Searching for Heather (Eagle Point Search & Rescue Book 6) by Susan Stoker

Author:Susan Stoker [Stoker, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stoker Aces Production, LLC
Published: 2024-01-01T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Heather’s mind spun with everything she’d learned. Simon had shared everything he knew about her abduction twenty years ago, including all the efforts that had gone into finding her. She was satisfied that the police and townspeople had done everything they could to track her down and figure out what had happened.

Arrow might have been old, but he wasn’t dumb. He’d kept her well-hidden after she’d arrived at The Community. He’d let the police search through the tents and grounds several times, until they were satisfied she wasn’t there. Then it was just a matter of brainwashing her into thinking everyone in Fallport was the enemy, that going to town would be the worst mistake she’d ever made.

She couldn’t feel guilty that she hadn’t tried even once to escape. She’d been so traumatized after her kidnapping and subsequent beatings and threats, that her brain had blocked out her past in order to cope. To survive.

Simon explained all that to her, and he went into great detail about the psychology of kidnap victims, and she was grateful for how hard he was trying to make her not feel bad about her actions, her acquiescence to her new circumstances.

When he’d tentatively asked her to tell him what she knew about Cypress and the other men, and where they were going, Sunset…no…Heather, had told him everything. She didn’t hold anything back. She felt no loyalty toward the people who had taken her from everything she knew and loved.

Thinking about the other children who had appeared, who everyone had been told were adopted, made her want to throw up. Cypress and everyone else who was aware of what was going on needed to pay for what they’d done. To her and everyone else.

Simon had swabbed the inside of her cheek to get her DNA and said he’d ask the lab to put a rush on the results, so they’d know for sure if she was truly Heather. But she already knew she was. He’d warned her that once the results were back, and if it was confirmed that she was Heather Brown, it was likely word would get out. He’d said that children who were kidnapped generally didn’t show up twenty years later, alive and well. There had been a few cases, but the odds were overwhelmingly against it. So if the press got a hold of the story, she might be inundated with requests for interviews.

Heather didn’t like the sound of that, but Talon had reassured both her and Simon that he’d watch out for her. Knowing he’d have her back made the idea of word getting out a lot less stressful.

Before the police chief left, he asked what she would prefer to be called. Without hesitation, she’d said Heather. In her mind, Sunset no longer existed. She was a made-up person Arrow had conjured, and everyone else who’d gone along with his sick schemes accepted it.

She wanted to be Heather, the woman who’d defied Cypress by hiding in the woods when he’d left for Florida.

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