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His heart beat wildly in his chest. He had to do something. He shook her again. “Miss Anne?”
Nothing.
Silas looked at the phone. He knew Miss Anne pressed a number to call her friends. Would that work? What number should he press? Would her friends come? Help her? Help him?
Which number?
He pressed number one. It rang.
His stomach didn’t feel so good. The man had scared him and tried to take him.
Miss Anne protected him, and look what happened. Was she dead? Silas poked her again. Anne groaned. Yes! She was alive.
The phone rang again. What if no one answered? He’d have to chance calling the police. Please answer.
One more time, it rang.
“Hey Anne, what’s up?”
* * *
“What’s up?” When Sam answered the phone, she never expected to hear the panic in a little boy’s voice or hear that Anne wouldn’t wake up. Her chest tightened with worry. What the hell happened?
She grabbed her purse. Everyone except Danny and Joe were on assignment. She called out to them and they raced over to Anne’s house. Silas couldn’t give her any more information. Just that a man broke into the house and hurt her.
Who would want to hurt Anne? Why was a man in the house? Why didn’t Silas call 9-1-1? He knew how. There had to be a reason he hadn’t.
Sam needed to talk to Silas. She had so many questions but no answers. She had Silas stay on the phone while they sped over.
She could hear the fear in his voice but kept talking to him to reassure him, as well as herself, that everything would be okay.
“Is Anne still asleep?” asked Joe.
“Yesss,” replied Silas, his voice trembling. “I shook her again. She’s bleeding.”
“Everything will be okay. We’ll be there in a few minutes,” said Sam, reassuring the little boy. “Did you call 9-1-1?”
“No, only you.”
Sam had to believe he knew how to dial the emergency number. There had to be a reason.
“I’m scared,” whispered Silas.
“I know, sweetie, but Anne will be okay,” she replied. “We’ll be there in a few minutes. Just stay on the phone.”
“Okay.”
They could hear Silas’s heavy breathing. They heard him beg Anne to wake up. Sam’s heart was pounding in her chest. What had happened?
When they arrived at the house, their anxiety heightened when they saw Anne’s car in the garage and the front door wide open but no Silas.
They pulled their guns and cautiously entered the house. Sam heard nothing out of the ordinary and called out to Silas. They found him sitting next to Anne’s body, clutching the phone to his ear.
“Crap. This doesn’t look good,” Danny said. He glanced into the bedrooms and back at Anne.
“Is she dying?” Silas whispered, staring at Anne and then at the three of them.
Sam gently took the phone from Silas’s hand and turned it off.
