ANASTASIA

"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 talking about Justin not being able

at it, then she walked back to the end of the aisle where she picked

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

still backed 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

watched the woman lead Amie out of

their job, I cried into Dennis' arms,

****

SHARON

possible to be mad and scared at the

I now

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

that had gripped me since

missing? How

It

of our plan. I confidently

wasn't Tabitha; that she

disappearance, but I knew...

he got the call, else, he'd have seen the naked

full twenty four hours

I called him in the middle of the night, he said he was with

and fear of losing his

child.

couldn't sleep either, but it was solely out of fear of what would happen if anything happens to the

have called her back, I should have done this, I shouldn't have done that was all that filled my thoughts as I paced the room the

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255