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My tongue goes thick.This is it, I realize.The rat.
My phone pings again, but I don’t answer.
“The user who’s been manipulating stock, and authorized to have this all moved at midnight runs is Marco,” he says. “He’s the one who moved all the drugs. But those updates weren’t there an hour ago. None of those access records were. We’ve been using a decoy application, and the whole system is currently deleting itself.”
I feel as if I’ve been punched in the gut. I crumble and fall onto my ass on the pallet behind me. My heart is beating to a stop. My phone pings again and I look at it.
It’s a photo …
It’s a picture of Sophie tied up.
Of course surprises are always best in twos and threes!
I stare at the phone, my eyes bulging. They have Sophie. Marco is the rat, and he’s taken Sophie!
“Marco did it all?” I utter. The guard doesn’t say anything but looks awkwardly around the room. “Marco did it all?” I scream.
Another text pings on my phone.What kind of father leaves his poor and defenseless fiance at home alone? Especially when she’s pregnant with their unborn child?
“Mr. Colombino?” the guard asks. I barely hear him. “Sir, what’re we going to do? What should we do to stop the program deleting itself?”
The missing stock. The rat. My father’s killer … It’s all Marco. Marco, who I’ve known forever. Marco, who’s been my best friend for my entire life. My heart finally stops.
Marco who I left with my Sophie …
MySophie, who is pregnant with my baby.
Chapter 23
Sophie
ThefirstthingIrealize is that my head fucking hurts. And not just like a light headache, but a real fucking painful migraine. I can feel the wound throbbing at the back of my skull and all I want to do is cradle my head in my hands and get some medicine.
That’s when I try to move my hands.
That’s when I try to remember what happened.
That’s when I remember Marco apologizing …
My eyes snap open and I’m grateful for darkness, because the sudden movement has just made my head explode with pain and nausea to lurch in my stomach. I go to call out but a gag is tied over my face. Suddenly my body lights up with pressure all over it. There's a coarse rope tied around me and I’m on a chair that is digging into my back. I can feel the painfulness of the rope fibers burning against my skin and then I stop, feeling how tight it is over my belly.
I remember telling Marco about my pregnancy.
My heart is racing and my hands begin shaking like crazy. Panic sets in and the dark only seems to become thicker, enveloping me like a heavy blanket that’s slowly choking me. A complete meltdown is on the way.
I call out again desperately despite the gag and try to move around. The need to cry floods my mind and the chair rocks and bounces as I begin to freak out. My calls are dull and the room sounds small and like I’m in some sort of boat. The echoes rebound quickly and then suddenly I’m falling sideways.
The chair crashes to the ground and my head bashes against the cold floor. My eyes flash white and my head lights up in pain. I’m gasping breaths in and hyperventilating, for a split second though, the cold floor almost feels nice.
The cold floor, which is metal.
Where the hell am I?
My mind offers up some hazy memories of riding in a van and coming to a big dark building. I remember Marco talking and people carrying me, he was telling them what to do with me. Something about my clothes … and rope …
A key scratches against a lock and my body tenses. I panic even more and freeze, trapped on the ground lying flat against my side.The complete opposite of what I wanted to do!
A large metal door swings open and there’s a few shadows.
