Chapter 13

At the next morning, Maddie woke up feeling that someone was kissing her naked shoulder. "James, please stop. I'm already tired after last night." Maddie knew that her voice was crocked from all the screaming.

He didn't stop, and she knew that if she won't stop him now, someone might come in at them. "James…" Maddie couldn't continue her words as he was kissing her with so much passion, that she knew they were not going out of this bed for few hours.

The next time she woke up, it was already noon and James' side was empty. Maddie sighed and stretched her ached body. James had made love to her that morning a few hours ago. The only thing she could feel right now was her aching body protesting to her. She wraps her body around the blanket and tried to walk to the bathroom. She could feel her legs being wobble from all the love making section they had last night and this morning, but she didn't care.

Maddie took a long shower. She knew that her body might be in pain right now, but it was a good pain that she loved. After hour an hour, she got out of the shower and, with a towel wrapped around her, she got out of the bathroom and in to the bedroom she shared with James.

"If you want to eat, you better get dressed cause seeing you with this towel, makes me want to take you here and right now!" Maddie looked at James through the mirror and smiled, "Well, you better leave then James, so I could get dressed because I'm hungry and not to sex but to food you dummy." Maddie could see his eyes scanning her and then approached her.

"Fine, you win. Anyway, I came to tell you that my parents and Drew are here now." Maddie looked at him with panic in her eyes, "don't get scared, my love, you know my parents love you. They are worried about you, especially my mom. She almost killed me."

Maddie sighed, "I'll get dressed in the closet and be out in 30 minutes." James kissed her lips, and she went to the closet to get dressed.

Maddie and James went downstairs after she finished to get dressed and she could hear noises coming from the kitchen and smelling something delicious that she was sure that Terry just made. When they entered the kitchen, Hus parents saw her and smiled.

"Oh honey, I'm so happy that you're OK. My son can be brutal sometime and I mean in a good way, like his father is…"

"MOM, please. Not in front of Drew."

"Relax James, I'm no dummy. So, are you hungry Maddie?" Maddie nodded her head and went to the seat next to Drew that now was playing with his food.

"Why are you not eating, Drew? Want me to feed you?"

"Mommy… food." Maddie's smile froze in her face, the same as James' face. Drew just called her mommy for the first time. She couldn't look at James' eyes because she was afraid that he'll be mad about it. When Maddie felt his arm on her shoulder, she looked at his face.

"I'm not mad Maddie. You don't have to be worried about it. When he gets old enough, I'll tell him about his real mom, I don't mind that he's calling you mommy." Maddie could see an authentic smile at his face, a smile that told her that everything is going to be OK.

Maddie fell like she could finally breath after so long of being alone in this world, because now she has people that care for her and love her. Well, she didn't know if James loves her, but she knows that his parents and Drew likes her a lot. Maddie has spent the rest of the day with them, laughing, eating, and having the best week of her life.

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It has been two weeks since he found out about Maddie's painful past, and every time he was in the base, he will approach the commander and ask for his held to find Garret Woods the officer that had found his sister five years ago died in the forest while searching for another missing woman.

Few days later, he approached the commander's office and knocked.

"Come in." James opened the door and entered the office.

He saluted him and said, "Good afternoon commander, may I ask you something?"

"Sure son, have a sit."

James sat in front of him. "Do you remember the officer, Garret Woods?"

"The officer that helped us five years ago when we were looking for a missing person?"

"Yes sir, but in the end the only person who we found was his sister. Do You have his contact, maybe?"

"Do I need to worry about it? Or is it something personal?"

"It's personal sir, I'm sorry that I can't tell you. The only thing that I can tell you that me and Maddie need this information."

The moment that James mentioned Maddie's name, the commander smiles, "How is the young lady? Is everything is doing OK between you two?"

"Maddie is great. Our relationship is slowly going up, thanks for asking. Can I have his contact, please?"

"I'll give you, his contact. If you're going to contact him, let me know so I'll can call him and let him know."

The commander opened a closed drawer and cage James a paper with a number and a name written in there.

"This is his number. The moment you want to call him, let me know and I'll contact him, so he'll know that you are going to call him."

