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“Please tell me what happened, please.”
“It will take me a day to get back to Canada. Anything could happen in a day, Jayden, anything could happen.”
I kneeled in front of her and cupped her face in my hand. She didn’t push me or refuse my touch this time. “Tell me what happened, my love. I’ll do anything you want me to do, just tell me what happened.”
“Ariana and Kendal are missing from school.”
29
ALEXIS
There were two types of people in the world; the predators and the prey. The predators exploited the weak and lowlife people, while the prey were the weak and lowlife people.
I was once prey, then I became a predator and I had never –for even a moment– gone back to being a prey. Predators were powerful, they were strong and they were mighty. Not only in stature, but also in personality.
I had never made anyone think I was weak, even during the times that I was. I realized that to survive, you have to cover up every emotion and buckle your shoes, and I’d been doing that since I knew.
‘Alex, Ariana and Kendal are missing from school.’Dalinso had broken all my walls at once. Everything I had built up fell in front of me and that smashed my heart into a million pieces.
Nothing could happen to Ariana and Kendal, nothingmusthappen to them. I would never be able to forgive myself if anything ever happened to them because they were here because of me. If I hadn’t killed their father, they would be safe with the asshole.
I shouted at Jayden again, even though I had promised myself never to. I didn’t know who took them, but it just had to be one of the Antonios. Raphael was dead, so it couldn’t be him, the other suspects were Daniel and Cedric.
If they laid their hands on Ariana and Kendal, they would surely hurt them.
I watched as Jayden fixed my SIM card in his phone and almost immediately, a message came on it. He clicked on it and handed it over to me.
Unknown
Warehouse 14, West street, 40 minutes or forget them.
I ran my hand through my hair as I read the message over and over again.
No doubt that it was where the kids’ kidnapper was hiding them, but how was I supposed to get to Canada in forty minutes when it took us twenty three hours to get here? What had I done? I should have never visited my mother, I should have just left her alone.
Jayden took the phone from me and typed on it. He sent whatever message he wrote and dropped his phone, facing me. “Hey, it would take us a day to get to Canada, but that’s okay. Nothing will happen to Ariana and Kendal,” he said, but I ignored him.
How could he say something like that when their captor clearly said forty minutes?
“I texted them right now and told them you didn’t care about them and that they could hurt them or do whatever they liked with them.” Reverse psychology, I knew that. Letting them think they meant nothing to me would make them think twice before doing anything.
“But… but they can hurt them.”
“They can, but they won’t yet. They have to be sure that you really don’t care about them; which is doing more research and guess what that buys us? Time,” he explained. “They’ll text again when their research is done and then we’ll know what to do. Right now, we’re wasting time, book the next flight fast.” He said and I nodded. He cleaned my tears with his hand and I threw myself into his arms.
“Nothing must happen to them, I’ll hurt myself so bad if anything happens to them.”
“Nothing will happen to them. You have to protect them and I have to protect you. You don’t want them to get hurt and I don’t want you to get hurt. It works together, Flower, nothing will happen to them, I promise you.” I nodded and he took the phone from me. “What’s the time in Canada?”
It was three in the morning and Canada was six hours behind us, which made it nine in the night. “Nine yesterday,” I replied and he nodded still on the phone, booking a flight for us.
“Done, the next flight going will take sixteen hours and forty five minutes. You sit, I’ll pack.” He pushed me to sit on the bed and I tapped my legs on the floor impatiently.
I wish I could fly or disappear, or just do something and stop being useless.
I’d never been so worried about someone, I’d never beenthisworried about anybody ever in my life and now…
I would kill Mr Rey and that principal. How did they do it? How was it possible that kidnappers were able to take Ariana and Kendal in a school, a well secured boarding school if they didn’t work with them.