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LORNA X
ANAS POV
Christians face must mirror mine. He has gone deathly pale and his hands grab his hair, pulling it so hard im sure he's ripped it from the roots.
She mentioned Ava, does that mean Elena has her? No she can't have. Can she?
"Christain call Elliott" I tell him and he pulls his phone from his back pocket but his hands are shaking so much he drops it. On seeing Christian become so unglued Lelia lets out a cakle of a laugh that she soon stops after I back hand her as hard as possible across her cheek
"Keep your fucking mouth shut!" I snarl at her. I walk over to Christain and take the phone from hsi hands and dial Elliotts number. He picks up on the fist ring and I know just by the way he says "Hello" that something is wrong
"Hello?"
"Elliott its Ana"
"Oh Ana" he breaks down in sobs and in the back ground I can hear Kate screaming and crying
"What's wrong El?" I ask but I already know. He starts to tell me but he's crying so hard its difficult to understand him.
"Someone...someone took Ava...we...she was in her room asleep...an..an when Kate checked on her there was a note in her...in her.. crib...I saw her 5 minutes ago so its..jus...just happened"
"What did the note say?
"Its said "I'll be in touch. No police"
"Elliott stay where you are. I'm going to send Ryan over to get you and Kate. We will get her back Elliott I promise you"
"You know who has her don't you?" he gasps
"Yes we do and we have someone here who might know where Ava is"
"Don't bother sending Ryan, Kate and I are on our way" he hangs up and I look at Christian who is now on Taylors phone to Welsh barking orders.
I walk over to where Jason and Luke have Lelia between them. One on each of her arms.
I have never in my life been filled with this much anger. I grab her by the throat and put a bit of pressure on her wind pipe.
"Where is Elena taking her?" I say it calmly because at the minute I have very little hold on my temper.
"I wouldn't tell you even if I knew" she gasps out. The sadist that I didn't even know I had in me comes out and I sink my nails into the flesh on her neck making her yelp.
"If Ava is hurt in any way...any way at all...I'm killing you" I whisper in her ear and by the look on her face, I've scared the bitch. I let go of her throat and walk back over to Christian who is screaming at welsh about CCTV, APB'S, computer Hacking and undercover security.
We can't stay on the beach because people will see us. I tell Taylor and Luke to take Lelia back to the house but then I remember that my baby is in that house and I don't want this skanky Ho polluting the air my daughter breaths so I tell the boys to take her into the garage. It holds 8 cars and at this moment all of our cars are parked on the drive way because Mia bought Phoebe a battery powered Barbie car and Phoebe started crying when Christian made her get out of it because it started to rain, so being the genius I am I told Christian to empty the garage of all the cars so Phoebe could still ride her little car but she would be kept dry.
I grab Christians hand and lead him back towards the house while Taylor and Luke head towards the garage dragging Lelia between them. I make Christian sit down on the sofa And then I pour us both a glass of southern comfort. After he drinks his drink down I take his empty glass, put it on the coffee table and then curl up on his lap. If I know one thing about my husband it's that in times like this he needs to feel me close.
"If anything happens to her I will never forgive myself" he sobs out and let's his tears fall. I link my hands behind his head and try to sooth him.
"We will find her Christian and she will be ok. Elena is a lot of things but I didn't think even she would hurt a little girl...should we go get Phoebe and Gail out of the panic room?"
"No I texted Gail and told her to stay In there tonight"
Our safe room in more like a safe suite. It's basically the whole basement of the house. It has 3 bedrooms 2 bathrooms a living room with TV's, games consuls, a Fully stocked kitchen and a security command centre. Unless you know it's there the door to that suite is hidden. When you first walk down to the basement it just looks like a wall of wine bottles but if you push the bottle that we drank at our wedding it hits a button and the whole wall slides a foot to the right letting you slip through the gap and then into the safe room. I'm glad Phoebe will be safe in there and she loves Gail so I know she will be ok.
I hold Christian for another five minutes before we hear the front door open and Elliott walks in and he's practically carrying Kate. Both of them have red eyes and Elliott looks like he has pulled half his hair out. When Christian sees them he gently moves me off of him and stands up and takes Kate from Elliott's arms and wraps her in his where she cries like a baby. I look at Elliott and his bottom lip is stuck out because he's trying hard not to cry but when he looks at me he breaks. I walk to him and just hold him while he cries in my neck.
I lead him over to the sofa and Christian leads Kate and they cling to each other. Kate looks at Christian with her green eyes so swollen from crying I'm surprised she can even see.
"Who...who has my baby Christian?" She stutters out and Christian sits down beside her and takes her hands.
He tells them everything he knows and then Elliott interrupts him
"Wait just wait a minute.,are you telling me that you were one of Elena Lincoln's whipping boys?"
"Well I was her submissive but, yes, I suppose whipping boy is an accurate statement" Christian looks ashamed to admit it.
