Persephone's Search

Chapter Four

Persephone was grateful that she was able to get Zaya out of the way when these goons grabbed her. They put something over her head so she did not get a good look at their faces. They put her into some type a truck and they were moving very fast. She heard the roar of a motorcycle and her heart jumped knowing that Riley was trying to rescue her. The motorcycle seemed so far away, after a while she couldn't hear it at all. The men that took her were silent, then she heard what seemed to be one of them dialing on a cell phone. She quickly became still trying to focus so that she could try to hear the conversation. The one who was speaking into the phone did so as low as possible and she wasn't able to get anything of what he was saying. She tried over and over to free her hand but they used plastic ties to bind her hands. Every time she tried they just dug into her skin.

She tried to see if the motorcycle was still following but she could no longer here the engine. Persephone didn't lose hope she knew that Riley would find her. The vehicle seemed to be slowing down. One of the men said to her "If you make a sound you will deeply regret it." She couldn't even see where she was so she decided to oblige. She was tired from trying to break free. She decided to save her strength for when they arrived to wherever they were taking her.

Soon they were moving again. Three hours later they stopped again. This time she could hear all the doors opening and suddenly someone grabbed her and was dragging her out of the vehicle. She heard doors opening and then closing. She had mentally prepared herself to take on her kidnappers. Someone threw her in a room and removed the bag from over her head but left her hands bound.

The room did not have any window or any type of furniture. She ran to the door to try and hear anything on the other side and for a moment she thought she heard a faint cry. Could it be? Did she just hear her daughter? "Please Lord let her be safe?" she prayed. Then she heard footsteps approaching. She backed away from the door as the steps came closer. The door opened and she recognized the one who gave the order to have her kidnapped.

"Well well look who has come home" Trey said.

"This is not my home bastard. Let me go." Persephone said in a low angry voice.

"You are not going anywhere not now not ever again.", then he walked towards her and punched her in her face. Persephone fell to the floor. She could taste the blood in her mouth. "You can do anything you want to me, but I hope you know Riley will find me" she screamed at him.

"Let's hope there is something for him to find. But you know what I want to see this Riley. Let see what the white boy has in comparison to me." Trey said mocking her as he left the room.

Jacob followed the SUV but lost it on the highway. By the time he made it back to the club Riley was already there. When he walked in Riley already had Skits trying to track down Trey. Riley knew it had to be Trey who else would want to hurt Persephone more than him. What was this man's obsession with her? All he had ever done was hurt her.

Jacob walked into the club looking exhausted. "Riley man I chased them but they were so far ahead of me I couldn't even get a plate."

"Skitz I want you to track down any and every car, truck or bike that Trey Jefferson has ever owned. That should give us an address. I want a list of anyone associated with him too." Riley said.

"You got it VP. Should I cross check it with the truck that Am got into that day at the hospital?" Skitz asked.

"Definitely!" Jacob said, "Riley you don't think that ass took Seph too?"

"I'll be willing to bet my life on it Jake" he said glowingly.

Persephone sat in that dark room pondering on what Trey would do next. She was hurting and she felt herself drifting to sleep on the floor, then she heard the most precious sound one could hear, a baby's cry. Her baby, her Phoenix. She began laughing with joy. "Thank you God, she's alive." she said in a whisper. She could hear her daughter and the sound of her cry gave her hope. "Ok Seph you have to endure this to get her to safety." she told herself.

The door opened and there stood Trey. His expression was dark and one she recognized all too well. "Well I see you heard your brat crying.

"Trey please let me see her. All I want to do is see her. I promise I won't try to run. I promise I'll behave,"

"Good that how I want you, begging. You know I looked for you everywhere. Did you really think you could get away from me that easily?"

"Trey you don't love me, you don't even want me. Why do you care who I am with or what I do?"

"You belong to me bitch or did you forget that? You were not supposed to leave Seph remember?"

"Trey how did you expect me to stay? You hate me, you abused me, beat me within an inch of my life. You killed our child because you didn't want a child with a whore like me remember. How many times did I not get punched for being late from work or talking back to you? How many times did you not make me watch as you would parade around with different whores and I was supposed to stay and take it?"

Trey walked up to her and slapped her, "YOU FORGOT YOUR PLACE!"

Persephone stood up and looked him dead in his eyes, "And where is that? Underneath your fucking shoe. Not anymore. I WANT TO SEE MY DAUGHTER AND I WANT TO SEE HER NOW."

"You really think you're in a position to negotiate." Trey laughed.

"Oh this is not going to be a negotiation. See you think I'm the same Persephone. The one you abused, the one you humiliated. Sorry to tell you babes she died when you stomped the life out of our child. This Persephone, the one that beat your ass, is much stronger."

"Yea since you got with the white boy and his group of redneck bikers you think you're something."

"No Riley has nothing to do with it. But I will tell you this. He is 10 times the man you could ever think of being. That little girl in there is proof of it. I don't need Riley to take care of me. He does it because he is a real man in every way" Persephone said taunting him. "Why don't you ask that bitch in there? I know it's Amaryllis who took my baby. I can smell her cheap perfume from here; your life."

Trey laughed and in a very cocky tone said, "You kill me, you are still forgetting who I am and what I do. I will destroy you, that white boy and then I will sell your bastard to the highest bidder."

Trey was so close to Persephone that she was able to head butt him in the nose and he stumbled back and began to bleed. "Ah you fucking bitch!" he cried, then he walked back to her and punched her several times in her abdomen which caused her to fall to the ground. Coughing and groaning she said, "Bring me my daughter Trey. At least let me see her before you kill me."

"Oh I thought you were going to kill me?"

"Stop with these games and let me see Phoenix, Trey."

Trey looked at her heaped on the floor and turned around and walked away.