*~Unforgiven~*

"Todd, I can't talk about this now. You need to give me time. Time to think," Marty stated. "Please, I need you to leave."

"I am not leaving until you talk to me," Todd said as he crossed his arms over his chest and stood his ground.

"Todd, please come back tomorrow... after you've cleaned up and had a shave. That way you can come back and properly meet our daughter."

Staring at her with a dark scowl, Todd reluctantly agreed. With fury seething inside him, Todd left. "I'll be back, Marty," he said as he walked away.

As Marty watched him leaving, she breathed a sigh of relief. She had dodged the bullet one more day. But tomorrow Todd would be back and he would demand answers, and she had no clue how she would give them to him. She didn't have the strength to deal with him right now. After Todd was no where in sight, she went inside the house to talk to Jason.

*~o~*

In a nearby hotel room, Todd showered and made himself presentable. Tomorrow he'd go to see his daughter and he would demand answers from Marty. "You better be able to give them to me," Todd said as he clenched his fists.

In his heart, he was desperate to get Marty back. She was his. She didn't belong to Jason. He needed to have Marty and Cassandra with HIM. The three of them were a family. There was no room for Jason Webb. Webb was a dark stain upon their lives that Todd wanted to eliminate. At that point, Todd didn't really care what he had to do; he just wanted the woman he loved back in his life. He was out of prison... and he couldn't even hold her; she was married to another man.

"You're going to regret that, Marty. You're going to regret that very much," Todd spoke under his breath.

With his motives dark and twisted, Todd began to plan an abduction. If Marty wouldn't go with him willingly, he'd abduct her. He'd make her see the light. "You're mine, Marty. MINE," he hissed. He decided if he kidnapped Marty, he could make her realize that she still loved him.

As he lay there on his bed in the lonely hotel, Todd formed his wicked plan. Very soon, it would set it into motion. "I will never forgive you, Marty," he muttered. "For giving what was mine to another while I was in prison. You're going to be sorry for that... VERY sorry."