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But he didn’t have the right.
“It’s not the only way!” Fiona exclaimed. “You can recover from your fears, you just have to try!”
The man looked at her, his eyes wide with surprise. “What did you say?”
Fiona’s heart raced, but she held her ground. “You don’t have to kill them. There are other ways to help them. You just have to be patient and show them that they can be strong and conquer their fears.”
The man seemed to consider Fiona’s words, his grip on Deanna loosening slightly.
“I don’t know,” he muttered, his voice uncertain.
“Please,” Fiona begged. “Let her go. You don’t have to do this. You can help her, but not like this.”
The man’s eyes danced across Fiona. She felt sick under his disturbing stare, but she kept her poise strong.
“What do you fear, then?” he asked her. “Tell me what you fear the most, and maybe I will let this one continue her suffering.”
Caught off guard, Fiona thought for a moment. She glanced at Jake, who nodded. Maybe this was the distraction they needed to get the upper hand. The moment Jake had a shot, she knew he’d take it.
But she didn’t know what to say. What did she fear the most?
She supposed when it came down to it, it was having no one care for her.
She didn’t mind being alone, but she had lost her sister, who went missing at seventeen, and the idea of Fiona going missing and no one being there to care about her or remember her scared her to her core.
“I’m… scared of being forgotten,” she confessed. “I’m afraid of going missing, like my sister did, and there being no search parties. I’m scared of ending up at the end of my life with no one by my side, no one to remember me…”
The man chuckled darkly. “That’s a fear I know all too well,” he said.
Fiona watched him closely, her heart pounding in her chest. She was afraid of what he might do next, but she was also afraid of the things he could make her feel.
Suddenly, his grip loosened on Deanna, giving Jake the chance he needed.
Fiona flinched as the gunshot resonated through the air.
Jake’s bullet pierced the man’s arm.
Deanna screamed and shoved the man away from her, scrambling back to her house, running in through the back door and slamming it behind her.
The man roared in anger and pain, turning his attention to Jake. He lunged at him with surprising speed, his eyes filled with rage and desperation. Jake shot again, this time hitting the man in the leg. He half-buckled to the ground, then picked himself back up.
“Damn it, I’m not trying to kill you!” Jake shouted.
Fiona gasped as she watched the man tackle Jake to the ground. The two men fought fiercely, each one trying to overpower the other, but Jake quickly rolled the man onto his back, pinning him into the dirt.
“Red, grab my cuffs!” Jake exclaimed.
Fiona ran over, her heart pounding in her chest. Jake had the man subdued, but he still needed to be restrained. She grabbed a pair of handcuffs from the back of Jake’s car and quickly snapped them around the man’s wrists.
The man groaned as he felt the cold metal against his skin, but he was too weak to fight back anymore. Fiona stepped away with a sigh of relief as Jake pulled himself up off the ground.
“It’s over,” he said, breathing heavily.
Fiona nodded, her hands shaking. She had never been so scared in her life.
But it was over. Thanks to them, Deanna was safe, and Ted Dunn would never kill another person.
EPILOGUE
