Captive Shadows by Emily Klepp

Author:Emily Klepp [Klepp, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Elliot

I throw the car into park before jumping out. The front door is wide open and I know. I know when I walk into that house, Maya will be gone. I shouldn’t have left her alone today. Nikolai texted and said one month has passed and the price was now double but didn’t say that he took her. Not that I thought he would.

I run into the house calling out for Maya, searching every room. She’s gone. Her phone is on the living room floor and the door is busted open. I pick it up and read through the messages with Nikolai and it confirms my suspicions. He took her.

“Fuck!” I scream. I grip her phone in my hand, talking myself down from losing my temper.

“Oh no,” Lana says as she starts to tear up. “She’s gone.”

“I’m going to fucking kill him,” Daniel growls. He goes to move to the door and Lana bolts to get in front of him before he can get out of the door.

“We promised her, Dan,” Lana sniffs.

“We can’t just fucking sit here while they rape her, Lana,” he says, raising his voice.

“I know, baby. I know,” she says. “We promised her we’d trust her. We need to let her do this because it will destroy you if she gets killed because we tried to get to her.”

“She’s right.” I say with a sigh.

“Of all people, you should want to get to her,” Daniel snaps at me.

“You don’t think I want to kill that fucker, Daniel? I want to break his fucking neck, but I trust she knows what she’s doing,” I say. “That woman has been through more in her life than we will ever realize. She can handle this because she is strong and she’s smart. We need to talk to her Mom and see if we can find out any information about Nikolai.”

“Fine,” he huffs.

I start searching through her contacts until I find her mom’s name. Michelle Sparks. It takes her a second to answer, but she does.

“Hello,” she says with a sigh.

“Michelle? My name is Elliot Greene. I am seeing Maya,” I say.

“Is something wrong?” she asks.

“Yes. Her ex told Nikolai Pavlov who her father is and he kidnapped her today,” I say. “Can you tell me anything about him?”

“I uh… I’m sorry. I can’t help… I’m so sorry,” she says as take abruptly hangs up.

“What the fuck,” I say, shocked.

“Did she just hang up on you?” Lana asked.

“Yeah,” I say. “What kind of fucking parents does Maya have?”

“Awful ones,” Lana frowns.

“What the fuck do we do now?” Daniel says.

“Research, for now. I’ll only be patient for so long,” I say.

For the rest of the day, we look up everything we can about Maya’s family in connection with Nikolai Pavlov.

Everything feels wrong without Maya being here. She’d be sitting in my lap watching me work with her head laid on my chest right now. She’d make jokes and be playful when she got bored. When she got needy, she’d turn and straddle me to let me know exactly what she wanted.

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