Meanwhile Steph was still driving. She knew where she was going and that she was going to be quite early when she got there, so she decided to see Johnny for a few minutes to while away the time.
She pulled up outside the formidable looking jail and was admitted immediately. She was shown into a room to wait for Johnny. He appeared 10 minutes later. As soon as the door had been locked, Johnny rushed over to Steph, pulling her close and kissing her deeply. He had hated the divorce proceedings and longed to be married to Steph again. She knew that he still loved her even though he had never actually hurt her.
Once Steph pulled away from Johnny, he looked at her sadly, knowing that she had not actually come to see him specifically, but to get some info out of him.
He sat down next to her on the couch and then suddenly bent forwards as though in pain. Steph crouched beside him, asking him what was wrong. No-one noticed a piece of paper fall from Johnny's pocket and see Steph pick it up and pocket it. Johnny then stood up and stretched as the guards came in to see what was wrong. He assured them that he had felt a small pain but nothing severe. Nevertheless, the prison doctor was alerted and came in to check him out. Pronouncing him healthy, the doctor left, as did Steph.
She got back in her car and continued driving. Once she arrived at the destination, she opened the piece of paper Johnny had given her and smiled at the content written there. She then stuffed the paper in her glove box and got out of the car, locking it behind her.
Once the job was done, she got back in her car and headed for home. Once there she quietly slipped upstairs and opened the secret door into the room beyond. She spotted Ric asleep on the King size bed. She quietly slipped out of the room and went to her other closet and picked out a black silk nightgown and dark red silk floor length dressing gown. She was about to close the secret door behind her, when the lights went out. She quietly made her way to the bed and crawled onto it, sensing someone was close to her. She felt under the pillow and activated the emergency power. When the lights came back on, she immediately noticed that Ric was gone. She became anxious and stressed, pacing the floor, looking under things, the bathroom, closets, everything. Suddenly the hidden panel opened and Steph froze where she was in the closet.