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Chapter 4

Steve and Lauren were enjoying their friendship. Steve wanted to start working on the next stage of their relationship but wanted to make sure that Lauren and her son was ready for this step. Steve was super busy at work and so it was hard to talk to him. He heard his phone go off. He picked up his phone and saw that it was from Lauren.

Just checking to make sure that you are okay. We both miss you. Lauren said in the text message.

I miss both of you too. I will try to stop by as soon as I can. Work has been busy. Steve responded to her in the text message

K. Just promise that you will be safe. Lauren responded to him

K, I will see you later. I got to back to work. Steve said to her.

Steve got out of his chair and headed to the main desk to find out what was going on the case. They had been working on this case for the past two days and was finally got the final part after three hours. Steve was heading to his house. He saw her car in her driveway and he smiled that he was going to have a little bit of time with her. But first, he needed to get some sleep.

The next morning

Lauren was getting ready for the day when she saw his truck. She walked over to the house and knocked on the door. She waited for him to answer the door which he does.

"hey." Steve greeted her.

"Hi." She said to him. "Did you finished the case?"

"Yeah. The governor gave us all the day off." Steve responded to her. "Do you have to work?"

"Nope. Michael is with his dad for this first week of winter break." Lauren responded to him

"So what do you want to do?" Steve said to her. He wanted to just to hang with her on his day off.

"Anything that you want to do." She responded to him

"Let's go to diamond head." Steve said to her as they headed into the house so they could get ready.

They both were hoping that they could take the next step in their relationship. They both like each other a lot and could see this grow into something new.

Steve and Lauren were about to leave the house when her cell phone goes off and it was Michael.

"Mommy!" He yelled the minute that she answer the phone. "I'm scared."

"What is wrong baby?" She said to her son as Steve heared the worry in her voice.

"Someone put me in the back of their car after they hurt daddy. He's bleeding." Michael said to his mommy. She put him on speaker so he can talk to Steve.

"Buddy, listen to me real quick. I need you tell me what you can remember." Steve said to her son.

"daddy and I were playing and this man came into-" Michael started to say before he stopped.

"How did you get that phone?!" The man yelled to him before taking his phone to his ear.

Steve had pulled over so he could take the phone off of speaker.

"Listen, I don't know who you are but you took my girlfriend's kid and if you hurt him, I will hunt you down and kill you." Steve warned the man. Lauren could not believe what he had just called her. She loved the sound of being called his girlfriend.

"Good luck." the man said before he hung up the phone. Steve knew that they had 48 hours and took Lauren to work.

"Are you sure that you can find him?" Lauren asked him.

"Yes, I can. You just need to believe in me. I will find the person that did this and make them pay." Steve responded to her.

"I think that I know the first person to look into this." She responded to him.

"Who?" Steve asked to her.

"His uncle." she responded to him.

"I will look into it. I just need to make sure that you are safe." Steve revealed to her. "I will find him."

"I know. I am just worried about him. They called me about his dad. He passed away. I really hoped that it was not his brother." Lauren responded to him.

"I know." Steve responded to her.

"Did you meant it when you called me your girlfriend?" She asked him

"Yeah, I did." Steve revealed to her.

"So does this mean what I think it means?" She said to him.

"We need to find your son before we decided to do about us." Steve responded to her.

It had been two hours since her son went missing. Steve and the rest of the team finally got a lead where he could at. They took down the man that took her son. Steve and Danny finally reunited the mother with her child.

"Thank you so much for saving him." Lauren said to him with a smile.

"You are welcome." Steve responded as Lauren gave him a small kiss.

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