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“Got it.”
Time to get my family back and to kill the fuckers who thought they could take what belongs to me.
Chapter Twenty
Maddy
I shouldn’t have closed my eyes. Knox said to keep our eyes closed for five minutes but I’m about to fall asleep. Or, I guess, pass out since I apparently have a pretty bad concussion.
“You get the fat one,” someone says.
Some man curses up a storm and inside I’m jumping for joy. That’s what you get, asshole.
“I only want this one,” a deep voice says. “Put the rest in the walk-in.”
Walk-in? As in, the freezer?
“You’re mine now, sweet one. We’re going to have so much fun together.”
I desperately want to open my eyes to see which of my friends that man seems to be obsessed over but I try and stay focused on what Knox said.
I’m being dragged across the floor for several minutes before we come to a stop.
“Get the door,” the man closest to me says. “Don’t put them in the middle of the floor. Over in the corner is fine. With any luck, the cold will kill them before they regain consciousness. I may not care about their lives but I’m not a dick. Suffering isn’t fun.”
Oh, how nice of him.
Once again, I’m dragged but the floor becomes cold. They really are putting us in a freezer.
“Let’s go. It’s fucking cold in here.”
Even after the voices fade, I don’t move. Not for a long time.
“Maddy, wake up.”
What?
“Damnit, why isn’t she waking up?”
Pain slams across my face and I jolt my eyes open.
“I’m ssso sorry,” Sophia chatters. “I thought you were dddead.”
“Cccold,” I respond.
“Yeah. I ccan’t feel my bbroken leg. So, that’s good, right?”
“They took, Knox,” Bitsy says from beside me. “We have to fffind a way to get out of hhhere.”
“Ssleepy.”
“I know,” Bitsy chatters. “Phone, Mmmaddy.”
My arms feel sluggish as I reach inside my bra and pull the phone out from where I had it tucked away close to my arm.
“Damnit,” Bitsy groans. “The cccall dropped. No sssignal.”
“Doors locked,” Sophie tells us. “Dddon’t they have ssafety measures for things like this?”