Obsessed by Angela Ford Read Free Book Online

the time; stalked her as a teenager. The same man she’d been tracking for the murder of three young girls. And then to discover that he’d been responsible for her parents’ deaths because they tried to protect her, finally gave her the closure she needed. Now Jess wanted to keep the good memories alive in her heart and love the beach home the way her mother had.
    “Jess, are you okay?” Tom startled her from her thoughts. His tone touched her heart. The man she adored and loved more than life had always been her best friend.
    “I don’t know. I just needed a few minutes to get my head straight.” She set her father’s glasses back on the desk. Tom placed his hands on Jess’s shoulders and she felt a loving squeeze. He moved his hands to the back of her neck and she sighed in delight with his touch. She remembered what Tom said about Nikki. “Do you think Nikki is behind this?”
    “I called her office but they said she hadn’t shown up for work in two days. Her supervisor went to her place to check on her and she wasn’t there and neither was her car. He said he put out an APB on her and her car. They are worried too. He mentioned it wasn’t like her.”
    “Did you try her cell phone?” Jess still figured she had something to do with it, but why she couldn’t get a grasp on.
    “Just about to, but I wanted to check on you first.”
    Jess motioned for him to go ahead.
    Tom searched for the number Mike texted him and hit the Call button. He heard it ring three times before her voice message started. “No answer. Should I leave a message?” he asked her.
    She shook her head. “Tom, call the number again.”
    “Why?”
    “Humor me.”
    Jess watched Tom hit the button again. She reached down for the backpack on the floor beside her father’s desk. Lisa had been staying in the study; Jess knew it was her backpack. Jess unzipped the front pouch and pulled out a phone that was vibrating. She flipped the phone to show Tom the call display, ‘Tom Erickson.’
    Jess looked at Tom in horror. “What the hell? Why does Lisa have Nikki’s cell?”
    Jess set the phone on the desk and reached into the backpack. In one hand she held a vile and the other, a body spray. “Oh Shit! Tom she wants the baby!”
    She moved quickly toward the staircase and called out Lisa’s name repeatedly.
    Jess opened the door and saw the bassinet, empty, with no sign of Lisa or the baby. “No!” she cried out and dropped to the bed in horror.
    Tiffany and Amanda ran into the room.
    “Where’s Lisa?” Tom asked the girls.
    “Isn’t she with the baby?” Tiffany looked confused.
    Amanda spoke up, “She told us we should go to our room while the baby slept and you guys needed some time alone.”
    “Where’s the baby, Tom?” Tiffany asked as she looked around the empty room and bassinet.
    Jess began to tremble as the fear set in that her baby had been taken. Tiffany sat beside Jess as Tom frantically called out Lisa’s name, then said he and Amanda would search the house and the beach.
    When he returned to their bedroom, Tom shook his head. “She’s nowhere in sight.”
    Jess gasped with her hands over her mouth. Tiffany continued to hold Jess.
    “I’ll call 9-1-1,” Tom told them. “Our midwife just kidnapped our newborn, Jess heard him say.”
    The doorbell rang when Tom ended the call, and shortly after he left the room to answer it, she heard him say, “Mark. Thank God you’re here. Lisa took the baby.”

Chapter Eight

    Lisa watched Tom go upstairs, and knew once Mike arrived, she wouldn’t get another chance. She couldn’t let Mike’s survival of the crash stop her. She had to leave now . She knew if they searched her belongings they’d find Nikki’s phone and the Oxytocin. Lisa used it to help induce Jess’s early labor and the spray she used for her own purpose. She’d worked as a neo-natal nurse before becoming a mid-wife. She knew oxytocin had been linked to induce labor but the postcard at the door