I brush my teeth in the hotel mirror aggressively. Standing in only my grey tank top and grey underwear.

I can't believe I've been suspended. Marissa must be freaking out, and I honestly can't blame her. I would be freaking out too.

Suddenly my phone begins buzzing from beside me.

"Yeah" I press my cell against my ear.

"So what's the game plan for tomorrow?" He asks.

The next few days have been carefully calculated. We don't have time for any more surprises.

"Tomorrow I'll be working from my hotel room" I tell him honestly "can you do dinner?"

"Yeah I can pick you up at six" Kyle tells me.

Good. We can eat and talk about Johnathan at the same time.

"Well I like pizza" I inform.

He chuckles "Pizza it is"

Knock knock

Who could that be? I'm not expecting anyone. Is it Kyle surprising me for dinner or something

"Is that you?" I furrowed my brows as walking through my hotel room.

"I'm still at the office" he tells me. "Could it be room services?"

I grab my gun that sits on the desk in the hotel room.

"I didn't order any" I tell him as approaching the door. Without hesitation I swing the door open to see a man that I know all too well "I'll call you back"

I end the call quickly? Looking up at the man. My husband stands there in all his glory.

Bang

"Ow!" I hissed as I look up to find myself laying under the door frame of the classroom.

I turn my head where I find a guy laying beside me. Despite us being strangers, he grabbed my hand and helped me up.

"Are you okay? I'm so sorry" he picked my books up from the floor.

"She'll be fine" Thomas smirked at him, "She gets herself in these sorta situations often"

"Oh my gosh are you okay?" A girl stood beside the guy "I'm so sorry my boyfriend and I-"

"I took her books and-" the guy started.

"I was chasing him and that's why we were running" She finished.

"It's fine" Thomas assured them as I stood lightheaded beside him.

"I'm Sarah and this is my boyfriend Ross by the way" The girl smiled sweetly.

Sarah had long blonde wavy hair and blue eyes. She wore denim skinny jeans with a white blouse.

Ross had olive skin, chocolate brown eyes and hair. He wore black jeans with a grey t-shirt.

The first thing that I noticed about Ross was his smile and eyes. He reminded me so much of Liam, yet they were nothing alike.

Little did I know at that time how close the three or us would become. Sarah and Ross were this inseparable power couple that I admired. I never felt like a third wheel when I was with them.

Their relationship lasted ten more months before they called it quits. Sarah began dating Thomas, than the man we call Ned killed her on Valentine's day.

Ross never knew why she died. They told her family that the house was being robbed and she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Fast forward four years. I wasn't expecting to see him ever again.

"I'm nineteen years old" I told them "I haven't been in elementary school in a long time! I'm sick of working with children"

"If you feel so strongly towards me maybe you should say it to my face" an amused voice says from behind me as we sat in the lecture room.

I turned my head around quickly - recognizing the voice all to well. As a man from my past entered my vision. I hadn't seen him since I was seventeen years old.

"Ross" I sighed in relief, "How did you find me?"

"I'm a P.I remember?" He folds his arms as I walk through my apartment, placing my gun back down on my desk.

"You shouldn't be here" I run my fingers through my hair.

"I know that you've been suspended" he starts.

"Deacon called you?" I glare at the man whose dark chocolate brown eyes look at me as though he was looking into my soul.

"He had every right to Isla" Ross sighs.

"For fuck sake" I cry, facing my husband "you gave me the ultimatum remember"

"Let this go" he takes a step towards me.

"I can't!" I scream.

"You're going to lose me" Ross snapped "if you continue this witch hunt you're going to lose me"

I'm willing to do everything it takes to get my family back. I'm prepared to do whatever it takes.

"I was there when he was born" I start "I sat in the waiting room holding my grandmother's hand when my baby brother was born....Hank took us in when I was a pregnant fifteen year old screw up...i gave birth to his first and only grandchild...Thomas was there for me when Liam was killed and every single day after that because we only had each other....I can't let this go Ross, I won't"

"It's been ten years" he cries.

"They're all I have!" I argue.

"did you ever think for one second that maybe they don't want to be found?" He raises a brow.

His words set a fire in the pit of my stomach.

"The program is using fear to prevent them from finding me" I start "that's why I never went back for Brandon and Lexi! Because they told me that if I did it would mean all our lives"

"I'm your husband" Ross takes both my hands "come home with me"

I can't do that. Even if I wanted to I couldn't. We can live happily ever after, after I get my family back.

"I told you, just give me a little more time" I beg causing him to take a step back and sigh.

"six months turned into a year which than turned into ten" he shrugs "You've had enough time Isla"

"They're my family" I explain.

"So am I" he cries "do you have any idea what it's like being married to somebody who always has one foot out the door? Waking up to find that my wife is half way across the nation on some wild goose chase? It makes me feel like I'm not good enough"

I shake my head "Ross not everything is about you! Or us."

"Just sign the damn papers!" He throws his arms up "Put your ego aside, admit that you were wrong and sign them!"

"No! By signing those papers I am admitting defeat!" I scream.

It's like talking to a wall.

"You're never going to find them!" He yells "I know it's not what you want to hear but you're never going to find them!"

"You're an asshole!" I snap. "I love my family! Sue me! Call me selfish or whatever but I will never apologise for trying to get my family back!"

"Do you see me?" He takes a step towards me, taking my hands once again "can you feel me? I'm here....I'm standing right in front of you but you're acting as though I'm not even here"

"This is something that I have to do" I lower my voice.

"You've been singing the same song for nine years Isla" he sighs "I can't listen to it anymore" he drops the papers on my bed "if you love me sign the papers and i'll see you at home" with that he walks out of the hotel room.

If I love him? This is so beyond loving him. This is about my family and my life. I grab the papers before walking out the door and to the hallway.

"I don't respond to ultimatums and I sure as hell dont respond to threats Ross!" I scream at his back. "When we got together, you knew exactly who I was and what my intentions with my life were. You pursued me, remember! If you didn't want this you could have got yourself out of my life like all the others but you chose to stay"

He turns around to face me "when did you become this person? When did your life stop being yours?"

When I joined the program.

"The last time I put my signature on a formal document" I flick the papers in his face. "I will not be controlled Ross" I walk back into my hotel room and slam the door shut.

I run my fingers through my hair in anger before throwing the near by glass at the wall. This is so beyond Ross and I.

I'm trying to get my family back, and I'll do whatever it takes.