“On my way,” I grunted down the line, and shoved my cell back into my pocket.
“What’s happened?” Kitty asked, following me outside with Evan right on her tail.
“Fuck!” I shouted, closing my eyes and taking a deep breath. “Monty!” He came running to me and I could tell that he knew something had happened. He was on high alert as well.
“Kay hasn’t picked Eli up.”
“She may be with Miss Maggie,” Evan said. I desperately wanted to believe that she was but my gut told me that she wasn’t, she’d never miss picking Eli up on time.
Kitty pulled her phone out and held it to her ear, frowning down at it. “It says her cell’s no longer in service.”
“Get on the computers, I want her tracked. Let me know if anything comes up,” I said to Evan. “And Kitty, you come with me.”
“Right behind you,” Kitty replied and jogged to the truck.
Opening my door, I let Monty jump in first and flew out of the compound.
Pressing the buttons on the steering wheel, I dialed Luke’s number, listening as it rang out.
“Yeah?” he answered.
“Preschool, meet us there.”
“What? What’s happened?”
“Kay hasn’t picked Eli up and her phone is out of service.”
I didn’t need to say anymore; he knew what that meant. I didn’t have the time to explain it anyway, I needed to get there as soon as I could and being distracted by talking to him, wouldn’t allow me to get there as fast as I could.
We both knew what I wasn’t willing to say because there was no way I would say Kay’s name and that one word in the same sentence.
Kidnapped.
I groaned at the thumping in my head when I started to wake up. I tried to move but my head hurt even more when I did so I stayed still.
Keeping quiet, trying to assess myself and my surroundings without drawing attention, I concentrated on what I could feel. Almost all of my clothes had been stripped, being left with just my panties and bra. My skin scratched against the cold, rough surface, making me wince.
My ears perked up, telling me that I wasn’t alone. I listened for several seconds, making sure that I wasn’t in immediate danger, and then cracked one eye open. I let my eyes adjust to the dim light in the small space and tried to make out where I was.
The walls and floor were all concrete and from what I could make out in the low light, there was a tiny window and a door.
“Hello?” I whispered. Not knowing if I was talking to an empty room or if someone was here with me.
“Hi,” a small voice answered me back.
Sitting up slowly, using the wall to help keep me up, I opened both eyes and brought my knees to my chest.
I knew that Max would come after me at some stage, no matter how many times everyone tried to tell me that I was safe and he wouldn’t get to me. I always knew deep down, that it was only a matter of time before he caught up with me.
Although, I never imagined that it would be like this, he always liked to do it in private where no one else could see but I guess that he didn’t care now that everyone knew what he had done to me.
That made it so much worse, he was unpredictable to a whole other extreme. At least before, I had some idea of what would set him off but now I didn’t have a clue.
After a few minutes of my eyes adjusting to the dim light, I noticed two girls huddled together on the far side of the room. No clothes, just underwear, the same as me.
Where the hell was I?
“You should move from there,” the girl who had answered me said.