Song: Blood in the Water- by Grandson

Eli:

I searched up and downfall the surrounding streets just hoping that I would get a glimpse of the damn van, just knowing that I wouldn't find it but I had to look. I had to find her. I can't believe that I let this happen. I am supposed to protect her. Hell I promised that I would protect her and within seconds she just slips right out of my hands. I will never be able to forgive myself for this and if one fucking hair on her is harmed so fucking help me.

Hours later my phone goes off and it's him. They finally landed and want to meet back at the hotel.  A part of me wants to confront him however the other part doesn't. I know he will blame be for everything and he has every fucking right to blame me. I was to protect her. It takes me a good fifteen minutes to get back and that is only because I take off running. I make it back way before they do and I can't sit and wait. I start pacing the floor back and forth. I look down at the pool of blood on the floor where I had been lying earlier. 

 I don't have time to clean up the spot when I hear the door open up; they don't even bother knocking. All of them walk in and once I see Mekhi and Scarlett, I start to tear up. "It happened so quickly. They fucking knew that we were here. It was like they planned it so perfectly as if they were fucking watching the room, waiting for the perfect opportunity. I was...I was out on the balcony on the phone and someone knocked on the door. I swear to god I never meant for anything to happen to her. I tried...you got to believe me I tried." I begged for their forgiveness.

Scarlett wraps her arms around me, pulling me all the way into her. "We will get her back. I swear to you we will." She steps back and sees the pool of blood smeared all in the carpet. "Oh my god...they hurt her?"

"No it's mine." I point to my shirt.

Her expression changes but she still has that look of concern across her face. She reaches over and pulls my shirt up to exam the damage. "Looks like you might need a few stitches. You must have put up a good fight."

"It's not that bad. I will be fine." I tug my shirt down. I just want to get out of here and out there looking for her. I don't have time to be worried about myself. she could be dying for fuck sakes.

"Eli...I can sew this up. It will only take a few minutes. We can't go after her if you are still bleeding like this."

I throw my hands up in the air. "Fine just hurry up and do it already," I tell her because I know her all to well and I know she is not going to shut up until she fixes me up. She opens up the small case and pulls out a needle and thread already together, like she just knows she will need it. I walk over to the kitchen, while taking my bloody shirt off and hop up on the counter.

"You said they left me a note," Mekhi ask as he starts to look around for it. I pull it out of my pocket and hand it to him.

"I wanted to open it but wasn't sure." I make a low growl as she has to dig in a little deeper than I wanted her too. She pulls the needle out and then goes back in until she gives me a good six stitches. She then walks over to the sink and washes her hands. Mekhi is still glancing at the note in his hands.

I watch as Scarlett gets out some latex gloves and puts on a pair while handing Mekhi some to put on. "Better be careful...you never know what some people will do; maybe they want to poison you."

Mekhi rolls his eyes at her as he rips the envelope and then takes out the hand written letter. Something shiny falls out and lands on the floor. Scarlett picks it up and I can see everything in her change. Her cheeks turn shades of red as her eyes start to water up. She throws the shiny item in his face. "This is your doing. I thought you cleared this shit up years ago."

"I will finish it." He tries to reach for her and she steps back. "Scarlet...you got to believe me. I would never have thought anything like this would have happened...and not to our girl."

"You better hope to God she is alright," she hisses back at him. 

He looks back down at the note. "Well looks like I got to go to this address alone. I will find her and I will bring her back."

"What's going on? You're telling me you had something to do with this? What the hell is that?" I point to item she threw at him.

Mekhi acts like he is not allowed to talk about it, not in front of Scarlett anyway. However when he doesn't speak up, Scarlett does. "My dear husband use to have several subs and apparently one has came back to bite him right in the fucking ass." She glares over at Mekhi. "They each owned a choker with the letter 'M' incrusted with diamonds just like that one." She stops and glares at Mekhi and if she didn't love him I think she just might have killed him right then. "You said you cleared this up."

"I did!" He stares at her and then looks over at Atticus. "Ok I thought I did. Dammit Scarlett you know I wouldn't lie to you, not about this." He closes his hand while shaking the choker in it. 

Scarlett walks away from him and ends up out on the balcony. There is a loud gut wrenching scream. I have never heard that woman scream like that or any woman for that matter. Mekhi was about to walk out to her but Atticus stops him. "Let me."

I have heard plenty of stories about how Atticus has been here since before Scarlett and he was almost like a father figure to her, especially after Zane had passed away. Atticus walks out to her and I can hear him talking her down, trying to calm her emotions. He places his arm around her and pulls her into him. I'm not sure that it is going to work though. I'm not sure I have ever noticed her this upset. I look up and Mekhi has this grimace expression on his face as if he really can't believe that all of this is happening.

"I better get out of here." He puts the choker and the letter in his pocket. "This is all my fault. God dammit to hell!" He yells and picks up the glass vase on the counter and smashes it against the wall. Glass shatters all over the floor, not to mention the water and whatever flowers were in it, all of it crashing across the floor. I look over at Ashton and Marcus and they both just turn and walk away.

"Wait...we need to come up with a plan. There has got to be another fucking way to do this," I tell him.

"Eli...if you get hurt, she will never forgive me. I already have one of my girls pissed off at me, I don't need the other to be."

"Mekhi...you can't go at this blindsided. I want to help you. Please. We all need to work together to get her back. Hell why else did you bring everyone here. Hell we could follow you or better yet we could track you."

Scarlet walk back in and overhears us talking. "Tracking..." She stops as if she is thinking about something. "When she left was she still wearing the necklace I gave her, the one with the little bumble bee."

Shit was she wearing it. I close my eyes to think about it. She really hasn't taken it off the whole time we have been here. I see her wearing a thin blue shirt and she wasn't all the way dressed. I feel like I saw the necklace sparkly in the sunlight. "I think so...why?"

She quickly pulls out her phone and pulls up an app. She holds out her phone for all of us to see the map of the area and a little red dot pulsing on the screen. "There she is. So here is what we will do. Mekhi you can go to the address they want you to go to. I'm sure they will take you to her. We will go ahead and head out that direction. We will set up. Once you see our girl and verify she is there we will storm in...we all will charge in and take back what is ours."

"You sure this will work?" I ask.

She turns to look at me and gives me a wink. "I know it will...now let's go get our girl."

Not even twenty minutes later we are parked close to the building where we believe she is being held. If it was up to me we would already be in there saving her but Scarlett said we had to wait for go. We had to wait for Mekhi to show up and give us the signal to come in.

It's taking way to long and I am growing more impatient. I am about to snap when Scarlett touches my arm. "She will be alright."

Her phone goes off and it's Atticus. He was given orders to follow Mekhi just in case they didn't bring him to this location. "He just got in the back of a black Mercedes. I am on route right behind him. It looks like we are headed that way."

"Don't lose them Atticus," she replies back. And all I can do is pray.