Caught: In a Case (13 page)

“Mom, I am so glad that I found out the truth. When Jackson told me I couldn’t believe it but it makes more sense now. But I can’t understand why they would take me when they didn’t really want me.”

“I don’t know either but I am a so happy to have you now.
I am shocked to hear that you have married so young but from the looks of it you did good, that man is crazy about you. Do you have any plans to go to college?”

“Jackson wants me to do online courses for now
since I graduated from high school. He was able to get them to send me all my final assignments here. I did them last week. I won’t be walking on stage but I will receive my diploma to our home here in the next couple of weeks. Gosh it is so wonderful to meet you. I am happy and sad at the same time. ”

“Is it because you miss them?”

“No, no, no…it’s not that. It’s just that I missed so much of our time together. I have a family I knew nothing about and I wish that we had found each other sooner.”

“Me, too. You are my little princess and you have grown up to be a beautiful young woman. This is the happiest day of my life.
I know that sounds bad since the birth of my children and the marriage to your father but I have my first precious gift returned to me, the feeling is unbelievable. How long are you and Jackson in town for?”

“I am not sure we only
came for his mother’s party last Friday, and then everything got crazy. He doesn’t want to leave until I am better but now that we found each other, I will ask him to stay longer.”

“Of course babe we can stay longer. With everything up in the air here I have to stay at least until it is straightened out.”
Jackson surprised me when they came back so soon but I knew that he had talked to my dad about the imposter. It was clear that he was pissed and Jackson was trying hard not to ruin the mood.

Dinner was a delight I got to enjoy my first dinner with my real family. My little brothers were fun to watch as they talked about everything to me. Thomas left Jackson out of the conversation a lot but he didn’t seem to mind. He was chatting with, Detective Reid, oops I mean my dad. It’s weird but I feel like I belong. I don’t feel the awkwardness that comes from this kind of situation.
“Jackson, Pumpkin, the boys have a baseball game tomorrow if you would like to join us. It’s at 2pm if you can make it.”

“Jackson, can we?” She seemed so excited but I had to be in the office tomorrow, but I couldn’t let her down. I raised her hand to my lips and kissed it gently.

“Tom, I have to work and may have to fly out to Seattle but Elizabeth can come if Milo or Mike goes with her.” The boys were smiling and hooting. After dessert the boys were sent to bed but not before giving their big sister a great big hug and a kiss on the cheek. I liked them, they were not jealous of her one bit; they were almost just as happy as their parents.

“I am sorry babe but that is looking more and more like a possibility.” She pouted until I kissed her pretty lips and told her I would call as often as I could.

We spent the next two hours talking about how we met and how she ended up in the hospital. During that time I had been booted to the chair opposite of the coffee table away from my wife and her parents had been sitting on opposite sides of her on the sofa. They were constantly touching her; they would hold her hand, hug her or kiss her hair.

We left around ten o’clock when Jackson noticed my fatigue, I tried to play it off but he was not buying what I was selling. My mom was an Emergency Medicine doctor and had to work the next two days and would be doing a double at the hospital so I would not be able to see her for the next few days but I would get to see my little brothers and my dad. We were going to the boys’ baseball game and I couldn’t wait to bond with them. I hugged my parents tightly, even with the pain in my arm. I could not control my happiness. I was so excited that I babbled almost the whole way home but Jackson was quite subdued in the car ride back.

We had gotten back and were getting ready to take a shower when I had to ask, “Jackson, am I talking too much, I am sorry.” I didn’t want him to be bored or upset with me.

“Buttercup, no you are not. I know you are excited and happy but I am being selfish right now.”

“What do you mean?”

“I didn’t get to spend time with you alone today and I am feeling jealous. I know this makes me a bad person but I want you all to myself.”

“Jackson, I missed you too, you are not being self
ish. I love you and I love spending time with you, besides sir, we have all night to get reacquainted.” She sashayed her hips removing her clothes as she went into the bathroom; I was right behind her throwing my clothes where ever they landed. This was going to be a night to remember.

