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Message: <blockquote data-quote="80&#039;s Cha Cha Cha" data-source="post: 429758" data-attributes="member: 6964">CHAPTER 8DENVER CARRINGTON-Blake’s secretary put a call through to him from Steven.  He quickly took it, thinking that Steven had found Sammy Jo.But what he was told was the last thing he expected to hear!“What do you mean you are on a plane to Moldavia with your mother and Dex?! And Claudia is with you?!”Yes.  Steven had lied about looking for Sammy Jo.  He would deal with her later.  Right now he had to find out of Luke and Lindsey were alive.  Claudia especially needed to know if Lindsey was alive.  And neither of them were about to sit around and wait to hear from Daniel Reece, Dex or this Creighton Boyd character.  They wanted to  be there for Luke and Lindsey when they found them.“Dad, I’m sorry but Claudia and I have a big stake in this.  We’ll be safe.”“How do you figure that?! Steven, we watched Luke die! He is not alive!”“He’s tied to a chair, Dad! He’s wearing the clothing that he wore at the wedding! There are blood stains…” Steven faltered.  Alexis took the phone from him and Claudia pulled Steven into an embrace.  “Blake,  it’s Alexis! You have upset our son, yet again…”“Where is your common sense?!” Blake interrupted rudely.  “Steven and Claudia will be killed! You’ll be dragged off again and probably killed!  And there is no one to rescue!  I would think that Daniel and Dex would know better than to encourage this nonsense!”“I don’t believe it is nonsense,” Alexis said coolly, “and we left people behind when we were thrown out of Moldavia. Galen is alive, I can feel it! And if these ‘New Moldavians’, lied about Galen, then they probably have other hostages as well.”“Alexis, I want you to listen to me: even if Galen and maybe Luke are alive, the Lindsey Blaisdel thing IS a lie! This could set Claudia back, mentally! Turn that plane around and get back here!”“You’re not in control here, Blake.  You’re not in charge.  And once we bring everyone back home, you and that blonde tramp of yours, will look very bad for not helping!  Goodbye!” Alexis snapped and hung up the phone.Meanwhile, in another part of the plane, Daniel Reece had a map spread out on a table.  Dex and Creigh were looking it over as well.Creigh spoke first…“I didn’t want to say anything in front of your wife, Dex, or the others, because I don’t know for sure what my people found out was true.” Dex raised a brow.“Something about Galen?” Dex asked.  Personally, he didn’t care if Galen was alive or not!  But he loved Alexis and he cared for Amanda.  If somehow King Galen could help calm things down, with regards to his son’s murder, or the ‘Adam is the true Prince’ talk, the he would put aside his personal feelings and help out.“Yes,” Creigh began, “the word is that Galen has somehow become involved with a young woman.  Someone who fits Lindsey Blaisdel’s description.  It’s also being alleged that Lindsey is married to another American that was kept as a hostage of sorts.  This American fits the description of Luke Fuller.” Daniel gave Creigh a look of disbelief!“We can’t tell Claudia that! She’s already been pushed to her limits here!”  Daniel seethed.Dex nodded.“I agree with Daniel.  We say nothing about any of this until we are face to face with the situation.  Did Warnick force the Luke and Lindsey marriage? And the Galen/Lindsey thing seems odd.  If Matthew Blaisdel is part of this, then there is no way he’d allow his only daughter to be involved with the man he’s working against.” Dex reasoned.“Hey! Don’t shoot the messenger,” Creigh said, “all I’m saying is that when we go on the hunt to rescue our hostages, we might find people that won’t want to be rescued.”Daniel turned and walked over to the bar.  Dex followed him.“I know you’re worried about Sammy Jo, Daniel.  But you just have to believe that she doesn’t know anything about this.  She’s met Blaisdel and thinks she’s met this new and wonderful  man  in her life.”  Dex counseled.Daniel downed a drink and looked Dex in the eye.“There is a part of me that thinks I should turn this plane around and find Sammy Jo.  I think the answers we are seeking are back in the states.  And I really want to believe you’re right about my daughter, Dex, but my gut tells me she is just as much a part of this as Blaisdel.  And if she is, I can’t help her.”  Daniel said firmly.Meanwhile, Alexis entered the area and Creigh smiled at her.  Alexis smiled back and she joined him at the table, giving the map a cursory glance.“What this?” Alexis asked casually.  