Found you!

With this newfound love for my baby, the next four months passed by in a jiffy, and it was finally time to deliver the baby.

The moment the first contraction hit me, I gained a new profound respect for my mother, even though I didn't know her, but if this is the pain all mothers feel before they are called a mother, then they deserve my utmost respect.

So then and there I promised to love my child with every part of me...But I guess fate had other plans.

"We're very sorry, Mrs Simpson, but the baby was stillborn," the doctor announced, bowing her head like she was scared to disclose the news.

I couldn't believe my ears... no, I wouldn't have it, what is she talking about?

"What are you saying doc...is this some kind of prank?" I asked while looking like a person who was about to go crazy.

"We tried our best ma'am, I'm sorry" she stated while bowing her head even more.

"No!!!! That's impossible...I heard the baby cry...I carried this child for nine months. There's no way I wouldn't know if the baby inside me was dead or not..." I said while grabbing the doctor's lab coat. "Please, doctor, tell me it's not true." I kept pleading with the doctor, but all my pleading yielded futile results.

I was in the private room at the hospital so I was able to cry to my heart's content without anyone saying I was being too loud.

I cried and cried until there were no more tears left in my eyes. I couldn't cry, I couldn't laugh either, I couldn't even think for myself. Is this what they call being numb?

Jamie came in wearing his lab coat. Only then did I realize I gave birth at his hospital.

"Sam, are you alright? The doctor who helped you deliver was a friend, and she told me everything. Are you ok...I was so worried when you never came back for the antenatal care, but I saw your husband, and he said you traveled and might be having the baby there. I'm so sorry for your loss, Sam," Jamie explained while trying to sympathize with me, but I wasn't having it.

I thought all the tears in my eyes had dried up, but I guess it wasn't.

"Jamie...please tell your friend to find my son. I know I passed out immediately after having the baby, but I heard her say I had a bouncing baby boy. I also heard my baby's cry....you have to believe me, Jamie," I mutter under raspy breath, too much crying is making me lose my voice.

All Jamie could do was hug me, it didn't comfort me at all but I didn't push him away. I cried my heart out once more, and by the time I was done, his lab coat on the part where my face was, was entirely drenched.

Due to the help of some sedatives that Jamie injected, I was finally able to take a few minutes' nap, it would have been longer if I didn't have a terrible nightmare about my just lost baby.

But waking up was just as scary as the nightmare because my mother-in-law was sitting in a chair at the far end of my bed.

I sat up and uttered weakly.

"What more do you want from me, The baby you wanted to hide from the world so badly is already gone and I'm not married to your son anymore so what more do you want"

"Tch tch tch, what a pitiful child you are," she said, looking into the window like something interesting was going on outside. "It's true you owe me nothing but what did I do?! I'm the clingy type" she stated while walking towards my bed

What is she talking about now?

Just as I was still confused about what she was saying two heavily built men sprang into the room and pulled me off my bed.

"What do you think you're doing??!!!!" I yelled at the top of my voice but she didn't seem to be listening to me at all.

"I told you that I'm clingy...I would have let you go, but I just found out that an auction will take place in three months, and guess what? Humans can be auctioned off too. It's a shame that the baby died I would have made quite a lot by auctioning both of you but I guess we can't do anything about it" she stated while going back to the chair to get her bag.

"Is this why you kept me in the basement for this long?!? So you could auction me and my child off?!? Do you even consider yourself human?!? How could you do something so despicable?!?!?" I roared not caring if any other person heard our conversation

"Well, next time you would think twice before cheating on my son!" She uttered plainly.

"What about when you made me deliver drugs, I haven't cheated on your son then have I?!? You traffic drugs and humans too?!? That's the most..." She orders them to seal my mouth off.

"Can you gag her or something? She keeps spewing nonsense" she said, turning to leave the hospital room.

***

It was finally the day of the auction

"And now we are presented with a human who looks a little unkempt right now, but with a little care from her owner would be as good as new," the host's voice rang over the speakers in what seemed like a dungeon used for illegal gambling.

But I couldn't look much, being locked in a basement for three months without any form of light coming in, and suddenly being on stage where all attention and the center light was on me was enough to just make me shut my eyes and wait for what was to come.

"We'll start with $25,000." Is that my worth? Do I amount to nothing? Was being loved something I shouldn't dream of? That I have to be sold at an auction.

"$26,000"

"$26,500"

"$30,000"

"$30,000, is there anyone who wants to bid higher? Going once, going twice...

This went in for a few more minutes and I gave up hope. This was it, this is where my life journey ends. I will get sold here then, if my buyer is an organ trafficker, he would probably kill me and sell off my organs.

"Five hundred million dollars" a deep manly voice grunted from the corner of the room.

"Wow, that's a very high bid...I doubt if anyone is willing to go higher than that. Going once, going twice, sold. Congratulations, Mr Jimmie Hendrix, you just won yourself a hot-looking toy...everyone is left to wonder what you will be doing with her tonight."

Jimmie who was sitting in a dark corner of the room gave a sinister smirk and uttered under his breath

"Found you!!!"