{Frank}

I was sitting in my office on a usual day of work happy as a clam to finally be rid of Delilah. The divorce proceedings went well and from what I know of Delilah's living the life of luxury that she always craved. She's not in love with Ben and Ben has accepted it. The poor fool, it's not like he's doing it out of a sense of duty or anything like that. I just don't understand what he sees in her.

I put on some jazz music as I finished up my work when there was a knock on the door. "Come in!"

I looked up and smiled when I saw Jenny enter the room. Then I frowned when I saw she looked panicked about something. "What's wrong?"

"Have you seen Victoria around lately?" Jenny asked.

I shook my head. "No, why?"

"Because Walter and Victoria left to go somewhere and they haven't been back yet," Jenny said. "I've been back to the house and nothing seems to be wrong, they just up and left for no good reason and that's not like them. I'm really worried because they were both ill and had trouble just moving around."

My eyes went wide. "How long have they been missing?"

"Two weeks," Jenny answered.

I gasped, "Seriously? Why didn't you tell me after the first week they went missing?"

"I thought they were going to be back by the end of the week so I didn't think anything of it," Jenny said. She paused. "Now that I think about it, they never said when they were going to return. But it's still strange considering how ill they were before they left. I mean, Victoria could barely get down the stairs without help because of the pain in her back."

I raised an eyebrow. "Interesting, what were her symptoms when she left?"

Jenny told me what the symptoms were and it sounded very strange for an illness. Either way it was alarming.

I sighed, "Alright let's go check the house again, maybe we'll find something about where they went? If we can't find them I'll ask Louis if he's seen them around. If not then we'll put out a missing person's report. They couldn't have gone far in their condition."

"Unless…" Jenny said.

"Unless what?" I asked.

"Unless they had help getting to wherever they were going." Jenny said.

"You think maybe they were kidnapped?" I asked.

Jenny shook her head. "Now how can we claim kidnapping when they walked out of the house on their own?"

"Well they could've been threatened somehow. It does happen. Did they leave their phones at home?" I said.

"I don't know. I might've been with them 24/7 but I didn't monitor their phones," Jenny said.

"Okay then let's go if Louis hasn't seen them and if we don't find their phones, I have connections that would be able to find them faster than the police," I said.

She nodded. "Okay."

***

We got to Victoria's house and we saw Victoria and Walter's cars out in the driveway. That seemed rather strange considering Jenny told me that Victoria and Walter said they were leaving and didn't know when they would be back. I had a hunch that maybe they were kidnapped but I wouldn't know for sure until I found their phones or them in the house.

When we went up the door we found the door unlocked. Jenny shook her head. "That's strange. Every time I've come over I have to either get the spare key that Victoria gave me to get in or knock on the door. The door is never just unlocked like this. Victoria's very conscious of her safety and you can blame Wyatt for that one."

I raised an eyebrow. "Whose Wyatt?"

She sighed, "It's a long story."

I nodded and we entered the house. Right off the bat I was alarmed at the state of the house. It looked like someone broke in and tried to rob the place. The Tv was broken and the pillows on the couch were ripped to shreds.

Jenny gasped, "No fucking way! The last time I came here after Victoria and Walter left, the place was fine."

"When was the last time you were here?" I asked.

"Last Wednesday and I haven't been back since," Jenny said.

"I see, well let's keep looking, maybe we'll find them," I said.

Jenny nodded and then we came across a small blood trail and it led to the kitchen. I gasped when I saw the cabinets were opened and all of the glass china was broken and everything that wasn't glass was thrown about the room.

I looked at the kitchen table and there were two cell phones, one of the phones had a smashed screen so I knew it wouldn't work unless it was fixed. There was a note beside the phones that said:

Look at the video on the phone that isn't broken.

I gulped and did as the note said to do. When I turned the phone on, a video started to play. The video started out with a man who looked like he was my age sitting at a desk. The man looked like an older version of Walter. He had light brown hair with gray streaks in it and instead of blue eyes he had black eyes.

