It's been 4 hours since we left New York City, the sky is darker and I feel the adrenaline kicking into me. I feel we're close, really close on catching him.

"Shit..." Enzo says as we're almost at the forest were the bungalow is.

"What?" I ask, panic rising in me; this doesn't sounds good.

"You know I said that Ben's brother has a bungalow here?" I nod, waiting. "Here it says he has 25 of them, spread all over the area"

"Fuck" I reply. "Where are we now?" I ask Kevin who's sitting behind the wheel.

"We just got over the Pennsylvania border" he answers.

"And where are these bungalows?"

"Over whole Pennsylvania..." Enzo replies whispers, closing his eyes. "This is going to be days until we find her and when we do, they're long gone"

"No, we are going to find her tonight!" I reassure him but I say it mostly to myself; we need to find her...This is our last chance!

Not 30 minutes later we stop at the first sign see. It's the first on our list and the one closest to New York. We all step out; I didn't come alone, no, I came with my entire crew and dad's. 8 SUVs with each 8 people inside are a lined, waiting for my order.

"So, where is this bungalow?" I ask Enzo when I stand in front of the sigh: Pennsylvania Susquehanna forest... I look around because I feel something in my gut; I get here a weird feeling and I think we're close.

"A few miles away" he interrupts my thoughts and point at the map, I'm about to go over when I step onto something hard; it's not a stone, because it's too little for it. Looking down I see-

"-Emily's necklace!" I say a little too loud, squatting and taking it in my hand; she wouldn't let something like that fall unless it mean she was here...Smart girl...

"Really!" Enzo asks and I let him see it, the butterfly necklace.

"She's close" I say and he nods, motioning for the men to follow us.

"So, Mateo" he starts. "As I said there is one in the Northwest from here-"

"-I think she indeed was here" Sebastian says, kneeling down and pointing at the ground where you see struggling from two people... "I think this one..." he points at the big mark that's smeared out. "...Is from Ben and that one" it's a little smear. "Must be Emily's who was barefoot" I anger fills me at the thought of her here; barefoot.

"Okay, so how are we going to approach them?" Enzo asks me and I think; the Russian mafia is a special kind. Sometimes they fight and sometimes they don't but know they should.

"We're going to surround them so I want at least 10 men in every direction possible" they all nod, checking their guns and I do the same. We all wear our armor so if it leads into a gun fight, which probably will, we're prepared. "We'll wait until everyone is ready so hold your walky-talky clear" they nod. "Kevin you go with the team of the North, James you with the West, Sebastian you with the East and I and Enzo will go with the South" I look back at the men who are waiting for my order. "I want 12 of you staying a few feet away from each team, so if something is wrong out they run off with Emily, you go chase them; IF you need to kill anyone to do so, then shoot!" I order and everyone is silence. "The other 12 will stay in the cars; I want that 2 cars are guarding the teams as well so if we need to flee then you guys are there"

"Yes, Boss" they reply. I put the helmet on and stand ready.

"If we're 80 feet away from the bungalow, I will shoot 3 times in a row and then you can go, got it!" they nod.

Not 10 minute later, we wait for the rest to take place and I glance over at the bungalow and yes, she must be there. The Russian guys are standing around it like a fortress, waiting for us.

"We're here, Boss" I hear Kevin announce through the walky-talky and he's the last one to arrive; alright, we can go! I turn to find everyone ready for this and I check my gun again before shooting 3 times; Bang! Bang! Bang! We attack. I run in front, the adrenaline from earlier kicking in again. The Russian are surprised to see us so they didn't had enough time to shoot us first. 5 Bodies on our side are already dead and in the distance I know more bodies are.

"Watch out!" I here Enzo yells and shove me just in time aside and shoot the guy who wanted to kill me dead; that's what you get when you try to hurt me. My team is the first one to arrive at bungalow. "Wait!" Enzo yells and I stop, arching a brow but he can't see it through my helmet of course. "What!?" we don't have time, dumbass. He steps forwards, holding his hand up.

"This is going to easy..." he looks around.

"Maybe that's just the case" I reply, ready to go on with what I was doing; kicking the door in.

