Victoria The Billionaires Maid

VICTORIA’s [POV]

I was still sitting in Michael’s room, watching him sleep when I heard Liz’s voice in the hallway. “Is she sleeping?” I got up and stuck my head out the door. She looked at me with a mixture of relief and sadness. I wondered how she knew anything was going on. Cook must have called her.

“Come on in, Liz.” She came towards me and threw her arms around me. She hugged me so tightly that I could barely breathe. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m okay. It’s been a strange morning.”

“Oh my God, you don’t know…” The security officer stepped in then. He was on the phone.

I was looking from him to Liz and I chose her first and said, “I don’t know what?”

“Miss Victoria this is a Detective Salas from the LAPD. He wants to speak with you.”

“Oh my God! Alex!” I grabbed the phone. “This is Vicki. Is Alex okay?”

“This is Detective Salas. I’m a hostage negotiator…”

“Hostage? Alex is a hostage? Oh my God!”

“I know it’s hard Miss but if you calm down for just a second, I’ll fill you in.”

“Okay.” I listened quietly as the police officer told me the man I loved with every fiber in my body was trapped inside a stone room on the beach with a maniac with a gun. I could feel the bile rising in the back of my throat and my hands were shaking so hard that I dropped the phone. I dropped down into the chair and bent forward with my head in my hands. I was going to throw up.

Liz picked up the phone and said, “Vicki’s not feeling well. Is there anything else you needed to tell her?” She put him on speaker.

“No ma’am. Just let her know we’re doing everything we can and we’ll let her know as soon as we have a resolution.”

Liz hung up and handed the phone back to the security officer. “He said when we have a resolution, not when he’s out safe.”

“Oh honey, they have to say that… I’m sure they’re doing everything they can to keep him safe.”

“He’s alone in a stone box basically with a desperate man who has a gun. What can they do?”

“I don’t know,” she said. She looked like she was going to cry. “But I do know that Alex is smart. You tell me that all the time. He loves you and Michael and he’s going to do whatever it takes to get back to both of you in one piece… right?”

I nodded. Suddenly my stomach rolled and I had to run into the bathroom and vomit. When I emptied my stomach I sat on the floor sweating and shaking for a long time. What would I do if I lost him? I can’t lose him. Please God, let him come home safe.

When the shaking subsided enough for me to stand, I pushed myself up and washed my face, and rinsed my mouth. Then I went into the bedroom. Liz was waiting there for me with Michael in her arms. She got that I didn’t want him alone without me even having to say a word. I love her.

I walked over and opened the oak cabinet where the television was. When I picked up the remote, Liz said, “Are you sure you want to do that, honey?”

I nodded. “I need to know what’s going on.” She didn’t say anything. She knew arguing with me would do no good. When the television came on I flipped through the stations. There was a “Special Report” about the hostage situation at every local station. I settled on one and sat down on the bed next to Liz to watch the drama unfold on live TV. The anchor was standing in the parking lot at Manhattan Beach. I could see the pier and the water in the background as well as the bathrooms. There were police everywhere and a SWAT van.Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

“We’re in Manhattan Beach where a real-life drama is unfolding. Alexander Reigns, the CEO of Reigns Biotechnical is reportedly inside the restroom building behind me bei

ng held at gunpoint by a man named Elliot Hanson. Hanson is reportedly an employee of Mr. Reigns. There is some talk of attempted kidnapping and another man in custody; we’ll bring you more on that as it comes in. For now, this is Maggie Brown for KTLA….” I changed the station. The reports were almost identical on every station.

“Miss?” I looked up and Cook was in the doorway. He was holding my phone. I’d left it downstairs in the sunroom earlier.

“Yes?”

“It’s Amanda, Mr. Reigns’ PA.” I jumped up and grabbed the phone from him.

“Amanda, do you know anything?”

“Nothing more than you probably know. I can hear it in your voice, you’ve heard right?”

“Yes.”

“I did talk to him, Victoria. He sounded okay.”

“You talked to him? How?”

“He called me on the kidnapper’s phone. He needed me to take care of getting some money together.”

“I need that number.”

“Um… it was blocked.”

“You’re a terrible liar Amanda. I need the number, now.” She gave it to me, reluctantly.

As soon as I disconnected from her, I blocked my number and called it. It rang for times and I finally heard, “What?”

With a tremor in my voice, I said, “Is this Elliot?”

“Yes. Who is this?”

“Victoria.”

“Well, well, little Vicki. Thanks for calling. It’s been a long time. So long that you never even recognized me at the gate yesterday…”

“Elliot, please don’t do this.”

“Why Vicki? Because you say so? Because you’re suddenly so important that we should all bow at your feet? You didn’t recognize me because you didn’t even look at me. You used to be one of us, but how quickly they forget when they screw the billionaire.”

“Why, Elliot? Why would you and Jason do this?”

“Jason’s a pathetic idiot. He needs cash and he wants you. He wanted to take the baby and then lure you there after him.”

“Where? Where was he going to go?”

“Huh uh, I’m not an idiot. I have to go, Vicki. I’m a little bit busy here.”

“Wait! Elliot, please let me talk to Alex.”

There was a pause and then suddenly I heard the most beautiful sound in the world, Alex’s voice. “Vicki?”

“Oh, Alex! Baby are you okay? Did he hurt you?”

“No baby. I’m not hurt. I’m fine. I love you.”

“I love you too. Oh, baby, I need you to come home safe. Please give him whatever he wants.”

“I will. I’m coming home to you baby. I love you.”

“I love you.”

“Aw, isn’t that sweet… Not! I think I’m going to be sick.” Elliot disconnected the call. I was still holding the phone, shaking like a leaf again. Karen was there, standing next to Gregory.

“Miss Victoria, I’m going to call the doctor.”

“No, don’t.”

“You need something for your nerves.”

“My nerves will be fine as soon as Alex comes home safely and nothing else is going to help. I won’t be sedated and sleep through this.”

Gregory and Karen left and the security officer posted himself outside the master suite. I walked over and sat down next to Liz and looked at my sleeping baby. I held out my arms and she handed him to me. I hugged him to my chest and rocked him back and forth.

“Daddy will be okay baby. He’ll be home soon. Daddy loves us.” The tears I’d been holding back all morning finally started to flow. Liz put her arm around my shoulders and we sat there for what seemed like forever. Suddenly I heard the anchor on the television.

“Mr. Reigns’ private helicopter has just landed on the beach. A few minutes before that happened, we saw the police let a man who I am told is an employee of Chase financial bank goes past holding a briefcase. He’s putting it on the helicopter now.”

“Oh God, what if he takes Alex with him?”

“Don’t get yourself worked up again honey. He has what he wanted now. Maybe he’ll let him go…”

I closed my eyes and said a prayer just as I heard the anchor say, “The police have been ordered to lower their weapons and stand down.

We expect Mr. Reigns and his captor to emerge any minute from the bathroom…” I held my breath. It seemed like hours passed before they showed the bathroom door open slowly.

Alex stepped out with his hands in the air, God please keep him safe. “We can see Mr. Reigns behind us here and there is his captor behind him. I can’t see but it looks like he has the gun to Mr. Reigns’ back…” Oh, my poor Alex…

God help him, please. I love him so much. “They’re walking towards the helicopter. It looks like he’s taking Mr. Reigns with him.” Oh, God! Oh no!

There was a sudden, deafening sound of a shot. I saw Alex fall sideways and suddenly the camera was pushed to the side and the anchor was saying, “There was a shot fired! A shot has been fired!” Everything went dark.