She tried not to look over at Dex and Daniel, huddled over by the bar.“A map of the area we think we’ll find our hostages,” Creigh said, “how are Steven and Claudia holding up?  You know, it wasn’t smart to let them come along…”“There was nothing I could do to stop them, “ Alexis said dismissively, “and I’ve been where both of them are.  Fallon was once thought of as dead.  If I thought someone had kidnapped her or kept her, I’d move heaven and earth to find her.  And Steven feels for Luke the way I feel for Galen.  My life is with Dex now, but I can’t just leave Galen to suffer.  And if I ever want to make peace with Adam and Kirby, Galen needs to be found.”Creigh nodded.“You know, I never thought of Adam as someone who would settle down.  Of course when I knew him, he didn’t seem like the marrying type.  Kirby must have changed that, hey?”Alexis rolled her eyes!“Kirby trapped my son and he feels guilt over a misunderstanding he had with her, on my penthouse floor.” Alexis said indifferently. She excused herself from Creigh, unaware of how her words had affected him.  Did Alexis Dexter just tell him that Adam had raped Kirby on her penthouse floor? Little Kirby who didn’t look as if she weighed more than a feather?  He felt instantly sickened.  Sickened and disgusted with Adam, his old college friend that to his knowledge, had never assaulted any of the women he had dated in college.  Or had he?Creigh forced himself to put Adam and Kirby out of his mind.  He especially forced himself to put Kirby out of his mind.  Kirby, with her glorious long, dark hair and mesmerizing eyes.The co-pilot entered the room to tell them that they had entered Moldavian airspace and would soon be landing.  And what the group would find, is that they were wrong about at least one thing that Creigh’s sources had THOUGHT they had discovered.  Something that Caress Morrell had now found out and was putting into her ’Sister Dearest’ tell all.***CARRINGTON MANSION-Adam and Kirby walked down the stairs dressed in riding gear, when they witnessed Krystle on the phone.  She suddenly hung up and her face looked ashen! Kirby looked at Adam before hurrying down the stairs to her!“Krystle? What is it?” Kirby asked.  Adam soon joined them.“That was Blake.  Steven and Claudia are with Alexis and the rescue team.” Krystle whispered.“Steven and Claudia went to Moldavia with the rescue team?” Adam asked, his tone full of incredulity.  “They’ll get themselves killed!”“How could Alexis have allowed it?  She should have kept them from getting on the plane with them!” Kirby seconded.  Adam agreed with his wife.  His mother could do anything she set her mind to.  And if she didn’t want someone getting on a plane with her, Alexis could certainly stop them!“Blake is coming home and he wants to talk to Fallon.  He thinks it would be a good idea if she took over La Mirage again.” Krystle said, but she still looked dazed.  What were Steven and Claudia thinking?In her heart she knew.  They needed to see for themselves that Luke and Lindsey were alive.  “Amanda left to take a walk.  I will go and find her.” Adam said and turned to walk towards the front door.  Kirby excused herself from Krystle and caught up with him before he got there.“Adam,” Kirby said in a low tone, “Amanda is probably with Michael at the studio. What are you going to do if you find them together?”“I’ll take two of the guards.  Culhane will be escorted off of our property and Amanda will be brought back here.”Kirby gave him a look.  Adam seemed to think what he had just told her was just a simple matter.“We don’t know that he didn’t kill Prince Michael!”Adam pulled her to him for a quick kiss, before reluctantly letting her go.“Culhane is a PR problem.  Not a criminal one.  And I will deal with this.  Just stay here with Krystle and the children.”  Adam told her before turning to open the front door.  He closed it behind him and Kirby walked to the door window.  She saw that her husband was taking two guards with him over to that loathsome studio that Alexis once stayed in.  Kirby certainly hoped Amanda was at least dressed!She turned back to Krystle only to see that Jeff was now with her, talking earnestly.  Kirby walked over to hear Jeff saying he could not find Fallon anywhere in the house, and that Steven and Claudia were crazy.  Kirby slowly turned away from them and looked back at the front door.   She could not shake the feeling that not only was Fallon no longer in this house, but that Adam would probably find her in that studio as well.