Seals and Bounty: The Bodyguard

Mari

I opened my eyes and had a hard time adjusting them. My head hurts and I feel nauseous. What happened? My eyes are focusing some now. Where am I? This is not the casino. It's all dark in here. Where are the lights? What am I laying on?

I remember now. Someone came up behind me and then everything went black. Focus Mari. As I try to get up and I am a little shaky, but I stand up. I realize I was laying on a bed. It looks like I am in someone's bedroom. I try the door, but it is locked. I try the window, but it has bars on it. Where is my phone? My purse? I look every where, but he must have taken it. How is Wyatt going to find me?

I scream, but no one comes. How long have I been here? It is light outside. I found a bottle of water on the nightstand and a sandwich wrapped in plastic wrap. I am not eating anything. I don't know what kind of drugs they may have put in it. I opened the water and drank some. I could tell it had not been opened before.

Then I looked around again trying to find a way out of here. But there were no openings and nothing to pry the bars off the windows. I go into the connecting bathroom and there is no window at all. The closet is bare. What does this person want from me? Oh my God, am I going to die? Are they going to assault me? Why are they doing this to me and who is it?

Wyatt

"It is now 8 o'clock in the morning and we still have no leads. This is bullshit. We are not doing enough. We have to be missing something. This guy has to have left some sort of trail," I yell at Kadon and Officer Rodriguez.

"We are doing everything we can," Kadon said, "I have Bryan and Aaron combing through her dressing room. Diante and Kerry and working with the police to comb through the parking lot footage and street cameras to piece together the direction the kidnapper went in and a possible location to where he took her."

"I understand all of that K, but who the hell is this guy and why does he want her? Will he hurt her? Will she even be alive by the time we find her? We all know how important the first twenty-four hours is," I replied.

"So how about Rodriquez, you and I see if we can get some more information on anyone that may have a thing for her. Let's talk to her friends and family and see if there is a disgruntle old boyfriend or if she has mentioned anything to anyone about someone who she may have turned down lately. We maybe missing that part. We assumed that it is just an admirer of the show, so we have only spoken to the staff and co-workers. Now let's work this angel," Kadon said.

"I agree," Rodriquez said, "Let's get started. I can have her background ran now for any ex-husbands, old boyfriend connections that may have been abuse involved, and to get her relatives informations. I will put a rush on it and we should have it within the hour."

"Okay guys. Thank you," I said.

Thirty minutes later and Rodriquez had the list. I went to see her parents, Kadon and Rodriquez went to her sister's house.

Two hours later and I had nothing from her parents. But Kadon and Rodriquez had better luck. Her sister had informed them that Mari's ex, Dwight, had been obsessed with Mari and she had broken up with him because he had been abusive. She had his job information and address.

Kadon called Dwight's job and he hadn't been to work in two days. They all met at his home address. No one was home. Rodriquez called in a warrant to search the premises. Fifteen minutes later they were in his house with an additional two officers.

Diante had called and they had traced the car to a neighborhood about five miles away, but that's as far as the traffic cameras went. Bryan and Aaron had come up empty handed tracing anything around the casino.

When they got into the house, they searched every inch of the house and there was no sign of Mari. Then they started going through his things and found a photo of a cabin on the wall with some friends. Rodriquez had already ran a background on this guy. It came back that he had a record of domestic violence with several women. Mari had never pressed charges herself. But they did find the address to the cabin in one of the reports. Seems like he had taken another girlfriend there before and she had put the address in the report. The five of us headed out to the country along with the local sheriffs office.

Once we arrived the sheriffs department had waited on them to arrive. They confirmed that they had seen one man go inside, alone about ten minutes after they had showed up.

I get out with Rodriquez and Kadon behind me to go knock on the door. They each stand to the side of the door and finally Dwight comes to the door.

"Can I help you," Dwight asked.

"Are you Dwight Greene?" I asked.

"Who's asking?" Dwight replied.

"The man who is fixing to kick your ass, if you don't cooperate," I said angrily. My right fist already balled up.

About that time Rodriquez and Kadon stepped around and Rodriquez said, "I am Office Rodriquez and we need to ask you a few questions and search the premises."

All of a sudden I hear Mari yell from somewhere in the house, "Help". And that was all it took. I punched Dwight in the face and ran in. I heard Kadon behind me laughing and running after me. Rodriquez said, "Well, I would have done the same thing."

"Mari, keep yelling. It's Wyatt. I am here and I am coming for you," I said.

We checked every room and they were empty, but I could still hear her. Finally we went back into one of the rooms and found a secret door behind a dresser that led down into another room and there she was. I broke the door down and she ran right into my arms crying.

"It's okay. I've got you. Let's get you home," I replied.

She just shook her head as we went back upstairs. Rodriquez said that they arrested Dwight and he was on his way downtown. They took her statement and I took her home.

"I am never letting you go. I want to know everything that he did to you over the last day and while you were dating and then I plan to show you exactly how a real Daddy treats his Little for the rest of your life. Understood?" I said as we got into my car.

"I understand Daddy and I have been praying you would say that. I want to be yours. Just be patient with me. I have been damaged by him," she replied.