"Holy fuck bro...if I had known I would have killed that fucking bitch" Elliott spits out and then turns his attention to me "Ana you said that there was someone here who might know where Ava is?"
"One of Christians ex submissive attacked me today down on the beach. She was rambling about how Elena now had something to leverage and then she asked him how his niece is and that's when we realised that she may of had Ava"
"Where is this ex sub now?" Elliott asks
"In the garage with Taylor and Sawyer being interrogated" Christian says but before the last word has left his mouth Kate is up and heading to the door. We all follow her as she marches across the driveway and in to the garages.
Lelia is in the middle of the building tied to a chair and Taylor is screaming in her face but she looks like she is in a daze because it's not fazing her at all that a six foot three ex marine is about a second away from strangling her. When Luke sees us all come in he clears his throat and Taylor backs away from her chair.
Christian, Elliott and I stand about ten feet from her but Kate walks straight towards her and as hard as she can she kicks Lelia right in the jaw, causing her chair to fall over. Kate the proceeds to take off one of her high heels and straddles her chest. She entwines her hand in Lelia's hair and then leans down so there is only about an inch between their faces.
"You better listen and listen good...I'm am giving you one minute..count it ONE...to tell me where that syco bitch has my daughter other wise I am going to jam this heel so far in to your eye socket it's gonna touch your brain...now...where is my daughter?" Fuck! Angry Kate is scary Kate! When Lelia doesn't say anything Kate slaps her hard across the face making her whimper
"You have ten seconds! 9..., 8...7...6...5...4...3"
"OKAY! Ok I'll tell you" Lelia screams and Kate gets off of her and then picks Lelia up by her hair until the chairs feet are now back on the ground.
"Start talking" Kate snarls at her making us all flinch. For the first time I see Lelia for what she is. Another one of Elena's victims. If it wasn't for the fact that she may know where Ava is I would feel sorry for her but at the moment my our main concern is Ava, not Lelia's feelings.
"I...I didn't know she was going to use the little girl until an hour ago. She told me I had to distract you and mast...errr Mr Grey long enough for her to be able to grab the child and not have to worry about security being alerted...I don't know where she has Taken her too I swear it" Lelia starts crying and she looks pitiful.
"She must have said something? Mentioned something? Think Lelia!" Christian is pleading with her. Having never seen Christian like this before shocks Lelia and she sits up a little straightener in her chair.
"I don't know...she's crazy...I over heard her talking to herself and she just kept mumbling about the one place where The city of Troy and Atlantis and the city of gold meet...those places are not even real" Kate Elliott and Christian all look defeated but I am frozen to the spot.
I know where she means
"Holy fuck I know where she's talking about...Lincs Cabin...well my cabin...Lincoln had this thing about this artist that painted mythical things...he bought a job lot of paintings and in the bedroom of the cabin he had three paintings hung on the roof above the bed. One of the city if Troy, one of Atlantis and one of the Mayan city of gold...that has to be where she means" I know in my gut I am right.
"Taylor, lock her in that storage room and keep her tied to the chair. Call Welsh and get a team down to that cabin. I'll take Elliott and the girls with me Now. Call Gail and make sure she is still ok in the safe room with Phoebe. We will take Ana's Bentley you follow us behind when you get that thing secured" he points at Lelia and then we head out of the garage. Christian runs to get the car keys and I run to the safe In the library where I keep my gun.
Christian hates the fact that I have a firearm but Ray taught me to shoot when I was 8 years old and I'm with the whole, guns don't kill people, people kill people thing.
We jump into the Bentley SUV that Christian bought me with Christian driving with me riding shotgun and Kate and Elliott in the back.
When we are ten minutes from the cabin Taylor calls to say that he has Ryan standing guard outside the storage room Lelia is being held in and him and Sawyer are about twenty minutes behind us and Welsh and his team about ten minutes behind them.
When I see the familiar landmarks surround the roads leading to the cabin my stomach starts to flip. I hate this place. I have about a million memory's of this place and I can only think of 2 good ones. One was the time Lincoln bought me tickets to a Seahawks game and for the full two days he was with me he didn't touch me once. And the second is the day I walked out the front door for the last time before I left for college. Even after Linc and I ended our relationship, for want of a better word, he let me stay in the cabin because I had no where else to go but even though we had finished, every night I fell asleep here I couldn't help but think it was a cruel joke and I would wake up with a hand over my mouth, which is something he loved to do.
I bury the overwhelming urge to be sick and take a couple of big breaths. When we get about a mile from the cabin the built in car phone that hooks up to mine and Christians phone starts ringing and when we look at the screen on the centre console the name that flashes up makes me go cold.
Elena Lincoln.
Christians pulls to the side of the road and tells us all to be quite as he answers the phone. Kate and Elliott look terrified as he connects the call.
"Grey"
"Christian darling, it's good to hear your voice"
"Get to the point Elena! Where is my niece?"
