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Chapter Five:
Richard Castle stood in his office with his arms wrapped around the woman he loved. Kate had finally confessed that she loved him, something he had waited to hear from her for months. Of course even though things seemed perfect on the outside there was still something missing and it had nothing to do with their lack of intimacy.
He pulled away from her for just a moment before taking her hands in his and gave her a mega-watt smile then led her over to the expensive leather couch where they sat. There were still things left unsaid between them that he felt he wanted to-no needed to admit to her.
"I am glad you told me about the baby, Kate. I just wish you would have told me sooner," he confessed. "You have to know that it would not have mattered to me whose baby it was, I would still have been there for you. I would still love you."
"How could you love someone who had a child with another man?" Kate questioned looking down at their joined hands.
"That child would have been part of you, Kate, the amazing, courageous, gorgeous woman that I fell in love with. A child would not have changed that woman."
"But it should have been you that I ran to that night, not Josh," Kate cried. "I was so angry at you, yet I knew why you carried me out of that hanger. I took my frustration out on losing Montgomery and you on Josh when I should have been with you."
"No, Kate. You and Josh were still together at the time, and if you would have come to me later that night, as much as it would have hurt both of us, I would have said no. I dreamed of the moment you would come to be, want me, or even need me, but I would not have made love to you knowing you were still with Josh."
"Why not?"
"Because I may be a lot of things, but I would never sleep with another man's girl," Rick confessed.
"Are you saying if I would have showed up that night or any night for that matter and thrown myself at you, you would have turned me down?"
"If you were still with Josh or any man for that matter, yes I would have said no. But none of that matters now anyway, we are together and that is all that counts. But you do need to know even if you didn't suffer a miscarriage I would still have been there for you however you needed me to be. I would hope that you would not have married Josh out of obligation for the baby, but if you did, I would have been supportive."
"Wow!" Kate muttered.
"What?"
"I didn't expect this, any of this. I thought you would be angry and disappointed, but not this."
"That is what loving someone is all about, being there for the other person no matter what. I loved you for so long, Kate, and stood beside you for all of it; the good and the bad. I always said that I would never leave you and I meant every word."
"I don't deserve you," Kate admitted but before she could go any further her cell phone rang. She stood up grabbing her cell phone out of her back pocket and walked back towards the balcony.
"Beckett," she answered.
Rick went over to his computer searching for any notifications from his private investigator while Kate talked on the phone. He overheard bits and pieces and began to worry even more about his second ex-wife. A couple of minutes later Kate disconnected the call and turned to her partner.
"Where's Gina?" she asked.
"At a hotel, of course," he commented.
"What? You asked her to stay here with you, why didn't she?"
"After you left the apartment, I realized I made a mistake in asking her to stay here especially considering my relationship with you. So she decided it would be best if she stayed at a hotel."
"What hotel?"
"Probably the Waldorf," Rick answered standing up from his desk. "Why?"
"Because she lied to us, Castle, she told us that Monroe canceled on her, but her secretary said that Monroe had been calling for the past two weeks and she kept blowing him off. And he showed up at her office this morning and the two of them got into a heated argument before she called security and had him escorted out of the building."
"That can't be right, I mean she told me she hadn't heard from him in months," he stated getting frustrated that once again he had been lied to by someone he trusted suddenly he grabbed his phone and dialed nine on his speed dial. "It's ringing. Damn it! Gina, where are you? You need to call me as soon as you get this message."
"I'm sorry, Castle, but your ex-wife just became the prime suspect in our murder," Kate announced. "And it has nothing to do with the fact that he was found dead in her apartment."
"I know, I know," he repeated before exiting his office hot on the trails of his partner. "I guess I should have had her stay here."
"I wouldn't go that far, Castle," Kate said. "Sorry ladies, guess I won't be joining you for dinner."
"Oh no, Richard, what is going on?" Martha questioned seeing the look on her son's face and how Kate was rushing towards the door.
"I'll call you, later, mother. If Gina just happens to show up here, call me immediately," he told his mother kissing her on the cheek then reaching over to his daughter and kissing her also.
Seconds later Beckett and Castle were in the elevator on the way down to the parking garage.
"Is there anyone that Gina might go see if she was in trouble?" Kate asked her partner suddenly realizing that this case just hundred times more complicated.
"I thought she would come to me, but now I'm not so sure."
"Does she have any family?"
"Her only living relative is her father and last time I knew he lived in Spain."
"Castle, think is there any where she would go if she needed to escape?"
"Oh no! She wouldn't, would she?"
"What," Kate asked as the elevator dinged and the doors opened.
"I told Gina before when we had gotten back together that if she ever needed a place to escape that I knew the perfect place."
"Where, Castle, tell me!"
"The Hamptons, Kate, she likely went to my house at the Hamptons," Rick confessed hoping that the last place his ex-wife would go was his place in Hamptons. He had not been there since that summer with Gina writing Naked Heat and spending the rest of the time naked with Gina. Rick was even thinking about putting the beach front property on the market. Now he might have to go there to locate his ex-wife with his partner, the woman he loved, the woman he hoped would one day be his wife.
*Note*Iactuallystartedwritingthisearliertoday,andsuddenlyhitaroadblockwithit.ThenmanyhourslaterIfinallylaiddowntogotosleepforthenightandsuddenlythechapterjumpedoutatme.IhadtogetuptowriteitbeforeIforgetwhereIwantedtogowithit.So95%ofthischapterwaswrittenafter2amonaSaturdaynightwhenIshouldhavebeensleeping!Hopeyouenjoy.