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

when Pierce answered. “I don’t want a war, Pierce, but he just fucking started one if you don’t tell me where the

you mean Ayla, she’s

followed her. He took her and you’re going to tell me

Ayla’s been kidnapped?”

was talking to her when he grabbed her,” I

he replied. “He has been since she left.

want to believe him, but my gut

the truth.

the address,” Pierce insisted.

before I could protest.

the car Ayla

off, pulling

her she was mine.

told her I would come for her.

Give up.

never find us in time

true

I had not to tear the message to pieces as rage filled every inch of my body.

I rushed. “Get a team to Marie’s

the Waar Pak find her?” he

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

message.

isn’t

“But the Waar Pak want Ayla dead. This guy just wants her. He’s infatuated with her.” The next thought almost had

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

hanging up. I inhaled, concentrating on the scents in the air. Ayla’s was the first my mind registered. My senses honing in on her instinctually. I followed her path through the house. I found the phone she had been using on the floor near the dining room. I bent down to pick it up and

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