ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Cross Pov

It’s been three days, three whole days, and still no news of Katherine, I was slowly dying inside, I felt like this was all my fault, I was the one that brought Ginna back into her lives, and Louis that bastard came with Ginna if only I had not associated with Ginna, the police went over to Ginna’s house again but they didn’t find anything, they have long declared them as suspects, they didn’t call, if they called I would have given them all the money they requested for just so they can give me back my wife but no call, nothing, my living room was filled with people again, Marilyn, Dean, Grace and the police officers, they showed up earlier today and had been here for a while, we have been going over all the stuff we have gone through before to see if we left out anything but there was nothing, nothing at all, there was no clue as to where they might have taken Katherine, and until they called we couldn’t even make any move, it was furstrating and nerve wrecking, if these people weren’t around me maybe I would have lost my mind already, three days have never been so long and unproductive.

“Cross, man, can you calm down, sit down, you are going to get high blood pressure at this stage and it won’t be good, we will find her so please, calm down,”

Dean said pulling me down, it’s not like I want to be on the edge, I just can’t help it.

“I am going to get sick if we don’t get a call today,”

“We will get the c***”

His words were cut off by the ringing of a phone, my phone, I hurriedly picked it up.

“Hello?”

“Hello there Mr. Salvador, I have got news for you,”

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“You should know already, the one who is got your beloved wife, she is hearing crying, okay now looking at me with deadly eyes but still crying,”

“Louis? Did you really think you will go free after this?”

“Yup and you are going to help me, if not you might not see your wife again,”

“What do you want?”

I asked, everyone in the room was listening to our conversation.

“You know what I want, money,”

“This is about the money, you moron? Name the fucking price,”

I yelled at the phone.

“Calm down, I was just getting to that, you see there is no need to rush, here is the thing, I am not going to be greedy, so let’s say, get me hundred million dollars and we are good, his about that?”

He asked, I honestly wanted to get to him through the phone and beat him up that he would land in the hospital for weeks if not months.

“You got it, now when do I get back my wife?”

“Your wife is fine even though I don’t know what that crazy woman is planning, so long as I get my money, I am good, I don’t have anything against her, I just want the money and well Ginna provided the opportunity to get the money,”

The idiot was just rambling on and on but I could make out a few things from his words, this was all Ginna’s plan and she wasn’t doing it for the money like Louis, which made me wonder just what she was planning on doing, I knew a hundred million was a hell lot of money but I didn’t have the time to bargain, I wanted my wife back safe so I could part with it.

“When do you want it?”

“As soon as possible, but one thing be sure, do not get the police involved as I can’t guarantee the safety of your wife if the police are involved,”

He said and I looked at the faces of everyone in the room, the police were here and I wasn’t going to go there on my own, I have seen enough to know it was always better to get help.

“I am not stupid okay, of course, where should I bring the money?”

“I will text you the address,”

“Sure but can I speak to my wife, just to be sure she is there with you,”

“Sure thing,”

He responded, three was a few moments of silence, then I heard him telling her to mind what she says and stuff, I wanted to kill him through my phone if only I could do that, a moment later I heard Kathy’s voice, I almost wept at how tiny and down the sound.

“Kathy, baby,”

“Cross, get me out of her please, she is going to kill my baby,”

That was all she said before the bastard collected the phone, shouting at her in the background.

“You heard her voice now do the needful,”

“What’s she doing to my wife? You better not hurt my wife’s or kid or the both of you are not going to**”

“Rather than making threats why not do the needful and get her out of here before that happens, I have no hands in that though just your crazy ex who might I see is still obsessed with you,”

“What the fuck are you doing Dylan?”

I heard Ginna’s voice yell before the bastard ended the call, I looked around, everyone looked worried even the police officers.

“What am I going to do?”

“Not you, we, we are going to do this together and get your wife back, now that the call has come through, the first thing to do is track the location of the phone, it might not be much use since it might be a burner phone but if they are stupid enough to use an actual phone then, we are game on,”

The investigator said and the officer nodded in agreement, they went to work immediately and two hours later, they came up with a location, the officers and Marilyn left later in the evening, with Marilyn promising to come to visit when Kathy is back and the office turning up tomorrow with more teams to be at the location before the time of the exchange, I hoped everything will go smoothly, Dean and Grace once again spent the night at my place, having them around made me feel less alone and it was uplifting…