So did his wife, Alexa Moore Lindbergh. Alexa had short hair. It was curly and black, and it made her skin look chalky white. The light from the camdles on the table appeared to be dancing around her.
Both of them sat very straight in their chairs. Yes, they certainly looked superior, as if they were God's special gifts to the world. They kept their heads high, delicately eating their food. He strained to see what was on the table. It looked like lamb chops on their perfect china.
"I'll be more famous than either of you pitiful stiffs," the boy finally whispered. He promised that to himself. Every detail had been thought through a thousand times, at least that often. He very methodically went to work.
The boy retrieved a wooden ladder left near the garage by workingmen. Holding the ladder tightly against his side, he moved toward a spot just beyond the library window. He climbed silently up to the nursery. His pulse was racing, and his heart was pounding so loud he could hear it.
Light cast from a hallway lamp illuminated the baby's room. He could see the crib and the snoozing little prince in it. Charles Jr., "the most famous child on earth"
On one side, to keep away drafts, was a colorful screen with illustrations of barnyard animals.
He felt sly and cunning. "Here comes Mr. Fox," the boy whispered as he quietly slid open the window.
Then he took another step up the ladder and was inside the nursery at last.
Standing over the crib, he stared at the princeling. Curls of golden hair like his father's, but fat. Charles Jr. was gone to fat at only twenty months.
The boy could no longer control himself. Hot tears streamed from his eyes. His whole body began to shake, from frustration and rage - only mixed with the most incredible joy of his life.
"Well, daddy's little man. It's our time now," he muttered to himself.
He took a tiny rubber ball with an attached elastic band from his pocket. He quickly slipped the odd-looking looped device over Charles Jr.'s head, just as the small blue eyes opened.
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Along Came A Spider (One Direction Version)
FanfictionBegins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the treasury. And that's only the beginning! Josh Vine is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century...
