"Mani... wake up..." I hear A voice startle me out of a deep sleep...
"What's wrong?" I squint my eyes at him.
"You need to get up. We need to get out of here..." He coughs and I can see the smoke.
Fuck! The house is on fire.
I jolt out of bed and getting low to the ground follow Derrick out of the house.
We make it outside and quickly He puts his hand is over my mouth and I'm tossed into the car. He quickly gets in the driver seat and peels out.
"What are you doing?" I ask him as I see the fire engines go past us.
"We're getting out of dodge."
"What about our stuff, the house?" I ask, looking out the back window and the smoke billowing in the air and behind the trees.
My house...
"I packed us some stuff." He tells me as he speeds onwards.
"Did you?"
"Of course." He says almost proud of himself.
The bastard set our house on fire but why?
"Why?" I ask as the tears fall down my face.
"I needed a reason for us to leave. That baby of yours, I'm selling it."
I think my heart just stopped.
"My baby? How did you know?"
"I found your sonogram and called the doctor to confirm it. There's a huge market out there for people that want to adopt. They get denied and well, they're more than willing to pay anything. I found a family that will pay me 2 million for your little mistake."
"It's not a mistake. I want to keep my baby."
"And who is going to help you raise it? I bet you can't even tell me who the father is."
That's because I don't want to. You bastard.
"I'm not going to do it!"
"We'll see about that...."
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I'm awaken by a loud knock on my door.
"What the hell?" I pull back the covers and stumble out of the bed. I fling open the door and Taylor is standing on the other side with a frantic look on his face.
"It's Hamilton house. I was just informed by Sammy when he went to go pick up Mani, her house had been burned down, sometime during the night. He tired her phone, it went to voicemail and there's no trace on it. We even tried Derrick's phone, and nothing as well."
"FUCK!" I scream. "Call Brady and Welch. I need them to start looking into this. Something is fishy here."
I quickly slip on some clothes and tell Taylor I want to go to the police station. I need to find out what happened to Mani.
