Chapter 1
Mallory’s blood
turned to ice at the sound of Jake’s voice calling out her name. Her legs no longer able to support her, she
sank down onto her couch.
“Miss
Williams?” The unnaturally deep,
distorted voice harshly called her back to attention. “Do you understand? I will not hesitate to kill him if you don’t
bring me the money within the next hour.”
“Please,”
Mallory’s voice was strained. “I don’t
have that kind of money.” What was she
going to do?
“Then you’ll have
to figure something out,” the voice said pitilessly. “I’m texting you directions to his
location. Come alone, or we kill him
anyway.”
“Please,” Mallory
forced out, her tone strangled. “I’ll
get you whatever you want. Just don’t
hurt him.”
“That is entirely
up to you, Miss Williams.” The phone
went dead. Mallory was shaking so hard
that the phone slipped from her fingers and clattered to the floor. It beeped three times, letting her know that
she had a text. She reached down with
trembling fingers and scooped it up. As
promised, the kidnappers had sent her directions to where she was supposed to
go.
Her first instinct
was to get help, to call the police. But
no, they had told her to come alone. She
swallowed down the fear rising in her throat.
She couldn’t risk Jake.
It wouldn’t take
more than twenty minutes to reach his location.
That gave her just under forty minutes to come up with five-hundred
thousand dollars. A mad giggle escaped
her. It might as well have been
five-hundred million; she had just over one thousand dollars in her bank
account. She raked her fingers through
her hair in frustration.
What am I going to
do? She
wondered frantically, wracking her brain for a solution.
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