Deceived by love

Chapter 18

*Bailey's POV*

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz

"Hello?" I rubbed my eyes picking up my phone that knocked me out of my deep sleep. Sleeping is the only thing that keeps my mind off of everything that is happening with Grace.

"Is this Bailey?" The voice on the other line asked.

I immediately sat up recognizing the voice that belongs to officer Smith, wondering if they have found her, and if they had is she alive?

"Yes, Yes this is Bailey." I spoke back before he finished talking.

I kicked my mom to wake her up so she could listen to the conversation I was about to  on the phone. Her eyes shot open and I mouthed 'Its officer Smith.' then smiled at her and she instantly woke up and ran to get Grace's room to get Liz.

"Hi, this is Officer Smith. I tried to contact Graces mom but she didn't answer and you were the next person I decided to call. We have a lead on where Rob is staying, it's about three hours outside of L.A in the middle of the woods. We need you three to come with us so Grace has familiar faces to recognize if she is in fact there. I don't want to get your hopes up, because Rob seems to be a smart guy and might know that we are onto him."

At this point I had the conversation on speaker with the moms listening in on the conversation. "Sounds good, should we come to the police station or meet you guys at the address?" I asked

"That won't be necessary ma'am, we are going to pick you up in fifteen minutes in a squad car. We don't know how dangerous this guy is, so we want you guys to have protection." Officer smith said to me and I was nodding my head even though he couldn't see me.

"Okay, we will be waiting outside in fifteen minutes!" I exclaimed into the phone and hungup before he could say anything else. After hanging up the phone I looked up at our moms and shot them a smile.

"We are so close to finding her." I said and wrapped my arms around both of their necks before getting up and throwing on some clothes that are comfortable for this ride.

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"Are we all ready?" My mom yelled from the front door.

Liz came running from Grace's room and I came sprinting out of the bathroom and at the same time we said "i'm ready."

"Now remember, don't get your hopes up too high. You heard Officer Smith, he believes Rob is a smart guy" my mother spoke.

After that statement Liz huffed and said "he's dumber than a box of rocks, let's go get my daughter!"

With that we headed out the door, moms took off down the stairs and I followed them after making sure my apartment door was.

I opened the door at the bottom of my stairs and joined the moms outside.

Before I could get deep into thought we were waiting for less than five minutes before Officer Smith pulled up and ushered for us to get into the back of the cop car.

After a quick thank you, Officer Smith was speeding off in hopes we were going to be finding Grace. He explained that there was six other squad cars that were already on their way to the address and they were twenty minutes ahead of us and they were told to wait for us to show up before going into the house.

Through the whole car ride I sat between my mom and Liz and the three of us were holding hands and secretly hoping for the best but expecting the worst, just in case. Officer Smith kept looking in the rearview mirror to check on us and sending us quick smiles every time one of us made eye-contact with him.
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"We're here." After three long hours in the car I looked out the window to see the six cop cars flashing their lights outside of this run down house.

I can't imagine what Grace was going through.

"You guys have to wait here." With that Officer Smith grabbed the blow horn and stepped out of the car.

"Do you think she's in there?" Liz asked me after Officer Smith shut the door behind him. Tears were forming in her tear ducts that she was refusing to let slip.

"I hope so." I leaned my head on her shoulder and gripped her and my moms hand's a little tighter.

"Officers, go ahead." Officer Smith said into the blow horn. With that all ten or more officers took off, some into the house, some around to check the property. I leaned my head down being un able to watch and felt the moms hands go tighter around my own.

"Clear!" Was the only word we have heard coming from every direction, after a while there was an uncomfortable silence that no one wanted to admit that it meant that Grace was not here and neither was Rhett.

Confirming all of our thoughts Officer Smith knocked on our back window signaling us to roll it down. He sent us an apologetic look and said "They aren't here." and that's all it took for all three of us to start crying.

"I do have good news though. Grace left a note, which means she's still alive. As of this morning." Officer Smith handed the note to Grace's mom and continued saying "I will let you read it but I am going to need it back to keep it for evidence."

The note said

05/16/20

"I'm alive, the guy who has kidnapped Rhett and I is Rob (last name) who is my father, but he is refusing to admit that I am his daughter. Rob kidnapped Rhett because he believes that Rhett is responsible for his daughter Daisy's death. But I am here to tell you that after getting to know Rhett and hearing his side of the story, he is completely innocent. Rob stole me just for the fun of it to 'give Rhett a friend'.

Mom, Bailey, if you guys are reading this I want you to know that I love you so much and I promise to make it out of here alive and to be home soon. I don't know where we are going but I know if you are reading this you are a step closer to finding us and I love you for that, don't cry and keep looking for me.

Love you guys and see you soon,

Gracie

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I updated 2 days ago and here I am updating again!! Look at me go hahaha