The outfit he was wearing looked like something a person of Royalty would wear. He had on red pants and a red suit jacket to match the pants that had a brooch that had a gold plated pentagram on it. He had a white shirt underneath his suit jacket and a black tie. He wore black dress shoes with white socks to complete the outfit.

He had an evil smile on his face. "To whoever is watching this you'll notice that the house is in bad shape. I had my minions do that after I convinced Walter and Victoria to come with me. It was too easy to do that considering I told them that I knew someone who could help them with their little illness.

"You see I'm just taking back what belongs to me. There is a man by the name of Issac who claimed to be Victoria's father when the truth is, he isn't. There's also a woman whose name is Delilah who had some pretty good acting skills when she pretended to give birth to Victoria, she's not Victoria's mother. Just do a paternity test and you'll see I'm telling the truth.

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"Victoria is actually my friend Stanley's child and Walter is my child. If whoever's watching this comes after me, well let's just say that would put Delilah's life at risk because I would never harm my child or my friend's child.

"Again, I'm just taking back what belongs to me and my friend. Good luck getting the truth out of Delilah. She's the definition of the word bitch. So, without further adieu this is the end of this video! Ta, ta!"

After that the video ended. Jenny shook her head rapidly. "That can't be true! I remember seeing Victoria shortly after she was born and Mom was holding her." She paused. "Now that I think about it, there was a lady in the hospital room with her. She was in a hospital gown just like Mom was. Mom was lying on the hospital bed and she said that the lady who came to visit her was my Aunt. A distant Aunt at that."

Her eyes went wide. "You gotta be fucking kidding me! That makes so much sense as to why Mom hates Victoria so much. I wonder if it was the 'distant Aunt' that gave birth to Victoria and they just switched places on the hospital bed to make it look like Mom gave birth to Victoria?"

I shrugged. "I have no idea but I'm going to get to the bottom of this. If Delilah isn't Victoria's mother like this guy says and Issac wasn't the father… That little bastard! I hope what the guy in the video said was wrong because if he's right then there's an even bigger problem than just Victoria and Walter being kidnapped."

"Meaning there's probably a sinister reason why Dad made you promise to take care of Victoria? Like maybe he knew that Victoria's real parents would come looking for her one day?" Jenny speculated.

"I have no idea. But what I do know is we're not going to find any answers standing here speculating about shit," I said.

Jenny nodded in agreement. We went outside and got back into the car and after I dropped Jenny off at the office I went to Ben's place to see if I could talk to Delilah to get some answers.

***

{Delilah}

I couldn't believe that Frank decided to pop in and visit me. Not to mention somehow he uncovered the secret of the fact that Victoria wasn't my biological daughter. True, I hated her since the day she was born but when Issac and I gave the surrogate the contract Issac stated that the surrogate would never be able to get Victoria back no matter what. That also included if I decided that I didn't want Victoria anymore. If I didn't keep Victoria then she would've gone to an orphanage. But I couldn't find it in my heart to get rid of her because Jaxon and Jenny were already attached to her.

Ben and Frank were looking at me waiting for me to answer Frank's question. I sighed, "Yes, Victoria isn't my daughter."

"But didn't you say that you had a complicated pregnancy and that's why you call Victoria Victory?" Frank asked.

"Yeah I did but it wasn't me that had the complicated pregnancy. It was the surrogate and before you ask I don't know the name of the surrogate. It was in the contract," I said. "I will be more than happy to do a paternity test just to show that I'm not saying this because I hate Victoria."

Ben nodded. "That would be a good idea."

So that's what I did. I took the paternity test and it was compared with Victoria's last blood sample that had been collected at the hospital. The test showed without a shadow of a doubt that I wasn't Victoria's mother.

"Question, besides the paternity test, how did you figure out that I wasn't Victoria's real mother?" I asked Frank as we were driving home.

Ben looked at Frank. "I am curious as to how you figured that out as well."

Frank sighed, "Please keep this under wraps but Victoria along with her boyfriend Walter have been kidnapped by their real parents. That's another reason why I came to you Ben because I knew once you guys found out you'd probably send out some search party for her."

