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He waved his gun at her and motioned her into the bedroom, where he gagged her again, then tied her feet together.
“Now get in the closet.”
Mandy looked at the small space and felt the nausea bite again. He pointed the gun at her temple. Hopping forward, she did as he told her and slumped to the floor. Logan Hall shut the doors and plunged her yet again into another nightmare.
Mandy had been missingby Ted’s reckoning for four hours now, and he was at the point of simply leaving the police station. Anything to find her and stop the thoughts of what she was going through from whirling around inside his head.
They’d searched her place and found nothing that would clue them in to where she was being held. He was now pacing Chief Blake’s office, waiting as they all were for that phone call to tell them how much money it would take to free Mandy.
“Okay, what’s going on? The words were spoken by a grim-faced Rory, who was followed in the door by the Trainer brothers and Fin Hudson.
“You need to go,” Ted said, his voice sounding rough, like he’d just come off a three-day drinking spree.
“Not happening, I want answers,” Joe said. He saw the Robbins sisters then and that they’d been crying. “Oh, hell no, it’s Mandy isn’t it?”
Ted watched as the Trainers crowded round the sisters. Fin came to him.
“What’s the deal, Ted?”
“You have to go; he can’t know that anyone else is involved. Dylan, you need to tell them.” He turned to the man who had taken charge alongside Chief Blake. He’d spent most of the last few hours on the phone.
“Tell them what’s happened, they can help. You know that following a kidnapper’s rules doesn’t always work, bud. Tell them, we may need them. They know this area better than most.”
Ted fell into a chair then and dropped his head in his hands.
God, Mandy. Was she safe? Had he hurt her? Would he see her again?
“Mandy’s been kidnapped,” Dylan said in that calm way he had that made a person think that just maybe everything was going to be okay. But as the hours passed, Ted’s desperation was climbing.
Rory cried out, and Ted looked up in time to see Jack haul her into his arms. Ted hated them for that; he wanted to hold Mandy.
Dylan explained everything in the exact order it’d happened, recounting the facts accurately.
“You had anything to drink or eat?” Fin dropped down before him.
“I don’t want anything, I want Mandy.”
“Got that. We all want her back, but to get to that stage we have to stay strong. So you’re gonna eat.”
“I need to do something,” Rory said. “I’ll find food and coffee.” She hurried out the door.
“My sister was kidnapped,” Ted found himself telling Fin. “We did everything they asked, and they still killed her.”
“I remember you mentioning that. How old was she?” Fin pulled out a chair and sat.
“Fourteen.”
“That has to play hell on a big brother.”
“And then some.”
“And now another person you love has been kidnapped.”
“And it’s my fault.”
“How do you figure that?”
“The press. There was a photo of me with Mandy; it had to be how he found her.”
