Chapter 123: Theo

I was racing down the freeway. Weaving through traffic. Driving on the shoulder when necessary.

“Ayla, don’t go inside,” I begged. “I’m twenty minutes away.”

I heard a car door shut on the other end of the line. I knew she was going into the house.

“Ayla, stay out of there,” I yelled.

“Ma! Kylee!” I heard Ayla calling through the house over and over.

“Ayla,” I kept trying to get her attention.

“Theo,” she finally responded, “they’re not here. Something’s not right.”

“Okay, baby, I need you to get out of the house,” I urged. “I’m almost there.”

Ayla cried out suddenly. I heard struggling sounds on the line.

“Ayla,” I yelled.

The call went quiet before cutting out.

I gunned the engine, pushing as fast as I possibly could without ensuring I crashed on the way there. Twenty minutes may have been generous, but I made it. Skidding into the yard on two wheels. Launching myself out of the car and sprinting into the house. Something in me knew she wasn’t there, but I ignored it. Calling out to her as I checked every inch of the house.

There was no sign of her.

How could the Waar Pak have found her?

ran back out to the car and

I demanded when Pierce answered. “I don’t want a war, Pierce, but he just

Ayla, she’s not

her and you’re going to

on. Ayla’s been kidnapped?” Pierce

when he grabbed

with me,” he replied. “He has been

didn’t want to believe him, but my gut

the truth.

Pierce insisted.

could protest. That’s when I saw

under the wiper of the car Ayla was driving was a blue envelope.

off, pulling

told her she

told her I would

Give up.

find us in

her true

I had not to tear the message to pieces as rage filled every inch

took her,” I rushed. “Get a

did the Waar Pak find her?” he asked.

her stalker. The bastard took Kylee and Marie, too. He was waiting

message.

guy isn’t working with the Waar

I replied. “But the Waar Pak want Ayla dead. This guy just wants her. He’s infatuated with

let that happen, man,” Briggs insisted. “Keep your head, Theo. Start looking. We’re coming.”

her instinctually. I followed her path through the house. I found the phone she had been using on the floor near the

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