By Malice Through Agony

"We'll wait for the blood results to come in, but it appears she's perfectly fine," the doctor said as he watched both Riley and Lucas staring at their child in relief. "You'll be able to take her home in an hour or so."

Riley smiled as she wiped a tear away. "Thank you doctor."

She watched him walk away, finding Katherine inside the closet buried under clothes scared her. At first she looked dead and Riley didn't know whether to call Lucas or be overwhelmed by her child's body. Her eyes fixated on her daughter as Katherine moved around in the hospital bed, she gripped onto the railing until Lucas put his arm on top of it. She didn't blame him for seeing just how clenched her jaw was and how white her knuckles were.

She removed her hand once she caught a glimpse of Lorena, she sauntered over to her in anger.

"Is she alright?"

"She's fine," Lucas said as he followed the brunette out the room.

"Well i'm not fine." Riley said as she glared at the detective. "She was in our house."

"How did she even know we'd be out?" Lucas asked as he scratched his nose.

"She must've been watching-"

"Who do you believe now?" Lucas snapped. "She's crazy!"

"Look, we're working on this case and I will do everything I can to catch her."

"You better do something about her." Riley said as she looked at Lorena. "Because if you don't...I will."

After setting down Katherine in her crib and feeding her a warm bottle of milk, they both decided to call it a night and sleep. When they entered the room they stopped in their tracks. The room was completely trashed with Riley's clothes thrown everywhere on the ground and her jewelry was missing along with her makeup. Broken pictures of her and Lucas were lying on the ground, the lamps were on the ground and the curtains were ripped apart. Riley closed her eyes and looked away when she found a picture of Katherine with a big X marked on it.

"Looks like she left you a little something," Riley said as she picked up a pair of panties that belonged to Missy with her fingers as if the panties were poisonous.

Lucas sighed as he watched his wife roll her eyes at the madness and pain she's brought to their marriage.

"I'm sleeping in the guest room tonight." Riley said as she passed him.

"I'll be there in a bit."

Riley turned back to face him, "No. You're sleeping in the living room, as far away from me and Katherine as possible."

She walked into one of the guest room and washed her makeup off, what seemed like a perfect night will now be marked as one of the worst days in her life. She heard Lucas on the phone...

"Can I talk to detective Williams? Immediately!"

Riley woke up from an uncomfortable nightmare. She wasn't even surprised she got one, from what happened the day before, fear was no longer going to intervene with her actions once she see Missy. Whatever Missy conspired on doing next, Riley was ready. She got out of bed and into her room expecting to find the mess from the day before, but it was completely clean. She walked downstairs and found Lucas making scrambled eggs in the kitchen. Guilt rushed over her, she didn't know he would end up doing all of this.

His eyes landed on her's and he smiled. "Hey, babe."

"Did you clean the room?"

"Yeah. I couldn't sleep. I was just scared she'd come back and do something to you or Katherine." He served her some orange juice and handed her the cup.

"You didn't sleep?"

He shook his head as he returned to scrambling the eggs.

She sat down on a barstool and sipped her juice. "I'm sorry Lucas. I was just mad."

He brushed the eggs of and he placed them on a bowl for his wife. "You don't have to apologize Riley."

"I don't know what else to do."

"Right now you can just eat." Lucas said as he placed the bowl towards her. A weight of worry disappeared once she ate the eggs.

"I'm not going to work today so I figured we can have someone install an alarm system. Is that okay with you?"

"Of course. Anything to get that crazy bitch away from us!"

Riley opened the door with a sleeping Katherine on her shoulders, she placed her on her crib and kissed her forehead. The house looked pretty empty and it unease her, she didn't know where Lucas could've possibly gone. Before she took Katherine to the park he was in the couch reading a book(which surprised her). She walked into his office and found him staring blankly at a picture in his hands.

"Are you okay?"

His eyes shifted towards the brunette's. "Yeah, it's...it's nothing."

She simply nodded and walked back towards the kitchen.

"Hey, Riley?" Lucas called.

"Yeah?" she said as she walked back towards him.

"Did you recognize Missy when you saw her in my office...for the first time?" he asked.

Riley didn't know why he was asking that question. "No. Why?"

"I just...it was just a question."

Riley opened the door to the bathroom just in time to see Lucas slide of his boxers. She quickly closed the door and rested her forehead on it. She didn't even know why she couldn't hear the water running. It felt awkward to just have him back in the house and then the next day see him completely naked. She mentally cursed herself. Before she could walk away from the door she felt a strong pair of hands pull her in the bathroom, his green eyes landed on her's.

"Why did you close the door?" He asked, his body was only a couple of inches away, but both his hands pressed on the door. She was in between his hands, as she felt his warmth on the top of her ears.

"I thought it would be awkward if I just stayed there watching you."

"You're my wife, Riley. I don't mind." He touched the bottom of her chin with his thumb and pressed his forehead against her's. He gulped as he realized he was being turned on by just thinking of kissing her.

The steam in the bathroom clouded their view, the next thing she new was Lucas's lips pressed against hers. She wrapped her hands around him and kissed him back, she felt him smile.

After a deep, satisfying encounter Riley and Lucas put some clothes on and walked back downstairs.

"Why haven't we tried out the pool?" Lucas asked, staring out the window.

"I don't know, just a waste of money."

"It's not a waste of money. Think about it. We can have family dinners outside on the patio, celebrate Easter and the Fourth of July." He tried to convince the brunette, but once he saw her reaction he realized he wasn't getting anywhere.

"It doesn't even have a fence, I don't want our daughter taking a "swim," she quoted the word.

"We can't let a wonderful pool go to waist." Lucas wrapped his hands around the brunette's waist.

"Really? Lucas our daughter was almost kidnapped-if you will, and you want to think about sex." she turned to face him. "Not to mention we just had some."

"I wasn't thinking about sex, but now that you mention it..." He started kissing her neck, but she pushed him away.

"When's the guy coming?" Riley asked walking towards the kitchen.

"Soon, he said about-"

The doorbell rang and Lucas smiled, "That should be him."

"You're all set folks. You ready for me to show you how the system works?"

"Definitely." Riley said as she walked towards the man who was standing by the door.

After briefly going over the alarm system, both Riley and Lucas learned the code and practiced many times. They went with 0125, Katherine's birthday month and day. The next day Lucas woke up and dressed himself to go to work. "I love you, babe." he said as he kissed his wife's forehead.

Lucas turned on his computer and checked his emails, he had one from Missy. His eyes widened as he called Lorena, "Hey, Lorena this is Lucas Friar can you stop by my office, it's important."

Lorena got Lucas's message and drove down to his office. "Something wrong?"

Lucas opened the door for her and let her in. "She sent me an email, I haven't opened it. I thought you should be here, maybe you can track her down?"

She nodded, "Let's take a look at the email."

He sat down on his computer chair and opened the video, his heart raced by what he saw.

"Oh my gosh," Lorena gasped, as she cupped her mouth.

What was in the email? Let me know!

Thought i'd let you know when i'm posting a chapter for "The Truth Behind The White Lies" and that might be this weekend, stay tooned!

Again Thank You for taking your time of day and reading this chapter...it means a lot. Let's try and get the reviews up to 75 before it ends!

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