Now that we were engaged nothing for us changed, but I made the mistake of telling his sister. Now we get hounded every day about when we are going to set a date. I had a talk with Ranger, and I asked him to pick a date then we told his family. I let them plan the wedding I just want the final say for my dress. They were all for that.

The wedding was 6 months away and seeing how my family has disowned me I don't have anyone to invite. But it is what it is, so I digress.

Carlos and I went about our days by working during the day and in the afternoons, we spent those as a family. We either played with Abby or Ella watched Abby and Carlos and I would cuddle on the couch and make out. Yeah, we still did that, it kept us young.

I knew everything was too good to be true. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and boy did it drop.

Blast POV

Morelli better hopes he is right. He said that my daughter was with Stephanie at a place called Rangeman. Well, I will be getting her and Stephanie too. Jack should have let me have her when I asked him to begin with.

I was told by Joe that Ranger is here and that he owns the company. That will be interesting to see him again. I can finally pay him back for all the crap he put me through on our team. Everyone knew that he was in love with Stephanie, but she has always been mine. I just need to pick the time when I can grab her and the baby.

I'm sure Ranger has her well-protected. Well, I will show him. He always thought he was better than the rest of us in the regimen. I will not be taken for granted He will learn I get what I want.

Maybe I should just go up to the building and let Steph know I'm here. After all, once I can prove the child is mine there is nothing, she can do to keep her away from me. if I know Steph, she will not allow me to see the child by myself so naturally, so she would want to be there when I see my daughter, I will then be able to grab her, and my daughter and we can leave, and no one will be the wiser. Yes, I think that's what I will do.

I decided I was going to make an appointment with Ranger but use a different name. I called over to his company Rangeman and made an appointment for the next morning at 10 am. When he sees me, he is going to freak out, and I will have the upper hand because I will catch him off guard. Then again, he may not remember me. I'm sure though if he doesn't then my sweet Baby Girl, Stephanie will. Before the day is over, I will have her and my daughter with me.

I called up Ranger's company and made an appointment for the next day at 10 am. I am using the name, Juan Martinez. I was advised that the sales manager Stephanie would be the one that would be meeting me. How lucky can I get? That's who I wanted to see anyway.

Now I'm sitting in my car down the street from Rangeman waiting for tomorrow to show up. I will go back to my hotel room and make sure I get plenty of sleep. I will also make sure my gun is fully loaded. I'm sure that not all the guys are going to be carrying. Maybe 2 or 3 but I wouldn't think any more than that.

This is perfect because then I will have the perfect opportunity to take Steph and my baby girl. Even if I have to take them at gunpoint, Stephanie will do what I tell her to do to keep from the baby getting hurt. It's going to be hard for anyone to shot me if I have Steph in front of me as my shield. Then when we are alone, I will brand her again and make her mine still. She will be punished forever by being with Manoso.

I will finally have the upper hand on Manoso. It's about damn time. Everyone has always looked up to him thinking that he was God's gift, but he isn't. I took Stephanie when I did to prove a point. That point was that even her brother Jack couldn't protect her when she needed it most. Besides I always get what I want.

Back in my hotel room, I make sure I have all the preparations ready. As soon as I get Steph and Abby, (Joe told me what her name was) we are leaving this God-forsaken town and going to Florida. I have friends there that will take us to Mexico. That's where we will be living and that's where Steph will be mine and only mine. She will never again be with any other man, especially Manoso. Let's see how he likes that.

I managed to get plenty of sleep and the next morning I was dressed and ready by 8:15 am. I decided on wearing a pair of blue jeans and a t-shirt. Nothing fancy. Just something that would hold my gun under my leather jacket.

I pull into the driveway of Rangeman advise them I have a 9 am appointment with the sales manager and pull into a spot marked guest. I swagger out of my Mercedes, Hey Ranger, isn't the only one that has nice cars, and I walk into the building like I own the place.

I opened the door and a tall guy with a flaming tattoo on his forehead is at the front desk. "Hello, I'm Cal, how can I help you?" He gave me a huge smile. He must be great with their customers.

"Hi, I'm here to see the sales manager Stephanie, I have a 9 am appointment, I'm Mr. Juan Martinez."

"Ah, yes, Mr. Martinez, Stephanie is expecting you. I will get someone to escort you to the 5th floor. You will be in conference room C."

This big behemoth of a man came out from the elevators and introduced himself as Tank. I followed him to the elevators until we got to the 5th floor. Everything was buzzing and a lot of activity was going on. I was escorted to Conference Room C. I didn't have to wait too long.

