He Gave Me Hope

Chapter 32

He gave me specific instructions. Leave Logan behind because he has people watching me, come unarmed and make sure that we have the money.

The money I did have, I was unarmed, well as unarmed as they knew of and Logan wasn’t with me.

I know it was killing him inside more and more but I had to make sure that my children were ok.

As I pulled up to the address that he had given me I was shocked. This house was beautiful. It was a two story modern house with a double staircase and a color changing fountain. In front was a Lexus and BMW parked.

Who lives here? I don’t understand how he could be here. Javier never kept more than six hundred dollars in the bank at a time.

As I opened the door to my car, I walked cautiously to the door. I have watched enough movies to know that I need to approach everything with extreme caution.

As I stepped up to the front door someone opened it. A butler? “Good evening Madame, Ms. Cambridge will see you in the parlor.”

Desiree? So this is her house. I knew she had something to do with this. As I turned the corner into the parlor I saw Javier and Desiree hugging and laughing while drinking champagne.

I thought she was pregnant.

“Leigh, come on in. how are you?” Desiree all but spit the words at me. She hated me but I thought it was because of Logan. It couldn’t be.

“Leigh, you are looking good girl. You have lost weight.” Javier was slightly slurring. I haven’t seen him look at me with such lust in a very long time.

“She may have lost weight but she is still a fat pig.” Desiree snorted. Why are the skinny and beautiful ones the most insecure?

“I see twiggy is still a twig. So are you puking more or just eating less?” I couldn’t help but laugh. I heard someone say that in a movie once and I thought it was even funnier to say it.

She turned red. Oh must be puking more. “Desiree why are you drinking if you are pregnant?”

“I’m not pregnant you idiot, I faked it for the money.”

“Money? Why do you need money? You are a model. You come from a fairly wealthy background.” I said while looking around. Where are my children?

As if knowing my thoughts Javier spoke up, “They are upstairs safe in a room. So where is the money?”

“I will hand over the money as soon as I see that my children are ok.” He let go of Desiree and grabbed me by the arm yanking me up the stairs.

“I never knew what I saw in you. You are so common. You are fat and the only good thing about you is that you have a slightly pretty face. What that rich dude saw in you I will never know.”

Ok that hurt. I knew he never loved me but that really did hurt. I don’t know what Logan saw in me either.

He walked to the first room on the right and opened the door. I expected crying children or that they were passed but no. They were in a very comfortable playroom with a 60 inch TV that played SpongeBob Squarepants, a basketball goal in one corner, a bunch of cars on the floor and a foosball table.

“But I thought that Israel was crying.” I couldn’t control my tears.

“I had to do something for you to come. That wasn’t him crying. It was a recording from when he fell one day in the park. I have been planning this for a while.”

He closed the door before I could utter a single word to them.

“Where is the money?” he asked more calm than I expected.

“I swear it’s in the car.”

“Your boyfriend?”

“He didn’t come. I came alone.”

His eyes darkened. “Perfect!”

I don’t know what happened but I felt something cold and hard strike me on the back of the head. Then the darkness overcame me.