AUTHOR'S POV

"No!"

Aiden and Dennis bit out at the same time.

Anastasia looked between the both of them, getting even more infuriated. "What do you mean no?"

"Ana, you ca-"

"I am no-"

Each of them began again, speaking over each other.

"I want to hear nothing!" She stopped them with her two palms raised on either side of her. "I'll go by myself, simple!" She finished and grabbed the bag.

It had been over an hour after they received the video. They've successfully raised the money, but they still had no one to take the money to the designated location, because Aiden and Dennis wouldn't be on the same page.

The two men tried to talk her out of it.

Aiden understood Dennis' point of view. It wasn't like he had plenty of money laying around to just give to kidnappers, he just wanted his daughter back. After she was safely in their arms, then they could involve all types of authorities and security. But definitely not at the expense of Amie's safety. "Come on, Ana, we've got this. Just remain here with Justin," he said as his gaze cut to Justin squirming in his court as he curiously watched them.

"No!" Ana wasn't having it. "You've wasted enough time."

Anastasia had tried to be patient, but they've both been arguing for the past thirty minutes.

"Ana, please, we don't know what these people have planned, please, you can't go. Let me go," Dennis pleaded.

Even as both men pleaded, they knew she wouldn't yield. And so as she ignored both of them and made her way outside, the wheels in their heads turned.

Ana opened the car door, then she turned to the two men.

back and let me do this," she told them before she got

muttered to herself as she

there and watched Ana drive out of the driveway. Without a word, Dennis turned around and headed back inside the

He took the

well that Ana needed protection.

so focused on locating the address, failed to notice the car that had trailed behind her for the past thirty minutes. Finally, she drove into the bad deserted

highway and make a turn into what looked like an alley, he knew he would be discovered if he followed her, so he

bag and walked to the front of the uncompleted building, her eyes going from each open window to the next, hoping she'd spot Amie or one of her abductors, but she had no

out after

phone number. Just an address to

was no one there. Ana's grip on the bag tightened, her

"Hello? Anyone here?"

he followed Ana, he saw another alleyway. He walked through and burst out

a few seconds, he could hear the almost

quietly. He took steps toward the building.

"Daddy?" Then

Aiden called back

was Amie. She was tied to one of the many weak unsteady poles that was used to hold

"Daddy!"

untie the right rope around her

gently as he walked

swollen from crying so

glad to see someone else apart from

hefty men appeared out of nowhere and stepped in

One

put his hands up. "It's out front where you asked it to

glances, then one of them said. "We can't release her until we see

while, Amie's wails

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