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Chapter 04
Maura woke the next morning to Jane's father staring over and seeing the condition that she was in. He roared his anger toward Joe and Jane.
Joe and Jane both were standing next to Frank, in front of Maura as he yelled at them. Jane looked down at the ground and screwed up her pretty face. How she hated being yelled at. As he was done, Frank looked at Maura.
"Who did that to you?" He wanted to know and looked into her hazel eyes.
Maura looked from him to Jane and then to him again. She swallowed and narrowed her eyes at Frank.
"The man standing right next to you," she snapped and pulled against the restraints. She wanted him to pay for what he did to her… "He raped me…while he beat me," she said and finally looked over at Joe. She gave him a dark look that said she had got him back. "You didn't even notice...you were too busy yelling at your daughter," she added in defense for Jane.
Frank's facial expression immediately changed as Maura said that. He turned to Joe's side and grabbed him by his shirt and pushed him roughly against the wall. Jane shrugged together and stepped aside.
"So that's what you are? A rapist? You like to rape helpless girls?" Frank yelled at him, obviously furious with that man.
"Boss...relax. It was just Doyle's daughter, it's not like I touched Janie." Joe defended himself. Frank punched him in his stomach.
"Doesn't matter! I hate rapists..." He said while he kept Joe pressed against the wall. He reached for his gun and pulled it, pressing it against the head of Joe. "That behavior is unforgivable and the world doesn't need bastards like you." Frank said.
"Wait wait wait...C'mon, you can't kill me." Joe said. Jane knew what was coming and squeezed her eyes shut while she placed her hands over her ears and the very next moment, Frank pulled the trigger.
Maura had watched the entire thing. She was not afraid of death. She was fascinated by it. However, she breathed deeply at the odd excitement that she felt from seeing his body fall and blood splatter against the wall. Then she scanned the room, seeing Jane with her eyes shut and holding her ears to see Frank standing back from the dead body in a pile on the floor before him. She swallowed.
Frank turned around again and put his gun back in the holster. He looked at his daughter and raised a brow, grabbing her by her wrist and pulled her hand down from her ear.
"Don't act like a lil girl now, C'mon." He groaned and then looked at Maura.
"I apologize for what Joe did. I don't tolerate such a behavior." Frank said to Maura. "Jane get ready." He then said to his daughter and Jane looked confused.
"Get ready for what?" The brunette asked.
"Don't ask. Do it!" Jane nodded quickly and left the room. He cut the restrains from Maura's wrists and ankles and pulled her up from the bed. Though he restrained her hands behind her back again. "Now, I'm gonna exchange you for some nice cash."
Maura made an annoyed growl low in her throat as she was pulled from the bed and restrained again. She looked at Joe and then over her shoulder at Frank as Jane left the room.
"You would be smart to clean me up. You won't get anything when I look like this," she said smartly and turned to face him after he was done tying her hands behind her back.
He pushed her out of the room. "I don't like smart asses." Frank said and pushed the door of Jane's room open and then pushed Maura inside. He groaned as he opened the restraints of the blonde girl again.
"Just dress something from Jane." He simply said. "And don't even think about to go through the window. My men are outside." Frank told her and then closed the door of Jane's room.
Maura turned on him and glared at him as he shut the door into Jane's room. Then she looked around Jane's room and headed right to the window and looked out. She saw the guards and shook her head.
"Damnit," she muttered to herself as she looked toward the closet. She started to fish through it and finally found a blue skirt and a grey tank top. "Uggg, I guess these will have to do," she muttered to herself and went to Jane's dresser and looked inside for a clean pair of underwear.
Jane's room was unlike Maura's not very big or spectacular. The only furniture in the room were a bed, a closet, a nightstand and a small cupboard with a TV on it. Frank knocked against the door. "Hurry up! You are not dressing up for some fashion show. I give you one more minute." He said impatient.
Maura glared at the door as she stripped down to just her bra and then tossed her clothing into the nearest trashcan of the sparely decorated room. Her room was by far larger, had more items in it, and one huge queen sized bed with a canopy. She pulled on the boxer underwear and then the blue skirt and grey tank top. She picked up a hair tie from the nightstand and pulled her messy curls back. Then she just stood there, staring at the door and waited for him to open it.
