She began to cry.
“Wolf! Where are you, Wolf?”
I could hear my kidnapper calling for me. She was in pain. She was angry. It baffled me for days how she knew my family nickname—Wolf. I later learned that she had been watching me at the playground for days. And after that week as her captive, I never wanted to hear that nickname again.
“I gotta go,” I told Owens. “The firemen are almost here. Don’t worry. They’ll get your mom out.”
“Wait!”
“I’ll come back for you, but I gotta go right now, okay? Sit right here. Don’t move and they’ll help you.”
“Don’t forget,” she said before falling back into unconsciousness. “Don’t forget to come back for me, Wolf.”
Chapter Twenty-Seven
URSULA
There’s a heavy knock on my door. It startles me because that doesn’t happen very often. I don’t often talk to my neighbors because I’m never home and when I have a guest over, they have to be buzzed in the main door by me. I didn’t buzz anyone in. I’m in pajamas and on the sofa watchingCharmedreruns.
I open the door to find a contrite but beautiful man standing before me. It’s Coop and it’s only once I’ve opened the door that I realize how much I’ve missed him. I didn’t go to work for the past few days because I was so angry at him, but at this moment, I don’t care about any of that. All I want to do is hug him … but I don’t.
“How did you get inside of my building?”
“A couple of nice ladies let me in.”
“They just let you in huh?”
“Yep.” He snaps his fingers. “Just like that.”
“Of course … it’s always so easy for you.”
“You think anything about this is easy, Owens?”
“What do you meanthis?”
“Can I come in?” he asks with a rich, bass heavy voice.
“I don’t know. Are you in your right mind today?”
I open the door and allow him inside.
“Are you still worried about the guy who was willing to throw me under the bus and write about something private? Something I didn’t want to share with the world.”
“I didn’t realize he threatened you with that information.”
“He did.”
“He doesn’t seem that slimy.”
“But he is.”
“Okay, but he didn’t write it.”
“As far as you know.”
“He promised me he wouldn’t when he told me.”
“Oh, right and because he promised that means it’s true.”