"Now now darling don't shout..,I assure you that me and little Amy are perfectly fine"
"Her name is Ava! Elena, and I swear if you have touched one hair on her head I'll kill you now tell me what you want!" I grab his hands and bring it to my lips in an effort to calm him down, we don't want to antagonise the bitch.
"I want you my dear. I want you to come with me and together we will disappear. You are fooling no one with the vanilla thing Christian. You and I both know that you need more than that little bitch can give you. Come away with me and you will soon forget all about the little brunette and her child because I'm still not convicted the child is yours thank god! You would make a horrible father and we both know it so that is what I want. Leave her and come to me and you can be happy Christian. I made you who you are and I'll be dammed if SHE reaps the benefits of it!"
I look at Christians pained face and I know that Elena's words have hurt him. I pull his head forward and give him a gentle kiss of reassurance. He looks at me and mouths that he is lying. I look at him confused but when he next speaks to her I know why he said it
"Ok Elena I will meet you...you're right...Ana is not what I need...I need the control back in my life...and she doesn't give me that" the whole time he is talking he is shaking his head and squeezing my hand. "I just need to know that Ava is ok before we leave Elena so where are you?"
"I will text you the address in an hour and in the mean time I will take Ava to a friend of mine to look after. When me and you are far away I will tell you where she is" Christian grips the steering wheel to the point where I think he will break it.
"Ok Elena" he grits out "can I please speak to Ava before you take her to your friends?"
"Of course dear hold on" we hear her heels clicking over wooden floors and then a sound that breaks my heart and makes Kate start crying again causing Elliott to cover her mouth in case Elena hears her.
Ava is crying.
"Here you go little girl talk to uncle Christian" we hear a bit of fumbling and then Ava's sweet little voice
"Unk Cwistin?"
"Yeah baby it's me, are you ok?" Tears are falling down Christians face and it's breaking my heart.
"Unck Cwistin come get Aba pease"
"I will sweety I promise I will come get you soon ok"
"Okay unck Cwistin..me no wike this wady"
"Ok that is enough...Christian you have heard her and as you can tell she is fine! One hour and I will call you, be ready" the line goes dead and Christian breaks out in full blown sobs. He snaps out of it almost as fast as he went Into it.
"We need to get into that cabin...If Elena hands her over to her "friend" I don't want to think what will happen" he starts driving to the cabin and when we get about 200 feet away from it he pulls the car over and we all get out.
"Ana you know this place better than anyone, what's the best way for us to get in?" Christian asks me
"The easiest way is the back door. There's a wooded area out back that goes right up to the cabin...you and Kate go through the back...and Elliott you hide in the bush by the front porch...I'll go right up to the front door and holler out to Elena...as soon as you hear me scream for her go through the back door and make a right, that's where the bedroom is. I heard her stomp up stairs on the phone and the only stairs are in the bedroom...I'll distract Elena" I tell them as I pull my gun out of my bag and check the clip
"Anastasia you are not using yourself as bait!"
"Yes I am Christian! We will have one chance at this! One! Get in, get Ava and get out and right now we are wasting time! Let's go" I head off towards the front of the cabin with Elliott but I am pulled in to Christians chest when he grabs my arm. He pulls the back of my hair so my face is tilted up to him and he kisses me.
"Be careful Ana...if anything were to happen to you..." I stroke his cheek and look in his eyes
"I will be ok Christian...let's get our niece and then get back to our daughter and later we can get back to our baby making practice" I kiss him once more and he heads off to the back of the cabin with Kate. I tuck my gun into the back of my jeans and then point to a rather large fir tree that Elliott can hide behind. I stand right in front of the cabin door and wait. I need Elena to be in the living room so it makes it easier for Christian and Kate to get in the back door undetected. Five minutes go by and then I see her.
"ELENA!" I screech and I pray that she comes right out instead of going to Ava. Her head snaps up and she looks shocked to see me. She looks all around and after not seeing anyone with me she opens the front door.
With a gun pointed right at my head.
"Well well well little Annie Steele" I know I should not provoke her but I can't help it. I hold my left hand up.
"Actually Elena that's Mrs Cristian Grey to you" I smirk and she goes white.
"He married you?"
"Yep, it was just small only family and friends. The announcement will be in the Times next week. I'll send you a clipping"
Out of the corner of my eye I see Kate run through the trees and in her arms is Ava and I breath a sigh of relief until I realise someone is now missing.
Where's Christian?
"You little bitc..." She's shunted forward with force because Christian has tackled her to the ground from behind. Her gun goes flying and Elliott runs out to help Christian pin her down. She struggles and they roll around a bit but then I see Elena's hand reach out and she finds her fallen gun.
The shot goes off and I hear Elliott howl. She shot him in the leg.
Hearing the shot Christian temporally stops trying to pin her and in that moment she hits him on the temple with the butt of her gun. She stands up, gun in hand and aims at him.
I don't think.
I pull my gun from my jeans and fire off three shots straight in her chest.
She's dead before she hits the ground.
Ding dong the witch is dead