Page 100 of Before and After

Sierra’s gaze sparked.

“We need to tell Caden,” Jazz said.

I nodded. I wanted Caden. “Let’s go and?—”

A commotion broke out on the other side of the Spectacular.

“What’s going on?” Tessa said.

We pushed our way through the crowd. Then it parted, and I saw Caden on the ground. He was giving a girl chest compressions.

I gasped.Oh God.

Tessa swung into action. “I see the paramedics coming.” She raised her voice. “Clear the way. Move out of the way, please.”

Hugh shouldered into view. “Everyone move back.” Unsurprisingly, people started leaping out of the way of the giant Viking.

Enzo was with him, wearing a hooded, black Grim Reaper robe. “Narcan.” He tossed something at Caden.

Caden leaned over the young girl and administered the medication, spraying it into the girl’s nose.

A second later, the girl’s eyes opened and she gasped in air.

Caden sat back on his knees and blew out a breath.

Then the girl started sobbing. The paramedics arrived, dropping down beside her, and setting their bags on the ground.

It was so scary. Then I looked around for Ollie.

There was no sign of him.

I spun, looking everywhere. I saw other kids in costumes, some clinging to parents and grandparents.

No Peter Pan.

“Ollie! Ollie!”

I hurried over to Caden who was talking with Hugh and Enzo.

“Caden, where’s Ollie?”

His face hardened. “He was just here. I told him to stay back.” He turned and pointed. Then his mouth flattened.

There was no Ollie.

“Ollie!” Caden called.

Fear and panic twisted inside me. I hadn’t felt like this since the day I’d gotten the phone call that my brother and sister-in-law had been murdered. “You lost him.”

I was too panicked to see the way he stiffened.

“You lost him,” I yelled, fear choking me. “We have to find him.” My voice cracked.

I couldn’t lose Ollie.

“We’ll find him.” Caden touched his ear. “Lock down the perimeter. We have a young child missing. Male, five years old, Peter Pan costume. His name is Oliver Ford.”

“What’s going on?” A tall muscular man I’d never seen before stepped up beside Caden. He wasn’t wearing a costume, had silvery-brown shaved hair, and massive, muscular shoulders. Emily was with him, worry on her face.