Chapter 98

The room spun around me, and I had to grip the back of the chair to steady myself when Natalie told me that Matt had been kidnapped.

“Matt is kidnapped,” her words echoed endlessly in my mind.

“Matt is gone, Raf! You have to bring my son back to me!” she wailed through the phone, her words barely understandable through her loud sobs.

Every passing minute was crucial, every second a potential danger. The guilt was overwhelming. Was I the reason danger had found my family? Why did I ever get engaged to that witch in the first place?

Documents and everything else on my desk scattered to the floor as I shoved the table over in a fit of rage and frustration. The chaos mirrored the turmoil inside me.

The office door swung open, and Jack and several employees rushed in. “What’s going on?” Jack asked, staring around the wrecked room in shock.

“She kidnapped Matt!” I roared, my voice raw with desperation.

Earlier that afternoon, I had received a call from the main city police station warning m