"Alright, the minute is over!" Frank said and opened the door the very next moment. As he saw that she had changed, he was pleased. He walked over to her and tied her hands behind her back again. Then he grabbed her upper arm and walked with her downstairs and outside.
Jane was outside already with two of Frank's men. He walked with Maura to the van and opened the door, before he tossed her inside. "Alright, let's get in the car." Frank said to his men and Jane.
Jane looked at him puzzled. "Me too?" She questioned.
"Yes, I'll give you a chance to make it up to me after the disaster from yesterday." Jane nodded and then got in the back of the van and sat down across from Maura. Then they drove off. Frank figured that if they'd exchange the money for Maura, he'd let Jane do it.
Doyle won't shoot Jane, since Frank hadn't killed Maura either. If Frank would send one of his men to do the exchange it all would probably end in shooting - but not with Jane, he figured.
Maura winced as she was grabbed again after being tied. She sighed and rolled her eyes. "It's not like I can really go anywhere," she said, "this is really not necessary." She said as she was pulled down the steps and then outside to be tossed into the back of car.
She let out a grunt at the harsh shove and then just laid where she felt, closing her eyes for a moment. She opened them again as Jane got in and her eyes just studied the girl.
"You should not let anyone talk to you that way...not even your father," she said absently and tried to sit up.
Jane shrugged her shoulders. "It's just how he is... I don't know him any different. But I love him." The brunette girl said and helped Maura to sit up and lean against the wall from the van. "Why? How is your Pops?" Jane asked her curious and sat down next to Maura now.
Maura half smiled at the mention of her father. "Very sweet. Of course that's the side I see," she said and winced at how sore her joints were. She stared at the pretty girl across from her.
"You can love him all you want...but it just seems to me like he doesn't really love you. Does he really deserve you?" She said, narrowing her eyes slightly as she studied Jane's reaction.
"Don't you dare saying that! He does love me! Of course he does!" Jane said and crossed her arms in front of her chest. "And he deserves me just as I deserve him. He teaches me all he knows about life. He only wants what's best for me, that's why he's so strict."
"Strict is strict...that's just manipulative and cruel...how he treats you," she said, studying Jane again.
Maura was not afraid to speak her mind. She had been taught to take what she wanted and to speak what was on her mind and she was taught to understand death.
"I am just saying how I see it. My father would never yell at me no matter what I did...of course, I don't really do anything that would get my into trouble...either..."
Jane let out a laugh. "You are a spoiled little princess, that's what you are. And you are not doing anything wrong? Really? Maybe not in your Dad's eyes or your eyes..." The brunette said and shook her head in disbelief. "Your Dad probably thinks you can't take it, so he never yells at you." Jane said.
Maura shook her head and huffed a laugh at Jane. "I don't do anything wrong. What could I possibly do wrong?" She asked her and shifted against the floor of the van. She narrowed her eyes at the pretty girl across from her.
"Your father seems to see you as everything wrong...and you just take it. You shouldn't. You take everything...like a timid little girl...and you don't use any of that inner strength."
"Oh may I remind you what happened in the club again..or rather outside the club? How would you call that? Mh? Did you do nothing wrong there too?" Jane asked and her eyes met hers. "And I am not a timid little girl, you don't even know me. You know nothing about my life so shut up." Jane now said angrily. "And FYI I am showing my father respect by taking it. But someone like you probably doesn't even get it."
"You wanted it! You loved it..." she snapped back and breathed a bit deeper as she glared at the woman. "Yeah, you are timid. You are a little girl...you coward at him. You tremble at his every word. You can't even tell him the truth that you basically slept with a woman out of fear. You are a weak baby," she said and smiled darkly at her.
That was too much for Jane. She lunged at the blonde girl and slapped her face and rammed her knee in her stomach. Her father and the men heard the rumbling at the back of the van and Frank stopped. He didn't know what was going on, but he didn't need trouble now. He opened the door of the van and saw his daughter, boxing the blonde girl in the stomach with her fist.
"Jane!" Frank yelled at her and pulled his daughter roughly back by her arm, so Jane landed on her back. He pulled her up and backhanded Jane hard. "What's gotten into you! Leave her alone! If the deal blows because of your stupidity, you'll get the beating of your life." He threatened her and pushed his daughter aside against the wall of the van.
He looked at Maura. "You OK?" He asked. He didn't want that she had more bruises or anything visible than she already had.