***CARRINGTON STUDIO-Michael and Amanda sat in a sunken in tub filled with bubbles and just relaxed in one another’s arms…“I know you had nothing to do with it.” Amanda whispered, as Michael began a trail off kisses on the side of her neck.  Her hair was pinned up and she felt herself surrendering to his lips and the heat within the bath.Michael reluctantly pulled his lips away from her skin and looked into her eyes.“I’m worried about you.  All of the crazy talk about your brother being on the throne means you’re not wanted on there.” he said softly.Amanda nodded.“I know. Daddy has guards…”“I think I should move into the house with you.” Michael said pointedly.Laughter, that seemed to come out of nowhere, filled the outer part of the studio.  It soon appeared in the bathroom doorway in the form of Fallon!  Amanda had to force herself not to rise out of the tub with outrage!“What. Are. You. Doing. Here?” Amanda asked, struggling to query her fury! They had locked the front door! Her and Michael always locked the front door! How did Fallon get in here?“If you’re wondering how I got in here, little sis, I have a key.  I always had keys, didn’t I, Michael?  How have you been, by the way? I’ve heard you’ve come up in the world…though I don’t know if doing deals with the likes of Zachary Powers counts as such.”  Fallon smirked.Michael chose to rise from the tub, in all of his glory.“Hello, Fallon. I’m fine.  More so now that Amanda and I have found one another.  So if you don’t mind…”“If I don’t mind, what?  Leaving so that you can rut around with my sister?  She’s in real trouble.  And if you involve yourself in this, then you’re going to be in trouble as well.”Amanda was not quite as bold as Michael.  She reached for a towel and stood up.  She draped it around herself and faced off with her big sister!“Leave us, Fallon! My life does not concern you.”  Amanda told her.“Daddy has asked me to resume running La Mirage.  So your life, that being your ‘dead husband in my hotel’ does concern me.  And the spectacular tackiness you’ve shown with Michael here, darkens our family name…”“So does lying about being raped by our brother!” Amanda snapped back.  The cheek of this witch to judge her!Michael raised a brow!  Amanda couldn’t  be talking about Steven! What the hell was this all about?Fallon turned and walked out of the bathroom.  She would deal with Amanda in private, the same way she would deal with Michael Culhane…in private.  Fallon opened the door to the studio and ran into Adam!“Is Amanda here with Culhane?” Adam asked, looking around his sister.“They’re all yours.” Fallon said sardonically, moving past him and out of the door.  Adam clenched his jaw as Michael and Amanda emerged from the bathroom in robes.“Amanda, get yourself dressed and back to the house.  I will wait outside for you.  Culhane, you will be escorted off of the property.”  Adam told him.  He then turned and walked out of the studio, pulling the door closed behind him.  Adam stared at the back of Fallon’s head as she walked back to the house.  What had she been doing over here anyway? Adam could not help but wonder if Fallon, the Real Fallon he had met when he first came to Denver, had come over to this studio to get her ‘chauffeur’ away from her sister?Meanwhile, in the studio, Amanda was still fuming over Fallon’s ’visit’! And she was now wondering the same thing Adam was.  Did Fallon want Michael back?Michael could tell that Amanda could not shake off Fallon’s visit and turned her to face him.“Fallon is just being Fallon.  I know you don’t know her very well.  Unfortunately, I do.  Colby bores her and I don’t.  She’s jealous…”“Michael! I cannot deal with her! I just cannot! I cannot deal with having to leave you so soon! We hardly had any time together!” Amanda almost pouted.Michael’s response to Amanda’s indignation, was to drop his robe, then untie hers.  Amanda’s dropped to the floor as well and the two of them just held one another, naked, until Michael reluctantly let her go.“Don’t think of this as leaving me.  We can’t  be together if you’re not alive, honey, okay? When it’s safe, we’ll be together.  I promise.”  Michael said softly.  He reached for the clip in her hair and it tumbled down.Amanda nodded against him, sighing.  They would be together, if she had to go and hunt for that murderous witch, Elena, herself!Michael smiled as he held Amanda.  He’d deal with Fallon in his own way. But he did not want her back.  Fallon had Colby and probably a string of other men on the side.Amanda, he had all to himself now.</blockquote>

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