Thank you again for all the amazing support! Next chapter is going to be in Maisie's POV so we can see her side of the story with breaking away from Beth.

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I searched for him as soon as I entered the lobby.
"Claire?" He walked up behind me. The anger in his eyes faded when he saw the tears spilling from mine. "What is it?"
"Beth… Maisie… I don't…" I stuttered and Owen clasped his hands over my arms to move us away from the crowd.
"Calm down," his voice was still tense. I knew he was still mad at me, but our daughter came first over anything.
He watched me closely as I took a deep breath. "I just spoke to Beth. I wanted her to bring the kids back here. They aren't with her, Owen! She can't find them!" I choked on the lump in my throat and Owen threw his arms over my shoulders, pulling me into him.
"Maisie knows the park. There's security everywhere. They're safe. I'll go find them."
"I'm so sorry," I whispered against his shirt.
"Not right now," he sighed heavily. "We will discuss this later." He let his arms drop from my shoulders and stepped away from me, almost as if he remembered he was mad at me.
"I'm coming with you," I demanded, taking a step to follow him.
"No," he growled.
I narrowed my eyes. "I'm coming with you." I repeated.
Owen snorted. "Using your rank to overrule me again, Mrs. Grady?" His voice was cold and sarcastic. He spoke my name as if he was an employee addressing me.
"I'm using my rank as your wife," I hissed. I pointed back towards the control room, "What happened back there was on a professional level. We were working." I paused and took his hand. "Right now I am nothing more than your wife, demanding that we search for our child and nephews together."
Owen's shoulders were still tense, but he sighed in defeat. He knew I was right. There were times we walked a fine line with our work relationship and our personal one, but in the end we both knew Maisie trumped everything.
"Call Zach," he said, pointing to my phone in my hand.
"Right," I was so panicked that Maisie was missing, I didn't even think to call him.
The line on his side was fuzzy as he answered. "Hi, Claire."
"Zach!" I yelled angrily into the phone. I was suddenly mad at him. He should have known better to break away from Beth. "Where are you?"
"Hello?" His voice barely audible with the static. "I can't really here you. We are in the big hamster ball."
I could hear Maisie close to him. I couldn't make out what she was saying, but I felt a little better knowing they were all together and safe.
"Ok, perfect. Stay there!" I yelled before hanging up the phone. I ran back towards the control room with Owen close behind me.
"Lawery," I was calling for him before the elevator doors even opened. "are there any gyrospheres left in the valley?"
"No, they're all accounted for. That's my job." He said as he searched his monitor again. "No, wait. There's one still in the valley."
"Is that them?" Owen asked behind me.
"Yes," I answered as I reached for Lawery's phone. "Security this is control, I need a search and rescue in the valley."
"It's going to have to wait, we are getting swamped down here." They responded.
I grabbed for the earpiece.
"No, no that's my daughter and nephews! You will make this your top priority!" I screamed into the phone.
"Just do it, man." Lawery warned.
Owen's hand squeezed my shoulder.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Grady we will get to them as soon as we can."
"Let's go," Owen tugged hard on my shoulder.
I dropped the phone and let him guide me away.
"She broke her promise," I pointed out as Owen drove out to the valley. I looked down at my hand, pinching my right pinky with my left hand. I could still feel Maisie's tiny finger wrapped around mine. Though the pinky promise gesture was between Maisie and I, Owen knew how much it meant to me. Never has a promise between Maisie and I been broken.
Owen reached over and laid his hand over both mine. "I'm sure she has an explanation."
I shook my head, looking out my window. "There's no explanation. She knows there's no breaking that kind of promise."
"She's a kid," Owen defended. "She was probably just following Zach and Gray."
"I don't care! She knows better, Owen."
He let the conversation end as he pulled into the valley. I picked up the phone to call Zach again and see where they were. As the phone rang I searched through the window of the car.
"Do you see them?" I asked Owen who was driving slow as he looked around.
"Not yet."
"He's not answering," I said, throwing the phone to the floor.
We pulled up a little more when the injured dinosaur came into view.
"Stay here," Owen said as he grabbed a gun from the back seat and slid quietly out of the car.
He walked towards the bronchiosaurus and I found myself quietly following him.
We stayed with her until she took her last breath.
I stood up slowly looking around for the gyrosphere. I needed those kids at my side. The indominus was way too close to them. My heart raced.
We walked further into the valley when we saw more dead animals. "It didn't eat them," I whispered.
"She's killing for sport."
"I want my daughter," I whimpered.
Owen nodded and led the way back to the car.
We drove silently through the valley until we found a break in the perimeter fence.
"I bet they went through there." Owen said and slowly drive the car through the opening.
"How do you know?"
"Teenage boy." He stated.
I unhooked my seatbelt so I could slide to the edge of my seat. Resting my arms on the dashboard I squinted through the windshield.
"Hey!" Owen said quickly. I turned to look at him. His eyes were wide as he looked at me. "Can you check over there?" He asked as he pointed out my window.
It was too late. He was trying to distract me from spotting the twisted remains of a gyrosphere.
He barely had the car in park before stumbling out towards the pile of twisted metal and glass.
"No, no, no" I sobbed, reaching down to pick up the crumbled remains of Zach's cell phone.
"Hey," Owen said softly, kneeling down in the mud. "They escaped."
I placed my hand on his shoulder as I leaned over to see two sets of footprints leading away from the sphere.
"There's only two," I gasped!
"Where's Maisie!" I yelled, panic ripping through me.
Owen stood quickly, tears threatening his own eyes. "There's no way they would leave her."
"I want my baby, Owen!" I sobbed.
"I know, so do I." He swallowed hard and started in the directed Zach and Gray's footprints led.
We walked a short distance before coming to the cliffs edge. The footprints stopped.
"Oh, my God, they jumped!" I gasped.
"Look." Owen pointed down at a small footprint. He gently ran his fingers over it. "Maisie," he whispered. "Zach must have carried her to this point."
He stood up scanning the water below.
"Zach! Gray! Maisie!" I yelled as loud as I could.
Owen's hand clapped over my mouth.
"Hey!" I mumbled against his hand.
"Shh…" He warned.
"I'm not one of your damn animals!" I reminded him.
"Listen, Claire, in the park you're the big boss. Out here, you listen to me. This is my turf."
Fine. I could handle that. I deserved that. "So what do you suggest we do?"
"You get back, I will find them."
"No! We will find them."
"What part of 'you listen to me' don't you understand, Clair?"
"I'm not leaving you! Twice today I almost lost you." His eyes softened as he took in my entire body trembling.
"You'll last five minutes in there," he pointed to the jungle in front of us. "Less in those ridiculous shoes."
I narrowed my eyes at him and reached for my belt. His eyes followed my hands as I unhooked it and let it fall at my feet. He stayed focused on my hands as I ripped open my blouse and tied it in a knot at my stomach. I caught his eyes widen and he cleared his throat.
"What is that supposed to mean?" He asked, his voice a little higher than I knew he wanted it to be.
"Means I'm ready to go."
He nodded slowly, his eyes scanning my body. "Let's get one thing straight—"
I threw my hand up to cut him off. "You're turf."
"Thank you!" He sighed.
I gave a hard nod and walked back towards the jungle. Owen took step in front of me.