This was the last hotel, the very last hotel in Atlantic City, Alex saw Ranger come out of it. The more hotels they stopped at the more his anger was starting to come through. His jaw was set again and she could see the slight grinding motion that was working in it. Alex picked back up the book she took from Vinnie's house. Neither Lester nor Ranger had tried to take it from her. They didn't realize she even had it until they were away from the shore. She had finally reached the part were Clifford told Constance (his wife who is referred to as Connie) that he wanted a child, an heir. Alex laughed at this, the man was in constant need of care and was dependant on his nurse. Clifford was in fact telling his wife to have an affair in order to get pregnant and not only that, trying to make sure his wife found someone who was above average in intelligence. Alex flinched when Ranger wrung open the door to the SUV.

Lester had been looking at Alex when she had laughed at the book in her hand, "Where did you get that book?" He looked over to Ranger who didn't look too happy. "No go?"

"Found it." Alex said in the slow drug induced haze and stuck her nose back in it.

Ranger slammed the door shut. "No. I'm sure she is here though in this damn city someplace."

Alex snickered again.

Ranger turned and glared at her. "Would you put that damn book up. Did you take that out of Vinnie's house?"

Lester looked over at Ranger, he knew Ranger wasn't happy with what Stephanie had done, but he was letting his anger spill over towards Alex.

"Don't yell at Alex because you are upset with Stephanie." Lester told Ranger. Lester looked back at Alex who now had the book up hiding her face. He moved to the back seat and read the title of the book. "Lady Chatterley's Lover? Alex did you take this book from Vinnie's house?"

Ranger and Lester both watched her as she lowered the book to the point only her blue eyes were showing over it. "I'm only borrowing it. Besides, I want to see who Connie goes to bed with to produce the heir that Clifford so desperately wants."

Ranger looked at Lester, "Get that book from her. That was in Vinnie's house and there is no damn way I'm letting her read trash like that." Ranger turned back in the front seat and started the SUV.

Lester made a grab for the book and Alex went over the second seat and went to the very back seat.

"It isn't trash. Besides, I want to see why this book went all the way up to the United States Supreme Court for being banned after it was written. Call it research." Alex slurred out.

Lester leaned over the back seat, "If it was banned then there is a good reason for it. Vinnie would have something like that in his house. Now give it here!"

"When was that book written?" Ranger growled out from the drivers seat.

"In 1928, so it can't be that bad." Alex said as her speech was getting progressively slower.

Lester grinned, the medication was taken a hold of her more now. He turned back around in his seat, as soon as she crashed he would take the book. "She has a point, it can't be that bad written back then."

"Right! I'm surprised she didn't pick up any of the Marquis De Sade, he wrote back in the 1700s and his stuff was sick Lester. Vinnie had Marquis De Sade in that room. This is Vinnie's book, get it from her." Ranger slammed on the brakes as the car in front of him came to a stop. "Son of Bitch! When will people learn to drive."

"What is your problem?" Lester asked, he had never seen Ranger get so angry like this.

"We've looked in every damn hotel, I know she's in this city." Lester saw Ranger work his jaw even more and noticed the white crease lines in Ranger's knuckles as he gripped the steering wheel. "I can't find her. She's never hidden this well before."

He's pissed because Stephanie is getting the better of him. She's outsmarting him. Lester thought. "Don't take it out on Alex and everyone around you because you are pissed at yourself for not being able to find Stephanie."

Hearing the snicker behind him, Lester turned to look back at Alex. She wasn't reading the book, she was holding it in front of her face. "What's so funny Alex?" Lester asked, hoping the mood in the SUV would get a little lighter. He didn't like seeing Ranger so upset, he didn't want Ranger taking his wrath on anyone who didn't deserve it though.

"Maybe she's doing what I did." Alex said slowly and snickered again. "Maybe she's really hiding right under his nose." She closed the book, her eyes looked glassy and glazed over.

Ranger pulled over to the side of the road and put his head back on the driver's seat and concentrated on breathing. "Alex how do you think she's hiding under my nose?" Ranger growled out, but with less force.

Lester looked back from Alex to Ranger, he could tell Ranger was starting to get some of his pent up anger back under control.

"If it was me, I wouldn't be using my real name to hide. I'd be using one the person looking for me would least suspect." Lester watched as Alex laid back in the seat, he knew she was going under fast.

"What name would you use Alex?" Lester asked and reached over the back seat and took the book out of her hand that now went limp.

"His." Was all Alex got out as the pain medication took her totally under.

Lester looked at Ranger and moved back to the passenger seat with the book and put it in the glove compartment. "Whose name did you look under at the hotels?"

"Hers." Ranger looked over at Lester. "She wouldn't use my name, maybe Morelli's."

"What makes you think she would use Morelli's?" Lester asked, "She isn't really hiding from him now is she. She's hiding from you. Besides, it is worth a shot, let's go back through the hotels. Maybe Alex is right. If you think about it, it would be the last thing any of us would expect from Stephanie. She's hiding from the feds and she's hiding from you."

