Whispers in the Night

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

I wake up to a ringing, I know that ringing but my mind is not focused. It takes me a minute to realize it’s my SAT phone. My eyes pop open and I spring off the bed tripping over the covers and Devon to get to it. I land on the floor with a big thud, the guys shoot out of bed looking for a fight and I grab my phone. “ What are you doing on the floor, sweets?” Devon asks with laughter in his eyes. I ignored him and answer Stan's call. 

Stan- “ Well it’s about damn time you answer the phone. What took you so long?” 

Sky- “ What the hell… I was asleep, give me a break. What’s going on?” 

Stan- “ Well wake up and come down and tell these guard dogs to let us in.” 

Sky- “ Wait what? Let you in where? Where are you?” 

Stan-” About a mile from you, these yahoos wont let me and the boys through. 

I look up to the guy’s confused on what Stan said. I see Shane on the phone, face grim. “Are you expecting anyone?” he asks me, all I can do I nod. He turns from me and continues on the phone. 

Stan- “ Sky.. Sky.. SKY!!” 

Shy- “ Yeah yeah I got ya you don’t have to shout. I’ll meet ya down stairs.” and I hung up. “ Did you let them in?” I ask Shane when I see him off the phone. 

Shane-” Yeah I did, why didn’t you tell us people where coming? I could have had the boy’s more prepared.” 

Sky- “I didn’t know he was gonna come, I thought he was gonna call me like usual.” 

I reach into my bag for clothes and start to get dressed. 

Devon- “ Who is here?”

Sky- “ My contact and his people. Come on get dressed they will be pulling up any minute now.” 

Devon- “ You just got off the phone with him it will take him at least 10 to get through the checkpoints.” 

Devon looks so cute with the confused look on his face. “ No he wont believe me, that first one was a courtesy, he will be here and you’ll have to calm your guy’s down when they do.” 

They follow me out of the room I head to the stairs and they go to their rooms to get dressed.  I step out on the back porch and can hear the rumble of engines. Stan’s blacked out SUV comes to a screeching halt and motorcycles surrounding him with guns drawn. The twins join next to me and I shake my head. 

“ It’s alright boys, they are friendly” I say. They look at the twins and they nod confirming. Stan and his crew step out, I shake my head again at Stan, walk over and give him a hug. 

Sky- “ Always something when you're around” with a smile on my face. 

Stan- smiles back at me “ It’s about time you answered the damn phone. What the hell took you so long?” 

I blush remembering the night before and look down, my shoes became very interesting. The twins walk over and Shane pulls me to his side. Stan looks at me with a knowing smile. He extends his hand to the twins as I make introductions. Devon tells the boy’s to go back to their posts and there will be a meeting later that day. 

We go into the kitchen and I start making coffee in the industrial coffee pot I found in the pantry. I know I’m hungry and I’m sure the guy’s are too so I start to rummage through the cabinets and pull out big griddles and set them up. While they are heating up I pull everything I will need from the fridge and pantry and start mixing up pancake mix eggs bacon sausage. I have everything going and decided at the last minute to make some croissants. They will be done last but oh well. I look over and see everyone staring at me like I have lost my mind. “ Set the table” I say as I start plating everything that’s done. 

Devon grabs everything for the table from the butler’s pantry and set the table. Shane hands out coffee and I bring the food over. 

Sky- “What? I’m hungry and I’m sure y'all are too.”

Stan shakes his head at me “ just like your mother” with a small smile on his face. I turn my head taking deep breaths to stop the tears that are coming. We all dig in, Devon has a hand on my leg and gives a gentle squeeze. “ Everything is great ,thank you babe” Shane says from the other side of me.  In the middle of eating I get up and pull out the croissants from the oven and plate them. I sit them in the middle of the table and take my seat. Stan’s guys eye them and look like they will start drooling any minute now. I take one from the top Shane and Devon does the same then they attach them like vultures. I giggle at this. I look around the table and see Josh is not here. 

Sky-” Where’s Josh?”

The twins stop eating and look at each other. Devon pulls his phone out and calls him. Josh burst’s through the back door as I hear his phone ringing. He’s out of breath like he’s been running. 

Sky-” There you are, sit down and eat. What’s the matter with you?”

Josh-” We need to talk” as he comes over and sits. 

I make him a plate and sit it in front of him “ Talk and eat, what's got a fire under you already?” 

Josh- “ Oh you mean other than your friends here causing a ruckus this morning? I’ve been monitoring the prisoners' phones for calls and text messages. One came through Art’s phone stating there will be another attack tonight. We have to prepare.” 

Stan- “ Why would a message be sent to him? Don’t they know he was captured?” 

