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Everything in me gives out and I drop to my knees, feeling more helpless than I ever have in my life, even more than when I watched as the life slipped from Tessa's eyes.
I can't fucking lose her. I can’t lose them.
ALL OUR FRIENDS STARTto show up as I sit on the sidewalk. Amelia, Tye, and Paige all comfort each other while the guys keep their eyes on me. No one tries to talk to me. They all know there is nothing that can be said. At least, until Tessa shows up. She gives Amelia a sad smile as she comes right over to me and sits down.
“E,” she sighs. “It's going to be okay.”
I shake my head. “You don't know that.”
“No, I don't,” she answers honestly. “But I'm going to believe that. Kennedy is strong and fearless. You really think that girl is going to let someone like Alec hurt her or the baby?”
She's trying to help, that much is obvious. And I know she means well. There was a point in time when her words would have helped. They would've calmed me down and made me relax. But not now.
Not when it comes to Kennedy.
To our baby.
“You don't know her like I do,” I tell her. “She's strong but fragile, all at the same time. And these fucking cops aren't doing shit. She's in there, alone with him, and they're doing nothing!”
Over the last hour that we've been here, the fucker has looked out the window three times, and they've got him on the phone once. He knows we're out here. He knows we're worried. And I wouldn't put it past him to take himself and her both out in some forced Romeo and Juliet ending.
I get up and start pacing back and forth, making Tess stand with me.
“Don't,” she says. “I know what you're thinking, and I'm telling you. Don't do it.”
Turning to look at her, I huff. “There was a time I would have listened to you. You're one of my best friends, and you know that. But when it comes to her, I won't listen to anyone.”
Her eyes widen. “Zayn!”
But it's too late. I take off running, under the caution tape and dodging the cops at the door as I slip inside, hearing Z scream”Idiotically heroic!”behind me.
The house is quiet. If I didn't know better, I would think no one is home. Everything is perfectly in place, like they had a normal day before his roommates went to school and he went to kidnap the love of my life.
I don't need to scour the downstairs to know they're not down here. All the police attention has been on the upstairs window. They're up there.
Sheis up there.
As quietly as I can, I creep up the steps and keep my back against the wall. When I reach the top step, Kennedy's voice meets my ears, and I damn near faint with relief, because she's still alive.
“What are you going to do?” she asks him, fear lacing her tone.
He groans. “Stop asking me that! God, you were never this annoying before!”
“Alec, just let me go. I'll tell them it was all a misunderstanding.”
“A misunderstanding?”
“Yes. It'll be okay, I promise.”
A loud bang sounds, like he threw something and it shattered. “Your father was right. You always were a shit liar!”
She starts to sob. “No. I'm not lying.”
“Stop fucking lying to me!” he screams.
The sound of a slap echoes into the hallway, and I instantly take a step before stopping myself, but it's too late. The floorboard creaks under my foot, alerting him of my presence.
“Who's there?” he growls.
