The boat house.

Adam POV

I had my men looking everywhere for January.

I even, desparately called her mother, a girl would call her mother if she was in trouble wouldn't she?

Andrea just blubbered about April missing. I told her to call me at the hotel if she had any news.

There were no leads. No one in the stupid town had any clue what was going on.

I paced my hotel room, waiting to hear word on Ronald Parson's whereabouts.

My face was covered in two days stubble. I hadn't showered since the morning I discovered her missing.

I was pulling my hair out in worry.

" Where are you baby?"

My mind went south as I wondered if this was all a trick, maybe Janny somehow played me.

Planting that blood and knife, ripping up her own underwear to trick me.

I walked back into her room. I refused to let housekeeping in her room.

I looked at the smear of blood once again.

It doesn't make sense, she would have been on the camera. It would have shown her leaving the room.

I turned on my heel and started pacing the front room again.

My phone suddenly rang.

" Mr. Wilson, you have a visitor in the lobby. Shall I show him up?" the concierge asked.

" Who is it?" I barked.

" Said his name was Parsons."

" f**k yes show his ass up here right now!" I smiled. Now he wants his ransome.

" I got you asshole!"

My phone rang again a few moments later.

" Mr. Wilson, uh there's a woman here to see you, said it's urgent. Name's Holmes."

" Well, that's unexpected. Ok show her up."

April, it has to be.

I need to talk to her about her sister anyway. Maybe she has information for me. Maybe Janny contacted her?

There was a loud knock on the door.

I opened it, seeing Ronald Parsons standing there angrily. His hands in fists by his sides.

" I need to see January Holmes." He demanded.

" Right." I said sarcastically.

I pulled him through the door and tossed him across the room. He landed on the glass coffee table, shattering it underneath him.

I towered over him.

" Where's my fiance asshole, no more games!" I yelled as I put my foot on his stomach and pressed his back into the shards of glass.

He screamed like a girl.

" f**k man! I just asked YOU where she was, remember?" he cried.

" Don't d**k with me Parsons. I'm the one who got you released. Now, where is she?" I pressed harder as glass cut through his arms now.

" Ohhh...stop! How the hell do I know? I was told she was here with you." He cried.

The door to the hallway was wide open. I heard a woman scream behind me.

" Shut the hell up April!" I yelled.

" Ronald, no! What did you do to him?"

My head snapped around seeing it was infact Andrea Holmes, not her oldest daughter.

I didn't need this. I did not need a witness.

" Go back out and close the door Andrea. Don't worry, I will make him pay for what he's done to January." I said as I gave her a bitter smile.

" No, please. He's innocent. He said she made it all up. January is a filthy liar. Ronald is innocent Adam. Please believe me!" she cried as she rushed to Ronald.

" Andrea my love, please leave. He will kill you. Please my love...go." Ronald pleaded.

I walked over to the opened door, slamming it almost off the hinges.

" Andrea? tsk tsk tsk. You are f*****g Parsons?"

Now I had two people to take care of.

" Please let him go. I know where January is. She's with April on her father's boat.

I swear it. She called me today. She said April will be home in two days. She has to be on the boat with her."

" That is an unequivocal lie Andy. Now, where is my fiance. Talk to me now, or Ronald dies."

" No, please Adam I swear it. She called me from the satellite phone that we use on the Eastern May.

I promise. She said she knew about Ronald and I. She knew that April is our daughter Ron.

She knows and now, now we can finally be together. We don't have to hide it anymore." She took his bloody hand.

" Help him up Adam, we can go to the dock and confirm that the Eastern May is on her way back home. The girls will be on board.

I will hand over January if you just let me have my April." She tried to pull Ronald up.

He cried out in pain as glass embedded into his torso further.

" See the problem is...I happen to know that Calvin and his stupid boat are not involved in this what so ever. So whatever lies you are trying to spin are not going to work. Now...Parsons- January, where is she?"

I pushed Andrea down, "Get away from the pedafiler Andrea."

She started to sob.

Grabbing Ronald's shirt, I pulled him off of the table as he screamed in agony, glass slicing into him everywhere.

But, the next thing I knew I felt a hard thing hit the back of my head.

I blacked out.

***********

" Ron we gotta go. I lied, January isn't with her sister on the boat.

I needed to buy us some time. April is not with her sister. We have to do something with Adam right now, before he comes to."

" Let's take him to your place, tie him up in the old boat house out back. There is a chain hoist out there.

He won't be able to escape. Besides he owes us some retribution for his fiance getting me locked up. This fancy f**k looks loaded." Ronald said.

" Ok, ok. Ron, how do you know about the boat house?" She asked as she pulled a sheet off the bed to wrap Adam up.

" Oh, January took me out there once or twice. She was the devil that kid.

Tried to show me up her little skirt. Of course I slapped her butt for it." He said, his eyes lighting up from the memories in the boat house.

Andrea bit her lip. What January had said, she told her on the phone that she knew she was in on it. That she had set her up to be abused.

Lies, so many lies. Andrea started to feel confused now.

They wrapped Adam up and hauled him down the back stairs, hitting his head on each step on the way down.

Andrea pulled her car around back as Ronald quickly threw a flaccid Adam into the trunk.

Blood dripping all down Ronald's arms and torso from the multitude of cuts on him.

They drove away, leaving a trail of blood all the way to the back alley, stopping where the car had been parked.

This time the cameras were running and saw everything.

Ronald kissed Andrea as she drove him to her house, praying that Calvin was still at the bar, as was his normal routine.

Calvin's car was gone. Andrea backed down into the back yard, taking the grassy driveway to the boathouse.

She opened the door and looked around the room.

There on the floor near the small cot, a little pair of panties.

One of January's hair ribbons with her hair still in it, tied up on the chain hoist.

Andrea took a deep breath, seeing the old evidence of January being there in that old dusty boathouse.

Had he hung her up on the chain? She felt a big knot in her chest.

Had her little girl been telling the truth all along? What had Ronald done to her out here?"

Andrea stood frozen, seeing empty alcohol bottles and dirty magazines on the cot.

Ronald came in then, dragging Adam by his feet.

" Help me woman!" They slid him up onto the small cot.

Ronald quickly snapped up the small pair of panties and then shoved the dirty magazines under the cot.

Andrea squeezed that hair ribbon in her palm tightly.

She was starting to see things that she had refused to see before. Could Ronald have lied to her all of this time?