Chapter 72: Send My Love To Your New Lover Part 1

"Skyfall is where we start

A thousand miles and poles apart

Where worlds collide and days are dark

You may have my number, you can take my name

But you'll never have my heart."

Adele - Skyfall

Chapter 34 - Send My Love To Your New Lover

**(Lizzie)**

*2 weeks later.*

The lack of information is driving John completely crazy, it's beyond crazy in fact, he's turning into Gollum, obsessed with something that's been taken from him. He's turning the shadow of the man he was before the kidnapping. His beard is big and uneven, John is thinner, his eyes are deep, and he smells like whiskey most of the day.

Tessa, Debbie and I are taking the magazine the way we can. The February issue came out and blew up on newsstands, as did the magazine with Marilyn on the cover. I think about how happy my friend would be seeing the success her cover was making. I sigh deeply, the smell of myrrh soothes me as does the familiar aroma of saffron.

I'm in an Indian restaurant along with my sister, Kath, and my niece, Emilly. They came to visit me and shop for my sister's wedding, I'm so happy to help her and be a part of something so important.

"Auntie, I know one thing and I'm not going to tell you." The little speech, pulling me out of my thoughts.

"What do you know that I don't know?" I ask laughing looking at my sister.

"Uncle Patrick talked about you, but I won't tell you.

"Lin, shut up that girl, gossipy girl, I'll cut off your tongue for you to learn." My sister speaks, slapping the girl.

"Don't hit her, Kath." I speak beating my sister. "Let Emilly speak, what did Patrick say? If you tell me, I'll buy you a giant gummy bear.

"Uncle Patrick said he's going to buy u.... Kath covers the child's mouth before she can finish speaking, I move on to my sister, trying to get my hand out of the girl's mouth.

"Kath, let her talk.

"Lizzie, no, Patrick asked not to tell you, respect that." My sister speaks looking at me seriously, taking away the hand that covers the girl's mouth.

" Ring, he's going to buy a ring! " Lisbeth screams making my sister slap her head making the girl cry.

"Gossip of a fig, you'll see, I want to see if Jully will take you to Clarice's party." My sister speaks, looking angrily at the little one, I take my niece in my lap and line her up kissing her head while I scowl at my sister.

"Let's see what Mommy will think of you hitting her." I speak picking up the phone at the exact moment it starts to vibrate, Tessa's picture appears on the iPhone screen, I slide the answer button to green and bring the phone to my ear. "Hi, Tess, are you alright?

"Nora, Nora from heaven, you have to come here now." Tessa speaks in a hysterical voice. "She's home, fuck, she's here!

"Tessa, calm down, go where? Who's there?

" Ella, Ella is back, she's here! " My friend says screaming, I also start screaming. "Come soon, fuck! We're waiting for you.

"I'll be there in ten minutes." I speak by putting my niece in her place before grabbing my purse, wallet, and car keys. "Kath, we have to go now, Ella is back, she's home and I have to go there now." I throw my phone in my purse while calling a waiter and hand over a hundred-dollar bill, which pays the bill and guarantees a great tip. I grab my stuff and get up.

We leave the restaurant almost running, I get in my car and head to my friends' house. Ella is back, all I can want right now is to hug my sister from the heart.

**Tessa**

I am totally exhausted, more than exhausted, I am finished, dead and buried. Ella's kidnapping is killing me.

Clint is a pile of nerves, doesn't sleep well, and lives at the base of the café. He contacted friends in the army who promised to help him find his sister, but so far neither they, nor the police and detectives John hired have found anything that leads to Marilyn.

John is another, in two weeks he languished, the strong, handsome man turned into a bearded shade with a whiskey smell. He hasn't slept properly in days.

Ella's parents are living with John, they, like their daughter's fiancé, are languishing away. Today, as on another ordinary day, I'm working in the dining room while the rest of the staff are in the living room watching tv, Lizzie is having lunch with her sister, Debbie has gone to a doctor's appointment.

I'm so distracted that I don't even hear the elevator beep or Miranda enter the room, when I see it, my friend is putting the baby seat on a chair in front of me and bags of food on the table. Miranda's daughter was born a week ago, stress advanced the delivery of the girl, the girl was supposed to be born at the end of the month, but ended up arriving in the first week of February.

"You need to eat, you can't get everyone trapped in the fortress of solitude on hunger strike." Miranda says trying to smile, her eyes are as deep as mine, she must have cried the past few days too. It's been really painful for all of us.

" Is that smell of Peking duck? " I ask seeing the bags of the Shanghai Palace. I close the computer and start arranging the food on the table while Miranda grabs plates and cutlery. As