Chapter 38

Andrew smirked at Donna, who was still holding the gun in her hands.

"Well, I'm surprised you showed up here." he told Donna.

"Let Jack go, right now!" Donna shouted at him.

"I'm afraid I can't do that." Andrew said. "You see, I asked you to withdraw $20,000 from your bank account. Where is it?!"

"It's in the briefcase." Donna responded, still holding Andrew at gunpoint. "I've placed it outside the hideout."

"Stay here and don't move!" Andrew snarled at Jack before rushing off to find the briefcase. In reality, Donna fabricated the story on where she hid the money. She just wanted to save Jack unharmed.

"Donna, you can put the gun down now." Jack told her.

Donna started to untie Jack before hugging him.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

"I was a bit scared, but I'm just glad he didn't hurt me." Jack replied.

Hearing footsteps, Donna grabbed the gun as Jack sneaked behind the door. Andrew stormed back inside, his face like a thundercloud.

"YOU LYING BITCH!" Andrew screamed at Donna.

Jack managed to grab a baseball bat and whacked Andrew across the back with it! Andrew let out a painful groan as Jack grabbed some duct tape from the cabinet.

"Hold him down, Donna!" Jack ordered.

Jack started taping Andrew's legs together as Donna pinned him on the ground.

"Don't do this, Jack!" Andrew pleaded. "I'm sorry! Please, I'm very sorry!"

"A bit too late for that, mate!" Jack told him as he tied his hands.

"DONNA, STOP HIM!" Andrew screamed at her.

"How does it feel to be tied up, Andrew?" Donna asked him sarcastically.

"You bitch..."

"Jack, shut him up!" Donna told him.

"With pleasure." Jack smiled before wrapping the tape over Andrew's mouth.

Andrew mumbled and thrashed around angrily as Jack and Donna watched on.

"The police are on the way." Donna told Andrew.

"I just hope they enjoy seeing you in a very compromising position!" Jack laughed.

Senior Constable Janet Walsh and her team soon arrived.

"We'll take it from here, guys." she told them. "Sergeant Barnett, would you take Jack and Donna to Pippa Fletcher's house please?"

"Of course, Senior Constable Walsh." Bob Barnett replied.

Andrew shook his head and groaned through the tape as he was dragged away into the paddy wagon. Donna looked relieved. She had rescued Jack from Andrew's evil clutches.

That night, Jack was resting in his bedroom when he began to think about what Andrew would've done had Donna not rescued him in time. Tiegan was coming out of the bathroom when she saw Jack shake like crazy.

"Jack, are you okay?" Tiegan asked him.

"Tiegan, I thought he was going to abuse me." Jack managed to reply.

Tiegan put her arm around him. He was still shaking in fear.

"Do you want me to get Pippa?"

"No."

Tiegan looked very worried. That Andrew seemed like a real psycho.

"Can you stay with me, Tiegz?" Jack asked her.

"Sure." Tiegan replied.

Jack started to cry. Part of him was relieved to be home, but the most part of him was that he was scared.

"It's okay." Tiegan told him softly.

Jack continued to cry in Tiegan's arms.

"You just let it out." Tiegan said, tightening her embrace.

"Thank you." Jack said, sniffing.

"No worries." she told him.

The next day, Selina decides to spend the day with Stephanie and Tiegan while Irene's doing her shift at the Diner.

"I like your new hair, Sel." Tiegan said.

"Thanks." Selina said.

"What did Irene have to say about you dying your hair?" Stephanie asked.

"Don't ask!" Selina replied, rolling her eyes. "She went off her nut!"

"Jack's very scared." Tiegan said. "I had to comfort him last night."

"Poor guy." Stephanie said in a sympathetic tone. "I hope he'll be okay."

"I'll probably pop around later for a visit." Selina said.

"He's got that meeting with the welfare lady next week over Kerri." Tiegan said.

"About the you-know-what?" Stephanie asked her.

"Yeah." Tiegan replied.

"Have I missed something?" Selina asked them.

"Don't say anything, but Jack got Kerri..."

Realising what Tiegan meant, Selina looked shocked.

"No way!" she said.

"That's right, Selina." Stephanie said. "Jack's going to be a dad."

"Bloody hell." Selina said, still shocked by the news.

When they arrived at the Yabbie Creek Mall, Selina was itching to have a cigarette.

"Can I meet you girls at the food court?" Selina asked them.

"Sure." Stephanie said.

"Sel, is something wrong?" Tiegan asked her.

"No." Selina replied. "I just have to go to the ladies room."

And with that Selina walked away.

"I hope she's not ditching us, Steph." Tiegan said.

"Tiegan, you know Selina's not like that." Stephanie told her.

Meanwhile, Selina was smoking inside the toilet stall of the ladies bathroom. After a while, she got a text message from Jerome.

"Hey babe. I've been thinking about this for a while and I think it's time you came to visit me. I live in a nice house over in Surfers Paradise and I want you to come over one weekend so we can spend time together. I really miss you and it kills me that I can't kiss you or hug you. Call me when you can make travel arrangements.
Love you, babe
xxx" the text message read.

For the first time since Jerome moved to the Gold Coast, Selina managed to smile.

NEXT TIME...
- Selina confides to Stephanie about her new smoking habit, while she makes arrangements to visit Jerome on the Gold Coast.
- Jack has a nightmare about Andrew
- An old friend of Tiegan's arrives in the Bay