Things are about to come to a head in the next few chapters... are you ready?
Mercedes moved back further on the bed as Dom walked into the room slamming the door.
"You stupid, stupid bitch."
He moved closer to her and tears burnt the back of her eyes.
"They arrested my brother and the other guys."
He pulled a few zip ties from behind his back.
"So now we have to move things up."
He grabbed her arms and pushed her against the bed as he tied each of her hands to either side of the bedpost with the zip ties.
"I am going to make you pay for your bravery. Though…" He caressed her shoulders. "It's a bravery I admire."
He wiped the fallen tears from her eyes.
"And I already told you earlier that you are very beautiful, so I'll give you that too."
She tried to pull away as he moved his hands to her breast gripping it softly.
"I bet I can make you forget all about your husband."
He moved his body closer to hers and smelled her neck.
"God you smell so good, so intoxicating."
She moved her head away from him. "Stop it. Please."
"We are rich, I can give you anything you need or want. Someone like you could make things interesting here. Could make a man like me believe in love."
She stopped the tears from falling and looked him in his eyes. Surprised he smiled.
"So what do you say?"
She let the air leave her lips.
"No thank you. I'm not interested in anything you have to offer."
He exhaled loudly then stood.
"I am sorry to hear that…I will tell you this if I didn't have moves to make I would have you right now but I'm going to wait so I can have you and dump you all at once. But know this I will have you."
He walked out and slammed the door as she shuttered in fear. She looked up to the ceiling and prayed.
"Lord please help me. Please."
Someone knocked on the door and Jacob walked to it. Sam looked up as Blaine walked into the living room with three officers. Sam turned towards him.
"Blaine what's going on?"
"We have a location."
Sam's heart began to beat fast as he tried to control his emotions. "Where?"
"About a three hours away at a hotel."
"Well let's go." He started towards the door but Blaine stopped him.
"I have two cars on the way and I'm going up there now I just wanted to let you know."
"And I am coming with you." he stood in front of his brother as Blaine faced him.
"No you aren't this is a police investigation."
"Blaine let's get this straight I let you pull that crap on me earlier I won't let you do it again I am coming with you now you can let me come or I can follow you."
Blaine rubbed his short curly hair and exhaled deeply.
"Fine but you stick with me and let me do my job."
"Fine."
Sam turned towards his mother who was sitting on the loveseat with Amelia.
"Mom you can take my car home."
"I think if it is ok with the Jones's I will like to stay here and lend a hand when and where I can."
Amelia took Mary's hand in hers.
"I would like that very much."
Mary smiled. "Good well I think we should reheat these plate so you all can eat."
Mary grabbed two of the plates and started towards the kitchen. Amelia stood.
"I will help you."
Sam smiled slightly as the women walked into the kitchen he turned towards Jonathan.
"I won't come back without her I promise."
"Don't make promises you can't keep son.
"I won't."
He nodded to him. Sam and Blaine both kissed their mother, before they turned and walked out of the front door, with Sam vowing to himself no matter what, he was going to find her, and God help anyone nearby if she was hurt.
Amelia placed the plates on the granite kitchen counter and turned towards Mary with tears in her eyes. Amelia hugged her knowing it was the only thing she was able to do to make this woman feel better. She knew how she would feel if one of her children were in the situation her daughter was and she wouldn't like it.
She said a silent prayer that Sam would stay true to his word and find Mercedes. Amelia pulled away wiping her eyes.
"It's night fall and I have no idea where my daughter is. I just talked to her this morning and she was fine and happy and of course I was pushy and I know I got to her. What if that last thing I ever said to my daughter was you need a husband."
"It won't be the last thing you say to her. She knows that you are just looking out for her and she knows that you love her."
"I am just looking out for her. But she is her own woman has always been that way. That is why none of us was surprised she did what she did. I always just wished she would find a man who could live up to who she is."
Mary sighed as she and Amelia took a seat at the table.
"I know what mean. Only Blaine out of all my kids are close to settling down."
"How many do you have?"
"Three boys and one girl all one right after the other, Sam is 32, Blaine is 31, Stevie will be 30 next month and Stacy is 29 all of them the bright lights in my life."
"So Blaine is your son?"
"We adopted him when he was two."
"Thats amaing, how did that work for you?"
"It was never dull I will tell you that. What about you?"
"Well Mercy and Tina are both 28 followed by Jacob 25. After he was born I swore I was done but obviously God had other plans because three years later I got a surprise with Jane."
"Did you adopt Tina as well?"
"No, she was our God daughter and Mercedes best friend since even before they were born. She lost her parents at 12 and we took her in, but she has always been our daughter."
"That must have been hard?"
"It was. Not taking her in but losing my best friend."
Mary smiled. "So tell me about Mercedes."
Amelia huffed. "Girl! Out of all of them though the one I never really had to worry about was Mercy unless it came to getting in trouble, she was always the most hardheaded, stubborn child you would ever meet, but the most levelheaded as well. One time she let the neighbors dog loose and when I asked why she said she was standing up to the man….she was only 6."
"She sounds like a handful."
"She still is." Amelia sighed. "I pray they make it in time."
"My boys are the most determined bunch I know. Blaine is great at his job and Sam will find her."
"He seems to really care about finding her."
"I think my son may have strong feelings for her. From what I know they never talked outside of the bank, I guess he never had the courage to ask her out but he wanted to."
"I think your son a great man someone I always wanted to see Mercy with."
"From the way Sam has spoken of her and the way you and your family are I think she is a great person and I do hope Sam can get to know her after this."
"Me too."
