Chapter 14

Mitch gave Jon the signal on the third ring and he then picked up the phone. “Hello? Yeah it’s me first just tell me that Karen is alright.” He told them calmly.

“Yeah the Bitch is fine now but if you don’t do what I say she won’t be.” Kyle told him.

“Well then put her on so I know she’s fine then and we can deal.” Jon told him.

“No I told you she was fine so if you want her back you’ll do what I say. So listen up shit head and take notes.” He told him as Dot was pacing the room.

“Not til you put Karen on the phone you…” But Mitch was shaking his no at Jon to make sure not to start any name calling at him and to just stay calm. He didn’t want him to get into a screaming match with him. So much to his chagrin. “OK look just put her on so we know she’s ok and then we can start to deal.” He told him. But then Jon heard a click. “He hung up the fucking phone!” he exclaimed.

“Yeah I was afraid of that. Just under a minute too. They knew the phones were tapped. Let’s see if we can get them the next time when they call in with the instructions we might have a chance then.” Mitch told them.

“How! If they know were doing it then they’ll be timing it again. We’ll never find her like this. I swear to God if they hurt her…” Jon was yelling.

But Richie walked up to him, “Kidd it will be ok we’ll get her back. Plus we’ll get them and they will pay for doing this I promise. They can’t hide forever now can they?” Richie told him.

“No I guess not.” He said dishearten.

“Um excuse me but what if they don’t put her on the phone then what do we do?” Sarah asked.

“They’ll give us a hard time about it but they will eventually just to shut us up if they want the money. Don't worry Sarah will get her back.” Mitch told her confidently.

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As Kyle hung up the phone Dorothea was still pacing the floor. “So what did they say?” she asked him anxiously.

“What the hell do you think he asked me? He wants to talk to her. So what do you think do you want her to or not because you said she’d tell them who we are.” Kyle said to her.

“You idiot they know who we are. I still have connections with them and last night they went to this party and Jon got drunk really drunk. My source heard them talking just before they left when that reporter pissed Jon off. She heard them say something about me and a Kyle and that they needed to be back at the hotel and get him into bed so he’d be sober by morning. So you’re not that stealthy as you think you are.” Dorothea told him.

“Ha ha well just as well then we don’t have to hide anymore. Besides we have our tickets we’ll be out of here before they can say boo. As soon as we get the money we’ll tell them where they can find bitch face.” Kyle said smiling.

“Yeah I guess but you don’t know Jon we’re going to have to get the hell out of here fast.” She told him.

“Look Karen will be at one end of the city and will be at the other so when they go get her we’ll be on our way Dotty and gone to paradise.” He told her as he walked up to her to kiss her but she stopped him.

“After we get the money Kyle.” She told him.

“Yeah sure. So do you want me to give them another call or what?” he asked irritated.

“Yeah go ahead but no talking with her I have a photo that will be at the reception desk by the time you call them in ten minutes so until then.” She told him smiling.

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Jon was pacing the floor as usually which was driving everyone crazy. By this time Tico and David were there waiting also now. By now a half hour had pass and finally the phone rang again but before Jon could pick it up Mitch put his hand on the receiver.

“Ok Jon I need for you to keep your cool can you do that?” he asked him.

Jon shooked his head yes and picked it up, “Hello?”

“Hey rockstar ok here’s what we want. Get a duffel bag and put two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of unmarked bills in it and there’s this warehouse over on Pleasant Street.” Kyle was trying to tell him when Jon broke in.

“No way not until I talk to Karen you loser.” Jon said calmly.

“Yeah I get that but don’t you want to hear the rest? Look there’s a trash barrel you dump the bag in there ok? Is there a knock at your door yet because I’m going to have to hang up.” Kyle told him.

“Look Robertson don’t hang up. Who’s coming to the door?” Jon wanted to know. When just then an envelope came underneath the door. Richie picked it up and gave it to Mitch as Jon dropped the phone and headed towards the door opened it to see who tossed it underneath. When he looked out the elevator doors were just closing. “Damn It!” he screamed!

