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Chapter 10

Jo was stood in the ambulance leaning over Adam who was refusing to go to hospital, claiming he was okay even though he obviously wasn't. Jo could clearly see the pain etched on his face, but she could also see the worry and what she knew was guilt.

"I should have done more." he said to her, his voice a little raspy.

"You took a bullet, Adam. You called us here to the scene. We'll find her and that will be because of you." Jo said feeling more confident than she actually felt right now.

"We have to get him to surgery." one of the medics said urgently.

"Have to find Beth…" Adam muttered before he took a gulp from the oxygen mask he had been offered. His voice was weak, almost too quiet for them to hear.

"Adam, you're going to hospital!" Mac said from where he stood just outside the ambulance, looking in. "You're going to have surgery and by the time you wake up we'll have Beth back." Mac told him firmly.

"You promise?" Adam asked, looking him square in the eyes.

Mac looked right back at him and saw his eyes were filled with tears of pain and worry. "I promise." Mac told him.

Adam still didn't want to go to surgery knowing Beth was somewhere and in trouble, but he trusted Mac. He nodded his head and said, "Let's go." to the medic.

Mac helped Jo climb out of the ambulance. The other medic then slammed the doors shut and ran round and jumped back into the driver's seat. The sirens blared to life and seconds later they were watching the ambulance speed off up the street.

Mac placed his arm around Jo and gave her a reassuring hug. "God, Mac, I should have insisted on giving them a lift home!" Jo said feeling incredibly guilty.

"They wanted to walk, Jo." he told her.

"Where the hell is she?" Jo sighed.

They both looked up when loud sirens raced towards them. They knew the car the moment they saw it so neither of them was surprised when Flack climbed out but it startled them the way he all but ran over to them; a telling look on his face.

"Flack?" Jo said, knowing he had something to tell them, and something was telling her it wasn't good news.

"What's going on?" Mac asked him.

"I've just been told that Leo escaped custody today." he told them.

"Leo as is Warren's second in command?" Jo shrieked.

"Yeah, that Leo! They didn't think to tell me until now." he said, anger in his voice. "He's been on the run for hours. The two officers who were transporting him are both in critical condition... It's not looking good. How the hell he survived I don't know!"

"He has her, Mac!" Jo said, her voice breaking with emotion.

Mac turned to face her and saw the tears that had built in her eyes and were about to burst their banks. He stepped closer to her and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into him. He could feel her body shaking as she cried. They all knew that if Leo had Beth, they could already be too late finding her.

~0~0~0~0~

Leo was stood in the middle of the semi-empty storage room, his hands behind his back. Only a few shipments had come in since Warren had been killed and Leo's men, who were now occupying the warehouse, had happily drunk it but some remained. Leo had changed out of his prison gear into a stupidly expensive white suit. He felt quite the part as he stood there waiting for Beth to be brought to him.

He had to smile when the large creaky door opened and two guys dragged a kicking and yelling Beth in. They dragged her right over to him and pushed her to her knees with such force she fell flat on her face. She was unable to stop it as her hands were tied with sharp scratchy rope behind her back.

She managed to push herself up onto her knees where she glared angrily at Leo for a moment, then she got to her feet. She wanted to say something, try to squirm her way out of this but before she had time to speak she felt a hard heavy blow to her stomach.

It sent her crashing to the floor. She was too winded to cry out in pain, she could only make struggled attempts to catch her breath. When she finally could a whimper of pain escaped her lips. "Get up, Beth!" Leo told her.

She had no intention of listening to him until his foot connected hard with her stomach. "Okay!" she cried out, somehow managing to swallow down the pain.

She struggled, but she managed to get back to her feet. "Leo, please! Come on… You and I are friends." she tried.

"We were friends, Beth! But then you went and opened your big mouth to the cops about me and now I'm facing life in prison! Because of you Warren is dead. My best buddy is gone forever!"

"I'm sorry." Beth said.

Leo shook his head at her. "No you're not. Not yet," he replied. "…but you will be once me and the boys are done with you."

Beth looked at him, not liking the way he looked back at her. "Hold her down boys." he said as he ripped off his jacket.

Beth could do nothing to stop the fall as her legs were kicked from beneath her. She landed on the floor but immediately tried to push herself up but five strong pairs of hands seemed to grab at her, pinning her down. She knew what was coming and through fear all she could do was scream.

~0~0~0~0~

Lindsay was going over the scene where Adam had been shot and from where Beth had been abducted. She was paying particular attention to the crate of broken bottles. She was searching through the pile of broken of glass when a label caught her eyes. She grabbed it with the tweezers and held it up.

She shone her torch on it to get a clearer look at what was written on the label. "I think I found something!" she yelled.

Jo, Mac, Danny and Flack all ran over to see what she had.

"It's an address, and it has Warrens name on it. I found it in this pile of broken beer bottles." she told them.

"Is it for the bar?" Jo asked

"No, it's for a warehouse, a storage place. It's out on the docks."

"That's not far from here." Flack said as he read the full label.

"Let's go!" Mac shouted to the team.

They all ran over to their cars and jumped in. Jo jumped in with Mac and at full speed they headed off to the warehouse, somehow knowing that was where they would find Beth.

~0~0~0~0~

Leo and his men were all stood round watching as the last guy finished off his "turn" with Beth. He was the sixth one to have abused her and she prayed they weren't going to have a second shot because she couldn't take it. She was beaten, bloody and bruised and her body felt numb, she felt like she was out of it, which in a way was good.

Finally the man relieved himself inside her. He got up just seconds later and zipped himself up. Beth could only stay lying on the floor. She had no strength to push herself up. The men had stopped holding her down after they realised she was too weakened to fight back or struggle against them.

She rolled over onto her side, wanting to hide as much of her naked body from them as she could. She looked up and watched Leo say something to one of the men stood next tom him. She couldn't hear what he was saying, her head was spinning in pain as the numb feeling in her body had now totally worn off and she could feel everything.

She wanted to try to stand but she doubted she would be able to, that still didn't mean she wasn't going to try. She didn't want Leo or his men to think they had beaten her down. It was hard work and it hurt like hell, but she was able to push herself up and even managed to stay standing, even though her legs shook like jelly beneath her.

Leo found it amusing. He knew that she was showing him she was stronger than he thought she was. He just laughed and then delivered a punch right in her face, the force of it was so hard it knocked her right off her feet and with a smack she landed hard and unconscious on the floor.

TBC

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