The next day I had to make a trip to Seattle or so I told my family and wife.
I was leaving her well protected with my dad, hers and the guys so I was going try and not worry. I would be back in two days but fuck if that didn’t seem like a long time. We had been married for a month now and haven’t spent a night away from her. The Feds had lost that slippery fucker but Duke had kept tabs on his ass and we were headed for him. He had flown back to Seattle, which works perfectly for me. I didn’t lie to her when I said I might have to go. I was getting text messages from my team with concerns. He thought that he could get lost amongst the crowds and that he would not be noticed but he was sorely mistaken. I wasn’t going to kill him myself because I didn’t want that shit to come back to me but the motherfucker would be dead by tonight. I had contacted the fucking mob boss who had refused to take my girl as payment. He would enjoy getting this fucker to pay, with his life, for running away from him with his money but I had one condition I need a few minutes alone with the fuckhead first.

My Jackson had to leave me for the next two days it was going to be a terrible without him, thankfully I had my new families; his and the family that was stolen from me.
I woke to him packing his brief case and a small duffle. He told me he had an emergency meeting in Seattle to square away some issues that had gotten out of control while he was gone plus there was no one there running the office. I missed him already but I had just had a nice talk with my mother and father this morning and it made me feel better. Milo and I had left the house and met my dad and brothers at the playing field in their town. The little Patriots, my brothers’ team were playing against the Mariners how funny. I gave them a hug and told them I to kick ass and sat next to my dad while Milo stayed near the end of the stands. “Hey Pumpkin, I am glad you could make it, I was surprised that he let you out with him so far away.” I felt sad at the loss of Jackson’s presence for the next few days, this sucked. My loneliness must be etched on my face because my father patted my head and said, “I know you miss your guy. At first I was skeptical because of the age difference but it quite clear the boy has it bad for you. I love you my baby girl.” I smiled and gave him a tight squeeze on the arm I had wrapped myself around.

After the game, we were going to celebrate the boys win at the local pizza place. Before we left the stands we were surrounded by a lot of my dad’s friends and co-workers. Word had spread like wildfire that they had found me after all these years, lots of women had tears in their eyes and everyone was welcoming. Everybody that stopped to talk said I looked just like my mother, I felt so welcomed. I called my mom just to say hello, it was nice to talk to her briefly before she had to run.

I was in a warehouse owned by the mob boss Tony Franchetti. “Blake you have ten minutes with that fuck to get your answers but he is mine after that.” We shook on it, I had never gotten my hands dirty before but fuck it, this was my wife and that bastard in there was planning to destroy all that was good in her.

“Hey prick wake up!” They sedated the bastard because they were saving the beating for me.
I kicked the fuck in the shins, he grimaced his ass awake. He looked like a fucking crack head. Life was not good to him in Vegas I guess or was it the last few days knowing that he was being hunted by the Feds and the mob but hell if I gave a fuck. “You brought me here? What the fuck will my daughter say when she finds out her lover kidnapped her father?”

“First
don’t ever call my wife that again; you do not deserve the right to be considered her father. She isn’t going to find out that I was asked to come and talk to you after I gave your whereabouts up. Her real father in Maine said to give you this.” I big booted his balls, he yelled so loud that I thought the room would fill up with these thugs by now but I guess they expected he would be screaming now that I got my hands on the fuck. “Now you filthy piece of shit what was this whole blackmail bullshit about.” I wanted nothing more than to kill this piece of crap. He had done damage to so many people, namely my girl and her family. He wasn’t worth the air he breathed, but I needed to know who all the players were so I could eliminate the threat.

“Go fuck yourself.”
The bastard, I just laughed at his ridiculous ass.

“Really?” I belted that prick right in his face and started wailing on his ass. The thug
s that had been standing outside the door busted in and pulled me away before I ended the fucking excuse for a human being. “I am cool you can let me go.” They released me, “Law man remember don’t kill the fuck, we want him alive and you need to avoid going to prison for him.” They stayed in the room by the door. I guess they were afraid I would murder the fuck before they got the chance.

