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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.

blurred my eyes as I watched the footage of Amie and I talking about

the end of the aisle where she picked up another cookie and compared them or something. She looked toward me,

was now squatted before her. Amie glanced back at me and back to the woman's face, then she smiled and gave the woman her

backed the camera, took Amie's hand and they began to walk away. As they moved

sobs as I watched the woman lead

police were contacted. And as they did their job, I cried into

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it possible to be mad

I now knew

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

to override the cold fear that

missing?

It couldn't

plan. I confidently fooled myself for the first half of

wasn't Tabitha; that she had nothing to

disappearance, but I knew...

call, else, he'd have seen the naked fear in my eyes.

full twenty

and when I called him in the middle of

and fear of losing

child.

solely out of fear of what would happen if anything happens to the

done this, I shouldn't have done that was all that filled my thoughts as I

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