"I'm not really interested in anything you have to say, so why don't you just tell me here." His father wanted to sit down in a café like they were old friends, Sandy just couldn't do that.

"I don't really want to talk about this in the middle of the street. Now come on I'm buying." Reluctantly Sandy followed the man into the café he had just left and allowed him to buy them drinks. Sandy would save the coffee he had just bought for the hotel with Kirsten.

"So what do you have to say? I don't have much time Kirsten is on her own and I don't want to leave her for long."

"Your wife looks lovely, you did well for yourself." Sandy grunted in disgust, he had no right to speak about his wife technically his daughter-in-law because he didn't know her. "I'm sorry about Seth it must be an awful time for you all." Stay calm, count to ten Sandy had to fight the urge to shout at him or punch him. "I heard about your brother"

"Look I have no need to sit hear and listen to you say how sorry you are about Seth and Ben so you best get to the point in this conversation or I'm going."

"I know the people that have Seth, the people that Ben got mixed up with. I've had dealings with them before."

"Why am I not surprised at that!"

"Sandy, listen, you have to be really careful with these people. They've killed your brother, they will kill you. You don't matter to them your just another body to them."

"Do you know what they want?" His dad gave him a quizzical look. "I know that money can't be the only thing I gave Gary half a million and told him he could have more but it's not the money he's interested in. He says he wants Kirsten in exchange for Seth but I get the feeling that even if I gave her to him, which obviously I never would, it still wouldn't be enough."

"You've always been a smart guy. He wants me Sandy, me. It's the reason he got involved with your brother and why he was delighted that you came over here to help him."

"Why would he want you? How do you know each other?"

"He's my son." There was silence as the words reverberated around them. "He's my son Sandy. Your brother, well half brother." If hecould have Sandy would have got up and walked away but he didn't think his legs could carry him.

"Did you cheat on mom?"

"No it was before we were going out even although not long before. I had a brief relationship with his mother and he was the outcome of it. Your mother knew but once Emma, Gary's mother, left New York we both sort of forgot, decided to put the past behind us. I didn't get to meet him until he was five by then you were nearly three and we didn't want to disrupt your life too much so I visited him on my own a couple of times a year. This only lasted a few years by the time your brother and sister were on the scene I barely saw him and then obviously I left."

"So you're telling me that my brother is dead and my son a hostage because you slept with someone! This is unbelievable." Sandy got up and left the café he couldn't be in there anymore. His dad quickly followed after paying the bill.

"What are you going to do about this then? I mean what does he want from you?"

"I was involved with some pretty nasty people a while back and I inadvertently had Gary beat up. He deserved the ass kicking that he got don't get me wrong but I didn't know it was him. Anyway this happened several times before I realised it was him I felt bad but there was nothing I could. Anyway after a while I moved, had to get out of New York for several reasons"

"I can't believe you were in New York but you didn't come to see us."

"Well you were in California after a couple of years."

"Great defence but you could have come to see your two other children."

"I know but I didn't think I'd be very welcome at your mother's house. Look the point is we need to figure out a way to get Seth out of there alive, what were you planning on doing?"

"Well why don't you go and talk to him, let him beat the crap out of you it helps and then hecan let Seth go."

"Sounds great! Any other ideas Sanford?" Clearly Sandy and his father shared more than just DNA.

"Look he wants you why don't you speak to him tell him you'll see him if he lets your grandson, his nephew remember, go. Once he lets Seth go you can do what you like. Speak to him, don't speak to him I really don't care I just want my son. Then we'll never have to see each other again."

"You do realise that if he sees me he'll probably kill me."

"Do you think I care!"

"Actually I do. I know you were brought up to be a gentleman."

"You don't know anything about the man I've become. We've had no contact for over thirty years. And you barely played any part in my upbringing, for the most part I brought up myself."

"Just because we haven't spoken doesn't mean I haven't been keeping track of you, of all of you."

"Keeping track of us isn't having a relationship. We needed a father."

"I'm sorry."

"You want to start patching things up, get Seth back."

Kirsten was getting worried it was 11.15 and she hadn't seen Sandy all morning. He wasn't answering his cell and he hadn't left any messages for her at reception. The only note she had was the one he left on her pillow over two hours ago now. The phone ring startled her. It was the room phone.

"Mrs. Cohen?"

"Yes"

"This is the hotel reception. There is a man here asking to see you. He says he is your father-in-law and it is urgent that he speaks to you." Father-in-law! Kirsten couldn't believe this.

"Erm, I'll come downstairs thanks. Don't send him up." She was curious as to this person could be. He couldn't be her father-in-law she didn't even know the last time Sandy had seen his dad. It was a long tiem ago though,before they had got married.

He recognisedher when she got out of the elevator.

"Mrs. Cohen? Kirsten?" She saw the man, instantly could tell that he was definitely a Cohen. Both Ben and Sandy had a look of him, even Seth too. "I'm Daniel Cohen, Sandy's father." Daniel that was it. She hadn't even been able to remember his name Sandy spoke so little of him.

"Yes I'm Kirsten Cohen. What are you doing here?"

"I saw Sandy earlier this morning." No wonder Sandy hadn't been back to the hotel, she hoped he was okay. "I was wondering if you knew where he was now? I know this is a difficult time for you both, I saw the appeal on the news, but it really is urgent I speak to him."

"I haven't seen him this morning he got up before I was awake and he hasn't been back since. Is something else wrong?" She couldn't imagine that they could have more problems now.

"I need to stop Sandy doing something stupid, something dangerous. Is there anyway I could contact him? Would you give me his cell number?"

"He's not answering his cell. What is Sandy planning on doing that is so dangerous?"

"Kirsten, is it okay if I call you that?" She nodded her head. "Could we go somewhere private and talk? We don't have much time so we need to be quick." Against her better judgement she took him up to their room. When he told her the full story she couldn't believe it. She hadn't said anything for a while and the clock was ticking.

"Kirsten I know this is a lot to take in but we really need to stop Sandy meeting Gary at 12. You have to stop him; you're the only one he'll listen to."

"Well he can't listen to me if he won't pick up his phone. What will Gary do to him?"

"At best give him a beating and let him go. At worst kill him." Kirsten processed this thought, how could she stop him if he wouldn't speak to her?

"We'll have to go to the meeting as well. Maybe we can get there before he sees him; maybe you can save both your son and grandson." This was the first time he was starting to see her anger. Do you know where this meeting is taking place?"

"I don't know for sure where they are but I can make an educated guess. Lets go." Kirsten grabbed her purse and walked out the door hoping that the next time she saw the inside of her hotelroom her husband and son would both still be alive.