CHAPTER FORTY

Chloe's P.O.V

"You have to get up, Chloe." A nurse behind me speaks up, my head underneath the white blankets.

I tightened the blankets more securely around me, I refuse, why is it that the nurses haven't noticed my babies are missing.

The nurse sighs, hearing the door squeal open and closed again. "I don't understand why she won't get up, one minute she's screaming to hold them and the next she won't move." They whisper hushly to one another.

They know I'm not deaf, and I'm laying right here, the ignorance was beginning to piss me off even more.

"Most likely postpartum, it happens a lot." The other nurse replied.

'Postpartum, what? I don't even know what that word means!' "Poor girl, and so young too."

I sat up and faced them, hair disheveled and tear dried eyes. "You haven't even noticed that my children are missing and somehow I'm supposed to trust you to be the ones to protect them when I was unconscious."

They looked at eachother with unsure looks and back at me. "I think you're a little confused dear, your babies are fine."

I looked at my mother and her gaze stayed on the floor trying not to make eye contact.

"Bring them to me then." I ordered, knowing damn well they didn't know anything.

"Yes, of course." The nurse quickly made her way out the door, and down the hall.

We waited five minutes before the nurse that had stayed, her radio went off. "We have an amber alert times two on the infant sector."

That in itself confirmed it, they were gone, Colby and Jason were running out of time and my heart felt like it shattered in unfixable pieces.

A young woman had rolled into the room in a wheelchair, I immediately recognized her.

"Sylvia?" I asked sitting up slowly, I was still in a lot of pain.

"Chloe?" She asked, wincing in pain.

The nurses helped her get into bed and they closed the curtain around her bed, I looked at Hayley who seemed just as surprised as I was.

"Who is that?" My mother questioned Hayley as I helped her lay down.

"It's a friend of Chloe's, they met at the O.B.G.Y.N one time." She explained in a whisper.

That's when Sylvia screamed in pain as the doctor came in to inspect her. "She's eight centimeters dilated, she needs to be ten, Ill come back periodically as we wait."

I nodded as if I knew what any of that meant, which I didn't.

"While we wait, why don't I get you a chair, you must be feeling a bit weak on your feet, and quite uncomfortable with your stitches." I was confused for a moment when the nurse spoke about stitches until I began to feel a bit nauseous.

"A chair would be great, thank you." I say as she leaves the room.

"I don't know how much longer I can hold off, and I really need the bathroom.

Doctor Pistocial proceeded to check her and after one last painful scream she looked at me. "I don't know if I can do this."

The nurse came in with a chair and placed it in front of me and I took one of Sylvia's hands in both of mine.

"You can and you will, you're doing great." Truth is I have no clue, but I knew she needed the confidence.

"How much longer?" She burst into tears as her hand gripped mine as tight as she could.

Her body began to cease and she let out a blood curdling scream.

"Okay Sylvia, push and hold for three seconds ready?" Doctor Pistocial instructed, and Sylvia did as told.

She screamed each time she pushed and after fifteen minutes the doctor brought out a very silent baby, no screaming no crying, the room was silent.

Nurses and doctors were rushing around the room trying to get the blue faced newborn to breath. "What's happening?" Sylvia says tiredly, her eyes rolling back.

I didn't reply because I never witnessed any of this before and the doctors also didn't respond.

After several seconds that felt like an eternity a glass breaking scream erupted from the baby's mouth and everyone calmed down.

Everyone took a reassuring breath, I looked down at Sylvia, her own slowed and the heart monitor beside her beeped normally, her eyes closed exhausted.

"You did it, she's here Sylvia." I whispered, tears sprang in my eyes.

They wrapped the baby in a blanket, and placed her on Sylvia's chest, her skin was red and blotchy, the color quickly flushed her skin. "My-my baby, she's so beautiful."

My heart was wrenching and all I can do is pray my babies are found safely.

Colby's P.O.V

I was in the driver's seat again, Jason and I wrote in silence as I thought everything out.

They weren't at the storage unit, they probably knew I was going to check there, but where else could they be?

I grunted out of frustration and put a hand through my tangled shoulder length hair.

That's when I remembered there was a place by that ice cream shop, when I had to deal with a woman's murder, there's no way they would put the twins there… right?

I spun the car around an illegal U-turn, Jason grabbed harshly at the handle of the door. "Where to now?"

"Shivora Drive." I said bleakley and put my foot harder on the gas.

"Wait, isn't that the drug part of town?" He asked incredulously.

"Yes it is." I said more calmly then I let on.

"Would they really take them there?" He wondered out loud.

"Only one way to find out." My mind felt muffled, as if I couldn't think straight I need to find them now.

I swerved around the idling cars that were waiting for the light to turn green, let the cops try to stop me. Nothing is going to stop me from finding my babies. Nothing.

I wiped the tears from my eyes angrily. I will kill anyone who gets in my way.

I wrapped around another corner and I could see the ice cream shop, we are almost there.

Faster and faster the car went everything around us was nothing but a blur.

The playground was a couple blocks away which means the Ally is just a few streets away.