Billionaire, Let's Divorce!

DENNIS

I frowned as I picked up her call. "Why-"

"Where's Amie, Dennis? Where's she?" She inquired frantically, and then she said in one breath how Amie was about to get kidnapped.

"What?" I dropped the pan in my grasp on the counter. "Wait, hold up? My Amie? When?"

"Now, Dennis. Now. Get them to Safety. Where is she?"

"They we- you know what? I'll call you back," I said before I ended the call and quickly placed a call through to Ana.

I paced back and forth in the kitchen, my left hand rested on my hip while my right hand held the phone to my ear as I waited for her to pick up.

"Dennis? Do you need us to get something?"

"Babe," I breathed the moment she picked up, momentarily relieved that she was fine.

Amie would also be fine, I thought, but I still asked, "Where are you guys? Are you on your way back? Is Amie there with you?"

She had taken Amie to go grocery shopping so as to cheer her up after she witnessed our fight. Since Amie enjoyed shopping so much, she thought it was the right activity to lift her mood and also restock some things in the house. I stayed back and decided to make dinner.

"Dennis," she repeated and I could tell that she wasn't fully focused on the call. She sounded distracted. "Excuse me," I heard her say, "When will this be replaced?" There was a pause as the response of whoever she asked the question came. Their response was muffled over speaker so I couldn't hear them.

"Okay, thanks" I heard her say and immediately, I called her name again.

"Ana? Where are you?"

"I'm sorry, babe. I was just asking when the-

"Okay, tell me where you are right now. Are you on your way back home?" My grip on the chair was hard as I tried to keep myself calm.

"We aren't on our way yet," she answered, "I'm still grocery shopping with Amie at the-"

"What did you say? Where's Amie?" I asked as the network got shaky.

"She's right here..." she trailed off. Then, I heard her call out, "Amie? Amie!"

My heart slammed against my chest. "What's wrong? Where's Amie?"

"I think-" there was a break in the network.

"Ana! Ana, are you there?"

"Dennis? Can you-" her voice broke off again.

"Ana?" I called again as I roughly pulled the apron I had on over my head. I dumped it on the counter and turned off the cooker. "What's wrong? I rushed up the stairs to the bedroom. "I think she walked off somewhere. I'm looking

around.$

"Shit!" I muttered as I walked to vanity and grabbed my keys. "I'm coming over."

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ANASTASIA

"Okay, Amie. You're so sweet, but Justin can't take candies yet."

She pouted and her hands fell from the candies she had grabbed for Justin. "Till when?"

I moved my head from one side to the other, "Maybe in two years."

"That's unfair!" She cried. "So he won't take ice cream too?"

I laughed. "No, sweetie, he can only take milk for now and not even all milk," I explained as I pushed the cart and began to make my way to another aisle.

She pouted. "I feel so bad for him," I heard her say as she followed me, taking the snacks she wanted on her way.

I laughed. "He loves milk, you know. He enjoys it."

She looked up at Justin who was suckling on his finger, but she still packed a good amount of candies and poured them into the cart. "We'll keep them for him in a safe," she said stubbornly. I shook my head. "Oh Amie."

"But I can pick up toys for him, right?"

"Sure," I told her distractedly as I retrieved my ringing phone from my pocket.

"Dennis? Do you need us to get something?" I inquired the moment I picked up.

"Babe. Where are you guys? Are you on your way back? Is Amie there with you?" Dennis' urgent voice came through.

"Ana? Where are you?"

"I'm sorry, babe. I was just asking when the-"

He cut me short. "Okay, tell me where you are right now. Are you on your way back home?" Though the line kept breaking as we spoke, all he kept asking about was where Amie was.

"She's right here, Dennis, right here," I answered just as I turned to my side where I had seen Amie picking out more candies for her brother. But now, she was gone. I frowned.

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"Amie?" I turned around. "Amie!"

It was just me on the aisle now. Where did she go? Did she go to the toys section without me? I wondered as I remembered the last question she had asked just before I picked up Dennis' call. en

"What's wrong? Where's Amie?" I heard Dennis say.

"I think she went to the toy section to get some toys for Justin."

"Ana! Ana, are you there?"

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"Ana? What's wrong?"

"I think she walked off somewhere. I'm looking

around," I told him as I began to push my cart to the toys section.

"Shit! I'm coming over."

I was going to tell him that there was no need, but the line had gone dead.

I tucked my phone back in my pocket and continued my journey to the toys section.

By the time I looked around and couldn't find Ana, I had begun to grow worried.

"Oh goodness, I just hope she isn't injured," I thought as I abandoned my cart and made my way to the other sections first, but Amie was still nowhere around. What the heck is happening? "Amie! Amie!"

I couldn't stop screaming her name despite the security coming to me twice to ask me to lower my voice.

"I can't find my daughter," I told him with a shaky voice the second time he came. "She was just by my side."

"Okay, ma'am give me a description," the security man said.

"She has on a pink blouse and blue pants," my voice trembled as I gave him Amie's description.

"Okay, ma'am. We'll help look around."

They did as they asked, but no one sighted her.

As I stepped, blinking away the tears in my eyes, I saw Dennis' car pull up by the road. Immediately, he rushed out and rushed toward me.

"Are you okay?" He inquired as he pulled me into a hug.

I sniffed and my tears finally gave

way. "I can't find Amie, Dennis." I looked around, wishing she'd magically appear by my side. "She was just by my-" I hiccuped. "Ske was just by my side, I can't find her.“

He pulled me to him again as he repeatedly muttered 'shit' over and over again. Then he told me. "Clara called. I think Amie has been abducted."