Josh looks at Stan with a weary eye, I make introductions again for Josh. Josh relaxes a bit but still gives him the eye. 

Josh- “ Well no since I have been texting back saying he has been in hiding with what remains of their people.” 

Stan grins and nodded his head, “ Very good” 

Breakfast was cleaned up and we sat with our coffee. I look at Stan waiting for him to start. He knows I am waiting for answers to my questions and it can’t be good if he is here. He lets out a breath and clears his throat. 

Stan-” Well guess can’t delay it any longer. I have looked into your marriage and can’t find any record of it on any database. I sent Mack here to talk to the priest who performed it and he confirmed it was only a ceremony and no legal papers. He was paid double for no questions, apparently he has done this in the past. Blaine is another story, the only Blaine Shaw I have been able to find with or close to his birthday has been dead since 1962. Died in a car accident, no wife or kids. Everything about him is forged, his employment records schooling everything.”

I put my head down thinking about all of this.Everything I thought I knew about him is a lie. 

Shane-” How accurate is this information?” 

Stan- “ Very. I have access to every database around the world and not just public one’s. Sky know’s this. When I dig I dig deep. I did confirm his shoe size.”

Devon- “ What does that have anything to do with this? Who cares about his shoe size.” 

Stan- “ It might not seem much to you but it allowed me to be able to trace at least 10 other women that got married in a short time, became isolated from family and friends then ‘moved away’. In short they have disappeared, most likely sold into human trafficking and I believe that is what he planned to do with Sky. He just didn’t count on me or her.” 

Stan’s guys all nod, they saw me at my worst, helped mend me back together and kept an eye on me in the woods or at least tried to anyway. 

I jump up from the table “ I need a map of the area and surrounding area. The hills, caves everything and move to the back door. Josh hold’s my hand to stop me, he has sadness and worry in his eyes. Stan shakes his head at him and he let’s me go. 

Stan

Sky walks out back and I take in Shane, Devon and Josh. I stop Josh from interfering with Sky, I know she needs time to process all of this and needs space to do it. One of the twins starts to follow her.  “ I wouldn’t do that if I were you, she needs time and has her own process.”  “ Who do you think you are?” he growls at me. “ Which twin are you?” Josh cuckold at this, it must be common not being able to tell them apart. “Devon” 

Stan- “ Well Devon I can guarantee you if you go out there right now whatever you started with her will stop at that moment. She has a process she goes through and god help anyone who disturbs it. Curt here can show you the scare of that. He came up on her while she was processing and I had to put 15 stitches in his arm.” 

Josh-” What do you mean? What did she do?”

Curt- “ I didn’t know to stay away from her and saw her sitting on the ground. I just went to her to see if she was ok when out of nowhere she sprung up. Next thing I knew she was about five feet from me and my arm was bleeding, I didn’t even see the knife or her move. Stan had to rescue me from her.” 

Josh sprung up and got on the phone yelling at whoever he called to stay away from Shy until she came to them, good man. 

Stan- “ Look, like I said, just give her time and space. Also find those maps she asked for, when she comes back she will be all business. I also see your fondness for her and your brother is too. I did check you guys out and you seem solid, but I’m giving you fair warning now you hurt her they will never find your bodies. She has been through enough.” 

Shane- “ We know what she has been through, she told us.” 

Tempers are high, the twins don’t yell, they growl when they are angry. 

Stan- “ Knowing and seeing are two different things.” 

I pulled out photos of Sky with her injuries when I got to her. Her face is black and swollen, almost unrecognizable. Her broken ribs and contusions on her stomach, arms and legs. “ You see her arms and legs. How beat up they are? That’s from her covering up trying to protect herself and fight back. We nursed her back to health. I was surprised she was able to walk. See the hand print on her neck That’s when her father came in and saved her life with his.”

Josh turned green, Shane and Devon turned white then red with anger. They looked at all of us in turn, their eyes shone with unshed tears. “ Thank you” is all they said. I gathered the pitchers and put them away. 

Shane- “ Does she know you have those?”

Stan- “ No, I took them in case she ever went to court but that doesn’t seem likely now. That fucker is dead when I get my hands on him.” 

Josh leaves and comes back with the maps Sky wanted. We were looking them over trying to figure out her plans when Sky came back. She squeezes in between everyone and scans all the maps. Flipping through them and stacking them in  order only she knows. She looks up at Josh “ where are the maps to the mines?” she asks. 

We are all confused especially Shane Devon and Josh. 

Sky- “ Did you not know there are mines on your property and surrounding area?” 

The twins scratch the back of their heads “ No” they say in unison. Sky looks at me and I nod to Curt. He goes out to the truck and brings in our back with a computer system in it. 

Curt-” Where can I set up?”