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“Did you go to her house?” I asked.
“I did, and she clearly left very quickly. I saw that she bought a ticket for a flight to Los Angeles, scheduled to depart shortly, so I’m headed to the airport to try and stop her.”
“I’ll be right there,” I said.
“No, Bella, I can handle this.”
“No, I’m going to meet you at the airport.”
I hung up the phone before he could continue to try and talk me out of it. Ava looked at me with a concerned expression on her face.
“My mom bought a ticket to Los Angeles,” I said. “Gabe and I are going to try to stop her at the airport.”
“I’m coming with you,” Ava said.
“No, please stay here, just in case.” I wasn’t sure what I was hoping for, it wasn’t as if the babies were going to magically appear out of thin air. “Just in case the cops come back, or you notice anything else that might help us. I’ll feel better with someone staying here. I’ll have Gabe, Ava.”
I appreciated that she wanted to come with me for moral support but I knew I would feel better if she stayed at the house.
I grabbed my purse and keys and headed for my car.
If the cops weren’t going to seriously consider my mom as a suspect, then we’d just have to take matters into our hands.
* * *
Gabe arrivedat the airport before me and had bought us tickets on the same flight that my mom was on just to get us through security—as well as on that plane—if absolutely necessary. She wasn’t going to leave without us getting answers.
He met me at the security entrance. Thankfully, Lambert was fairly easy to get around, all things considered, and Southwest had its own terminal. We got through security in record time, keeping an eye out for my mom every chance we could. We planned to meet her at the gate, but I scanned every face, looking for her and my girls.
When we got to the gate, I noticed that they had already started boarding. Shit. She could be on the plane already.We might be on our way to LA, I thought to myself.
I expected her to be wearing a wig or some kind of disguise, so when I spotted someone with brown hair similar to her style, I didn’t think it could be her at first. But then she glanced to the side and I saw her face.
“There!” I exclaimed, taking off before the word had fully left my mouth.
As I approached, the first thing I noticed was that she was alone. She didn’t have my babies with her. But that didn’t deter me. I slammed into her, taking her to the ground. She stared up at me with a look of shock.
“Bella?”
“Where are my girls?” I demanded from her.
A crowd had gathered around us, but I couldn’t care less.
“Tell me!” I shouted at her. Did you send them with someone else so it was less suspicious?”
“What are you talking about?” she asked me.
“My girls! You took them,” I accused.
She tried to push me off, but I wasn’t going away that easily. I held her hands down beside her, pinning her to the ground. “Tell me! Where are they? You are not going to get away with kidnapping them, not like you did with me!”
She stared at me with a look of utter confusion.
“Bella!” Gabe called out, but I ignored him and continued questioning my mom. “Bella, look!”
He grabbed my shoulder and I turned to see what he was referring to, thinking he had spotted our girls somewhere in the airport. Instead, he just said, “Your mom doesn’t have them.”
“How do you know?”
