"Dada"

Sabrina's Pov

When Jake said duck, I bent over and I saw blood sputter on my shirt and hands. My heartbeat quickened and I thought I might have ducked too late and hit by the bullet. I was frantically checking my arm for a bullet hole wondering why I wasn't feeling any pain or was it because of the adrenaline. I was withdrawn from my frantic search by a shrill scream from behind me. For a moment I thought it was Brenda only to be shocked by the owner of the voice. It was Denis. Who knew this man could scream like a woman? I must admit he had a strong pair of lungs to let out such a shrill, sharp, sopranoish scream like that.

Denis was distracted by the bleeding bullet wound on his shoulder to realize that Zane had taken the gun away from him and had been handcuffed. He was in too much shock and pain to realize that Zane had already disarmed and handcuffed him. He looked up to Brenda for help but she was also handcuffed. It was still a mystery how Zane did it. I guess it came with the job because normal people run away from gunfire but not him, he ran towards it. He seized the moment, in the commotion to capture the two people who had made our life a living hell and we couldn't be more grateful.

When Jake saw that everything was settled, he ran to me hugging me in his masculine, toned chest all the while checking my body for injuries. When he saw I was okay, he placed a kiss on my forehead and stared into my eyes sternly and with a lot of worry and said, " Don't ever do that ever again. When I woke up and couldn't find you , I felt like I was dying. Don't ever leave and go towards danger without me." I smiled at him because in this moment, I had known with true certainty, the place I held in his heart. When he saw my smile, he continued sternly, " Don't ever do that again. I don't know what I would do if I lost you and Jay. You both are my world."

" I would do it all over again, if it means seeing my baby alive and keeping him alive." I replied. I saw him smile and he hugged me tighter in his embrace saying, " You are the best mother Jay could ever have." I was about to reply when Brenda shouted in a psychotic rant, " Get this thing off me! Hey you ugly bitch get your hands off my man. Jake baby come to me, tell them that its me that you love, tell them to get this handcuffs off so that we can go home. "

That was the last straw, I had tolerated her for so long and I had reached my breaking point and if she continued to speak another word, I was going to beat her ass so bad, black and blue, she was going to regret the day she saw daylight. Trust Brenda not to shut up, " look at me Jake baby, am beautiful than her , we could be happy, me and you are meant to be happy.. " Jake' s annoyance hit the peak and he was about to storm to her and shut her up. Her face lit up with a victorious smile when she saw Jake almost going towards her. I held Jake by the arms to stop him and said , " Leave her to me." Jake nodded in agreement.

I walked towards her and before she could speak, I slapped her left cheek so hard that the impact of my hand on her face made her neck tilt to the right and said, " this is for not taking no for an answer " when she lifted her head with venom and anger in her eyes, with my right hook I punched her nose and said, " this is for taking my son away from me." The self-defense lessons had paid off. After a minute or so of wincing in pain she said, " you broke my nose! " and I replied while walking menacingly to her, " and your nose is not the only thing am going to break if you speak another word." My attention was diverted from Brenda by Denis' sinister laugh.

I walked to him with sure strides and my eyes trained on him and stopped right before him and asked " You are finding this , " I said gesturing with my hands, " funny?" Before he could reply, I kneed him on the groin earning a painful grunt from him and said, " this is for not taking no for an answer." when he thought the pain in his groin had subsided, he rose up from his bent position, I kneed him harder this time on the groin sending him sprawled on the ground and said, " And that is for keeping my baby away from me." My ninja moves earned a humorous laugh from Jake, Zane, Brian and the rest. Few minutes later, Denis and Brenda were escorted to the police van waiting outside.

I was standing next to Jake when Zane, brought Jay to us. When I took Jay in my arms, he quickly lifted his tiny hands up towards Jake gesturing to him to pick him up. And when Jake took him and threw him up playfully, Jay smiled and said giggling, " Dada" Oh My! my baby said his first word. Jake and I was so happy and exhilarated and Jay repeated again, "Dada" and I felt jealous.