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“We’ll find her, Maddie. She has to be here,” he tried to soothe me as he took my hand and led me to the next open doorway.
“What if she’s not? What if he hid her somewhere and now he’s dead? We may never find her!” I panicked.
“IN HERE!” I heard a voice I didn’t recognize, bellowing loudly. The alarm in the voice had me panicking even more as I ran towards it, with Kai and the others right behind me,
I ran into the kitchen of the house, just as Parker lifted Willow out of what looked like a pantry. She was too still in his arms, her always pale skin looking even paler in the light of the flashlights the guys were shining on her. Lincoln, Jax, and Nate were all in the room, my guys all behind me.
“Willow!” I cried as I ran to where Parker was setting her down on a table that sat in the center of the room.
“Maddie, wait!” Hunter cried, and he wrapped his arms around me, holding me back.
“Let me go!” I screamed as I fought to get to her, but Hunter feared exactly what I did – that we were too late – and he wanted to spare me, but there was no sparing me anything if my child was dead. I’d already lost one. I couldn’t lose Willow too.
“She’s breathing!” Parker announced as he put his ear to her mouth. Hunter released me and I tripped over my own feet getting to her in a rush, crashing over the table at her side.
“Willow, can you hear me, peanut?” I asked.
“He drugged her,” Lincoln said as he held up a syringe which he’d picked up from the counter.
“What the fuck? Is she okay?” Nico growled.
“What did he give her?” Parker asked. He was holding her wrist as he looked at his watch and I realized he was checking her pulse.
“Midazolam. The vile is empty,” Lincoln replied. “It doesn’t say how much was in here. I don’t think he got this from a legit source,” he added as he held up the vile with foreign letters under the name of the contents.
“We need to get her to the ER,” Kai said.
“He’s right. Who knows what the fuck was in there,” Nico agreed. They were all panicking as much as I was. Willow wasn’t responding to me as I smoothed back her wild hair and spoke to her. Her clothes were covered with filth and she had clearly been crying a lot, her face blotchy and red, but otherwise I couldn’t see any sign he’d hurt her.
“Go. I’ll call Roth at the FBI and clean up here,” Parker said as he approached Nico. Nico handed him a cell phone from his pocket as he thanked him, while Hunter approached me and scooped Willow up from the table.
“Let’s go, Mads,” Cam told me as he appeared at my side and ushered me out of the room.
“Thank you,” I said as I turned back to Nico’s teammates.
“You’re family now, Maddie. You’re stuck with us,” Jax laughed, and I forced a smile. They had no idea what they had done for me that night and I knew I would never be able to thank them.
We ran from the house behind Hunter, who was hurtling towards the trees and back to the car with Willow clutched to his chest. I worked hard to keep up, desperate to get Willow to the hospital as soon as possible. Thankfully, Cam stayed close and managed to catch me and keep me upright when I tripped over two tree roots in the darkness of the woods. I worried about Hunt tripping and falling with Willow, but those guys seemed to have night vision or something as they navigated the darkness perfectly.
When we got to the car we all leapt in and Hunter laid Willow in my arms in the back. She still wasn’t moving and in the light in the car I could see her coloring was looking a little gray. I had to reassure myself she was still breathing by placing my hand on her chest and feeling the movement of it going up and down.
“How long, Hunter?” I asked as he started the car.
“The nearest hospital is about fifteen minutes away,” he told me.
“Hurry, please.”
“I know, baby. I’ll get us there,” he promised.
Kai, who was sitting beside me, ran his hand over her wild hair as he looked to her with all of the worry I was feeling.
“She has to be okay,” I whispered as a tear slipped down my cheek.
“She will be. She’s strong, just like her mom,” Nico told me from where he sat at my other side. He leaned in to wipe away my tears.
“How c-could he do this…to his own daughter, too?” I cried.
“He was a monster, Maddie, but he’s gone now. Frank too. They can never hurt you or Willow again,” Hunter told me and the relief I felt at realizing he was right, was immense. I just needed to get Willow through this and we would be safe.
