Chapter 29
“What do you want
from me? I have confirmed that my daughter is missing, please let me and my
family rest we need the space. All of this could put my daughter’s life in
jeopardy please, respect us at least this once.” He then shut the door to his
car and slowly backed out of the parking lot. He had had enough already, the
cops had only made things worse. Who ever had his daughter told him so, it had
been four days since it had happened and he had not heard anything from the
person who had his precious daughter. All this media around him and Pamela did
not help either. Pamela squeezed his hand, giving him the don’t give up look.
It just killed him to know that he had the fault for not finding his daughter
sooner. He was torturing them for it; you
shouldn’t have called the cops were the words kept coming to his head. To
make things worse Brian was a mess too, worried for his son they didn’t even
know if he was ok.
She tried to be
the strong one but the truth was she was dieing inside. But, Alex was doing
worse. As much as she tried to think of who could have wanted to hurt her,
nothing came into her mind. She was trying hard to be nice to the media but,
today Alex finally had had enough and had been a little rude to them. She
looked at her cell phone and Alex’s, trying to see if they would finally get
contacted.
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She wasn’t able
to tell her sister the good news. Everything was chaos since the kidnapping of
Amber and Baylee. To further the problems her mother had taken a turn for the
worse. She was hospitalized right after she found out about Amber. Even though
they tried to keep it away from her, she found out through the media. She
stopped her tracks when she heard her phone, “Hey, Nick…”
He heard Gracie
answer and felt a little happy. Since Howie's wedding they had been talking and
he had finally asked her to be more than his friend. Gracie was an interesting
person and she was cute. Normal too, he smiled as he spoke to her. He was
worried about what was happening to his friends. “Anything new on Amber or Baylee?” he asked
her casually.
“Nothing yet,”
she told him. “I just hope they are ok, we don’t even know who could want to do
this.”
He did too and
maybe he should go to Dallas to be there with his friends. He couldn’t imagine
loosing his own offspring like that. He sighed and told her about his plans to
go to Dallas and be there for his friends…
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She was starving,
but that didn’t matter as much as to the worry of not knowing about Baylee, or
what her parents thought about her disappearance. She suddenly felt someone
touching her; she quickly started to tremble in fear.
“Don’t Amber it’s
me Ricky,” he undid the blind fold on her head and helped her sit up. She
looked horrible, she had been crying and her hair no longer looked like it had
on prom night. She quickly backed away from, the look she gave him made him
feel worse than he already did.
“Why are you
doing this to me? I did like you and only you, Baylee is just my friend. I
never cheated on you. My mother did not want to harm your uncle anymore than
she already had that’s why she canceled the wedding and ran away! She fell in
love with my father; it happens Ricky, just like that people can fall out of
love with someone. Like I just did with you – if you can harm me and my friends
for some stupidity such as the past…I don’t want to like you no more.” She
started to cry as she spoke to him. She now hated him, when did he become so
evil?
“I know I’m sorry
Amber I was fooled by my uncle. He can be very influential at times. He
actually convinced me that he was doing a good to us all. Please believe me I
will get you and Baylee out of here have faith in me again.” He tried to touch
her face but she rebutted his hand.
“Don’t just tell
me you will, do it, show me it’s true…” she looked at him straight in the eyes.
She wanted to believe him but, something told her not to trust him yet. “Please
tell me is Baylee ok?”
He was about to
answer when he heard footsteps just outside the room. “I’ll talk to you later,
I have to act mean for your sake.” He quickly put the blind fold back and stood
away from her just in time to see Mike, Blade and his uncle come in.
“What are you
doing here?” he asked his nephew as he lit a cigarette.
“Nothing just
checking on her” he told him. He then started to walk out of the room only to
be blocked by Mike.
“Don’t leave so
fast Ricky. I want you to be present when we contact her parents…” he flashed
him Amber’s cell phone. “Blade, here you know exactly what to say so go for it.
I think they learned there lesson, so lets do this.”
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He was going
crazy not knowing if his daughter or Baylee were okay. Just then his phone
started to ring, He almost cried as he recognized Amber’s number. “Hello?”
“Hello, Mr.
McLean feeling any remorse yet? Or maybe you will when Baylee’s lifeless body
is found thrown into White Rock Lake? Unless you do exactly what I ask you and
your lovely fiancée to do, what do respond to this?”
“Yes, we will do
whatever you want just don’t harm him or her.” He was surrounded by Pamela,
Denise, Leighanne and Brian all with worried faces. “I do have a request to,
please let me hear them. I want to make sure they are ok.”
“Don’t you prefer
to see them? What I am willing to do is… I will let Baylee go safely in
exchange for you and Pamela. I want this done tonight at 10:00pm if you’re a minute
late, I will make sure Baylee never sees daylight. I don’t want any cops
involved either you understand? You have till ten. You will drive to 2650
Industrial rd. there is a bunch of abandoned warehouses go to the one that has
a stone grizzly bear in front. As soon as you walk in you will see Baylee with
someone, he will be freed and given your car keys. He is to leave and not come
back if not Amber will die!”
That was all he
heard before he heard the dial tone. He sighed and turned to tell them the
news…
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