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“Oh my God, no.” I gasped as my chest tightened.
Before the messaged finished I was already out the door. I couldn’t even remember if I locked it.
This couldn’t be happening. It couldn’t.
The police had Flynn. What the fuck was Sophia doing? Possession.
Fucking shit that was worse than bad.
I hailed a taxi and got to the station.
I rushed right up to the reception desk and asked for Officer Damson. When she came out I saw her take one look at me and I knew I just landed myself in more shit.
“Hi officer Damson, I’m Maria Ferrara, you have my son. I was moving our things into our new home.” I was babbling. Just talking and not giving her the chance to speak.
“Miss Ferrara, I’m afraid I’ve had to call child services.” She told me in a matter of fact manner.
“What? No, why? My cousin was watching him.”
“When things like this happen, we have to look into where the child is staying and make sure their safety comes first. I’m very concerned at what I found. You’ve been living next to a brothel with a bunch of drug addicts. It makes me wonder what you, yourself are like.”
I was shaking my head. “No, I’m a good mother, please. I just want my baby.”
“You’re going to have to make arrangements with child services for that. Here is the number.” She handed me a business card and I could have died.
With my hands shaking uncontrollably I took it.
I took it not quite believing what it was. Not quite believing what was happening.
I’d just lost my son.
I’d just lost Flynn.
Feeling hopeless I did the only thing I could.
Run to Dante.
Chapter 16
Dante
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As promised Vinny sent the names over.
He’d narrowed down the list of potentials to two hundred guys.
We were all at the office, everyone including Gibbs who wanted to come and see what we were getting from Vinny.
The fax came through just after twelve with the note attached to it saying
It’s one of them.
I felt more hopeful last week when I knew I’d be getting a list of names what I never factored in was that having just the damn initials on a name meant there would be dupes. Not just one and two either there were several.
Lots of J.S’, lots of E. L’s, a shit load of M.S’ and even more K.G’s.
It was going to take forever. It was going to take fucking forever to just go through the names and narrow them down even more.