Maura screamed out as Jane lunged at her and started hitting her. Her body tensed from the back and she tried to kick out to get Jane from her, but she could not get her body into the right position. Jane kept hitting her over and over until she was pulled from her. Maura watched, coughing slightly, as Jane was pulled up and then backhanded. She winced a little and coughed again. Her eyes met Frank's as he asked her if she was okay and she nodded..
The door was closed again and they were left alone. "Right...that's love," she spat at Jane and closed her eyes and the pain was still radiating throughout her body.
Jane didn't say anything to that. She sat as far away from Maura as it was possible in the van, crossed her arms in front of her chest, leaned her head against the wall of the van and looked at the ground. She was glad when the blonde was gone and she never had to see her again. She really was pushing her buttons. Who was she to get involved in her business?
Maura opened her eyes and stared at Jane after a moment. "You don't deserve to be treated like you mean nothing," she said, "even if you are my enemy...but then...you really aren't," she said in a softer voice and rested her head against the van's wall and sighed loudly. Her body hurt worse than it had before...from Jane's hits.
"Just shut up, I don't need your pity or whatever you are trying." The brunette girl said and turned her head to look at Maura. "Seriously, shut up or I will make you. I won't have you talking to me like that...or talking about me like you know me." The Italian girl said.
Maura rolled her eyes and just huffed a heavy sigh. "OK fine. Get beat up by your own father. Doesn't really affect me either way," she said hard and groaned softly because of the restraints.
She felt the car stop a moment later and the door would open again. Jane got out and then Maura was pulled out and brought down to her feet. She pulled against the man who held her. "Can you be any harder!"
"Jane listen to me..." Frank said and glanced at the other car that was about three hundred meters away from them. It was Doyle and his men. "...you take Maura and walk about half the way with her. Then you wait until Doyle sends someone over with the money. You take the money, then give Maura to him and you walk back to me. Simple as that." Frank said and Jane's eyes widened, shaking her head.
"I can't do that." Jane said, fear in her voice.
"Jane listen! They won't shoot you, okay? I promise." He said, placing his hands on his daughters shoulders and looking in her dark eyes. Jane held eye contact with him and silenced.
"Make me proud." he said and gave her a gentle push into Maura's direction. Jane swallowed, grabbed Maura by the arm and then started to walk. Her heart was beating fast in her chest and she had a hard time controlling herself.
Maura walked next to Jane as they moved and as soon as they came into view from around the van, the door opened and Doyle himself got out as well as his son. Three men had their guns aimed at the men behind Jane. Maura started the cry just a little as she saw her father. His eyes were like daggers toward Jane.
Stephen recognized her right away and simply could not believe that the drunk, timid girl was holding his sister within her arms. He carried the bag of money. Doyle did not even stop and marched right up to them. "Give me my daughter," he said. The worry and love was evident in his voice.
Jane looked timid at him but didn't let go of Maura's arm. "The money first." Jane said to him, looking up in his face. Her heart was more than racing in her chest. The brunette felt like passing out from fear of this situation. She just wished her father would be on her side and she wouldn't have to stand alone here. Jane had never seen Doyle before but now she could put the name to a face finally.
Stephen stepped forward, eying her and then glaring at her as he handed her the money. He did not step back until Jane would hand over his sister. Maura looked at her brother and her heart was beating fast. She was scared but in a different way. She was scared that she was going to be shot before she was handed over to her family. Doyle did not look at Jane, but behind her to the men.
Jane took the money from Stephen and let go of Maura. It was such an awkward feeling, since she knew Stephen from the club. The brunette girl stood there like frozen, not knowing if she was allowed to move or if she'd get shot as soon as she'd turn her back to them. Frank and his men were standing in position, aiming at Doyle's men. The whole situation was very tensed.
Stephen took his sister within his strong hold and pulled her back with him. Doyle just kept staring behind her before he finally would step back.
"You ever try this again...I will kill you," he called out to Frank..."You and your entire family," he warned and then stepped back further with his family. He finally looked at Jane. "Get out of here kid...it's not safe..."
Jane pressed the bag of money tight to her chest and then turned around and started to walk slowly back to her Dad, even though she felt like running. As she finally made it to her Dad, she dropped the bag and wrapped her arms around him and started to sob. She was so glad that she made it back safe and didn't get shot in the process. She tried to calm down while her heart was still racing in her chest.
