🔵 By Keith David Houston. Photo by lauragrafie.
It was three thirty in the morning and Sarrah Cartwright was sleeping in her two bedroom apartment with her five month old daughter Amber in the other room asleep when she heard a noise coming from the living room, and then she heard voices! Sarrah felt her heart pounding and got up quickly to investigate feeling a sense of terror because she saw a flashlight that blinded her then everything turned black as something hit her in her jaw hard knocking her out.
The living room was dark as Sarrah got to her feet to turn on the light, and staggered barely able to stand up. She got to her daughter Amber’s room, but her baby girl was gone! Sarrah let out a long scream as tears ran down her face, and she tasted blood in her mouth as she looked at her baby’s crib, and saw a ransom note demanding 20 million dollars with a threat that if she contacted the police her baby girl would be mailed to her in pieces, Sarrah stood there crying and took a deep breath in stunned silence. It was a shock to Sarrah that she was a victim of kidnappers and she could not believe it as she read the ransom note again seeing that it had instructions for the delivery of the money in two days and that she would be contacted for the drop off, and pick up of her baby! It puzzled Sarrah that someone had learned that she had suddenly become a very wealthy woman who was worth billions of dollars when her rich father Richard Cartwrtight died suddenly, and left Sarrah his entire fortune inspire of the fact that she hated him!
It was now six twenty five in the morning and Sarrah still shaken to her core still tasted blood in her mouth when she sat at her kitchen table trying to figure out who had done this to her, and her daughter. She never said anything to anyone, but people knew, and someone was doing this who had details about her life, her father leaving her his fortune and that she had a baby! Who ever it was Sarrah was certain that they knew her, and she had a feeling that she knew who had done this but she would keep that to herself for now.
The sun came up, and Sarrah was scared because she knew one call to the police, or FBI, would mean a certain horrifying death for her baby girl as desperation set in Sarrah decided to call her ex-husband Lance who was little Amber’s father, and a war veteran with combat experience as a navy-seal. Lance listened to Sarrah, and had no idea his ex-wife was now one of the wealthiest women in the world, and she told him what was happening as she cried and through a steady river of tears she begged him to save their baby! Sarrah knew she could trust Lance, and Lance was someone you never wanted to make into an enemy under any circumstances, and when he heard his daughter had been kidnapped Lance’s heart nearly stopped! Lance began to cry, and told her to take care of everything on her end, and he would take care of the rest because he was not going to let them get away with this.
Whoever it was, they were going to pay! The following day Sarrah called Lance to let him know she made the arrangement with the bank for the twenty million dollars and that she was picking it up in two hours. Lance had called half a dozen of his navy-seal friends who were eager to help, and would be invisible when everything was supposed to happen, Sarrah met Lance at her apartment and she told him she was terrified! Lance told her that everything was going to be fine, and ne noticed two men in a black car half a block away watching them, and made a quick call to two of his friends who were nearby, and had also spotted these two men.
Lance grabbed Sarrah’s hand firmly squeezing it lovingly and they both went into the apartment. Lance did not want Sarrah to know what was about to happen, and his friends rushed the two men in their car smashing their windows in and using the latest non-lethal high voltage stun weapons to render them unconscious then put them into a fast moving van to deliver them to their base of operations several miles from there. That is where they would get the information they needed to save baby Amber, and find out who was behind it all so they could be dealt a swift permanent blow to end it!
The bank manager called Sarrah to inform her that the 20 million dollars she had asked for would not be available because of a sudden glitch in the bank vault timing clock which could not be repaired for several days. Sarrah’s heart nearly pounded out of her chest and she looked at Lance who overheard everything then burst into tears. Seconds later Lance got a call from his friends who in a very short time had learned a lot, and Sarrah and Lance left the apartment and drove to where Lance’s friends had taken the two men who had been watching them at the apartment. At first Lance was not going to let Sarrah go into the hose, but the two men had already gave up everything under circumstances that would make anyone talk! So Lance let her go in and in the living room were two men with pillow cases over their heads sitting in two chairs. A car battery and long cables were on the floor next to them and one of them was speaking broken English with a clear Russian accent begging for his life and Lance and his friends were not the merciful type given the situation.
Lance and Sarrah learned that their little baby girl was being kept under guard at an animal rescue shelter ran by former Russian KGB agents who were running their own version of the Italian gangs known as the Mob. Sarrah looked at Lance and she knew it was going to be very dangerous but they had to act quickly to catch them by surprise since they were not aware that two of their men had been seized and tortured exposing everything.
