ever picture waking up beside was Woody and it seemed that dream had crashed and burned when Woody ended up in the hospital. He was over her that was all there was to it.

"Cute isn't it?" Jordan turned around to face a woman about a few years older than her.

"Yeah, it is."

"Are you expecting?"

"No, just dreaming. I think I'm a little late."

The woman smiled. "I'm Anne. This is my 1st." Jordan looked down at her little potbelly.

"I'm Jordan and I still haven't found the right guy."

"Don't worry you will. I thought that too, now look at me. I'm 36."

Jordan smiled.

"I didn't meet my husband until 2 years ago. The right guy will come along."

The woman then wandered into the store and Jordan turned back around to stare at the cute little outfit. Okay fine I found the right guy and he hates me. She thought as she walked away.

About 2 minutes later she felt the vibration of her cell phone. "Cavanaugh."

"Jordan, it's Nigel, we think you should come down here."

Jordan knew they found something big. She could hear it in Nigel's voice. She ran out to her vehicle and rushed back to the morgue.

When she arrived Lily looked concerned. "They're in the conference room."

Jordan hurried in and found Slokum, Seely and Nigel sitting at the table with some open files. "Dr. Cavanaugh, we have some information on Detective Hoyt's brother."

Jordan felt nervous as she sat down. "You see Dr. Cavanaugh, all the shots were point blank. His body was dumped into the water after he was murdered and all of this said to me was it was gang related. When Dr. Townsend told me he did the math and this death was around the time you were digging up the mass grave of the Albanian mob, we wondered if we would connect the 2. So we had Detective Seely dig up all the evidence from that case. It seems the phone records from one of the mob associates contained the number to the cell phone that belonged to Detective Hoyt's brother. Do you know anything about this case, Dr. Cavanaugh, that you haven't told us yet?"

Jordan didn't know what to do. Of course she knew more, but would Woody forgive her for betraying him. She didn't know what to do. "No, I don't but I could talk to Detective Hoyt."

"Actually Jordan, I think it's my turn to talk to Detective Hoyt." Seely said.

Jordan hated him more each day. "Why is that Detective Seely?"

"I think you're both hiding something and if you go, I doubt I'll be getting straight answers from you."

"He just got out of surgery and found out his brother is dead. Do you really think you should be going down there to harass him for information?"

"Then tell us what you know Jordan."

Jordan looked over at Nigel and could see the look of concern in his face; he was worried about her. "I don't know anything and Woody is so weak. You can't down there and hurt him more. You have to understand this is the hardest thing he's ever going to have to deal with. Give him time, if he has information, I'll get it out of him. Please, let me talk to him." Jordan realized she was beginning to cry. "Please, let me go."

Seely glared at her. "Fine you can come with me, but I'm still going Jordan."

Jordan glared at him with a look so cold; she could have turned him into an icicle. "Fine, I need to grab something from my office." As she went into her office she began to cry harder. She didn't know what to do and she was so worried about Woody's health. Lily knocked on the door. "Jordan, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, I just have a headache."

"But you're crying. Listen, I don't think what they did is fair. However, they just want to know what happened to Calvin."

"Well your little friend Seely is an ass." Jordan said as she walked past Lily and out to her car.

When they arrived at the hospital, Woody was laying in his bed. He looked so weak. Jordan almost started to cry again. "Let me go in first Seely."

"Fine, you have 2 minutes."

Jordan went in and touched Woody's hand. He opened his eyes to look at her. "Jordan, what are you doing here again?"

"They have connected Cal with the Albanian mob through those phone records. They tried to get information from me, but I wouldn't give it to them. Seely is here to ask you some questions and I know you don't want to deal with this but I thought I'd warn you."

Woody's eyes closed. He was so weak and tired. "Does he have to do this now?"

"He won't listen to me Woods."

Seely then walked into the room. "Hey Hoyt, how are you feeling?"

"How do you think I'm feeling Seely? You think I'd feel wonderful after being told I may never walk again or being told that my brother's body was just found. Gee Seely I must be feeling great, in fact I've never felt better."

Jordan could hear Woody's heart monitor speeding up. She knew he was mad.

"Listen Hoyt, we've connected your brother with the Albanian mob. We connected them through phone records and well, we want to know if you knew anything?"

"What are you implying?"

"I'm not implying anything, we just wanted to know if you knew anything about your brothers ties to the mob."

"Oh yeah, every time we talked, he'd say hey Woods, I just went and laundered some money today, oh yesterday I was their drug mule. It's great having ties to a mob."

"Listen, I'm not trying to upset you, I just wanted to know if you knew anything."

"No, Seely okay, I didn't know my brother was going to be murdered. Now if you find any other information let me know, if you have nothing else to tell me then please leave."