Chapter 9 The trio who had now become a quartet reached the hotel and each became a little nervous as they saw all of the police cars surrounding the hotel.  Matt shot Jeff an uneasy look as they exited the car and headed for the hotel.  Reaching the lobby, Jeff spotted Blake standing in the corner, shaking as he nervously chain smoked two cigarettes.  He practically ran over to his wife’s agent. "Oh thank God!", Blake shouted as he saw Jeff. "Have you heard anything?", Jeff asked anxiously. Blake shook his head as he lit yet another cigarette, "The police want to question you about the mail you have been getting." "Fuck questioning me.  If they are not going to look for her, I AM!", Jeff shouted.  "Just calm down, bro.  Let them do their job.", Matt said trying to soothe him.  "NO….What if it were Shea, Matt.  Would you calm down?", Jeff spouted at his older brother.   A police officer approached Jeff and questioned him.  He told the officer everything that had happened in the last few weeks.  Matt called Shea and told her what was going on and then he talked to his father. "Find her, Matthew.  And bring her home.", Gilbert sadly instructed him.  "I will.", Matt told him.  Kari struggled to regain her senses.  It took a few minutes for her to shake the blurring from her eyes.  Drained of her energy, she didn’t fight this time.  She only looked around, trying to find something that stood out, something that if she could use to describe that place if by a miracle she could get to a phone.  But she knew it was useless.  Her mind wondered back to her life.  To Jeff.  How she wished that this was all a dream.  That she would wake up in his arms and wrap them around her tightly.  Memories of their life in Cameron filled her mind - both past and present.  Then she remembered the baby.  She couldn’t let this person take her life.  She was suppose to spend the rest of her life in her hometown, married to the man who had loved her all of his life, raising their children together.  But she feared that would never happen because she knew that her capture was going to kill her - her and her baby.  Then she began to fight.  She thrashed around in her chair so that she fell over onto her back.  "You’re only making it harder on yourself.", the voice sounded from above her. The person grabbed her chair and sat her up again, "You’re anguish will end soon.  Don’t fight your destiny…embrace it." Breathing hard, Kari finally gave up.  It was useless.  Kari didn’t see anyway out of her situation.  She slumped into her chair and gave up the fight.  She accepted the fact that no one would find her, that she would die there, alone in that cold damp warehouse.  She hoped that Jeff would go on with his life.  That he would be happy.  Unconsciousness took her away from her thoughts once again.  Jeff sat on the hotel bed nervously chewing his manicured nails as he awaited word on his wife and unborn child surrounded by his brother, his wife’s ex-husband and her best friend.  Each of them jumped as there was a knock at the door.  Tommy answered it and Jeff was surprised to see who walked in.  "Jeff?", Adrian Paul asked looking at Kari’s husband. "What are you doing here?", Jeff asked as he jumped up ready to pounce on him.  Matt placed his hand on Jeff’s chest as if to tell him to stand down.  "We’re staying in this hotel.  The show is shooting right down the street today and I ran into Blake in the lobby.  He told me everything.  I wanted to offer my assistance.", Adrian said sincerely. Jeff plopped back down onto the bed, "JESUS H. CHRIST!!!!" "What?", Matt asked. Jeff looked at his brother very distraught as he snapped, "Well, Matt, right now I don’t know where my wife is, or whether she’s even alive for that matter. And I’m stuck here, helpless in this room.  And you are the only one here right now that actually hasn’t ever slept with my wife!  Tell me, how would you feel!?!?!?!"   Matt didn’t know what to say.  Then Jeff snapped his head around to look into his brother’s eyes, "You haven’t have you?" "Jeff!!! Now you’re really talking crazy…of course I haven’t ever slept with her.  She’s my sister as far as I’m concerned.", Matt yelled.             Last Chapter ..*.. Next Chapter ..*.. Chapter Index ..*.. Home