"Mateo! I mean it! This is a Mafia organization...It's never this easy" I stop with what am doing when James's team also arrive at our side, so does Sebastian's and Kevin's, all waiting. "Something is wrong"

"Let me go first" Sebastian says and I shake my head. "Mateo...You're important here, I don't want you to die"

"Me either but I don't want you to die as well" he shakes his head before opening the door, stepping inside; he ignored my order and I'm mad for that but I don't move, waiting. Not soon after he comes back, his face in disappointment.

"She isn't here, Mateo"

"FUCK!" I yell, my fist hitting the door with so much force it almost breaks in two; she isn't here...BUT WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE THEN! "Enzo, are there any other bungalow instead of this one!?"

"No, this is the only one in the Susquehanna forest" I'm about to say something when my phone buzzes in my back pocket; usually I don't have it with me but now I thought that I may come in handy and indeed, it did. The ID is-

"-Emily" I says and pick up the face time. "Hey, where are you?" I ask but the only face I see is Ben and my hand clenches around the phone; I swear I kill hem when I have his bloody face in my hands.

"I'm fine, thank you for asking" he grins.

"It wasn't meant for you" I reply which makes him laugh even more.

"Aw, that hurts you know-"

"-Cut the crap, Ben! Where is she!?" after the words leave me, he shows Emily and the air in my lungs leaves me. She's tied to a tree, her mouth tapes so she can't scream and her face...God her face looks bad. "Have you been hitting her!?" I ask but I know the answer already.

"If the girl isn't good then I don't really have a choice" he let me show his face again but not before I see the scared expression on her face; Emily isn't just scared, she's terrified but for what exactly... "Now, I want to tell you that you have a chance on having her"

"I'm all ears" I feel Sebastian and Enzo standing behind me, listening on the conversation.

"I want to say that I'm quite impressed; how long did it took before you found your lovely wife?" he thinks, looking up. "4 days...And you were so close! If you had shown up an hour earlier, you would have her now but I also have men, Mateo...don't think I let you do it the easy way"

"Ben! How can I get her back!?"

"Right...That's why you're here" he shakes his head. "What love can make you do, right?" he grins. "I will help you a bit with where we are" he turns the camera to let me see he's at a hill, with a lake in the distance.

"That's the Devils Punch Bowl" Enzo whispers in my ear. "It's only few minutes from here by foot"

"So here we are" Ben interrupts. "I have something special so you can find her immediately" he now shows a bog bottle of gasoline; he wouldn't- "-I put it around the tree Emily's at, so you can find her better"

"You mother fucker!" I reply, anger filling me. "Why would you do that!" in the distance I hear Sebastian calling someone but I don't pay attention to that for too long.

"Because you killed someone I love and now I'll do the same!" he now yells. "And you need to come here really fast because" he takes out a lighter and I hear Emily scream; fuck! "I'm about to put this on fire" before I can protest he hangs up and in the distance, where the lake they're at, we see smoke.

"ALL GO THERE! NOW!"

Ben hangs up and I try to yell, stopping him but he doesn't listen. We came here an hour ago when we heard Mateo was coming here. Ben didn't want to take a risk so he took me here, by this lake and tied me up to a tree. I squirm, terrified but he luckily doesn't set the gasoline on fire, just a bush that's not that far away from where I am...If the fire hits the gasoline, then I'm dead. Ben comes closer to me and pulls the towel round my mouth off.

"I hope your man comes soon enough, otherwise you're just ashes"

"What's wrong with you!" I yell back, squirming against the cable ties. "You're sick!" he slaps my face, making my head feel dizzy all over again; tears roll off my cheek again like they did minutes ago. I want this nightmare to stop.

"Bye, Little girl" are his last words before he run off in the distance.

"NO! BEN! DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE LIKE THIS!" but it's no use; he's already gone. Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! The second bush gets on fire and I cry, thinking how I can escape. Smoke fills the air and I cough, less and less air filling my lungs. The wind doesn't help either. "No!" I yell when the fire gets to the gasoline and the space around my tree gets on fire. "HELP! MATEO! HELP!" I yell so loud I almost choke on the smoke. "HELP! SOMEONE!" I squirm, the heat of the flames making me dizzy...No, don't pass out! Not now!

I look around, still none there...Fuck is this how am going to die? Is this my end!? A picture fills my mind of me and Mateo together with our future child in his arms, his eyes filled with love when he looks down at the baby, a sly grin playing on his handsome face; I would never experience that ever again... A single tear falls and soon everything turns black again and I don't know if I would see the light again...Ever...