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Chapter 19

John sat in his car outside of the police station, he and Bo had worked all day on something they thought might help to bring Darren down and get Natalie and Aiden away from him but it turned out to be a big waste of time. Now he sat frozen in his car just reanalyzing Henry's words from earlier. Something was going down tonight, something major and he began to get worried again, he put the car in drive and started to drive towards Darren's house.

Natalie continued to wait she was still laying next to Aiden now pretending to sleep when she heard the TV that was on in the room go off, she opened one eye slowly to make sure the electricity was off and she slowly got up out of the bed, she took the flashlight out from under the covers and touched Aiden's head gently as she turned on the light and walked down the stairs.

Henry was able to get a few minutes alone earlier when he wasn't being watched and had managed to have Darren's cell phone service interrupted for the night. Darren hadn't even realized it earlier and that he was thankful for.

Natalie made her way down to Darren's office as Henry went and locked the guards who were watching the TV monitors in the surveillance room. Natalie could hear them screaming at Henry from downstairs and she got a little bit more nervous.

Natalie quickly went into the office, she looked around the office, looking for the cabinet Henry had told her would contain anything of importance to Darren, anything that he didn't want anyone to get a hold of. She spotted it and moved closer, it was locked. She had known it would be, good thing Henry had watched Darren put the extra key for the cabinet in a plant near his desk a while back. Natalie felt around in the soil of the plant and she found the key, as she pulled it out she noticed her that the light from her flashlight was getting weak.

"Damn!" she cursed because she never even thought to check the batteries in the flashlight, as it was almost completely dead. While she still had a little light to it she noticed Darren's antique candle opera on a shelf, she pulled it down and then looked on his desk for a lighter, remembering something about her having an argument with him about Aiden being able to reach it. She found the lighter and lit the candles just in time as the flashlight went completely dead, she placed the candle opera on the desk, she opened the cabinet with the key and started to look thoroughly thru the files in it.

"OMG!" she said out loud as she pulled out papers.

"What is it? Is it something we can use?" Henry asked as he came into the room with his flashlight

"Yeah, take a look" she said as she handed it to him and then started to look thru the files some more.

"Holy shit! Did you know Darren's got a few off shore accounts, there's some large sums of money being put into it monthly, and it's not from any of his business accounts, it's gotta trace back to someone" she said as she handed that folder to Henry. She again continued to look thru the cabinet as she came to a folder marked John Mcbain.

"What the hell?" Natalie asked, as she looked thru it, "That son of a Bitch, if I didn't hate him already."

"What? What is it?" Henry asked and Natalie brushed him off

"We don't have time to get into it now" she said as she came upon two more folders.

She handed another one to Henry " this one is for you, take care of it and I'll never tell, that is if I remember" she told him with a small smile

"Natalie, I think we have to go, we should have enough to take to Mcbain or your uncle, these files should make you safe, make all of us safe"

"Just a few more minutes"

"No Natalie now, it's risky the guards could get out"

"Okay, Okay, go get Aiden and meet me outside across the street at the neighbors house like we planned"

"Natalie, we have enough"

" I know, Just get Aiden out, I'll be right there!" she told Henry and he ran to get Aiden out of the house.

Natalie was still looking thru the files when she heard the front door open, she assumed it was Henry taking Aiden out and thought nothing of it, she dug her hand into the file cabinet for the last file in it, she pulled it out and looked inside to see a picture of a man, and a picture of a small house.

Natalie stood frozen as she looked at the two pictures in front of her; she closed her eyes briefly. She remembered, she remembered it, the house, the small house with all the furnishings and toys of home for her and Aiden, and the man, what was his name? She asked herself,... "Billy" she screamed out a little loud as she opened her eyes.

As Natalie opened her eye's she saw him, he was angry, beyond angry, she had never seen him look like this, yes, she did... the night he had her, them brought home, the night she confronted him, the night he threw her to the ground and she lost her memory.

"Natalie! What do you think you are doing!" he asked her as he walked closer to her in the candle lit room.

"Where the hell is your guard and what the hell happened to the lights!" Darren screamed getting more and more mad as he approached her.

Henry lifted Aiden up in his arms and walked him down the back stairs leading down to the kitchen and out the back door, the back stairs were the furthest point from Darren's office and he didn't hear him in the room with her. He ran across the street to a neighbor's house with a sleeping Aiden in his arms.

John was just arriving at the house when he noticed Henry running across the street with Aiden in his arms; John jumped out of the car and ran over to them before they made it to the front steps.

"What are you doing Natalie!" Darren asked again still moving towards her when she realized she was going to have to maneuver her way around him, if he got his hands on her she knew for sure he would hurt her, he was desperate, she even remembered that, how desperate he had been prior to the kidnapping.

Darren came towards her and she side stepped, just as she thought she was out of his reach and she could make a run for it, he grabbed her and threw her towards the big front windows of the room, knocking her unconscious to the floor. Darren looked away from her body lying on the floor just to realize that in the process of throwing her he also knocked over the candle opera with the lit candles. The candles fell to the floor near the bottom of the long heavy drapes that hung on the windows; the highly flammable drapes which ignited into a fire in a matter of seconds.

John approached Henry and Aiden just as Henry was ringing the doorbell of the neighbors home. John was about to say something to Henry, ask where Natalie was when both men turned to see Darren running out of the house, they looked closer thru the front windows of the house and noticed the drapes were on fire.