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“Who needs help?” I ask again, rage and dread shooting into my veins.
“Sophia,” she wails. “Someone took Sophia.”
A cold dread washes over me. “How long ago? Any witnesses?”
“An hour ago. I think. I…uh… I heard Michael tell Raph that she was at the park and was playing soccer, then her friends saw someone hooded with a mask. It was a scary mask, they said. It had no mouth and had a slash in each eye.”
Fuck! He came for her. He knew I was watching her. He knew what I wore. He knew more about me than I did about him. I’m ashamed of it. Ashamed that I was careless. Stupid. It’s my fault that little girl was taken. Probably killed by now.
Unless he wants me there.
My fingers curl viciously around my phone as I browse through it for the app I need.
“Please say you’re gonna help her. Please!” She shatters right there across the line. “I know you hate me and this family, but please, please don’t hate her. She’s?—”
“Ma. I don’t hate her.”
She gasps.
That word. I shouldn’t have.
“I’m gonna find her. You can tell them. I don’t care. Right now, my priority is saving her. So you tell them I will find her, dead or alive.”
“Dead? No…” She weeps. “Please don’t say that.”
“It’s a possibility.” Though it’s the last thing I want to think about. “I’ve gotta go now. I’ll let you know when I find her.”
“I—I’m sorry,” she cries.
“This isn’t the time.”
I quickly drop the call and look through the app that connects to the ring I gave Sophia.
“Please, kid, tell me you still have it.”
It instantaneously pings a location, twenty minutes from here, a house on Main Street. Relief washes over me. There is hope she is there unharmed.
Before I start the car, I find a text from Kayla and immediately open it.
And my heart… It’s never known pain quite like this before.
Kayla
Hey, babe. Cammie called. Says the killer is at her parents’ at 554 Main Street in Lake Anges. Please hurry. I’m heading there now.
Main Street? No…
Adriel
Kayla! What are you doing? Do NOT go there alone. Tell me you’re not there yet. Please!
Silence. Minutes trickle with not a word from her, and my heart only sinks further into absolute, mind-bending fear. Something I’ve never known or felt or experienced. How the fuck do people deal with this shit? To care about another person the way I care about her…
No…
If something happens to her…
“Fuck!”
