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I didn’t know what to do. I was at a loss, and fear paralyzed me.
“Talk to me, please!” He screamed, “I can’t help you if you won’t tell me what’s going on!”
“He has them.” I whispered, afraid that I’d made a giant mistake the second the words crossed my lips.
An eerie silence filled the space for a few seconds. “Has who?” He asked with a cold menace in his voice I’d never heard before.
“Penelope.” I sobbed as my voice broke, “And Maddie and Aunt Suzie too.”
“No.” He whispered, and I imagined him shaking his head back and forth. “No, no, no.”
“He hurt Maddie,” I cried, “I don’t know what he was doing to her but I heard Penny screaming as he did it. He said he'd hurt her next if I didn’t do what he said.”
“What did he say?”
“He wants money.” I choked on my fear and coughed, “Your money.”
“Mine?” He questioned, “What did you do?”
“The safe, in your office, he knew about it. He told me to clean it out and meet him at the ranch.”
“No,” Fox barked, “Don’t you fucking dare go there.”
“He has Penelope, Fox!” I screamed back in frustration. “She screamed for me, begging me to help her! What was I supposed to do?”
“Tell me!” He bellowed, “You were supposed to fucking tell me so I could stop him!”
“He told me if I did, he’d hurt her.” I screamed again through my teeth as my heart broke. “I didn’t know what else to do.”
“Pull over, wherever you are, pull over. I’ll meet you.”
“I can’t.” I shook my head and tightened my hands around the steering wheel. “He only gave me barely enough time to get there. He said if I was late, he’d-.” The words died on my tongue as nausea rolled again.
“He’d what?”
“He’d torture them.”
He screamed and cursed into the phone as more tears fell down my face. “I’m coming.”
“No!” I yelled, “You can’t. He said he’d hurt them if I told you.”
“He’s not going to just go away once you give him the money, D! Think about it!” He roared.
“I know.” I replied, chewing on my lip before whispering “I took your gun.”
“Oh my God.” He cursed again and then I heard him barking orders to men around him, rallying the troops to come after me.
“I’m going to save our daughter, Fox.” I said finally, “I have to, I don’t care what it costs me, I have to save her.”
“Fuck!”
“I have to go.” I said as the turn off to my next route came into view. “I love you, but I have to keep going.”
“I’m coming. I’ll be there as soon as I can. The whole club is riding.”
“It’ll be too late.”
“D!” He screamed again but I cut him off.
