Monday, February 27, 2017

Chapter 15



  They were all in Jon’s room as Mitch was wiring up Jon on the inside of his shirt. It would not only be a microphone/hearing device but also a tracking device too. Jon was putting on the shirt when Dave asked, “Mitch I thought you were supposed to wire Jon up not his clothing so shouldn’t you have taped all that to his chest?” Dave winked to Richie and Tico knowing that it would have hurt like hell if anyone had caught Jon wearing those devices on his chest seeing that he is covered like a rug on his chest.
Well this set the guys off laughing their heads off as Sarah gave them the eye and Jon stood there not very happy. “Yeah go ahead you assholes laugh it up. You would love to see this ripped off of me wouldn’t you? That’s why I asked Mitch to find an alternative way to place these suckers on me. But of course it would bother you assholes wouldn’t it chumps!” Jon said snickering as he turned around and let Mitch finish what he was doing.
Still chuckling Dave said to him, “Hey I was just trying to lighten the mood a little.”
“Well don’t I’m nervous as it is I don’t need you’re stupid little jokes Joker.” Jon said as he was now shuffling back and forth waiting for the time to leave.
“Ok Jon you know what to do right?” Mitch asked him.
“Yeah all you want me to do is just drop off the bag in the barrel and pull out the envelope and leave as fast as I can.” Jon told him nervously. “Oh and don’t stop for anyone just get back in your car and drive out of there.” He told them.
“Right because in the bag we’ll have a tracer sewn into the bag and also in a couple of the wrappers too just in case they figure out about the bag. Damn t.v. shows they give our secrets away to easily.” Mitch told them.
“Do you think they’ll realize about the money? I mean that it’s fake?” Jon asked him worried.
“I doubt it Jon. They aren’t counterfeiter’s so I doubt it very much that they’ll figure it out right away or if at all so we should get them way before they have time to take off with it.” Mitch told them. “Ok I have my men at the site now so you’ll be watched the whole time you’re there…” but Jon cut him off as he was upset.
“Mitch they just said me. What if they see your men there then what will happen to Karen? I don’t trust Dot as far as I can throw her. Believe me if she sees just one of your men there she’s dead.” Jon stressed.
“Nope no way Jon. I’m not going to risk both of you and they know what they’re doing so don’t worry you won’t see them and neither will they.” Mitch guaranteed him.
“You better hope so.” Jon told him pissed.
“Hey Jon Mitch knows what he’s doing. There is no way in hell we’re going to risk both you’re lives just because you’re being stubborn.” Richie explained to him as everyone else agreed. Jon wasn’t happy about this at all but he finally agreed to it as he had no choice in the matter. Mitch and Jon headed out to the warehouse as instructed but about a mile away Mitch stopped and got out and let Jon finish the drive in so if he was being watched they only saw him drive up. Mitch was then picked up by one of his men and they parked about a block away as one of his guys were videoing taping the whole thing just in case Jon got in trouble and they could descend on them within seconds.
Jon drove into the parking lot of the warehouse and stopped to look around. He then continued a little ways further when he saw the old car that was torn up. He took the left like he was told to and drove down about another mile when he saw the barrels lined up. He thought that looked really strange. “Mitch are you getting any of this? They have the barrels lined up.” He said as he knew Mitch could hear him. “I thought they said there were only going to be two barrels?” Jon asked confused. Jon didn’t like the set up but he grabbed the bag and got out of the car and headed to the barrels anyway. When he got there he looked in all four of them as he realized that there wasn’t any envelope in any of the barrels. “SHIT! They lied to us!” he yelled as he swung the duffel bag at one of the barrels. 
Just then Kyle walked up behind Jon holding a gun, “Is the rockstar having a hissy fit?” he laughed.
Jon spun around to face him when he figured he came out of the next building. “You piece of shit. I knew you wouldn’t play fair.” Jon told him angrily.
“Hey I would have but it’s your ex that wanted it this way. If it was up to me I’d have little big mouth here and trade her for that bag but no she wants you. So dump the money in this bag and let’s get going if you want to see her. I don’t know how much longer I can keep her alive.” He explained to Jon.
“What the hell does that mean?” Jon wanted to know.
“Just get in the damn car before your buddies get here or you’re not going to make it anywhere rockstar because they’ll be picking you up off of the cement.” Kyle told him as he gestured him to move towards the car with his gun.
Jon only did because he wanted to see if Karen was ok and find out what the hell Dorothea’s plan for them was. Kyle instructed him to drive as he got in the passenger’s seat. They drove for about fifteen minutes when then came to another vehicle and switched cars. They drove around again this time for twenty minutes when Jon spoke up.
“For Christ Sake how long are we going to be doing this huh? I mean I don’t think anyone is following us?” Jon said pissed.
“Look you know your ex just as well as I do and I’m not taking any chances that we are. I don’t need her getting all pissy on me. Look I would have left a while ago on her but when she grabbed Karen instead of Sarah well I couldn’t leave her. I knew her big mouth would get her in trouble but I want Sarah that’s it.” He told him.
