"How could you do this to me? How could you tell them? I thought you were on my side!"
"I had to, my dear, i am truly sorry, but they are my friends."
"And I am your daughter! You owe me a life, you walked out on my when Mother died and left me all alone, you owe me, you horrible old man!"
"He had it all sussed anyway, and he would have told Layton right away, had I not explained-"
"And where is he now, if he cares about you so much?"
"In America with the girl, but he's due back today and he will assist us in finding another location. Just calm down, darling. Not everyone is against us-"
"No, they're all against me."
"And for good reason," Emmy thought as she leaned against the sitting room door, listening intently. She listened harder, but heard no sounds to confirm that her son was with Andrea. "Maybe he's upstairs...?"
She suddenly heard a baby's cry and a muffled shushing sound coming from downstairs in the basement. Emmy's heart leaped. "Could it be?" she tried the door opposite, which lead to a set of stairs leading downwards. She hurried down the flight of stairs, a gleeful smile on her face as Alfendi's cries slowly became more audible...
Aleks sighed agitatedly and planted a kiss on Alfendi's head as he heard footsteps approaching. "Adrian... They said they would be moving our location today..." But his worry vanished as he saw a pair of black boots and white trousers at the top of the stairs. He grinned when he caught sight of her yellow trench coat.
"Emmeline!"
Emmy ran down the stairs as she heard her name being called. She frowned.
"Dad?"
"Emmeline, he's here, Alfendi's here!" He struggled to his feet as Emmy approached him. He quickly handed him over and Emmy covered the child with kisses, tears in her eyes. Aleks laughed shakily and wrapped his arms around her.
"It's okay, Emmy, he's safe, he's been with me for the last few days-"
"Why are you here? I thought you were in prison?"
"Adrian broke me out, he's Andrea's father-"
"We need to get out of here. I'll call Uncle Leon..." Emmy retrieved her phone from the pocket of her coat. But as soon as she had called him, a gun fired and a bulled struck the phone, sending it flying out of Emmy's hand and smashing to pieces on the floor. Emmy's eyes narrowed as she handed her son back to Aleks and turned to face her attacker. "I said, we need to get out of here. And I'm not going to let some crazed lunatic stop me." But she stopped when she saw the face of her attacker.
"You're not going anywhere."
Emmy choked. "What the hell? Why... Why... Just why?"
"This is Adrian-"
"No he's not! He lied!" Emmy shouted. "I thought he was good, I thought he was my friend!"
He sighed heavily.
"Why? Why did you do all of this? Why did you take my baby?"
"Emmy, please..."
"TELL US RAYMOND!"