Stephanie walked in 5 minutes after I sat down. She didn't notice me at first because she was reading something. When she looked up our eyes locked, and she started shaking. I motioned for her to sit down. When that didn't work, I told her in a calm voice, "Stephanie, either sit down or I will find Ranger and I will shoot him, it's your choice." I figured that would get her to sit and it did she complied with what I asked her to do.

"What do you want from me Blast?" She looked visibly shaken. Like she was afraid of me, maybe I can use that as my advantage.

"What do I want? Do you need to ask me that? I want you and our child." When I said the last part, her face lost all color. "I can see by your expression that you didn't know that I knew about our baby girl. I've known about her since the day she was born. I have just abided my time waiting to have a chance to come and collect the two of you."

"You do realize that you will not make it out of here alive. Every man in this building has some sort of weapon and every man in this building would give their life for myself and for Abby." She seemed to think that was the case. We will see.

"What I know is that you are going to get out daughter and the 3 of us are going to walk out of this building together." I was very confident that I could pull this off. I knew that Ranger would not shoot Stephanie or the baby especially if they are in front of me as a shield.

"Well, I don't see how I'm going to get Abby because she isn't here she is at my sister's house."

"Then you will call your sister and you will tell her that we are coming over to get our daughter. This makes it easier because then I only have to deal with getting you out of the building. So, pick up that phone right there, and make the call." This was getting easier and easier by the minute.

SPOV

I knew I was not going to allow him to leave the building with Abby, maybe with me but not with Abby. That's why I called Ella, but I pretended that it was Valerie. I was hoping that Ella would take the bait and alert Carlos.

I picked up the phone and dialed Ella's number, she answered on the first ring.

"Hello dear, how can I help you?" God, please let this work.

"Hey, Valerie this is Stephanie. I was just calling to let you know that Abby's father and I were going to come and pick her up here shortly." Please understand what I'm saying. Please

"Stephanie, this is Ella."

"Yes, I'm aware, that Abby only had a few changings of clothes when I brought her over there. It's okay that her clothes are dirty I will bring her more."

"Steph, do I need to contact Ranger?"

"Yes, that would be great. We will be there in about 10 minutes. Just be out front with Abby."

"Okay dear, I'm going to call Carlos now and let him know that something is going on. Where are you?"

"Valerie, we are leaving Conference Room C now, will be there shortly. Bye."

A few seconds later Carlos came walking out of his office, stopping at Tank's office first. I knew they were going to head this way. I told Blast that if we were going to leave, we might as well go now.

He got up and walked over to me, pulled out a gun, and put it to my side. He told me that I had to do what he said, or he would shoot me or Ranger. I didn't want Carlos to get hurt, so I agreed with what he said.

He opened the door and we stepped out, we made it to the center of the monitoring floor and came to a halt with Ranger and Tank standing there.

"Babe, what's going on?" He was eyeing Blast as he was speaking to me.

Before I could say anything, Blast spoke "Well, Hello Ranger long time no see. I came to get my woman and our daughter. So, if you will excuse me, we will be on our way." He had a smirk on his face like he was outsmarting Ranger.

Ranger looked from me to Blast, then he noticed the gun that Blast had on me at my side. "If you hurt her, I will kill you. You realize you will not get out of this building alive."

When Ranger said that every guy on the floor had a gun pointed at Blast, Tank included. I knew Carlos had one, but he was not pulling his.

Blast pulled me in front of him as a shield. "You aren't going to shoot me, Ranger, because you will risk hurting Steph and you aren't going to do that. By the way, Thanks for knocking her up that's just another child we can add to our growing family." He laughed an evil laugh.

He started walking and pulling me with him. I was staring at Carlos the whole time, I kept moving my eyes to the right letting him know that I was going to take a dive for it. As we were walking back, Tank & Ranger were walking forward. Tank still had his gun drawn.

When we got to the elevators, he told me to press the button to go down. I told him no. He told me again to press the button to go down, I told him no. He got tired of me telling him no, he finally released me from his grip on my arm to reach around behind me and press the button to go down. As soon as he did this, I dove for cover, Ranger caught me, Tank fired at Blast and Blast fired a shot in my direction.

It all happened so fast. I didn't realize I had been shot until Carlos started telling me I was going to be okay. The bullet hit me on my side directly under my left armpit.

My first thought was the baby that I was carrying. "Carlos, the baby? Please don't let me lose the baby. I love you, Carlos."

"Babe, hang on, please. Don't leave me." He swooped me up in his arms and we ran down the stairs 2 at a time. he jumped in the back seat with me, and Tank was driving. The last thing I remember was Carlos telling me that I was his world and he loved me.