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.

Amie and I talking about Justin not being able to take sweets. Then,

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

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

the woman, whose face still backed the camera, took Amie's hand and they began to walk away.

as I watched the woman lead Amie out of

their job, I cried

****

SHARON

mad and scared at the same

now

Aiden to inform him that Amie was missing. What did they

to override the cold fear that had gripped me since

missing? How

It

I

wasn't Tabitha; that she had nothing to

disappearance, but I knew...

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

full twenty four

found. Aiden didn't come home for the night and when I called him in the middle of the night, he said

of losing his

child.

what would happen if

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

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