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“Hey,” I call out softly.
She stops in her tracks and whirls around to look at me. Shit! It isn't her.
“What the fuck?!” The woman, clearly repulsed by a stranger's touch, snaps at me. But the moment our eyes meet, that attitude of hers flies out the window.
She smiles and pushes some hair strands to the back of her right ear.
“I mean, hi.” Her voice is much calmer now, and her eyelashes are batting at me. She drools over my perfectly framed body.
“Sorry,” I apologize, struggling to keep the mild disgust from my face. “I thought you were someone else.”
“I can be…anything you want. Anyone you want.” She bites her lower lip, her eyes on my groin, probably imagining its size.
Creepy.
I move on and continue my search for Amelia. Why the hell didn't we think of getting her a burner phone? That could have come in handy right now.
My body is tense and alert for any activity that can be construed as suspicious as I keep my eyes peeled for any sign of her.
In the last few minutes, I've spotted a lot of women that looked like her for a split second, or walked like her; however, none of them were her.
I've never been confused and worried at the same time before, especially not over a woman. I stand in the street, scouring the environment for her, but there's still no sign of her.
My heart is racing faster than a galloping horse, my head is on fire, and I'm really sweating.
Rueben had reminded me to keep her safe moments before we left the house. What am I supposed to tell him? We had agreed to protect her at all costs, to not put her in harm's way, not on our watch.
How the hell am I supposed to explain to them that she was in the car when I left? I hate the fact that she's missing, and it was onmywatch. It wasIwho lost her.
I ruffle my hair, blaming myself for letting her come with me. I should have just left her back at the house, where she has been safe all this while.
I can't go back home without her. I shudder to think of what the guys would do if they found out I lost her when I should have been paying close attention to her.
I shut my eyes as pain tears through my chest at the thought of her in the arms of those who have been searching for her, knowing that only torture is meant to follow if she doesn’t give them what they want.
“Come on, Amelia, please be safe,” I say a silent prayer under my breath, even as any hope of finding her begins to wane quickly.
I return to the car in hopes that she is still going to show up. Then a thought hits me: What if while I was away looking for her, she'd actually come back and had met my absence? What if she is out there looking for me too?
“Fuck!” I exclaim. “I swear to God, if I see you, I'm going to…” I speak the words too loudly.
“You're going to what?” A familiar voice speaks from behind me as a tap on my shoulder pulls me away from the terrible thoughts that had begun to cloud my mind. I whirl around sharply, eyes widening when I see Amelia standing there, looking up at me.
“Oh, thank goodness.” A wind of relief blows across my face.
I hug her to me, breathing calmly as I let go of all my worries and embrace her in my arms.
“First, you open the door for me back at the house; then you open the car door for me seconds later, now you're embracing me so tightly,” she says as she giggles. “Who are you and what have you done with Tanner?”
I let go of her and clear my throat, getting my composure back.
“Where were you? Are you hurt? Did anyone come near you?” I throw questions at her, trying to find a solution to whatever it is that might have caused her to disappear.
“I-I took a stroll,” she says in a small voice. Her eyes hold guilt and she looks down.
“You…took a stroll?”
I stare at her incredulously.
