Chapter 077

Amelia POV:

"Mom?" Tyler's face falls, and his tone goes from the anger of a few seconds ago to confusion. He turns away so I can't see his face, though the phone speaker is still loud, he wanted me to hear him taunt Linc and when I heard his voice, though dominating and resonant like I remember him to be, it broke my heart into a million pieces.

I imagined that this would be the last time I hear his voice and if Tyler didn't have me gagged with a dirty piece of rag, I would have screamed my lungs out so Linc can hear me on the other side.

"Tyler! What is this? What are you doing? Why...?" The woman's voice breaks out into a loud sob. I cringe from the heartwrenching sound.

"Mom, what the fuck are you doing there? Did Linc bring you here? Why are you here? What the fuck is going on?" Tyler huffs down the line. His neck gets splotchy when he is angry, it is currently turning a shade of violent red.

I try to make myself invisible in the high ceilinged room so he doesn't turn this an