LEZZIE-ASON CHAPTER SIXTEEN

May looked flabbergasted. "What are you talking about?" She asked.
I took a deep breath breath. How in Hell was I going to tell her? I decided to just blurt it out.
"Gerry's repoerrted us to the police. For kidnapping the kids."
"What? Why?"
"Oh, I don't know. For revenge?"
We raced down the stairs, grabbing the kids on the way. They all looked bewildered, not knowing what was going on. We got to the front door, and stopped dead in our tracks when we saw who was standing there.
The police officer just barged his way in.
"Are you Sarah Manks and May Saunders?" He asked. "We've got a report that you kidnapped a couple of kids."
"We didn't kidnap them!" I protested. "They were my kids in the first place."
"Nope. The man who rang us said you was the adopterd parents and they were placed back into care."
"Thyat's not true. Aske the kids if I'm their real mum."
The police officer sighed a very annoyed sigh. He turned to Larry and Lisa who were standing at the foot of the stairs.
"Is this your real mum?" He asked them.
They both nodded in unison.
"There, see."
"I suspect you've told them to say that. In case you ran into the police. Am I right?"
"No! Please listen to me, officer. My ex has ran off with someone else. I wouldn't let him see the kids because of this. This is his way of getting revenge."
The police officer gave a smug little grin.
"Your, uh, ex has told us you'd say that. Anything else you may like to tell me?"
"Yes. Who rang you?"
"Sorry, love, that's strictly, that is."
I glared at him. He was a big, burly man who probably wouldn't have looked out of place working as a bouncer at a nightclub. I decided not to make him more mad than he already looked.
"I'm sorry Mrs...?"
"Manks."
"I'm sorry, Mrs Manks, I'm going to have to place you under arrest."
"What? No, you can't do that! They were my kids that my bastard of an ex husband placed into care just to get his own back on me!"
"Change the record, love. We already know that isn't simply true."
I sighed. T?here wasn't any point in arguing with him. He was such a prick.
"Mrs Sanders. Mrs Manks. I am now placing you under arrest for the kidnapping of these three children. You will go to jail, and the kids will come with me back to ther Children's Home..."
"No!" Lisa suddenly yelled out. She ran up to me, and wrapped her arms round me. "I won't let you go, Mummy." She turned to the police officer and stuck her tongue out at him.
"I think you're very mean. I don't want to go back therre! It was horrible! And my mummy's my real mummy and the best one there ever was! So there!"
We all looked pleadingly st the police officer, willing him to believe us, and let us go. What was he going to do?

Find out what happens next in Chapter Seventeen...