Frank only let her hold him for a second before he pushed her back and away. He glared at Doyle and then moved away from his daughter.
"Get in the car, Jane," he said before he got in the van himself. One of the men helped Jane into the back of the van. Maura was untied and then helped into the back of the limo. Doyle eyed Frank right before he got into the back of the limo and moved to his daughter, taking her into his arms.
"You are save now, Maura. I won't ever let something like that happen again." He said and stroke over her bruised face. "God, what did those bastards do with my sweet angel?" He asked and looked in his daughters eyes.
Maura took one look into her father's eyes and she just crumbled. She cried against him. Stephen just shook his head. He didn't always like what his sister had done, but he didn't want her to be hurt. She was his family.
Frank looked out the front window and spoke to his driver. Jane was left in the back, with the two other men. Her father had not hugged her. He loved her, but he rarely showed any affection to her that she so craved.
"Shhh it's alright, Maura." He whispered and stroke over her back, trying to calm his only daughter down. "You are safe now, you are safe." He repeated and placed a kiss on the top of her head while he kept on holding her. "I'll cheer you up...I'll get you whatever you want. What would you like? A new dress? New pair of shoes? New car? Anything, you just have to voice it, angel." He said.
Jane's heart started to beat in a normal rhythm again. She leaned against the metal wall of the van and pulled her legs close to her body and wrapped her arms around it. In silence she watched the two men, but really the only person she could think of was her father. She hoped he was proud at her for what she had done today.
Maura cried for a while as they drove away. She heard what her father said to her and she lifted her head, looking at him through swollen red eyes. She sniffed and he wiped her cheeks dry. "They ruined my skirt and top...I want a new set," she said, "and some boots," she added. Stephen rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything.
Frank had approved of his daughter's job. He just wasn't the kind to show it through affection. How he showed it was through privilege... Jane had two weekends worth of free time after that. He told her that night.
Jane was excited as he told her she was allowed to go out for two weekends. She'd never return to that one specific club again where she knew Maura and Stephen were, but there were plenty of other clubs. Jane dressed a white shirt with some glitter on it and that would expose one of Jane's shoulder. Then she dressed black jeans hot pants. She straightened her dark hair again and clipped her hair partly up on one side. Then she got the fake ID from her Dad, car keys to one of his cars and drove off.
Jane had no idea what club was a good one but she stopped in front of one as she saw a long queue of people in front of it. So it must be a popular club, she thought. She waited almost 20 minutes in the queue before the Italian girl could get in.
Maura was inside and dancing like she always did. Stephen was at the table, watching her. Jane had picked the same club that she was at again...not even knowing it. Maura saw the tall dark haired vixen the moment she stepped inside the door and her eyes brightened. Jane looked soo beautiful. She excused herself from the crowd and moved right up to her.
"How fancy it is to see you here," she said, startling Jane. Maura reached up and touched Jane's hair. "I like it curly better," she said with a taunting smile.
Jane's face fell as she saw Maura again. She went through back door in the very same club like usual, how stupid could she be! She wasn't pleased to see the blonde again who so easily pushed her buttons.
"As I can tell, you are feeling better again." Jane only said crossed her arms in front of her chest, looking at Maura with a cold glare in her eyes.
"Why wouldn't I be feeling better. It's been two weeks," she said, but she lied to herself. She was inwardly terrified...scared out of her mind at the news she had received three days ago. However, she pushed it back and smiled at Jane. Jane could see something within her eyes that was a little off.
"Come dance...it will make you look really good in that sweet outfit of yours," she added, pulling back, gazing over the pretty girl.
Jane looked in her eyes and raised an eyebrow. "After all you said to me in the van, I pass." Jane simply said.
"I'd love to dance with anyone but you." Jane didn't understand this blonde girl. She didn't know what was going on in her head. Why would Maura even come up to her after all what had happened? After all Jane had beat her up in the van.
Maura shrugged and pulled away. "Fine, who will miss you anyways," she said, turning from Jane and walking back into the inner crowd of people. She just started dancing again, simply ignoring Jane for the rest of the night, even if she ran into her.
Maura, several hours later, moved into the restroom and fixed her hair. She then suddenly felt sick again, but the pain was really intense in her stomach. She swallowed and sucked in a breath and then the pain dropped her to the floor.
