Ch. 24

Traitor

JR, Jamie and Tad had spent the night looking over files that Tad hadfound. They had found a sheet where it listed the different buildings and homes Paul owned.

"This guy sure had a lot of money for all this property." Jamie pointed out.

"Well, he was a con artist." JR said.

"I think we need to start checking out some of these buildings... it's not like we have a better plan." Tad suggested.

"But Tad, there are about 20 buildings on this sheet. We don't even know if she is at anyone of these." JR said, not wanting to get his hopes up.

"But JR, what else can we do? We don't have any other ideas, or options."

"There is the three of us, Aidan, and I have about 5 guys that can check out some of these buildings. So that's nine guys right there."

"I can probably get about five more guys." JR added.

"Then a couple people can go and check the other buildings." Jamie said.

JR looked at both of them, "Are we really going to do this?" JR asked.

Tad nodded and they all stood up, "Take you cell phones but keep them on vibrate. If we do end up finding them, we don't want to blow our cover."

Jamie and JR nodded, and then Tad said, "Oh and one more thing. You see them; don't charge in there all noble and mighty, call for backup. Got it, JR?" Tad said, looking at JR.

JR just stared straight back at Tad, "JR, I mean it. You make a move and that move could kill Babe."

JR nodded, "I won't, I promise."

All the guys were now in place, except for Tad, and so far no one had found any trace of them. Tad's phone rang and he picked it up, "Martin."

"Have you found anything?" JR asked.

"I'm just pulling in." Tad stopped the car and looked around, "This place is covered heavily by trees. And it's a crappy old building."

"Do you see any cars?" JR asked.

"No, I don't." Tad got out and looked at the old, gray building.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Paul ran over to Amanda and pushed her away from Babe.

"She said it was a little too tight and I was gonna loosen it a bit for her." Amanda tried to cover.

"Are you stupid? She could have gotten away!" Paul said, tightening Babe's strap even more making her cry out in pain.

"Stop, stop it!" Amanda cried, "Paul you can't do this, we can't. We can't take her baby, and we can't kill her."

Paul clenched his fist and turned and punched her in the face.

"Oh my god!" Babe cried.

Amanda fell to the floor, clutching her now bleeding nose.

"You, you traitor! I thought we could have worked! We could have had a child to raise!"

Babe looked at Paul and saw the wildness in his eyes. She knew he had snapped, his mind wasn't really all there.

"Amanda, run!" Babe cried, struggling to get out of her straps, "Get help! He is absolutely crazy!"

Paul pulled out a gun and aimed it at Babe, "You, shut up!" Paul then aimed the gun at Amanda, and her eyes opened wide, "Its over. You betrayed me. Goodbye."

Paul pulled the trigger and Babe screamed.

Outside, Tad was saying, "JR, I'm gonna go look just in case..."

Tad heard a gun shot and then Babe's scream, "Oh my god!"

"Tad, was that what I think it was?" JR asked, panicked.

"I gotta let you go. Call for help!" Tad hung up.