Chapter 9

It takes love to find the one you want.

As Peter pulled up, I got out of the car and raced up the stairs to the 21st floor. I looked around the office. In the conference room, I saw Bai Tuan and her father.

Diana was with them already. I looked at them with sad eyes when I got up there.

Bai looked at me.

"It's ok, Neal," Bai said to me.

"I know. We'll find her,"

I sat down next to her and she put a hand on my shoulder.

"She's my best friend. I will do what I can to help find her,"

"Thank you," I said to her.

For three hours we discussed where she might be. Finally, I got so anxious, I walked out into the lobby. Just then, my phone rang.

"Hello?" I answered.

"You probably know who I am by now. So I will skip the remedies." I was Roux. "If you ever want to see you daughter alive again, then I want $50,000,000 in three house or this is what will happen…"

I heard a gunshot go off and Bella screamed, as did I.

"Bella!"

"You have three hours." Then the phone went dead.

I rushed up to Peter and told him what happened.

"I think I now where she might be!" Bai spoke.

We all looked at her.

"There a where house that we have all of our food stored and Bella and I love to play there! I think that is where she might be!"

We grabbed our gear and we drove off to the where house.

Bai was right. That was where she was being held.

We barged went into the warehouse and saw that there were only a few guards. They were quickly taken down and arrested. Peter and I went up the stairs. We looked in each room.

"Clear!"

"Clear!"

"Clear!"

Finally we came to a closed door. Peter looked at me.

"We will make it out of here alive!"

Then we busted down the door. There standing with a gun to my daughter, was Roux.

"Well, that was fast," Roux snorted at us.

I saw that he had shot Douglass, dead. But my daughter had been shot in the stomach. There was fear and pain in her eyes.

Roux pointed the gun at me.

"Good buy Caffrey," He said.

Then there was a gunshot.

I felt the floor vibrate and waited for the impact of the bullet. It never came. Roux fell to the floor dead and standing behind him was Diana. The gun still raised.

"That will teach him to mess with family!" Diana said coldly.

I ran over to Bella. She I untied the knots that she was in and she fell into my arms., crying.. I didn't care about the blood that was getting all over my shirt or the fact that she was in shock. She was alive and she was safe with me.

I held her as she cried. She was shaking so hard that she needed my help to stand up. I carried her down the stairs to the waiting ambulance.|

I put her on the cot and got in the back of the ambulance. They put an air mask over her nose and mouth and drove her to the hospital. They unloaded her and rushed her into emergency surgery.

For what seemed like an eternity, I sat in the lobby and waited for news. Peter sat next to me.

"She'll be ok. They wont let anything happen to her. She will be fine." Peter told me.

I nodded and looked up to see Alex waling in. She hugged me close and I cried into her shoulder. She hugged me close and told me it would be ok.

Mozzie, Elle, Diana and Jones came to see me. They had words of hope to give me.

Others from The FBI also came to see me. I looked at my watch. It was almost 11:00 at night. She had been in surgery since 6:00.

Finally a doctor came out and looked at me.

"Neal Caffrey?" He asked.

I stood up and walked over to him.

"Neal, My name is Dr. Goldman." He looked at me with a soft smile. "Your daughter is doing fine. We got the bullet out and she is now in ICU. If you would like to see her you can now,"

I nodded and walked with him. He opened the door to her room and I walked in.

It was one of the most horrifying things I ever saw. My daughter, tube-clad, covered in cuts and bruises over her face. I walked over to her and sat down.

"She's been sedated so she wont wake up for a while. I will leave you alone as log as you want. There is another cot if you want to stay the night. Though, knowing you, you would stay until the end." Dr. Goldman looked at me with another small smile.

I took her hand in mine and pressed it to my face. I had never cried so hard in my life but I did. I stayed there all night. The days passed and I was with her the entire time.

Three days later, Bella woke up and she looked at me with worried eyes.

"Daddy?" She asked worried.

"I'm here. It's ok."

I looked at her and hugged her close to me. She looked at me and smiled.

Bai came into the room and ran up to Bella hugging her. The two girls cried together in happiness. Bai sat on the bed next to Bella. Bai told her what had happened, and that Roux was gone.

Over the next few days, Bella recovered and after two weeks, we got to go home.

Bella met June and absolutely adored her. Turns out, June had set up a room for Bella and I was really thankful for that.

That night, she fell asleep in my bed and so did I.

I knew that when Kate had died, I thought that I had lost everything. Now with Bella by my side, she was always with me. Bella was my angel, my star, my love. She kept me going even when I didn't know that she was alive. I loved Bella. I knew that she would be the best thing that would ever happen to me.

The End. I hope you liked it. I am so sorry that it took a long time to update it. I hope you enjoyed it.

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