“What? Then why did you leave her?” Jon wanted to know.
“I don’t want her I want her money you idiot. And if I grabbed her I could get her to sign over everything to me. The same with Dotty she wants that to. She wants you to give her a bigger pay day.  Plus I think she still has a thing for you and if I grabbed Sarah maybe I could look big in her eyes and she would get the one you seemed to like which she is jealous of so I kill two birds.” Kyle told him bragging.
“You’re an idiot. I don’t have a thing for Sarah I have a thing for Karen.” Jon told him giving him the eye.
“Wait you have a thing for Karen? But Dot said you and Sarah were like glue. That’s how we were going to black mail the both of you. Oh God she’s off her rocker. She doesn’t intend to let either of you guys go.” Kyle told him.
“Then we go in there ready to grab her. And I’ll tell the police you helped me right?” Jon asked him.
“Huh? Oh yeah I’m not going down for murder.” Kyle told him.
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 “Why isn’t someone calling us and telling us something?” Sarah wanted to know.
“Calm down Darling they will when they have something to tell us.” Richie told her trying to stay calm himself.
Just then the phone rang and Dave answered it. When he did his face turned white. “Um sure just hang on a sec ok? (turning to the guys and putting his hand on the receiver) Uh guys this is Doc and he wants to talk to Jon what am I supposed to say?” he asked as he nervously handled the phone.
They all just stood there and just froze not really knowing what to tell their manager at first when Tico grabbed the phone from David.
“Hey Doc yeah it’s Tic look Jon isn’t here right at the moment…hey look he’s been under a lot of stress these past few weeks and well you know how he is he needs to release it…well who the hell are you too say how he does it and you do want to keep the lead singer happy right? So let him be…Well a happy lead singer is much better than a pissed off one.” He told him as Tico hung up on him. “Well that should take care of him for a while. Now all we need is a call from Mitch letting us know what the hell is going on.” Tico said worried.
“Well it’s almost been two hours shouldn’t we have heard something by now?” Sarah asked shaking.
The guys just looked at each other not knowing what to say to her. They knew it was getting late and not hearing anything by now they knew it wasn’t a good sign.
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Karen was sitting in the chair that she was tied to for the past morning and afternoon and she was getting cramps all over now. She was wiggling most of her body but she would stop when Dorothea would come in to check on her because if she didn’t Dorothea would smack her one right across the face for thinking she was trying to escape. She stopped wiggling when she heard the door about to open and Dorothea walked in. She didn’t look to happy.
Dot walked over to her and looked at her in the eye. “So what am I going to do with you when Kyle gets here with Jon? Hmmm I could let you go since he’s got his money. Or we could dump you off somewhere and they can find you later.” She told her smiling much too much to Karen’s chagrin.
“Well I’ll tell you what. I know you know all this karate crap and all but why don’t you untie me and give me a fair advantage let’s say so I can try and kick your fat butt and get the fuck out of here ok?” Karen asked her as quaintly as a grizzly bear.  
“What the fuck did you just say to me whore?” Dorothea asked her pissed.
“You heard me nut case now untie me.” Karen said with a straight face.
But all Dorothea did was punch her in the face which dazed her pretty good. She thought at least she would just slap her again but this time she had really pissed her off. Dorothea went to hit her again when she heard the door upstairs open and then close. Then she heard Kyle’s voice yell out to her.
“I’m down here?” she yelled back. She then heard footsteps coming down the stairs.  Opening the door he pushed Jon thru it with the bag as he was holding the gun on him.
“Well hello Johnny. Have him sit over there and give me the bag.” she told Kyle. He did what he was told as Jon looked at Karen as her head was hanging as she was trying to come too. She could hear voices but she thought she was dreaming when she could hear more than one at first. She was really trying hard to shake it off.
“Kyle tie Johnny’s hands behind him just don’t stand there God you’re useless sometimes.” She told him as she started to open the bag. Kyle went to tie Jon’s hands but he didn’t tie them to tight. He had made a deal with him that if he helped them get Dorothea that he would tell the cops that so he would get a better sentence.
“You let her talk to you like that Kyle?” Jon asked him being a smartass.
Kyle looked at him pissed and said to him, “Look smartass if you want to be like little Bitch face over there I’d watch your mouth.” He told him giving him the eye and tugging on the ropes to try and remind him that he could tighten these if he wanted to.
“Hey Dot what did you do to Karen?” he asked her trying not to over react.
“She got mouthy with me so I decked her what’s it with you?” she asked him curious.
Trying not to look like he was upset because then she would hurt her even more, “Because if you hurt her Sarah will be pissed and sic the cops on you like a bear on honey. What were you thinking?” he asked her.
But he didn’t get his answer when she pulled out a pack of bills and found out that all there was in it was twenty dollars bills on the top and bottom and in the middle were cut up newspaper posing as money. “ARE YOU FUCKING ME!” she screamed as she pulled at the rest and found out that all of them were the same way. “You fucked us over! You Son-of-a-Bitch!” she yelled and walked over to him and punched him but he was able to take it better than Karen was and when his head bounced back all he got for it was a split lip.
