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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.

I watched the footage of Amie and I talking about Justin not being able to take sweets. Then, I was making

back to the end of the aisle where she picked up another cookie and compared them

glanced back at me and

Amie's hand and they began to walk away. As they moved through the store to

I watched the

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

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SHARON

possible to be mad and scared at the

I now knew

to inform him that Amie was missing. What

fear that had gripped me since

missing? How

it Tabitha? It couldn't

I confidently fooled myself for the

that she had nothing to

disappearance, but I knew...

got the call, else, he'd have seen the naked fear in my eyes. He'd have known that I was

been a full twenty

called him in the middle of the night, he

and fear of losing his

child.

of fear of what would happen if anything happens to the girl

I shouldn't have done that was all that filled

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