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"Amie has been abducted."

Those were words I had never thought I'd hear in my entire life. Even as I searched for Amie in panic before Dennis' arrival, it never occured to me that she could have been kidnapped. All I thought was that she walked off, lost her way and was somewhere, scared, cold

and alone

Turned out my Anie has been taken.

"Why?" I cried in Dennis' arms, my tears now a heavy unstoppable downpour.

"Why will anyone take my daughter, Dennis, why?"

"I don't know, babe. You need to calm down." He held me as he walked to one of the security.

How can I be calm when someone callous with cold hands and scary eyes has taken my daughter to who knows where? How can I be calm?

He exchanged a very short pleasantry with the two security men.

"I suspect that my daughter has just been kidnapped," he began, "Please, can we have access to your footage?" He then glanced around, "I believe there is CCTV around, yeah?"

"Yes sir," one of them answered. "And yes, you can have access, come with me, sir."

We followed them into a room at the back of the store. And even as we walked through the store, I kept glancing, hoping that Dennis and Clara were wrong.

The team there were quick to bring up the footage around the time I told them I didn't see Amie by my side again.

my eyes as I watched the footage of Amie and I talking about Justin not being able

I asked the sales rep about the milk, Amie picked up a cookie bag and frowned at it, then she walked back to the end of the aisle where she picked up another cookie and compared them or something. She looked toward me, about to call out to

now squatted before her. Amie glanced back at me

the camera, took Amie's hand and they began to walk away. As they moved through the store to the entrance, wherever there was a camera, she'd duck her

as I watched

they did their job, I cried into Dennis' arms,

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SHARON

be mad and

I now

that Dennis felt the need to call Aiden to inform him that Amie was missing. What did they think

cold fear that

missing? How

Tabitha? It couldn't be

plan. I confidently fooled myself for the first half of

Tabitha; that she had nothing

disappearance, but I knew...

house immediately he got the call, else, he'd have seen the naked fear in my eyes. He'd have

full twenty

of the night, he said

fear of losing

child.

it was solely out of fear of what would

have gone with her plan. I shouldn't have called her back, I should have done this, I shouldn't

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