“Feel better Dot?” he asked her as he licked the blood from his lip.
“ARGH!!!! You fucking asshole! Kyle shoot him!” she yelled to him.
Kyle stood there staring at her then him. By this time Karen was coming around and she was lifting her head and could see what was going on. “NO!” she yelled.
“In fact shoot her I’m done!” Dorothea yelled.
“No way Dot. Look you want them dead fine but I’m not going to do it got that? I’m not killing anyone here. I didn’t sign on for that. I’m not going down for murder. And I’m done being you’re punching bag. Look I got him here for you because you wanted him here to try and get him to come back to you but if you kill him I don’t think he’s going to give you anything right? And you said you’re not in his will so killing him would be really stupid. So I’m outta here Babe. Good luck to ya.” Kyle told her as he took his gun and left.
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Mitch and Jeff were sitting in the car listening to Jon talking and hoping Jon would just put the bag into one of the barrels and get out of there. But unfortunately his instincts were right when he heard Kyle sneak up behind Jon. Luckily they had the bugs on some of the money and on Jon also. So he called his men to start following and as they were too. They weren’t too far behind when they caught sight of the car as they were pulling into this old Victorian house. So they pulled in a few houses behind them as they gotten out and entered. Mitch radioed his men to circle the block and then to circle the house and wait on his instructions. Mitch and Jeff were the first ones going in to access the house to see where they stood before they sent in the rest or if they could handle this on their own without getting Karen or Jon hurt. As they were entering the house Kyle was just leaving the basement when they grabbed him. They dragged him out of the house as fast as possible and down to their car to try and get any details out of him. Little did they know they wouldn’t be able to shut him up.
Mitch: “Ok Robertson where in the house are they?”
Kyle:    “They’re in the basement and believe me if you don’t go there now she’s going to kill them. She is that pissed off.”
Mitch: “Why? What is her problem?”
Kyle:    “How the hell do I know? She’s angry; she’s pissed at Bon Jovi for leaving her and screwing around on her and losing out on all that money. She thought that if she blackmailed him he would have to take her back. So she came up with this crazy marriage thing that she cooked up. When it didn’t turn out the way she had hoped I swear she went nuts. I’m so not going down for murder so I bailed on her I even told Jon that. He’s up there now I didn’t tie the ropes to tight so he should be able to get out of them.”
Mitch: “Does she have a weapon of any kind?”
Kyle:    “No I took my gun with me.” 
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 “Dotty come on you don’t want to do anything stupid do you?” Jon asked her as he was wiggling out of his ropes.
“Maybe I do. I thought you wanted that annulment from that whore? I thought that was the plan Jon? When we were together you were always spouting off that you were to fucking young for marriage and that crap.” Dot yelled at him.
Jon wanted to becare
ful because she was standing next to Karen so he didn’t want to say anything wrong and have her hurt her. “Yeah I know and I thought you knew I was only saying that for the damn press. You were the one that over reacted and also you didn’t talk to me about it in fact we hardly ever talked near the end you know that. Maybe if we did things differently we could have worked things out for us Baby.” Jon told her as he tried to keep the bile down when he did say it and looked over to Karen as she turned her head because she just couldn’t watch him play this out or let him see the mark on her face that Dotty had left there.
Jon looked at Karen when she looked away and his heart dropped. But he would have to ask about that later and try and get Dotty under control now. “Look I tried to talk to you but those little boys that you hang around with didn’t help matters. The more you hung out with them the more you became as stupid as they were. You do know you don’t need them right?” she asked him standing there with her arms crossed. Meanwhile Karen finally looked up at them both because what Dot was saying and the look on Jon’s face was priceless.
But when he saw her face and the mark on it he wanted to flip. So he was working feverishly to get those ropes off faster. “What the Hell Dot! You hit her!” He yelled pissed.
Surprised that he would care that she did, “Well yeah I did why? You know she has a mouth on her and she deserved it. Why the hell do you care anyway?” she asked him as she walked over to him.
He had to think fast but then he did get the ropes off so he wanted to wait until she turned her back to him before he made his move. He had to also answer her before she got suspicious of him so he looked at Karen with a sly smile and said, “Yeah well I really wanted to smack her a couple of times myself. I don’t even know how Sarah stands her.” He said as he winked at Karen hoping she would get what he was doing.

Luckily Karen did get what Jon was doing but it did sting a little anyway but she knew she could shrug it off knowing that Dorothea would get hers in the end. Dorothea walked next to Jon and stopped.  She then straddled Jon as she sat on him and started to caress his face. Jon’s insides were tightening but he had to keep a straight face and just when she grabbed him by the back of his head and by his hair she started to move in to kiss him as Karen looked on in horror. Just then the door flew open and Mitch and Jeff came in as Dorothea’s head flew sideways but before she could do anything Jon’s arms came up and grabbed her tight so she couldn’t move.

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