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“Quiet!” I hear a woman’s voice hiss.
Then I hear Kevin. He sounds like he’s on the other side of the door.
“Who’s there?”
I don’t respond. I just knock again. From where I am, I can see the blinds moving as someone looks out. Hopefully, they can’t see me.
I knock for a third time. Finally, I hear the chain coming off the door, and the door opens. I don’t wait for Kevin to see me, barging in and shoving him back. Kevin stumbles and hits the bed before falling to the floor. Megan and Amy are on the bed, Amy looking rather miserable with a sad-looking Chinese box. She brightens up when she sees me.
“Luke!”
Megan grabs for her as Amy scrambles off the bed and catches hold of her sleeve. I fly across the room and slap her arm away, hauling Amy out of reach.
“Don’t you dare touch her!” I snarl.
“Give her back!” Megan screams. She gets onto her knees on the bed, her expression one of fury. “She’s our baby! You have no right to take her!”
“I think that’s you and your psychotic husband who have no right to take her,” I snap back. I pick Amy up and cuddle her, feeling my daughter bury her face into my neck as she clutches tightly onto me. “You’ve put three people in the hospital to kidnap a child you have no claim over. Do you realize that you’ve done the wrong thing?”
“She should be ours!” Megan screeches, the sound making my ears hurt. “That little bitch shouldn’t be able to have kids! Why can she have children but I can’t?”
“So you kidnap your husband’s granddaughter? Where’s the logic in that?”
Kevin is getting to his feet. He looks ready for a fight, baring his teeth at me.
“We can be better parents than Elle. And Megan wants a child. What better solution?”
“Just adopt! Or get someone else to carry the baby! Your daughter went through this with you last time you met!” I tighten my arms around Amy as Kevin comes closer. “Taking Amy without anyone’s consent is not the way to go about it. You seriously thought people would agree with it once you actually had her?”
“Everyone would understand!” Megan sags onto the bed. She is wailing now. “Why does she get to have a family? I wanted several children we could cherise, and I can’t keep a pregnancy viable. That’s not fair!”
I am watching Kevin, who is faltering as he looks at his wife. It makes me wonder how much of a driving force his younger spouse is with all of this. I’m sure that if Megan wasn’t demanding this, Kevin wouldn’t have done this at all.
Megan is screaming out a tantrum, curled up on the bed as she sobs. Amy whimpers.
“Can we go? It’s hurting my ears.”
“Of course.” I glare at Kevin as I move towards the door. “The police are coming, and they’re going to arrest you for kidnapping. You try and take Amy from me, and I’m going to make sure you end up in the hospital where you put your daughter. But you’ll be in a worse state than she is right now.”
Kevin looks like he’s going to argue, his body tense. But then his shoulders slump, and he stares at the floor. At that moment, I see a weak man. A coward, easily influenced by a woman who is mentally unstable.
I shouldn’t feel sympathetic for his stance in any of this. I look over at Megan, who is still screaming.
“Get her into therapy. She’s going to end up doing something worse one of these days.”
“All she wants is a child of her own.” Kevin’s voice is barely heard over the screaming.
“And you should focus on yourselves and not take your granddaughter because you’re jealous of your daughter.” I stroke Amy’s head. “Don’t be surprised when you get sued for the pain and suffering you caused. Or the restraining order that’s coming your way. You or Megan lay your eyes on Amy, and you’re done.”
I don’t wait around to hear Kevin’s response, leaving the room as the first police car pulls into the parking lot.
Chapter 29 Elle
“How are you feeling?” I ask.
Ben makes a face as he looks at himself, an IV drip sticking out of his hand and his leg in a cast, held in a sling above the bed.
“Like absolute hell. Why does the pain have to linger for a long time afterwards?”
