Amelia clung onto Arlo, extremely worried as they were stuck in the back of the van for what seemed like they had been driving for hours. The ride was bouncy, the van was loud, and it felt as if they were moving fast.

The van had stopped, Arlo then heard a bunch of arguing and scooted to where he could try hearing what they were saying, they were loud, but he couldn't make out what they were saying. The van started moving again, but much slower than what they had been before stopping about ten minutes later.

They heard the men open the doors and get out, talking as they walked closer to the back doors. "Arlo." Amelia whispered.

"Shhh. I'm trying to make out what they are saying." He whispered back.

Amelia started praying, she wished she had talked Arlo out of coming out there to look for Salina, even though she was worried about Salina. "Just stay calm and don't say anything when they get us out of here, just follow what they say." Arlo said quietly.

He knew he had to be strong for her, for Salina as well as Talia. All he wanted was his daughter back and to get back home. He was scared but wouldn't let it show so Amelia would stay calm.

They sat in the van for a couple hours, the back doors finally opened and they happened to notice that it was dark out, a couple men pulled them out placing blindfolds on them and tied their wrists together before walking them inside.

Amelia's heart was racing unsure of what was going on, they were then placed in a room and their blindfolds taken off. "What is going on?" Arlo asked the two men.

"Sit here and wait for the boss." The one said to them before leaving them locking the doors behind them.

A man finally walked in a few minutes later, Arlo then recognized who he was when he saw his face "Where is she?" He asked sounding upset.

"She will be here shortly."

"Why?" Arlo asked. "Why are you doing this to her, to us?" Arlo looked at him curiously, trying to figure out what he wanted with his daughter. "Topher is it?"

He laughed an evil laugh "You're seriously going to ask me that? And yes.. it's Topher..." He turned his back to him "Oh Arlo, think about it. If you don't know by now, then you're stupider than you look."

Amelia looked over at Arlo, staying quiet like he asked her. She wanted to know what was going on and where Salina was, wondering if she was OK. Arlo sat there thinking about what Topher was talking about, he had never seen him before his daughter brought him over for dinner or even heard of his name before.

The only thing he could think of was that it had to do with something he was involved with while he was in the navy. There were many things that he did while he was involved with them, the only thing that he could think of it being was realizing where he was right now and that it had to do with involving drugs.

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Ryker had been waiting for an email from the sketch artist, it's been days since he asked for them to have Hannah give them an idea on what he looked like. He called Hannah's room and talked with her for a little bit asking if anyone had been there to see her.

I had a little set back and couldn't remember what he looked like, all I remembered was that this time I had seen him he had blonde hair, and the last time before that his hair was dark. As for the face, my mind went completely blank.

"It's OK, just take your time." After talking to her he made a phone call asking what the deal was with Hannah, before she remembered who he was but when it came down to drawing his face she forgets. Something is fishy he thought.

He asked for them to hypnotize her to see if that would work, he wondered if Christopher found out that she was still alive and paid a visit to her or if anyone else had come to see her.

He had no more leads but didn't want to leave until he found out something about him. As much as he didn't want to do it, he then called Marcus asking for his help, asking to have him pay a visit to Hannah and see what he could possibly get out of her.

The list of names from her college days of who she hung out with and who was at the party kept staring him in the face, wondering if he missed anyone. Taking another look at the names he noticed he missed someone, he grabbed his things and left the hotel in a hurry.

In his notes he saw that she bartended nights at a local bar down the street, he walked in looking around at who was all inside, making sure he wasn't going to encounter trouble, he then headed for the bar to sit.

"What can I get for you?"

"Just a beer please."

"What kind? We have quite a few to choose from."

"Just give me whatever is popular, I'm not picky." He said giving her a smile. He laid out twenty dollar bill for her to grab when she came back with his beer.

"Never seen you in here before, are you new in town?"

He smirked as he picked up his beer to taste. "Not bad." He says taking another drink of the cold beer. "I'm new in town, but I'm only here looking for a Cassandra Adams, know where I can find her?"

"I sure can, that's me." She smiled as she looked around to see if anyone else needed a drink.

"Perfect.. I have some questions to ask you, wondering if maybe you could help me."

"Why are you a cop or something?"

"No, I'm a friend of Hannah's. You wouldn't happen to remember her from about five years ago would you?"

"Hannah.. Hannah." She says repeating herself as she thought for a bit. "Do you mean Hannah Olson?"

"Yes. That's her."

"Did something happen to her?" She asked concerned.

"Well you could say that, she was beaten and left for dead. She's alive but is having a hard time remembering things, some things are slowly coming back to her... so my question is, can you possibly help me out?"

"Sure.. anything." She looked to her side and saw a man standing at the bar waiting for a refill "I'll be right back."

Ryker drank some more of his beer, he hoped that she would be the key and be able to help him get some answers.

