Chapter 119


    Something was wrong, I could feel it in my bones. The movie was about to start and my wife was still


    nowhere to be seen. I had been waiting outside the bathroom for her and it had been almost twenty or


    so odd minutes.


    “Hey, Damon.” Gabriel came out of the theater dressed in his suit. “Where is Adide? We need to


    give the speeches and everyone is waiting for her.”


    I looked at the bathroom door and then back at him. “She went in there a little bit ago and she hasn’t


    come out.”


    The logical thing would have been to get another female toe and go inside but when it came to


    Adie there was no real logical side to me. And when I smelled danger I just moved on pure and utter


    instinct.


    “Screw it.” I grabbed the door and walked inside. No one had been in after Adie came in so I knew for


    the most part that it was all clear. “Adide? Adide?”


    1 pushed every single stall door open searching for my wife but I came up with nothing. How is it


    possible that she was not in here? I had been standing right by the door and I would have known if she


    hade out. Immediately, rm bells went off in my head. Something wasn’t right.


    I looked down on the floor, and that’s when I saw her bag, all the contents inside it were sprawled all


    over the floor. That’s when I knew. Someone had taken her and I would bet my entire fortune on it


    being two people.


    “Did you find her?” It was then that I remembered that Gabriel was standing outside the bathroom


    waiting for me.


    I picked up my wife’s clutch and put all the contents that she had left behind inside. I then stormed out


    of the bathroom, breezing past Gabriel like a man on a mission. Someone had taken my wife and I


    knew that it either had to be Ang or my psychotic, idiotic brother who for some reason had not


    learned his lesson thest time around. I had warned him that if he was to ever cross me or my family


    again that it would mean the end of him and I guess that he didn’t value his life at all. “Hey! Where are


    you going?” Gabriel ran after me but I didn’t slow down. “Are you listening to me? Everyone is still


    waiting for Adide toe through. Is she sick? What should I tell the others?”


    I looked over my shoulder at him. “Some idiot has made the stupid mistake of taking my wife and now I


    need to go find her.”


    “Wait a minute, what do you mean that someone has taken Adide?”


    1 came to an abrupt halt, and then I slowly turned to face the pretty boy actor.


    “It seems to me that you are a little slow there, Gabriel. So let me spell this out for you. My wife has


    been kidnapped by some stupid and psychotic fool and now I’m going to go and rescue her. Is that


    enough rification for you?”


    He just stood there lookingpletely and utterly shocked, but I couldn’t me the man. I had just told


    him that my wife was kidnapped and that I was going to find her. He probably thought that I was joking


    about thest part, but to be quite honest with you, if my brother truly was involved then there would be


    some blood spilled if a single hair on my wife’s head had been harmed.


    My anger was only elevated more by the simple fact that my wife was with child. Again. And


    considering what happened to ourst baby, I would do damn near anything to make sure that both my


    wife and our unborn child made it out of this alive. “So are you going to go to the police?”


    “There is no need for the police to get involved, I will handle all of this by myself. You just go back


    inside there and tell everyone that my wife has fallen ill and she will not be able to attend.”


    Thankfully he didn’t make much of a fuss afterward. He simply nodded his head and made his way


    back into the theater. I took my phone out of my pocket and dialed her sister’s number.


    “Hello?”


    “They have Adide. I’m going to need you to make a call to your ex-husband.”


    I just knew that my brother had a part to y in this. And I knew that the one person he would talk to


    would be my sister-inw. There was this sick and almost twisted connection that he had to her. And


    after the divorce and all that she had told us had happened between the two of them in thewyer’s


    building, I knew that he was not above trying something like this. The unfortunate thing for him was that


    when it came to my wife and my child I was not above killing my own blood. When I ended the call with


    Corinna, I dialed a number that I had not thought of dialing for years. He told me to only ever use this


    number when it was a life-or-death situation and this seemed to fit that description.


    “Damon,” hearing his voice after what seemed to be decades felt so strange. “To what do I owe the


    pleasure?”


    “We’re going on a manhunt, Stephen.”


    there was a long pause on the other side of the line. I knew that he hadn’t hung up. He knew that I


    would only reach out to him if the situation absolutely called for it.


    “My kind of fun.”


    When I got home I found Corinna in tears as she stared at her phone with Daniel by her side. When


    she heard me in the living room she lifted her head, her eyes bloodshot and hershes wet from her


    tears. Immediately my stomach dropped, my mind went to the worst possible ce, and suddenly I felt


    so overexposed and vulnerable.


    “You should see this,” her voice was barely above a whisper and it sounded so broken and defeated.


    She handed me the phone and had half expected to see Adide’s dead bodyying there with blood


    pooling out of it. But instead, I was met with a picture of her lying unconscious in the back of a car with


    one singr text at the bottom of the picture.


    “If you want to see her alive you will have to pay the price. Ciao, big brother’.


    It took everything I had inside of me not to throw the phone across the room and smash it against the


    wall. Now that it had been fully confirmed that my brother was indeed behind the kidnapping of my wife


    my fury reached a new level.


    He was a dead man walking and I hope that he knew that when I got my hands on him he would not


    live to see the light of day


    “Did you speak to him at all?”


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    “He wouldn’t take my calls but he did send that message when I told him that whatever he was doing


    he needed to stop.” She sniffed, wiping away the tears that continued to leak from her eyes. Daniel


    remained at her side silently offering the little support that he could give


    My brother had truly lost his mind. He was holding my wife hostage and wanted me to pay up a


    ransom. He was low but I never knew that he was this low.


    If he wanted to wage war then so be it. But I was done using guns. I was going to go full nuclear on my


    brother. He was going to regret the very day that he was born.


    Just as that thought passed through my head, I got a message from Stephen telling me that he was


    one hour from touching


    down.


    “Oh Ashton, you stupid fool. You don’t know what you just started.


    I’ming, baby. I need you to just hold on and stay strong for me.