Natalie poured salt in the wound,pretending to be kind.“Oh,Ethan,aren’t you being too harsh?Jenna may have made a mistake,but the child is innocent.How about this,Jenna...”
She looked at me like she was doing me a favor,yet all she did was offer me a humiliating bargain.
“Get out of the car.Kneel and beg us.Just admit you were wrong and promise never to bother us again.Maybe then he’ll tell you where your child is.”
I stared at them,stunned.How dare they?
After everything they did,how dare they humiliate me now?
“Dream on!”I ground out through clenched teeth.“Ethan,Natalie,I swear you’ll pay for this.”
“Listen,there’s still time to stop this.I can pretend like this never happened.”
Ethan laughed as if it were the funniest joke he had heard.“Jenna,you’re begging me now,not the other way around.Tell your people to pull out.Right now.”
He said that,yet his eyes were wild with panic.
Just then,my phone buzzed.I glanced down and saw an encrypted message from the special team.
[Target vehicle stopped.Hostiles armed and resisting,supported by an accomplice vehicle.Standoff.Miss,shall we initiate a forced attack?High risk.]
My heart leapt into my throat.
They had stopped…