Within a few minutes she was at Nick's mother's house. She pulled into the driveway. And ran toward the door. It was wide open. She stepped in. Broken glass was every where, a table broken in half and the sound of Alexa crying. She walked to the locked door and somehow broke the knob with a wrench.
"You came." Lenore said as soon as she saw her.
"Yeah... well." she took Alexa out of her crib. "Did you call the cops?"
"Yeah, their on the way. I'm sorry, Dana. There was nothing I could do."
"It's not your fault, it's mine." she said with her voice fading in the end. "If I was a better parent this wouldn't have happened."
"Does Nick know? "
"Yeah, he's on his way. "
"They're here! " Lenore brought to Dana's attention. A group of people entered the house, one detective approached them.
"Hi, I'm Detective Joe Sheperd, I'll be incharge on this case." he introduced himself
"Dana Biancavilla, this is my mother in law, Lenore. And my husbent is on his way."
"Do you have any recent pictures of the child ?" he asked
"No, not on me." Dana answered
"I do." she opened a frame to it out and gave it to him.
"Can you describe the child ? "
"She's 2'4 about 30 to 35 pounds. Auburn hair, blue eye. Her name is Jessica. She's was wearing jeans and a red shirt." Lenore said
"Is she afraid of anything? "
"Clowns, spiders, hates the park, and the dark." Dana listed
"Favorite place ?"
"Defenity the lake, she loves to sit there for hour, watching the water." Nick answered as hr walked in.
"Who are you? " the detective asked
"Nick Biancavilla, the father. " he explained
"Oh."
"Nick " Dana said in a low tone. He walked closer to her and put the baby in her basent. Then he wrapped his arms around her.
"Everything will be fine. You'll see. We're gonna get her back. " he ressured her
"Our final moment togther we spent yelling at one another." she said in his ear. "She said she hated me"
"She's three, Dana."
"I know how old she is. " she yelled, taking all her anger out on him.
"Does she know any phone numbers? " the detective asked
"Yeah, Dana's cell phone, my cell, and the hospital where we work."
"If she calls let us know. We'll set up a search perimeter. Is it possible that she ran away? " he said
"No, she's three, detective. Besides I heard her yell, I heard everything." Lenore said
"What was she yelling ?" Nick asked
"Leave me alone, stop it, I want my mommy, stuff like that."
"What are the chances of finding her?" Dana asked
"I'm gonna be honest Mrs. Baincavilla, slim to none." he asnswered, she looked at Nick with a tear in her eye. "Is there a chance that someone could have stolen her a form of revenge. Do you have any enemies? "
Nick looked at Dana ane his mother "No." he answered "Not that we know of."
"Does the house have any securuty features... like a camera? "
"No." Lenore answered "I'm the only witness and I didn't see anything, I just heard."
"Okay, the only way we can catch him is by DNA evidecne, if he left any. Other then that, there is no way. Results are not very promising." he said
"If I hadn't gone to work today, like she told me to, she'd still be here. None of this would have happened." Dana thought
"No, from what it seams this was very carefully planned out. If you had stayed home, it would have happened in your presece. She was probibly taken to be sold in the black market."
"If she's being sold, can't we buy her back?" Nick asked
"No, if only it was that easy. The Black market isen't like Ebay. You don't choose a kid and bid on it. You pay a man to steal a child for you. " Joe explained "It costs about 7 million per child.
"Combined the two of you make 6 mill. you can't afford to buy her back." Lenore thought.
"I'm gonna take the evidence to the lab, call me if any thing is to happen. " he handed Nick a card.
One week later.
Dana was walking back and forth with Alexa in her arms, she was trying to put her to sleep. Nick was sitting on the couch watching her. They were on there break.
"Are you gonna say anything? " he asked
"What do you want me to say? " she asked
"What the hell happened to you? "
"Am I suppose to be happy? "
"Do you ever answer questions ?" he asked
"Do you? " she answered "It's been a week, Nick. We haven't seen our three year old daughter in exactly one week. Which means 6 days ago everything was perfect. Then like a blink of an eye that changed!"
"Dana... don't start again. "
"Nick we don't know if she's dead or alive. We don't know if we'll ever see her again."
"We will, someday. I promise. Stop doing this to yourself. You have to be strong, for you, for her."
"When we got married we alway talked about how we would be cool parents. That we would establish an equal realshenship between us and our children. If we set authority for ourselves this would not have happened."
"What? " he had no idea what she said
"Nick, we're not even 25, and already we have two children and a full time job. What were we getting ourselves into? "
"Children there had to be a consequence for sex." he thought
"I miss her."
"For one week we've been talking about this. I'm tired of it, let's change the subject." he expressed
"She grew up so fast Nick. It was like yesterday, we had to buy new bottles."
"That's because that was yesterday."
"For Jessica, new bottles for Jessica not Alexa." she corrected
"Are you in depression, Dana.? "
"I really don't know. I haven't been able to sleep, eat, think or do anything all week. I don't know what the hell to do anymore."
In the meantime, Jessica was tied to a bed. Alone in a dark room.
To be contiued...
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