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Chapter 34

Rikki's POV

I woke up in Zane's arms. I climbed out and got changed. I needed some food. I ate some scrambled eggs and went to the beach. I stared at the ocean and tried to think of where they would keep my daughter. She was put in her new room. Where would that be? Maybe they're back at the old base for their group.

I dived into the ocean and swam to Mako Island. I dried myself off and headed for their abandond base, at least, I hope it still is abandoned. Well, if they were there, it would save me a bunch of trouble. I would be able to find her then. Denmen, Sophie, and Charlotte are going to pay.

I reached the base and looked in a window. I saw nothing. I walked through the doors and looked around. No one was here. Why couldn't they be here? I just wish that I could have seen her face. Would she look more like me or more like Zane? Or will her face be both mine and Zane's equally.

I sat on the floor and pulled my legs into my stomach. I really should get home.

"Help," someone whispered.

Am I going crazy?

"Please, someone help me." I know I heard that. I got up and walked toward the voice. I saw a body lying limply in the middle of the room.

"Are you okay?" I asked her.

She didn't answer. I walked toward her and kneeled on the ground next to her. I checked for a pulse, but there was none. I looked at the face for the first time and didn't believe what I saw.

"Miriam!" I said in shock. Yeah, I hate her, but she didn't deserve to die. I wonder what happened. I looked at her stomach and saw a knife in her stomach and then another through her heart.

"Oh my god!" I stood up and saw that I was in a puddle of blood. I ran out of the room and threw up.

"Why was she killed?" I asked myself. I ran out of the base and ran to the moon pool and dove into the water. That was horrifying. I usually wouldn't be disgusted, but I was a little crazy since I just had a baby.

I swam back to the beach and dried myself off. I ran back into the house and saw a pacing, worried Zane.

"Zane, why are you pacing?" I asked him.

"There you are. What the hell were you thinking? Leaving after we only just got you back!" he said to me.

"I looked for her. I looked at their old base, I didn't find her, but I found something else."

"What? Any clue of where our daughter is?" he asked me.

"No, but I did find someone dead."

"Who? Was it someone we know?"

"Yes," I said and I looked at the floor. How would he react to a dead Miriam?

"Who?" he repeated.

"Miriam," I said.

He looked at me and ran his hand through his hair.

"Are you sure it was Miriam?" Zane asked me.

"I'm sure. She had a knife in her stomach and in her heart."

"Oh my god, I need to call her parents." He grabbed his phone and left the room to talk to Miriam's parents.

I walked into the kitchen and grabbed a rice krispy treat. I was starving. I've been at Mako all day.

"Her parent want to see the body and make sure that it's Miriam's," Zane said as he came into the room.

"So, I'm just supposed to bring them to Mako and to the base and not explain why that building is there or how I knew about it?" I said to Zane.

"I don't know, I can't just leave her body there and her parents worrying."

"I can," I said. "We have more important things to worry about."

"Like what?" he asked me.

"Like finding our daughter! Do you even care that she is with Denemn and could be hurting or experimenting on her?" I screamed.

"Of course I care!"

"Then why aren't you looking for her? Why are you worrying about someone who is dead instead of your daughter who is still alive?"

He just looked at me with tears in his eyes.

"What, no answer?" I asked him.

"What do you want me to say?"

"I want you to say that you're going to go out there and look four our daughter."

"We don't know where she is."

"We could figure it out! Stop making excuses!" Ugh, he is so frustrating!

"How can we figure it out Rikki?"

"I was there. They bought me to the moon pool from the base. It can't be that far. I was pregnant when they did that, so I was pretty heavy."

"So? What do you want to do? Search every inch of Mako."

"Yes, I'm willing to do that for our daughter. Are you?"

"Of course I am, Rikki," he said. I didn't believe him.

I walked out of the kitchen and went to my bedroom. I pulled out a duffel bag and packed some clothes.

"What are you doing?" he asked me.

"I'm staying at Emma's tonight."

Bella came into the room. She slept like the entire day. She was searching for me and my daughter.

"What's going on?" she asked us.

"Nothing," Zane said.

"Nothing, really? Fighting over how to find our daughter is nothing?" I asked him.

"That's not what I meant and you know it."

"No, I don't." I grabbed my bag and my cell and headed for the door.

"Rikki, wait!" Bella shouted. She ran to me and grabbed her phone. I went out the door and she followed.

"What happened?" she asked me.

"I don't want to talk about it," I said to her.

"You have to talk about it sometime. How else are you going to get your daughter back?"

"By myself and I'll do it my own way. With the help of my fellow mermaids." I looked at her with hope. She nodded. "Thanks, you're the best."

We walked to Emma's house and I knocked on her door. Emma opened it and saw us there. She looked at my bag and looked confused.

"Rikki, what's going on?" she asked me.