Eva Rae Thomas Mystery Box Set by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2019-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 47

The number on my display was unknown, so I picked it up, thinking it could be important.

“Hello?”

Silence. I was about to hang up when I heard someone breathing on the other end.

“Hello? Is someone there?”

“Agent Eva Rae Thomas?”

The voice was deep. It didn’t sound like anyone I knew. It sounded distorted like it was using one of those voice changing apps.

“Who is this? Identify yourself, please.”

“I’m the one you’ve been looking for.”

I shot up in the bed, eyes wide open. “What do you mean, you’re the one I’ve been looking for?”

Silence followed before he answered.

It is a male voice, isn’t it? It’s hard to tell.

“You know what I mean.”

I swallowed, my pulse quickening. If this was the guy who had kidnapped the girls, I had to play my cards right. I couldn’t mess this up.

“Where are they?” I asked. “All I want is to bring them home to their families. They’re scared, and I think you are too.”

“I am not scared.”

“Why are you doing this?”

“You’ll see. You’ll understand. Soon.”

“What will it take to get the girls home safely. Money?” I asked.

“There isn’t enough money in the world.”

“Okay. But what do you need? There must be something you want. Otherwise, the girls would already be dead.”

“Who says they aren’t dead?” the voice said.

My heart sank. “Are they? Are they…dead?”

“As I said, you’ll find out. Soon. Now, sleep tight; tomorrow, we’ll know if you’re a real princess.”

The line went dead. I stared at my phone, my heart pounding in my chest. Had this just happened? Had he really called, or had I dreamt it?

No, he was real enough, and I was very much awake.

We need to trace this call.

I grabbed my phone again and turned the lights on to call Matt, the smell of the dead opossum filling my nostrils. I tried to shake it, then found his name in my address book when it hit me.

Tomorrow, we’ll know if you’re a real princess!

I stopped in my tracks, a strong unease spreading throughout my body. There was something off about that sentence.

Tomorrow, we’ll know if you’re a real princess.

Those had been his words. As a mother, I knew it was a line from the fairy tale, The Princess and the Pea. They were said by the old queen mother who put the pea underneath the princess’s many mattresses because only a real princess would be able to feel it through all those mattresses and say she had slept terribly.

Why had the caller said that?

I smelled the air, uncomfortably, then got out of the bed and took a few steps away from it. My heart hammered in my chest as I found the courage to finally take a look. I grabbed the side of the mattress, then lifted it.

I took one glance at what was beneath it, then turned around and threw up on my brand-new carpet.

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