She’s Gone

Acker’s POV

My phone ringing brought me out of the daze of sleep that I was already in.

“What the fuck is it?” I let the curse word roll off my tongue as I was just barely awake. Whatever it was there had to be a damn good reason for this to happen.

“Madden. Trouble.” It was Mikael, and I was instantly alert at the anger in his voice. It was unusual even for the Serrano who was normally boisterous by nature but ultimately kept his cool unless pressed.

“This had better be fucking important, Serrano,” I replied in a gravelly voice, rising from the bed.

The next words he spat out made me understand why exactly he had called in the first place.

“Cross has taken her.”

“What? I don’t think I heard correctly, Mikael,” I said, disbelief, frustration, FURY, filling my body that every te of sleep fled.

“He took Alicia. Right from under our fucking noses, the bastard!” I heard something smash in the background and I didn’t question it. “When I see that bastard I will kill him. I will WATCH THE L