Sarah in the meantime picked up the phone and started to talk into the phone, “Kyle, Kyle wait! Don't hang up Please!” Sarah yelled as the phone was dead.

“Come on Sarah let’s sit down. He’ll call back like Mitch said this isn’t over.” Richie told her as he held her to see if he could calm her. Well Sarah melted into his arms as she really needed him right now because she was scared to death over her friend and that she felt safe with him.

Jon in the meantime wanted to punch something anything he was that mad. Tico was trying to calm him as Mitch opened the envelope. When he did he saw a picture of Karen standing with today’s newspaper. And very carefully she was giving the finger and apparently they didn’t notice. Mitch had to laugh at that.

“Um guys you really need to see this. I have to say Karen is one hell of a broad.” Mitch said as he handed the picture over to Jon.

“Why do you that?” he asked then he saw the picture. “Oh my God they took a picture of her with the paper! You’ve got to be kidding me!” he said pissed. “You know this doesn’t mean she’s alive now they could have killed her after this was taken.” Jon said angry.

“Jon take a look at her right hand and tell me what you see.” Mitch told him smiling.

“What she’s holding the damn newspaper and giving the finger…she’s giving the finger and it looks like they didn’t even notice that’s great. I can’t believe they didn’t see her do that because if Dotty did see her she would have done something about it that’s for sure. She’s something else isn’t she?” he said smiling as he looked at the picture and taking in every feature of her.

“Jon, Jon?” Richie called him as he was staring in spaced it seemed.

“Uh yeah?” he replied.

“We need you here with us.” Richie told him as he nodded towards Sarah as he had his arms around her.

“Yeah I’m here.” Jon said as he took the picture and gave it back to Mitch. “Mitch what do you really make of this?” he asked him.

“Well they think we’ll accept this as proof of life so I want you to keep asking them to put her on the phone and don’t take no for an answer got it. We’re not paying anything until we hear her voice. Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll forget were tapping them and get a location.” He hoped.

Another fifteen minutes went by and the phone rang again. Dotty made them wait longer than she wanted due to Kyle running out for something. Jon grabbed the phone and this time he wasn’t playing.

“Robertson I want to talk to Karen NOW!” he demanded.

“Whoa rockstar calm down. Didn’t you get the envelope I sent over?” he asked him.

“Yeah I got it and that’s not enough. We want to hear her voice now you Bastard.” Jon told him pissed.

“Yeah I don’t think so. You’re going to have to settle for the picture for now. You’ll see her when you drop off the money.”  He told him

“No that’s where you’re wrong. You want your money you’ll put her on the phone now or you and Dot won’t get a cent I’ll let you two go talk it over.” And Jon hung up the phone.

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 Kyle stood there with his mouth open and then he hung up the phone just looking at Dot.

“Well what’s the matter? Why aren’t you talking to that idiot?” she yelled at him.

“That’s because he fucking hung up on me! He wants to talk to her your fucking plan went down the toilet Dot! Now what!” he screamed back.

“URGH! Well someone is telling him what to say because he can’t be coming up with all of this that’s for sure. He’s not that smart. Well fine if it will shut them up will put her on but if she says the wrong thing I wear I’ll deck her.” Dot told him.

“That’s fine by me. I’ll go get her and I’ll tell her what to say and if she fucks up she’s all yours.” Kyle told her.

Dot was waiting for the two of them when she could hear the two of them coming down the hall as Karen was complaining all the way. Entering the room Kyle pushed her down onto the chair that was by the phone.

“Couldn’t you have gagged her before you brought her here I mean really.’ Dot said to him irritated.

“I would have but I didn’t have anything to stick in her freaking mouth!” he shot back.

“Fine did you tell her what she is supposed to say and what not to say?” she asked him.

“I went over things and told her that you would deck her if she says the wrong thing. So when do you want me to make the call?” Kyle asked her.

Looking at Karen she walked over to her and stared into her eyes. “Look Bitch, you try and tell them anything that you shouldn’t and I’ll knock your lights out got it?” Dot told her.

Looking right back at her, “You’ll knock my lights out? What? You think were in some cartoon here?” she said her glaring back.

