Cassandra's POV

"Someone must have planned this. Around that time, all the cameras in that area were shut down. No one can explain this," A deep gravelly voice said.

"The nurse who took the children for the apparent check-up has also gone missing. No one has seen her in the last four days." Another voice said.

I couldn't listen to this anymore, maybe it was time I accepted my new reality.

I pressed my back against the wall for support.

Why was I so misfortunate? Was I destined for pain? It never ended.

I turned the doorknob and entered my room. Heading to my bed.

I threw my head onto the pillow and started crying again. I cried so much my head was spinning, I fell back to sleep again.

I opened my eyes, I was back in the abandoned factory. The same one Antonio kept me in. I could hear the sound of water droplets as it hit the ground from the leaking roof.

Soon I heard the sound of metal chains colliding into each other.

I looked around my surrounding in panic as the sound continued getting louder.

In an attempt to run away, I fell onto the ground, chains around my legs holding me back.

I saw my reflection in the water running on the ground. My eyes were puffy and my hair a giant mess.

"Poor little pathetic thing," A deep vicious voice said.

I turned around in panic Antonio smirking at me.

"It can't be!" I yelled. "You in prison, they arrested you," I yelled again.

"You have no idea what's possible," he said, his smirk widening into a grin.

I was back in this hole again, this time I wasn't pregnant."

"Cassie, you need to wake up." I heard an angelic whisper.

I felt a tap on my shoulder followed by a rough shake.

I groaned refusing to wake up, my eyes still closed.

Opening my eyes, Xavier was staring at me a wide smile on his face.

Had I been dreaming? Was I still dreaming?

My eyes half opened, I placed my hands on Xavier's face and started pulling his checks. Just to make sure he was real. I pinched myself on my arm just to make sure I wasn't still dreaming.

He looked at me, his eyebrow raised his one hand hovering over me trapping me onto the bed.

"You have to get up now," he said with enthusiasm.

"I want to be alone," I said in a deep sleepy voice.

"They found our children," he said.

A smile grew on my face as I pushed Xavier by his shoulders off of me.

He bit his lip jerking away in pain holding his shoulder.

"Where are they?" I asked in excitement, dismissing the fact that I could have hurt his arm.

"We going to the crime scene. Apparently, they found them with some woman, they didn't tell me much. We going to them now." He said.

I got to the car long before Xavier, dragging my legs with the last bit of energy I had left.

Throughout the ride, I held my hands together in excitement, it was like I was meeting them for the first time all over again or like a child about to open her birthday present.

I looked at Xavier confused after he parked the car a few meters away from the beach, in a parking lot.

Why were we here? Was this a trick to get me out of the house, could he be so cruel?

"We here," Xavier announced.

After he got out of the car, I was sit sitting in my seat confused, wondering what we were doing here.

He walked over to my side of the car and opened the door.

I looked at him reluctant before finally getting out of the car.

That's when I noticed the police vans and the crime scene barricade tape surrounding the place.

I looked at Xavier for a moment who gestured for me to move forward, so I did.

Walking closer, I noticed a woman being dragged into the police van.

I ducked under the tape and into the crime scene. I noticed two police officers each holding a child.

'It must be them!' A voice inside my head yelled in excitement.

I walked faster to where the police officers were, Xavier right behind me.

The one police officer gave me a small smile and handed me my baby, knowing I couldn't hold them both Xavier took the other.

They were just as gorgeous as I remembered. I couldn't help but cry as I stared at them, this time it was from the overwhelming joy I felt.

I placed a kiss on their foreheads.

I was never letting them out of my sight again, I was going to keep them so close no harm would ever come near them.

The head officer came to us giving Xavier a quick nod.

"What exactly happened?" Xavier asked.

"A coastal guard reported a suspicious woman with two children, she was loitering. She looked very nervous when he approached her, she also seemed like she wasn't in the right mindset. So he called the police, when we arrived we noticed those were the missing children." He said. "She was going to throw them into the ocean." He continued.

I felt a cold shiver at the thought of someone killing two innocent children, what kind of a person would do that?

"Would you like to see the woman before we take her to the police station?" The head officer asked.

"Yes," I said stepping forward.

I wanted to see the monster who wanted to do this.

Xavier looked at me and muttered "Are you sure,"

I nodded my head trying not to cry.

The police officer walked us over to the police van where she was being held.

She was sitting in the police van. Her hands chained by handcuffs on her lap while her head was bowed, her dark hair with grey strips covering her face.

She turned to face me. Glaring at me, her eyes were overwhelmed in anger and hate.

I can't say I was surprised.

"Mother?" Xavier said, a hint of shock in his voice.

After everything else she has done, I should have seen this coming.

"How could you," I asked her.

If I ever had any respect for her, all of it died the moment she tried to hurt my children.

"You are a mother too, how could you?" I asked.

She let out an evil laughs proving once again that she was out of her mind.

"Are you not ashamed?" I asked her again.

"That you are my son's wife yes, I thought that by paying that no good Antonio to pretend he slept with you would be enough to keep you away from my son forever, but I was wrong. I should have ordered your death instead." She said, no hint of remorse in her voice.

I knew she was crazy and loved Xavier so much no one was ever good enough for him but I never imagined she would go this far.

Speaking to her was useless, she was too lost to be saved. She refused to reason at all.

Xavier looked lose of words. I couldn't even imagine the pain he felt, no one wanted their mother to be the bad guy.

"Goodbye Melissa, I hope you enjoy prison because I'm going to make sure you never leave," Xavier threatened.

"Let's go Cassie," he said facing me.

Xavier and I walked away with our children.

I didn't care about much now, I had my children with me, that's all that mattered.

At least this would all be over.