Ranger didn't say anything. He pulled back out in traffic and headed back for the hotel lane. Lester waited in the SUV as Ranger went back in checking hotel after hotel, on the fifth one Ranger came back out grinning. Lester had the window rolled down. "Well?" he asked.

"I owe Alex. God she was right. Stephanie is in here," Ranger held up the key. "She used my last name."

Lester grinned, "So how are we going to handle this?"

"I've called Tank, he's on the way." Ranger told him. "Bobby is going to be pissed and I don't want Stephanie and Lula getting hurt. Is Alex still out of it?"

"Yes, she's sleeping away now. She should be out for at least an hour, maybe a little more." Lester said.

"That'll give Tank enough time to get here. I'll let him handle Lula, I'll get Stephanie and you and Alex can handle Bobby. It would be better off if Bobby isn't in the same vehicle with them on the way back."

Alex sat up, the voices still sounded like they were in a well. "That's it, come on sleepy head." Lester told her.

She opened her eyes and looked at him.

"How many pills did she take?" Tank asked, "There is no way she's going to be able to go in that room."

What room? Alex thought. She looked over to Ranger who was watching her with his arms crossed over his chest, Tank was in the same standing position as well. Lester was sitting in the second seat with his hand tugging on hers.

"Come on," Lester said. "We have to go get Bobby out of that room so Ranger and Tank can deal with Stephanie and Lula."

Alex pulled her hand out of Lester's and rubbed her eyes. She got out of the SUV and looked up at Ranger, "You found her."

"Yes, she used my name."

Alex gave a snort. "You need to start thinking crafty, sneaky, wily, how else do you expect to catch a woman."

Lester got out and stood behind her, he saw Ranger grin down at her. Tank was smiling. "How are we going to do this?" Lester asked them as he shut the SUV door.

Ranger looked at him, "I go in first, Tank comes in next. I want you and Alex in last. I go after Stephanie. Tank gets Lula. You two have to find Bobby and get him out of that room before he explodes."

"Let's do it." Lester said.

Lester felt a little nervous, he knew Bobby would be really pissed off. He followed Ranger and Tank into the elevator with Alex trailing a little way behind them. He had left the distance at two hundred feet on the ankle monitor. She had been staying within five feet of him when they exited out of the elevator. He saw Ranger open the door with the key he had.

"Babe!" Ranger had said as soon as he went into the room, Tank following, he heard Tank say "Lula!"

"Stay close, and dodge anything." Lester said as he took off into the room. Alex came in and saw Stephanie dancing around the couch keeping it between herself and Ranger. Tank already had Lula and was pulling her to the other side of the room. Alex followed Lester around the coffee table and towards another door.

Lester could hear Stephanie's voice that was rather high pitched with a twinge of fear in it. "Stay over there, Ranger. Don't come around that couch."

Lester turned to look as he reached the door and saw Ranger dive over the couch after Stephanie. He saw Ranger pin Stephanie in the dive and had her on the floor with her underneath him and her arms up over her head.

"You didn't say not to go over it." Ranger growled at her. "What were you thinking? Do you realize how angry Bobby is going to be with you? Why did you do this to one of my men?"

Lester opened the door and went inside. Alex followed him and stopped short. Both of them were looking at Bobby who was laying in the middle of the bed knocked out. He had what looked like a diaper on. His hands and feet were bound. Drool oozed out of his mouth and other than that he had no clothes on. Alex gave a bark of laughter and turned towards the door. "I'm not staying in here."

Lester grabbed the back of his shirt she had on and pulled her to him and shut the door. "You'll be better off in here than out there." Lester couldn't help the laughter that was coming out as he spoke.

Alex looked back to the bed, "What did they do with his clothes?"

"I haven't a clue." Lester said through his snicker. "But we have to do something."

"I'm not touching him." Alex said.

"You won't have to touch him." Lester said.

Stephanie was glaring up at Ranger, "It's all her fault, if she wouldn't have taken my cell phone chip out of the phone Bobby wouldn't be here."

"Babe," Ranger said, "you can't blame this on Alex. She didn't make you dress Bobby up in a dress." He fought through his anger because he had to laugh at this one. "That was mean Babe. Bobby only stayed because you didn't need to be left alone."

"I don't need a babysitter." Stephanie started shifting under him, trying to get out of his grasp. "Get off of me."

"No." Ranger told her. "You owe me. You owe me big. Live in fear."

Ranger saw Stephanie's eyes go wide. He watched as she swallowed hard. Ranger reached back with one hand, while keeping her arms pinned down above her head with the other, and pulled out the cuffs. She started fighting more but he had the cuffs around her wrists.

"What are you going to do to me?" Stephanie asked her voice raising an octave above normal.

"It's not a matter of what I'm going to do to you as to what I'm going to do with you." Ranger grinned at the astonished look on her face. "We'll just have to get another room, Mrs. Manoso!"