Dot then grabbed her by her throat as she wasn’t playing. “Look you think this is a game? Well it’s not.” She told her as she got into her face and as Kyle tried to make her let go as Karen was turning a slight shade of purple.

Finally he got her to let go as Karen was coughing her head off and Kyle said to her, “What the hell Dot? You kill her now and we’ll never get our money and you’ll be going to jail not me Babe. I’m not taking any wrap for murder.” He told her worrying now that she was unraveling.

“You want to make a bet? If I go down so do you. And so does our rockstar.” She told him as he nearly stumbled when he tried walking away and Karen sat there stunned.

“What the hell do you mean by that?” he wanted to know.

“Let’s just say I have things rigged that if we get caught he’s going down with us as an accomplice.” She told them smiling.

“You’ve got to be kidding? So wait you just gave it away in front of her? She can tell them what you said right?” Kyle said as he had an awful feeling about this.

“Oh did I? Just make the call Kyle now.” She told him as she went to make herself a cup of coffee.

Kyle picked up the phone and looked at Karen with a sorrowful look on his face. He didn’t sign on for this. Karen knew deep down that Kyle was a crook but not a killer and they both knew that Dorothea was crazy.

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The guys had order lunch but they weren’t eating very much. But Jon was drinking a lot at this point and it was almost one o’clock in the afternoon and it wasn’t even touching him yet.

“What the hell is taking them so long? Isn’t she right there with them?” Jon asked all agitated.

“She could be and their just drawing this out to piss us off. You need to calm down now. If they know that their getting to you then they’ll have the upper hand Jon.” Mitch told him.

“I just want this to be over and have her back here safe and sound is there anything wrong with that?” he asked.

Getting up and walking over to him Sarah wrapped her arms around him. “No Jon there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Holding her back, “Sarah I’m sorry I haven’t been much of a friend have I? I know this is just as hard on you too and all I have been doing is thinking of myself.” He told her.

Parting from him and looking at him she told him, “Yeah you have.”  Then she started to giggle. “I’m sorry Jon you left yourself open for that.”

“I really did didn’t I?” he told her as he gave her a kiss on top of her head when the phone rang. Everyone turn and looked at the phone. Taking a deep breath he picked it up.

“Yeah?”

“Ok I have her here with me but just a couple of seconds that’s it.” He told Jon.

Jon looked at the others and nodded his head that signal they were putting her on. “Karen? Karen? Babe you there?”

“Yeah I’m here and I’m ok tell Sarah I’m fine but do as they say or they will hurt me.” She told him.

“Well get you home I…” but she was gone.

“Bon Jovi you heard her now we want the money in small bills got it? No cops or any of your security we’ll know. Just you got that. You still know where the drop off is?” Kyle asked him.

 “Yeah I wrote it down. You want it in that trash barrel right?” Jon asked him.

“That’s right and if you want Karen here she’ll be at the address that will be in the barrel so when you drop the money off there will be an envelope with the address where you can find her. And you better get there as soon as possible if you want to find her alive.” Kyle then hung up the phone.

    Jon threw down the phone as he was pissed. Richie and Sarah really felt for him but she was going thru the same thing as he was. Jon told them what Kyle said but Sarah told them that she didn’t think he had the guts to really hurt her. But Jon and the guys weren’t too sure only because they didn’t know him especially with Dot giving him orders.

“Do you really think that he would if she tells him to?” Sarah asked them scared to death now.

“Look Sarah anyone can do anything if they think that they are in love with someone. So we don’t know what these two have for a relationship right now and Dot can be real manipulative if she puts her mind to it. (turning to look at Mitch) so now what?” Jon asked him.

 “Well I’ll get the money ready and we’ll make the drop while I’ll have one of my other men get Karen.” He told Jon.

“No he said me and I’m not risking Karen’s life if they can see you guys dropping it off.” He told them determined.

“Jon I can’t let you do that. First Doc would skin me alive. Second if something ever happened to you I would never forgive myself.” Mitch told him as the rest of them listened to them and knew there was no way Mitch was going to talk Jon out of this even thou it scared them to death.

“Mitch I get that but if something happened to Karen I would never forgive myself ever.”