Chapter 19

It felt like all the air rushed out of me when I stared at an empty room. There was no sound coming from within the room so I knew that Jessy couldn’t be anywhere around but I began a mad search around the small space hoping to find my daughter somewhere within the room.

“Jessy! Jessy!” I called out and when only silence met my ears I burst out in tears..

The room looked pristine, the beds were untouched like it had not been slept in yet. Zoe said Christie had put Jessy to bed but it didn’t look like anyone had even been in the room at all.

It looked the exact way that I had left it in the morning.

Then it flashed through my mind, like a video that had been sourced out from its folder and set to play in slow motion.

Matthew’s words to me earlier in the day and then the sly smirk that he had given me when I had been dragged out of the

room.

I dashed out of the room as I remembered it and moved to Christie’s door knocking as carefully as I could without having to wake up

when my instincts screamed at me to bang

pulled the door open and when she saw the tears running down my face and the urgency written in it,

a double

around the

can’t find her.” I rushed out, my voice strained with

her room safe but when Christie’s

She wasn’t here.

I put her to bed myself.” Christie whispered, stepping out

didn’t wait for her to come back, She wasn’t going to find her there. Instead I began knocking on every door in the quarters, asking if anyone had seen my

and soon

and physically and

to open it. She cut

asked, not bothering to hide the irritation in her

if you happened to have seen her,”

let out a bitter

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