Chapter 70

The doctor looked at Lore laying on the floor spoke up, "I'll tell you everything I know."

"Great! You come with me to your office and you guys keep this scum under guard. Watch close and make sure nothing happens to that girl or her baby!" said Clay following the doctor closely.

In the doctor's office, Clay learned that this scam had been going on for quite awhile. Commander James explained, "There were forty-three mothers in all that Lore brought here. He paid me and another doctor, Commander Willis, to deliver them. We used our own nurses and paid them extra. The moment the babies were born, Lore would kill the mothers and moved them to the basement and have their bodies thrown into the furnace. After the first one, he blackmailed us to continue," admitted James.

"Show me the basement!" demanded Clay. Once in the basement, he noticed the furnace was running and had it shut off. He figured it was for the new mother to be. After it had cooled off some, he glanced inside and saw what looked like human bones. "We'll need forensics team down here ASAP!" bellowed Clay.

The ring had been broken, but not soon enough to save all those young girls. Commander James would live the rest of his life in Leavenworth for his testimony. The rest would most likely get the death penalty. Clay headed for Sarah's room to see if she and the baby were safe.

Knocking on the door, AJ opened it a crack to see who was there.

"AJ, are Sarah and the baby safe?" asked Clay.

"Yes! How did the raid go?" asked AJ.

"We got everyone," said Clay. "But I need to take the baby now…"

"No way in hell, Webb!"

"Now listen, AJ, you know that…"

"Clay?" came the call from in the room. AJ stepped back from the door to allow Webb to enter. Clay looked at her holding the baby to her and felt like a heel for what he was about to do.

"I've come for the baby, Sarah."

"Are you crazy? What makes you think that I would give you my baby?" Mac asked giving him a perplexed look.

"Our baby, Webb, you aren't taking OUR baby," AJ stepped to Sarah's side and put his arm around her shoulder.

"Oh god! Clay!" Comprehension to what she thought was happening lit Mac's eyes. She turned her face up to AJ's, "AJ, nothing happened in Paraguay, I swear! Clay, I don't know what you are trying to pull, but this is AJ's daughter, not yours! We were not intimate, AJ! I promise you!"

Webb looked stunned at her words. AJ was stunned too that Sarah would think he was thinking that about her. "Darling, I trust you! I have no doubt that Angela is our daughter and not Clay's. What would make you think that?"

"I just didn't know with the amnesia, if the time frame might have had you thinking that! If you don't think that you are the father, Clay, then why would you have come to take m…our baby away?"

"Yes, Webb…why?" AJ asked, thinking, 'Let the spy get himself out of this one!'

Just then there was a knock on the door and McDonald poked his head in to ask Webb what he wanted done with the people not involved in the scam. Looking relieved, Clay told him that he would be there in a minute, then turned back to Sarah and AJ. "We are breaking up a baby selling ring and the Director had instructed us to make sure that all the babies were matched to the real parents. I was just going to check your baby to her footprints that they took when she was born."

"Oh!" Mac sighed. Looking embarrassed she said, "I'm sorry, Clay, it has been a crazy few days. Angela has been here in the room with me since the first day, I am sure that she is ours. I mean just look at her, she has AJ's eyes."

To be continued….