“Shall I continue or will you?”
I approached him with hatred in my eyes that had him praying they would just take him out and away from me. He nodded and when the fucker finally caught his breath he started from the beginning. He was running illegal prostitution ring with his wife but his habits got a little too expensive. He owed money, a lot more than he was making. He had taken out a loan from Franchetti when they first started this shit and had no way of making it up that’s why he offered Elizabeth to him. When Franchetti had turned him down he went to the mayor, who had been a regular customer and had been pressuring them because he wanted in on the take. The mayor could not have such large amounts transferred without leaving a paper trail and adding but he told him of a friend in Maine who could lend him the funds if he had ruined two people for him. “Your partner paid us a large sum of money to ruin or kill you both. He preferred that you get arrested for taking underage whores.” I started pacing back and forth while this fucker continued with their convoluted scheme to ruin Caleb, me and my Buttercup. Thompson was to pay that prick to have us caught with underage prostitutes forcing us to pay and then once paid he would still send the information to the police. It was never going to work Thompson knew we liked the ladies but he should have known we would have never paid for a whore much less an underaged one. Fucking Idiot. The mayor would get Elizabeth after all was said and done for setting up the contacts. The mayor was going to pay big time, I wasn’t going to forget this. I know my girl wanted answers so I had to get those too.

“Why the fuck did you kidnap Elizabeth as a baby if you didn’t want her. Don’t tell me you raised her with the sole purpose of selling her cause that shit wouldn’t make sense.”
I sounded calmer than I felt.

“No
, I did it for that bitch of an ex-wife. She wanted the brat and since she didn’t want to have her own she decided she would take someone else’s. It was by chance that we saw the woman go into labor near the hospital. We had one of our security guards nab the baby in the middle of the night. It was too easy; the security was not very good.” He smiled, the nerve of him, that act destroyed so many people. I jumped at the prick and he flinched and it was clear I had him pissing in his pants by the puddle forming on the ground.

“Continue.”

“
I should have known that selfish whore wasn’t mother material but I did it anyway and when the skank ran out on us, she paid. I found that bitch and made quick work of her body. No more Molly. I kept her to make me look good in the community; nobody would turn down business when you are a single father and the women, they put out. When I met Laney we had plans to get Elizabeth in the ring as one of the girls.” I was trying to control the rage festering inside, I needed him to finish.

“
We thought it best to keep her looking forward to going to school and letting all her friends know she was leaving soon so it wouldn’t be noticeable when she didn’t return to us. Richards wanted her virginity and it was going according to plan then she met the football player. I nipped their alone time to save her for the deal. She was useful up until she met you. Then the bitch…” I laid his ass out. I didn’t need anything else from the fuck. Thankfully I had gotten it all on tape; I wanted to nail the mayor. Of course I only started it when he told his tale, the less of my involvement the better.

I had only made it to my car with Duke when I heard a single gunshot. Goodbye you bastard.

I cleaned up and went into the office. Thankfully we handled that nasty business before sunrise, I had shit to do and I was meeting with the Feds today about Homan and the Mayor.

The meeting with them had been two hours long and it was clear Reid did his job of giving them just what they needed to know.
They had raided the brothel and were able to take some of the ladies back to their families while others were taken to local safe houses until something could be done with their situations. Several of the girls the rescued were pregnant, from the description of the man who impregnated sounded like the mayor. It seems Richards had a fetish, one that he was going to pay big time for; his wife seemed to be unaware of his proclivities, but they were about to be out in the open. They told me that they didn’t need to talk to Elizabeth about Homan because they had all the evidence they needed to prosecute him but I knew that he would never make it to trial. I was given a pat on the back with a thank you and a ‘congratulations on my marriage’ as they left.

I had called Elizabeth numerous times since I left, hearing her voice made my day brighter; I couldn’t wait to get back to her. I had an idea that I hoped to set into motion that may make all of us happy but first I would have to meet with Caleb.
When I got home I was welcomed by my parents only. “Where is Elizabeth?” She should have been here she knew when my flight was landing.

“She is laying down Jackson.” Uh oh what the hell was she sick again
, no.

“What’s wrong did you call a doctor?”

“She is fine Jackson she is just tired.”

“Too tired to greet her husband I don’t believe
it, something is wrong.” I didn’t wait to hear what else they had to say, I didn’t even notice that my in-laws were in the same room. I reached our bedroom and practically took the door from hinges, that frightened her awake. “Oh my baby, are you not feeling well? Did you see a doctor? Why didn’t you tell me when I talked to you?”

She was smiling probably thinking I am losing my shit, well I was
, she was my world and I couldn’t stand to see her sick. She nearly died on me; I live with that memory every day.

“Jackson, I did see a doctor, no I am not sick,
but I am pregnant.” The whole house was alerted that I received the news because my joy was shouted out the roof tops.