Page 37 of The CEO

The driver, who was also masked, looked at the man in the passenger’s side. “Do you think she’s right?”

The man shrugged. “It’s doesn’t matter now. What’s done is done.”

The driver looked at the burly man. “You didn’t tell me we could go to jail.”

“Oh, puuleease.” Bree stretched out the word and rolled her eyes, even though neither man had eyes on her. “You’re kidnapping me. What did you think would happen? Did you think the police would just give you a candy bar, and it would all be okay?”

“No,” snapped the driver. “I never thought we’d be caught.”

“And we won’t be. We’re just supposed to drop her off at the agreed upon location and leave her there. Then we get to go back to our lives with lots of money and forget this ever happened,”

“You’re fools if you believe that. Whoever hired you won’t want to leave any witnesses, and you are definitely witnesses.”

“Mr. Chandler would never do that,” said the driver. He looked at the first man. “Would he? Joe, would he?”

Joe, the first man, didn’t answer the question, but he hit the driver in the shoulder. “You idiot. Now, she knows my name…Calvin.”

“That’s just mean. I did it by accident. I didn’t mean to tell her, you did it on purpose. What are we gonna do now?”

“We stick with the plan. There’s nothing more we can do. Just drive.”

“Fine.” Calvin turned his attention to the highway

She was glad for it because all the weaving and rolling around in the back on the metal floor wasn’t comfortable on her backside.I’ll be very glad to get out of this van…unless they decide to kill me instead.

Adam carriedLilly down to the kitchen. “Bree,” he called as he walked into the room.

But Bree wasn’t there. He proceeded throughout the house. “Bree? Where are you? Bree.”

“Adam! Adam!” yelled Carole

He found Carol in the kitchen.

“Adam she’s gone. Someone took her.”

“What do you mean ‘took her’?”

“I just got home, and I thought I saw a man put her in the back of a van. I was just calling 911.”

“Continue. While you do that, I’m calling my security people.” He gripped Lilly tighter.

The baby fussed and tried to pull away.

He eased his grip. “I’m sorry, Sweetheart. Daddy is just scared for Mommy, but we’ll get her back.” He turned his gaze toward Carole. “I don’t care what it costs, we will get her back.”

Carole nodded as she placed her call to 911 and described the van and the man to the best of her ability.

Adam repeated to his man what Carole said.

When she was done, she ended the call. “The police will put out an APB, but I don’t have a lot of hope they’ll find it.”

“Why not?”

“Because the man knew the code to the gate and knew we were getting flowers today. How could they know those things?”

“I don’t know. It sounds like I have a spy in my organization. Bree mentioned one of my new employees, someone named Camile, gave her the tip about this florist. I’ll have Camile picked up before she has a chance to flee.” Adam put Lilly in her playpen.

She immediately picked up a teething ring and began chewing on it.