Chapter 41 Chapter Forty One

Chapter 41 Chapter Forty One
Carson came to an abrupt stop in front of the huge building. This wasn’t where he expected to end up. “Audrey, are you sure this is the place?” he spoke into his Bluetooth.

“That’s where the car GPS says it is.”

Unsure, “Audrey, it’s a hospital?” getting out of the car and running inside.

She checked the address again. “The same hospital Daniel is in. He is on the fifth floor.”

Carson got into the elevator, impatiently tapping his foot as it crawled up the floors. Once the doors opened, he jumped out. He didn’t have to run far before he bumped into Richard.

“What are you doing here Carson?”

“Where is Gwen and why is her phone off?”

Richard raised his brow at him, “What’s the problem?”

“Someone took Ellie and dropped off Stacey-Ann. It was an exchange and Gwen was there!” With every word he uttered, Carson’s anger rose.

Richard shook his head shocked, “That’s impossible!”

“Why because she’s an FBI agent?”

“No. Because she’s been here searching the hospital for Ellie like you asked. She hasn’t left the building since we got here.”

Carson shook his head in denial. He couldn’t have hit a dead end, “The GPS tracker says Ellie is here!”

“Carson, I found the car. Fourth parking level, C2, second row and the third spot!” Audrey’s urgent voice sailed into his ear.

He ran for the stairway with Richard behind him, barking orders into his phone. Carson pulled out his gun once he got to the door exiting to the fourth parking level. He held it to his side as he ran out. When he got to C2 he held his gun up and he could hear his heart beating loudly in his ear, all the other noises muted.

“Carson, take cover. There is someone in the car.”

Against Richard’s loud orders, Carson headed straight for the car, his gun aimed at the driver. When the driver turned to look at him, his eyes grew wide in shock, Carson yanked open the door and pulled him out by his neck.

“Where is my wife?”

“I don’t know what you are talking about?” The man stuttered, his eyes glued on the nine millimeter gun.

He placed the mouth of the gun on the man’s shoulder, making him whimper. “I’m going to ask you one more time before I start putting holes in you! Where. Is. My. Wife?”

“Carson, that’s enough!” Richard yelled.

The man’s face creased up as he cried, fear written in his eyes, “I swear, it was a onetime thing! I’ll never touch her again.”

Carson felt his heart leap, “So where is she?”

A woman’s scream rang out. Carson turned to look. She had her shaking hands over her mouth, as her bulging eyes stared at him.

The man cried pointing at her. “There she is! I swear never again!”

Richard pulled Carson off him, “I’m sorry sir. You are not the one we are looking for.”

Once he was released, he ran, leaving the woman behind and passing a smiling Gwen.

Carson yanked his arm out of Richard’s hold and barked into his receiver, “Audrey this isn’t the car!”

“I figured as much when that guy started crying.”

Carson felt his heart drop. He couldn’t have failed again. “Audrey!”

Audrey flinched at the fury, as he spoke her name. She went back to her keyboard more frantic. “The GPS of the kidnappers is still in tack they just hid behind that guy’s signal.” She cheered when the real signal popped up, “I have an address for you babe!”

Carson ran for the stairway, “It better be the right one!”



Ellie walked into the warehouse wishing there was some way she could have let Dale know where she was. “What do you want?”

The woman pulled the red wig off, “I want nothing from you.”

“Then why did you bring me here?”

The bodyguard emerged, pushing a table. He stopped in front of her and gave her a smile, “Hello Mrs. Carson.”

“Joe, my sister is getting you the money.”

He chuckled, “Of course she is. Help me Jane.”

“With what?” Ellie demanded, panic rising fast inside her. She watched as they spread a sheet of clear plastic over the steel table and then they laid out a blue sheet over it. She felt her chest tighten, “What are you doing?”

Jane glanced at her, before she opened the bag, “Preparing.”

“For what?”

She pulled out a scalpel, “For your C-section.”

Ellie backed away from the table, her breath getting shorter with each step. “What do you mean my c-section? I’m not having a c-section!”

Jane stalked to her, taunting her with the scalpel. “According to your last ultra sound, the baby hasn’t turned yet. I really want your baby to be born alive so, cutting you open is the only choice we have.”

“Is this a joke?” She whispered, tears trickling down her face.

“Now why would I joke about something like this?”

Joe moved to her, grabbing her arms from the back and pushing her forward. “We have a schedule to keep Jane. We don’t have time for chatter.”

Ellie tried to wiggle out of his hold, “No, please wait! He is not ready yet! He’ll die if you take him out now, please!”

Jane moved to a white tarp and pulled it off, exposing an incubator, “We came prepared.”

Joe lifted her and pinned her on the table. He held her down as Jane strapped the plastic restraints on her wrists and ankles. “Relax, it won’t be long now.”

Ellie struggled to pull off the restraints, as she lay on the cold table. There had to be a way out of here. She couldn’t let them kill her son.

“Stop that, it won’t work,” Jane laughed, as she pulled her gloves on.

“Why are you doing this?”

“It’s all about the money sweetheart.”

“I’ll pay you double, I promise, just let me go!”

They looked at her, intrigued by the offer, “Can you double two million dollars?”

Ellie gasped at the revelation. Someone was paying them so much to steal her baby? “Who is paying you?”

“I guess that means no.” He pulled up her top, “Jane lets get started.”

Ellie cried wiggling around. “No, no, no!”

“Shut her up and hold her down Joe! One wrong slip and we won’t get paid!”

“I’ve got something better,” Joe moved to the table and pulled out a syringe. “It will knock her out and she won’t feel a thing.”

“Don’t give her too much of it. The instructions were to keep her awake and alive, so that she can watch us walk out of here, with her bundle of joy.”

“Please no!”

Joe stabbed her with the needle, “Well, next time be careful with who you piss off.”

Within a few seconds, Ellie began to feel drowsy. She felt numb all over, even her lips, but she wasn’t going to let it stop her from screaming for help.

Jane laughed, as she made the first incision, “You sound like a cat!”

Ellie whimpered when she felt the dull pain of the knife slicing through her.