"So how can I help you?" She asks as she came back, she stood there still looking at him with a concerned look. "She was a good friend of mine, and had disappeared after she became pregnant."

"Well she had a little girl and named her Victoria, she's four now... but the father of the child do you happen to know who he is?"

"I remember her with a guy once, he was at a party that we were at. She told me that he had gotten her pregnant, his name was Christopher."

"Yea we know that, but she cannot remember his last name at all, or where he is from."

"Well he wasn't from around here that I know of, at least not from the college we went to. He came to the party that night with some other people. He was kind of a jerk, I don't know what she saw in him that night, but I'm sure it was the alcohol talking."

"So I'm guessing you don't know his last name."

"I want to say it was Garcia or something like that, it's been a while so I could be wrong."

"Well I'll take it, it could be right. It's more information that I have gotten since I've been here." He smiled finishing his beer.

"Would you like another?"

"Sure what the hell." He handed her his glass and shoved the money out for her to take.

"Don't worry I got this one.. so you said that she was beaten, do you think it was him or something?"

Ryker explained to her what happened to Hannah and her daughter, she let out a gasp holding her hands to her mouth in shock "Oh my gosh, I knew that guy was no good. I didn't like him that night at the party. He was so damn arrogant and just an ass."

"Do you remember what he looks like at all?"

"Not really, he was tall and had dark hair, that's all I remember.

"Hmm. That's what she told me as well."

"You're going to have to give Hannah my number and have her call me sometime." She says writing her number down on a piece of paper, handing it to him "That is when she's feeling better."

"I'll give this to her and tell her that you said hi. But I better get going." He says as he stood up, drinking the last of his beer "Thanks for the information, hopefully it's something that I'll be able to use and get down to the bottom of this."

Ryker got back to the hotel and started searching the name Christopher Garcia. He came up with hundreds of those names in a bunch of states. What the fuck. He ran his hands through his hair, taking a deep breath and started clicking on each name starting with the obvious state of California.

All he wanted was to hurry and figure this out so he could get back to Talia, he was missing her and couldn't get her off his mind. He was getting concerned since he has been trying to get a hold of her and she hasn't answered any of his calls or returned them.

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Topher walked up to Arlo and whacked him across the face before getting right in his face "You owe me a ton of fucking money." He said aggressively and angrily, grinding his teeth. "You stole from me." He continued to beat him as Amelia watched on, screaming, crying and yelling for him to stop.

Topher turned around and got in her face getting ready to whack her before Arlo yelled out "Please don't touch her, she has nothing to do with this."

Topher turned around giving Arlo another whack to the face and left the room. Amelia got up and quickly went over to Arlo touching her face against his. Both of them still had their wrists tied up from behind "Arlo, what is he talking about?"

Arlo sighed, feeling bad that they had taken her hostage along with him, if anything they should have taken him and left her alone. "I'm guessing it's because of the drug shipments that we seized, there was a huge one that I had help seize right before I retired."

"How would he know it was you?"

"I'm sure he had some of his men that were dressed as one of us, waiting for the shipment to arrive, I don't know..." She then sat on his lap and burrowed her head into his neck "We never should have come out here." She said quietly, choking up.

"Either way, they still would have came for me. Look at how he got Salina to date him, and to marry him. I'm guessing he married her here to get me to come out here, it's easier for him here."

"Oh God.. Salina." Amelia cried out. Just as she called out for Salina, the door opened and in came Salina with Topher. "You have ten minutes to talk and then I'll be coming to grab you."

"Mom! Dad!" She called out running towards them "What are you doing here?" She tried to untie her mother until Topher grabbed the back of her neck. "Don't you even think about it." He snapped in her ear.

Topher instructed her that all she could do was talk to them, and if she tried anything that she would pay for it, then left the room and locked the door. Salina looked at her parents and cried "You shouldn't have come out here."

"We came here to bring you home--." Arlo started to say. "Dad, you need to bring mom home. Let me go, I'll figure out a way to get back home." She insisted as she cut him off.

"No, were not leaving here without you."

"He won't let me go, he says you owe him millions of dollars dad.. what did you even do?"

"It wasn't me, he's talking about when I was in the navy and our army seized a bunch of drugs. Apparantly those were his."

"Oh dad." Salina cried out. She looked over at her mom and gave her a hug. "I'm soooo sorry mom, I shouldn't have come here, but he made it sound amazing.. I fell for it."

The door opened and in came three men, Topher grabbed Salina, while the other two men grabbed her parents placing bags over their heads and bringing them out of the room while Salina screamed and fought with Topher.

He was able to grip her, tie her up and lifted her over his shoulder carrying her out of the room, bringing her to where her parents were. "Shut your mouth, you're all going to pay for what your father did to me." He yelled at her full of anger.

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Next chapter Ryker will be leaving California, and will be going out looking for Talia, hopefully he can find her before someone else does!

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