"You damn right I want to find Victoria!" I said, "Look I know I hate her and all but wouldn't wish getting kidnapped by some psycho that claims to be their parent on anyone."

"Please don't go looking for her," Frank pleaded.

I was puzzled by this plea. "Why?"

"Because if you go after the kidnapper, they specifically said that Delilah would be the one to die. You can't help anyone if you're dead Delilah," Frank said.

"I know but-" I started.

"No," Ben said. "We'll figure something else out. I'm not going to lose you because we just got married and I love you."

I didn't say anything after that we went home and the ride home was silent.

***

{Jenny}

"I swear I want to fucking kill that bitch!" I said as I paced back and forth. I went to Jaxon's house as soon as I found out that Victoria and Walter were kidnapped. I felt like a failure as a big sister.

True, I've always viewed Victoria as my child but what kind of mother would I be if I let my baby sister get kidnapped. I would be a terrible mother, that's another reason why I didn't want to get pregnant just yet.

Jaxon, David and I were sitting in the kitchen trying to figure out what to do.

Jaxon sighed, "I can't believe Mom would do this. Adopt a child that she hated and blame it on us as to why she kept Victoria as her personal punching bag? That's just beyond disgusting! There's a special place in Hell for people like her!"

"And you are absolutely correct my darlings!" I heard a voice say.

I recognized the voice as soon as I heard it and I looked around for him. I spotted him standing by the knowing with a smug look on his face. I marched right up to him and yelled, "Who the fuck do you think you are!?"

"Jenny, sit back down, we don't know what he's here for," Jaxon said.

The man smiled. "Your brother is very smart and he's always the smart one. So, sit down and get the fuck out of my face if you know what's good for you."

I took a deep breath, let it out and sat back down at the kitchen table.

The man cleared his throat, "My name is Alastor. You see, this whole kidnapping situation was a long time in the making. Unfortunately we had to sit back and watch Victoria get abused by her so-called parents time and time again. We didn't have enough resources to kidnap Victoria like we do now. There's no need to feel upset because it's not your fault. We've been watching you for decades now. We were looking for certain events to take place before we took Victoria and Walter back."

"So what do you want with us?" David asked.

"Excellent question good sir!" Alastor said. "We need you guys to make sure that Delilah becomes the 'superhero' in this story."

"Seriously?" I growled. "And why the hell would we make that witch look like a redeemable person?"

"Because we give her a redemption 'arch' and then we bring about her downfall," Alastor said. "And when she falls, I'll make sure she falls hard, very hard!"

I could tell that the way he talked about Delilah's downfall with so much hate and malice that he was serious. I don't blame him because right now I hate Delilah with a passion! She just keeps finding ways to make herself look like a villain and then cries about when people despise her for it.

"But before we plan anything, I need to make a contract with guys," Alastor said. He reached into his suit jacket and brought out three separate files.

I couldn't help but be impressed because this guy really seemed to have everything planned out. As I read through the contract he spelled everything out to the letter on what to do and how information was going to come to light about Delilah and her death. I smiled when I read the part about her dying because I absolutely loved the idea. I already disowned her as my mother so her dying will actually bring me joy instead of pain.

After reading over the contract Alastor handed all three of us a pen and said, "So do we have a deal?"

"If I read the contract correctly, we make sure Delilah becomes a hero somehow and in return you'll give us one billion dollars? You do realize we're already well off right? Might want to come up with something better than money," Jaxon said.

Alastor chuckled, "I had a feeling you were going to say that. Read the next option for your reward."

Jaxon did as he was told and whatever he read made him gasp, "How did you know that?"

"Oh I have my sources," Alastor said. He turned to me. "What do you think about getting a billion dollars as your reward?"

I shrugged. "It works for me! As long as Delilah dies in the end, you got a deal!"

With that, I signed the contract and Jaxon and David signed theirs. I can't speak for them but I can't wait for Delilah to die even if I have to kill her myself.