Raising Amber Marie

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Chapter Twenty-One


Seto called Roland when they were aboard the plane and Roland told him, “When you find out when the plane is going to be landing call and I'll be there.”

Victor felt sorry for Doug, hell first he had fallen in love with a beautiful young lady, then found out he was going to be a dad, only to be threatened by the young ladies psycho mother who told him that the baby had died, now to be told that his child is alive and living with Serenity in Domino.

Then to find out that his own father is trying to scare Serenity into giving him her daughter, hell, Victor thought, if it was his father he'd want him dead. It must really stink to know that all your life you've thought that the child you were told was dead, now to find out that she's alive.

The Flight Attendant broke into his thoughts when she said, “Please up your seats in their upright position, and the pilot is going to be landing the plane in twenty minutes.”

Seto took out his cell phone, called the Manor, and told Roland, “We're going to be landing in twenty minutes.” Roland said, “I'll be right there.”

When the plane landed and they got off, Roland was waiting for them and when he saw Bear and Cheyenne, it brought back memories, some good and some not so good, then he saw a young man with Victor and he guessed it had to be Doug Hammond.

They walked up to Roland and Seto said, “This is Doug Hammond, Doug this is Roland, he's like a father to me and my brother.”

As they shook hands Roland said, “Does your wife know what's going on?”

Doug said, “Yes, I've been honest with her since the beginning, she knows about Serenity and about her losing the baby, and when I found out that the baby is alive, I told her that too.”

Roland then said, “You're coming here doesn't have anything to do with you trying to get custody of your daughter does it?”

Doug then told Roland, “My wife and I have a daughter, besides when Serenity's mom told me that our child was dead, I mourned for awhile, but then I moved on. I don't want to take Serenity's daughter from her, only to stop my father from doing something stupid.”

Bear then said, “Hell he's already done that, when he tried to lie and tell Serenity that he was going to take her daughter from her, your father has a lot to atone for and that's exactly what we're here to do.”

Roland then said, “Lets get your things and then I'll drive back to the Manor and Doug you have to talk to Serenity.

I've got to warn you, when Serenity's brother thought that she was dead, he raised Amber by himself, and he's not a bit happy what's been happening to his sister and niece, so be careful what you say.”

When they got back to the Manor, they went inside and as they walked to the living room, Serenity was on the floor playing with Amber and when she looked up and saw them standing there, she nearly died when she saw Doug,

She stood up and said, “What the hell are you doing here, if you think that you're going to take my daughter from me, well stand in line, your father is at the head of the line.”

Helga came over, picked up Amber, and took her to the kitchen so that the adults could talk.

Doug walked over and sat down on the couch and he said, “Listen, I'm only here to stop my father, and nothing else.”

Just then, Joey walked into the room and when he saw some man sitting beside his sister, he knew who he was, he went over and stood there beside Rene, and he said, “What's going on?”

Rene looked up at him and said, “Joey this is Doug, he's Amber's father, he says that he's only here to help stop his father.”

Joey then said, “Am I'm to believe that you don't want to take Amber from my sister, I want you to know that'll be a cold day in hell before I allow that to happen.”

Doug then said, “When your mother told me that our baby died, and then she had those thugs threaten me to leave you alone, I ran like a scared chicken. My father moved us to Tokyo where I'm living now with my wife Donna and our daughter Cassandra, the day your mother told me that our baby died, I mourned her passing, and then I moved on. Serenity please believe me when I say that I'm only here to stop my father.”

Joey listened to what Doug said, and then he said, “As long as that's all you're doing, but if think that for any reason you're lying, I'm going to make your wife a widow, so you understand?”

Doug stood up and he held out his hand and Joey shook it, Doug said, “I completely understand, now what do you plan doing to stop my father?”

Roland walked over and he said, “Lets go to the den, we'll explain everything to you.” All but Serenity went to the den; Roland looked at her and said, “Why don't you go see if your daughter needs anything.”

Serenity stood there looking at Roland and then she said, “Who died and made you my father, I want to find out what you're going to do.”

Joey walked over to his sister and he said, “Rene, please just do what Roland said, later I'll tell you what's going to happen, please just go to the kitchen.”

Reluctantly Serenity left and went to the kitchen, when Helga looked up and saw her standing there looking like she was about to blow a fuse.

Helga said, “One thing you're going to have to learn, is when Roland wants to talk business that means that just because what their talking about might pertain to you, you aren't allowed to be in the room when they are discussing what to do.

When the men walked into the den, Roland closed and locked the door he said, “Now what I want to know is what are we going to do about this situation?”

Just then the chair at the desk turned around, there sat Chester, both Bear and Cheyenne then said, “Who the hell is he?”

Joey then said, “This is Chester McGovern, he's the man who married our mother and he's the closet thing to a father that my sister has known, so I expect you to show him some respect.”

Bear looked at Roland and then he said, “This young man has a back bone talking like that.” Then Victor walked over to where Joey was and he stood beside him and he said, “Yes he does, and if you don't want to get your asses beat then I suggest that you do as he asks.”

Bear chuckled and then he turned and walked over to where Cheyenne was standing and then Roland said, “Now lets get down to business, we need to find out what Hammond wants, Doug you can help by getting your father to tell you what he wants.

Will you allow me to put a wire on you so that whatever your father says, we will be able to listen to what's being said.”

Doug said, “I'll do anything to expose what my father is trying to do, when do we do this?”

Victor then said, “First you need to call your father and set up a meeting, then just get him to tell you everything he's going to do.

Then we step in and put an end to it, I can't promise that your father isn't going to go to prison if Serenity presses charges, we'll have to wait and see what goes down.”

Doug then took out his cell phone and he said, “I'm going to call his cell phone, I can't promise that he hasn't had it changed.” To his surprise he heard his father's voice, “Hello, who is this?”

Doug said, “Dad, what in the hell are you doing?”

Please R&R..

Chapter Twenty-Two Coming Up..