Agent for a Cause

Lisa's eyebrows rose slightly and then she glanced off to the side, "It would appear you have a visitor darling."

A man stepped into the room smoothly from a place beyond it where he had been evidently listening from. Anna swallowed hard; this man very much looked like he could take care of trouble both big and small. The question was would he help her?

"Anna this is my husband James a.k.a. Flint. James this is Anna and her son Kevin." Lisa looked at Anna directly, "Do you need privacy?"

Anna raised her hand quickly, "Oh no please don't move on my account! It's nothing secretive that I've come here about."

James sat down beside his wife his eyes reflecting his wife's curiosity as to their strange visitor. "So Miss Anna what is it you need help with?" James asked inquisitively.

"It's not Miss, its Mrs. Nikolai Gravitausky." Anna said softly, as she intently watched his face for a reaction to her words.

Her words brought a shocked expression to James features that had his wife looking now at him with genuine curiosity. "While I'll be!" James breathed out under his breath.

"What?" Lisa asked of her husband, as her look of curiosity started turning partially to concern.

He turned to her, "Nikolai Gravitausky is Tyre's real name."

Lisa's eyebrows rose expressively, "Wow!" She said exclaiming softly giving Anna a new appreciative glance.

James's face had switched from shock directly to concern. "Where's Tyre?"

"I don't know." Anna replied.

"When did you see him last?" James asked.

Anna looked down, as she unconsciously felt at the diamond rings on her finger, "Our wedding day."

Lisa and James looked at each other meaningfully, as a short sob shook through Anna. Lisa smoothly transferred a sleeping Taleah to James and moved over to Anna.

Lisa gave Kevin a comforting smile as she slid around behind Anna and enfolded her with her arms. Anna didn't resist the hand that eased her head back to rest against Lisa's shoulder.

Anna just kept crying, "I want him! I need him!"

Lisa just held her tightly and kissed the top of her head softly, "I know honey!"

Kevin just watched what took place a silent witness to the scene of raw emotion. James disappeared with Taleah and then he was back alone kneeling before Anna.

He took her hands into his grasp, "Anna I'll help you anyway I can. Can you tell me a little more what happened?"

Anna nodded, as she tried to stifle her emotions down. Lisa pulled the baby blanket off of her shoulder and handed it to Anna.

"Oh no I'll get stuff on it!"