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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.

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

the aisle where she picked up another cookie and compared them or something. She looked toward me, about to call out to me when a woman suddenly appeared from behind her and tapped her on

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

whose face still backed the camera, took Amie's hand and they began to walk away. As they moved through the store

I watched the

contacted. And as they did their job, I cried into Dennis'

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SHARON

to be mad and scared at the

I now knew

him that Amie was missing. What did they think Aiden would do? Was he

anger wasn't enough to override the cold fear that had gripped

missing? How

Tabitha? It couldn't be

of our plan. I confidently fooled myself

she had nothing to do

disappearance, but I knew...

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

been a full twenty four

called him in the middle of

fear of

child.

fear of what

done this, I shouldn't have done that was all that

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