A sudden electric blue light flashed along the walls, and I took a deep breath. "I'll trade you families, Sheri, yours for mine. Go on out the front door. My family has what you need." I nodded sharply. “I promise you, Sheri. My family will give youexactlywhat youneed.”
The two of them bolted into the hallway and stumbled toward the front door. I holstered my firearm instantly and dropped to my knees as Addison ran to me. I held her against my chest and wiped her blood from herhands.
"Are you hurt anywhere? Did they hurt you? Are you bleedingsomewhere?”
“They hurt Daddy,” she sniffled. “It’s my Daddy’s blood,” she said, collapsing her trembling body againstme.
“It’s okay, Princess. I promise. You’re safenow.”
Through the front door, a sea of blue uniforms flooded in.Myfamily.
"He needs an ambulance, hurry. And there's a five-month-old baby somewhere in thehouse!"
But they couldn’t find Benanywhere.
