Nearing the office she called, “Mom.” Lynn turned at her daughter’s voice. She was surprised to see Alexis approach alone since the boys never left their sister unattended. She hurriedly closed the distance and pulled her into a firm hug. “It’ll be okay, mom,” Alexis whi
As she expected stepping off the elevator it was a short walk to a spacious office. Dimly she heard the clacking of keyboards and idle office chatter but it was indistinct. They were definitely not being escorted through the main area of the floor probably an off hallway. They were ushered into t
Theo sighed for the tenth time as he peaked down the hallway. After successfully making it to the computer room without being caught his job was lookout while Sean did his thing at the nearest monitor. Minutes ticked by and Sean’s fingers continued to fly over the keyboard without pause.
“Black SUV, right?” “Right.” “Okay got it.” Alexis gripped her mother’s hand. “Stay with me mom. I told you everything will be all right.” “But Lexi, what is going on?” “We’ll explain later. Promise. We’re ready, Sean.” “Here we go
“Yeah, they have the woman and the girl now,” his partner said as Mike watched the proceedings gripping his steering wheel with white knuckles. “No. No sign of the boys. Got it. We’re supposed to stay with the mother and daughter. The other team will stay to keep watch over the brothers.”
Silas fled the board room practically hysterical at how long it had taken for them to reach their consensus about the company’s projected profits for the next quarter. None of it mattered when Ava and Alexis were in trouble. Thomas met him as he exited and quickly fell into step. “Wha
“Ava, are you all right? Did he hurt you?” Silas asked stirring her from her thoughts. “…N-no. He didn’t.” She shook her head. “Lucky for him then. If he had…” Silas let his words and thoughts fall silent not wanting to continue less he scare her. “I’m sorry.”
“Since we were, like, five.” “…That long? How? I never told you…” “We overheard you and Aunt Tracy talking late at night when you thought we were asleep,” Theo admitted. “And we’ve been planning our revenge on all the people who hurt you.” “Your revenge?”