"Thank you, sir, I appreciate it. I'll let you know soon when we'll want to contact him."

James shakes the commander's hand and leaves the office. After that, he went to his car and drove back to his house. It was already the weekend, and he missed Maddie and Drew. He knew Maddie was currently working in the restaurant and his parents took Drew with them to a weekend at the lake house they own.

On his way back to his house, James calls the commander and tells him to tell Garret that he wants to talk to him later at night. He hopes Garret will accept to talk to them, because thinking about that bustard John being free in the street boils his blood specially after what he did to the woman that, he loves, do I really love her? Guess I am. I know Paula will only want to see me happy, no matter what. I know that if it was the other way around, I would have wished she had moved on and found someone. James sigh to himself, he'll tell Maddie that he's in love with her soon.

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Maddie feels nervous as she was sitting next to James in his car. Currently, they are driving to New York to meet Garret Woods. Two days ago, when James came home from the military, he picked her up from her workplace and together drove to his place.

James told her he had the information about the police officer he told her about and that when she's ready, they can drive to New York and meet him. So here they are currently driving to there. They left early in the morning and they are really close to the city now. They already stopped by the gasoline station to fill up his tank and bought a few things for the road.

"Relax Maddie, everything is going to be OK. I'm here with you all the way till the end. Let's hope this guy will help us. I've talked to him that day when we arrived home, and he told me he'll be happy to help us against John."

"I trust you, James, but I can't stop this feeling that I have inside of me."

"Everything is going to be OK." James drove them to the address that he gave them yesterday.

After one more hour of driving, they have arrived at their destiny but upon arriving there they saw police cars and ambulance standing in front of the house that they spouse to enter.

James stooped his car behind a police car and they stepped out of the car to approach there.

"I'm sorry, but you can't cross here. Please leave."

"I'm Sargent James Davis from the 'Red Flag'. I have a meeting with officer Woods here now."

The officer saluted him and said, "I'm sorry Sargent Davis, but officer Woods got murdered this morning by someone and we don't know the person who did it. We arrived 30 minutes ago."

James cursed, and Maddie got shocked. That can't be happening to her.

"What are we going to do now, James?"

"I'm sorry, my love. Officer, who's in charge here?"

The officer looked around and pointed at a man in his 50s. "Wait here. I'll let him know you look for him." James thanked him and watched him as he approached that man.

After a few moments, the officer came back with that man.

"I've been told that you were looking for me?"

"Hello Sir, I'm Sargent James Davis from the Marine Corps 'Red Flag'. I want to know how Woods got killed. I've known him from five years ago when he helped us to locate a musing person in the forest."

"I remember that case, the case that is to remain a cold case for us. The case of the women that are found mysteriously dead in the forest after being raped. I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Detective Samuel Wright and I'm in charge of this case. Please follow me." James and Maddie followed Deceive Wrights inside the house. "Just be careful where you step."

As they entered the house, and they could see that someone had made a mess inside and looked like they were searching for something.

"I can see that they were looking for something inside his house. Do you know how he got killed?" James asked the Detective.

"According to one witness, he saw him entering his house about half an hour ago with groceries, and then heard a gunshot that was coming from his house because the front door was opened, he saw a man dressed in black coming running out of the house. He called to report the shot, and we came. The rest you already know."

James looked around the house and then looked at Maddie. "I'm sorry that we couldn't find what we came for, but I promise you we'll find something."

Maddie shook her head, "Don't be sorry James, may rest his soul, I hope he's happy we he is now together with his sister."

"May I ask why you came all the way from LA?"

"I talked to him yesterday on the phone. He told me he had some information for us regarding John Brown that we need."

"John Brown? The CEO of 'Brown CO.'?"

"Yes, Detective, that person."

"I've heard of him. Garret and I would talk about him outside of the police station because that conversation was a secret."

It shocked them that officer Woods would talk to someone about him.

"Detective, can we talk about it in private, please?"

"Sure, follow my car to my house and we'll talk there." James and Maddie got to their car and followed Detective Wright to his house.

"Do you think maybe he left those documents to that detective?"

"I don't know Maddie, but let's just hope." They drove after the Detective's car to his house, hoping to find those documents that he left for them.