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.

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

coming," she muttered to herself as she drove

the driveway.

gaze on him. He took the opposite route that Anastasia had just taken but once he was out of Dennis' sight, he

Ana needed protection. She

notice the car that had trailed behind her for the past thirty minutes.

an alley, he knew he would be discovered if he followed her,

and deserted construction site. She grabbed the bag and walked to the front of the uncompleted building, her

called out after

the idiots hadn't provided a phone number. Just an

no one there. Ana's grip on the bag tightened, her palms become sweaty

"Hello? Anyone here?"

another alleyway. He walked through

around, he heard a cry, but after a few seconds, he

He took steps

Then she burst into tears again.

called back

tied to one

"Daddy!"

frantically tried to untie the right rope around her wrist, bruising her skin

as

looked up, eyes swollen from crying so much

me," she cried, glad to see someone else

reaching her, two hefty men appeared out of nowhere and stepped in Aiden's

"It's out front where you asked it to

one of them said. "We can't

Amie's

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