Jane just flushed the toilet and came out of the stall as she saw Maura lying on the ground. The Italian girl dropped to her knees. "Maura? What's wrong?" Jane asked worried and placed her hand on Maura's shoulder, pulling her shoulder down so she could look into the blonde's face.
Maura's face went instantly pale as Jane looked down at her. Her arms were around her stomach and her body trembled hard and then tensed. She cried out sharply and then blood appeared on the floor.
"Oh my god...help me!" She cried to Jane. Her eyes were full of pure, raw terror.
Panic washed over Jane's face as she saw all that. "I'll be right back." Jane said and rushed out of the restroom and ran over to a bartender and told him to call 911. Then Jane rushed over to the table and grabbed Stephen by the arm. "Your sister...hurry" Jane said to him and pulled him along, as they made their way back to the restroom.
"Maura!" Stephen said worried and dropped to his knees. "God, Maura what happened?" He asked. "I wait outside for the ambulance." The Italian girl said and rushed outside the club and waited on the pavement for the ambulance to arrive.
Maura was cried out hard by the time Stephen came in. Blood was all over the floor beneath her by this point. Maura would not remove her hands from her stomach. "Help me!" She cried out again to her brother. "Stephen, help me!" He could hear the terror in her voice and that scared him cold. Maura stiffened and cried in pain.
Stephen didn't know what to do or what was going on. "Ambulance is on its way. Hang in there, sis." He said and stroke over her cheek softly.
About five minutes later the ambulance finally arrived. The paramedics made their way to the restroom, put Maura on a stretcher and immediately drove with her, and Stephen in the hospital. Jane was worried since she had no idea what had happened to Maura. She left the club, not feeling like partying anymore, got into her car and drove to the hospital herself. She waited at the waiting area.
Several hours later, a doctor came out from the ER. Stephen had let Jane sit in the waiting room with him, but no where near him. The doctor moved toward Stephen. He explained that Maura had been pregnant and had miscarried...hemorrhaged, but that she was stable now. The baby was gone.
Maura closed her eyes, crying alone in the room. Her body hurt from the waist down. She knew what had happened and she was more ashamed than she had ever been before.
The moment that her brother knew...was the moment that her father would know...and then the rape would become public and the war would start.
Stephen didn't believe what he was hearing. He knew Maura was a lesbian through and through. Yes, she had enjoyed dancing with guys on the dance floor but she would never make out with them or anything of that like. He knew something was off. Maura would have never slept with a guy voluntarily.
He turned to Jane after the doctor had left. Anger written all over his face. "What did your father do with my sister?" He asked her angrily. Jane's eyes widened and she shook her head.
"Nothing, I swear. My father didn't touch her." Jane defended her Dad.
"Then who did?" He asked, knowing that someone did it to her. Jane looked down.
"One of our guards...but my pops killed him." Jane whispered.
Stephen had never been so livid in his life. His chest heaved in anger as he looked at the timid brunette. His eyes burned into her own. "So someone raped my sister and now he is dead?" He asked her, but it really was not a question.
"When my dad hears of this...he won't be the only loss of life in your little family. He will murder you all..." Stephen then turned and moved down the hallway fast. "You follow me, I will kill your father myself..." he said, knowing the rules and respecting them about not touching children.
The brunette staid in the waiting area a while longer. She knew it meant war...and she understood why. She wondered if her father would start a war too if he knew about her rape, but she never planed on telling him ever. Jane left the hospital and made her way home. She couldn't sleep that night. She was so scared that any moment something could happen.
Stephen went to his sister and staid with her until their father came. He was furious about what he heard. That the guy who did it to his daughter was dead already, wasn't something he cared about. The fact that it happened was enough for him. He'd kill them all to take revenge for what happened to his little angel. This was not acceptable!
Maura could not even look at her father when he would finally show up at the ER. She just rolled to her side and closed her eyes. She had told him to go away, but he never listened to her. She knew that her brother was also close by and steaming with anger.
"She didn't do anything..." she finally said of Jane. Maura did not want anything to happen to Jane.
Frank opened his daughter's door, late in the morning. Jane was still asleep and should have been up hours ago. "Why are you still asleep," he demanded, looking down at his daughter within her bed.