It was 2:30 pm when the plan to save little baby Amber took shape in the base of operations where Lance and his friends located the animal shelter baby Amber was being kept under guard. The address showed that it was roughly seven miles away and Lance’s friends had even obtained an updated satellite overhead view of it as well as the building plans showing several large rooms. They saw several men in the satellite footage outside and they carried AK-47 machine guns. Lance looked at Sarrah and said you’re going to have to stay in the van while me, and my friends rescue our little girl from these monsters! Sarrah started to cry and said don’t you dare leave me out of this damn you! Lance pointed to the satellite footage and told her I am not going to risk you being killed trying to save our baby. Sarrah looked at Lance suddenly realizing that she still loved him very much and was scared that she oculd lose her baby girl as well as the man she still loved. Sarrah said OK I will stay in the van but you need to let me hear from you as soon as you get our baby! Lance said I will, I promise you that!
It was hot as the afternoon sun beat down and everyone got in their vehicles. The two Russians sat in their chairs in the hosue with holes in their foreheads and Lance had shot them both while Sarrah watched moments before they got in their vehicles. Neither of them felt bad because these men were part of an organized ruthless gang who were preying on Americans. Now it was time to make them pay for that. They all timed their arrival at the animal shelter so it would not seem suspicious and parked on a back street a block away. Lance and his friends all wore body armor carrying stun weapons, machine guns with silencers, hand guns and silencers, and knives. They slowly made their way to the back of the animal shelter where one Russian sat on a chair smoking and next to him leaning against the wall was an AK-47 machine gun. Lance saw the Russian look up and before he could warn the others inside, Lance shot him right between the eyes killing him instantly. Then Lance ran to the door, and opened it quickly going inside as four of his friends followed him in. right away he heard a baby crying somewhere down the hallway. Lance’s heart raced as he went to the first large room and it was dimly lit as he opened the door. Four Russians watching television turned, and saw Lance with his friends who quietly shot them dead but there were others in the room at the far end in small animal cages. Lance signaled for his friends to investigate and what they saw chilled them to the bone! Dozens of young American girls naked and in cages with what appeared to be price-tags with bold black letters that said sold with their final destinations.
Lance realized that this was far more than just him, Sarrah, and his friends rescuing his and Sarrah’s baby. These monsters were running a large scale kidnapping and human sex trafficking ring and Lance put his finger to his lips for the girls to be quiet as they began to cry and beg for help! Lance knew the room he was about to go in with his friends had his and Sarrah’s baby girl Amber in it so he signaled to his friends to e ready as he slowly opened the door he saw three Russian men who were guarding dozens of covered cages and a woman who put a aby in a cage. The guards were quickly shot and Lance looked at the woman who raised her hands as Lance approached pointing the gun at her head. There in the cage was baby Amber and she looked at Lance, and smiled as if she somehow knew her momma and daddy were there to rescue her.
The other Russian guards were called by the woman to come in from out front and they were shot dead after they came in. it was over and Lance called his friend where Sarrah was waiting in the van and said let me speak to Sarrah. Lance said everything’s OK. You can come get the baby. Sarrah burst into tears and couldn’t wait as she opened the van door and ran to the animal shelter a block away. Lance took his baby girl out of the cage she had been kept in and was shocked to learn that others were victims too! They had found twelve baby boys, eleven baby girls and sixty two naked girls all under the age of sixteen, and they were all safe now. These monsters were done hurting anyone else. Sarrah finally got to the animal shelter breathing hard, and crying all the way. She went in and immediately recognized a woman Lances’ friends were pointing their guns at not sure of what to do as Sarrah ran to Lance and grabbed her baby hugging and kissing her. Then she asked the woman why are you here? The woman had worked for Sarrah’s father as an attorney and told Sarrah I don’t have to tell you a thing. Sarrah handed Lance the baby and said wrong answer, and knocked the woman out. She told lance to take care of her and Lance put a bullet in her head. Without even hesitating after giving the baby to Sarrah. Then Lance made a call to a powerful friends and all of the others were rescued soon after they left, Sarrah and Lance re-kindled their love for each other and Sarah smiled knowing she had one bad-ass old man who helps her get revenge which was best served cold. The end.