Chapter 4 : Kidnapped

A week after I received that weird email from the Crimson Pack, everything was very quiet. They never sent me a follow-up email, so I assumed they understood that I was not interested in their opportunity.

Still, I couldn’t shake off the weird feeling that had descended on me since that day. Alpha Knox might not have typed that message, but it was definitely sent with his approval and probably by his instruction. That means he wanted me back in the pack.

That thought was worrying because the Alpha Knox I knew, when he wanted something, did not just give up because the person refused to reply to an email or ignored it.

Alpha Knox was a go-getter. He produced only results, not excuses. If he wanted you to do something for him, he would make damn sure that you did it. This is what terrified me, because if Alpha Knox wanted me to work for him, then why did everything suddenly seem so quiet? Was he looking for other ways to make me work for him? Were you planning something right now?

The thought was so chilling that I immediately shook it off and forced myself to focus on the plans for my wedding.

Samuel was so overly excited to get married that he had practically set our wedding date to be in just a few weeks. I had told him that it was too soon to properly plan a wedding, but he insisted that he wanted to marry me as soon as possible. I was a little surprised, but I found his enthusiasm flattering.

I would have planned the wedding with his family, but Samuel had never introduced me to them. Whenever I brought them up, Samuel would get annoyed or irritated and I would have to drop it.

It seemed that he didn’t like his family, so his friends would be the only people who would show up on his side at the wedding.

My side would be small too because, aside from the friends I had here, all the people I knew were back in the Crimson Pack, and I was never going back there.

When I was done with my wedding arrangements for the day, I immediately headed back to work as usual.

I greeted all the staff members who were clamouring to see me, then went straight to my office and opened my email like any other day.

Today, my heart immediately froze in my chest when my eyes landed on a familiar-looking email.

It was another email from the Crimson Pack, but this time it was not an official email from the Alpha’s office; it was a personal message from Alpha Knox himself.

“Miss Melissa,” it read. “I decided to be polite enough to kindly invite you back to the pack, but you chose to be as disobedient as usual by ignoring our kind message. Well, let me make it clear now: I’m done being kind. This is not a request, this is a command from your Alpha. If you ever want to see your children alive again, you will return to the Crimson Pack immediately. You will treat my son and restore his health fully, or else you can kiss goodbye to whatever life you are trying to create for yourself now. This is not a threat; this is a promise. Yours faithfully, Knox.”

My face immediately paled after reading the message. What did he mean by “if I wanted to see my children again”?

My children were safe. My children were here with me. No, actually, they were in school, but they were very far from Knox’s reach, and he was in the Crimson Pack, so what did his threat mean?

My heart suddenly sank when a thought popped into my head. Did Knox know that Dylan and Tyler were his sons? Was he threatening to take them away?

I had never told him about their existence because I was scared that he would take them away from me. But is that what was happening now?

I suddenly felt like the room had gotten too hot to breathe, and I was hyperventilating. Thankfully, it was at that moment that my phone chose to distract me by ringing.

I quickly picked it up, searching for anything to redirect my thoughts to a safe place, but the next words I heard almost stopped my heart completely.

“Mrs. Melissa?” An unfamiliar voice said over the phone. “This is Detective Reynolds speaking. I am calling to inform you that your children have just been kidnapped from their school by some unknown men in black who seem to have been spying on your family for a long time. Please report to the station immediately. We should begin an immediate investigation if you ever plan to see your children alive,” the detective said, and suddenly, the world around me turned black, the phone slipped out of my hand and I felt my body lose all consciousness.

But one thought remained in my head as I passed out: Did Knox know that he had just kidnapped his children?