Doyle was grinding his teeth as he looked down at his daughter. "I will spare her life, if you want me to. But I will kill everyone of Frank's men, including Frank. No one touches a member of my family like that and stays unpunished! I will kill them all! They all deserve to die." He said, pure anger in his voice. "And I'll do it soon. I'll surprise them with my men when no one is expecting it."
Jane looked up at her Dad drowsily. "Morning Pops..." She whispered and closed her eyes again, snuggling into her pillow. "I couldn't sleep all night." She whispered.
"Yesterday...I saw Maura at the club and she...broke down..and so the ambulance took her to the hospital and...it turned out she was pregnant, Pops. Joe had made her pregnant, but she had a miscarriage. And...now..everyone is so mad and I'm scared something is going to happen." Jane whispered and opened her eyes again, to look at her Dad.
Maura still did not look at her farther and just held herself tight. A few tears fell down her cheek. "Dad...we need to make sure that all the kids are away from the estate before we attack. We can't take any chances...same goes for any of the females that are not a part of his men," Stephen said, looking from his father to Maura and back again.
Frank stared at his daughter for a long moment before he would grab her up and then toss her a bag. "Pack what you can fit into this bag and have Henry take you away from here. I need you out within the hour. Jane, do you hear me? Within the hour. No excuses," he said and then left the room to get things together and to get all of his men prepared for a possible attack within the next several hours.
Doyle looked down at his daughter again. "We'll attack today. We won't shoot at kids or females but if it happens by accident then its Collateral Damage. I am not going to wait any longer!" He said determined. "I'm gonna get ready for the attack." he said, leaned down, kissing Maura's cheek and then left the hospital room.
Jane stood in her room flabbergasted and didn't move at first, but then she started to stuff clothes in her bag and two books, one of them was a photo album. Jane got dressed quickly and then rushed downstairs.
"But Pops, please come with me. I don't want anything happen to you. What would I do without you?" Jane asked him. "Please, please come with me." The brunette begged.
"I will not come with you. The most important thing is for you to be safe. I have to defend what I have created. That is the second most important thing," he said, looking down at his daughter.
He almost smiled...Jane saw that and then his face was blank once again. He started to touch his daughter's face but stopped himself. "Go...and don't you dare come back...until I send you a message that it is safe," he said in a demanding tone.
Maura flinched as her father had kissed her and as he started to leave the room, she called out to him. Her cries broke his heart. She was his little girl and she had been broken...hurt beyond anything he could have ever imagined...it was worse. She sat up in her bed. The last thing she wanted was to hug him in case he never came back at all.
Jane looked in his eyes as he said that and nodded. "Of course, Pops." The brunette whispered and then she just lunged at him and hugged him, wrapping her arms tight around him. She closed her eyes, smelling his aftershave, enjoying his closeness. "Please take care of yourself." Jane whispered.
Doyle stopped in his tracks when Maura called out for him. He turned around and walked over to her. He took his daughter in his arms and hugged her, kissing her temple softly. "I'll be back, Angel, I promise." He whispered softly.
"OK daddy," Maura purred softly as she trembled within his arms. She always called him daddy. She had since she first started talking. Hearing her use it now, made him realize that she was still just a fragile as she had been as a little girl. The fact that she was 16, didn't make a difference. She was his baby girl.
Frank looked down at his daughter that had her arms around him. He started to touch her back, but again stopped himself. He didn't need to start being warm now...not now...not when he might never see her again. He gently pushed her back. "Go, Jane...go now," he said and Jane heard his voice slightly crack.
He kissed the top of her head once again and looked at Stephen. "You stay here with your sister." He ordered and let go of the blonde. "I see you later, Angel." He said before he left the hospital. Stephen looked after his father and than at Maura. "I've never seen such an anger in his eyes before..."
Jane let go of him as he pushed her gently back and sighed. She kissed his cheek quickly and then picked up her bag from the ground. "I love you Pops." Jane said. It felt like she needed to say it. She was scared of what was going to happen and in case she wouldn't see her Dad ever again.
Maura closed her eyes and hugged him until he let her go. She trembled and watched him leave, sniffing back tears. When her brother spoke to her, Maura's chin just trembled. "He isn't coming back is he..." she said softly.
Frank watched after his daughter and nodded to her as she left. He blinked and was a little taken aback that she uttered the soft words of 'I love you.' Jane got in the car and it was driven off of the estate. He had no idea that that was the last time he would ever see his daughter again.
TBC
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