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He took a peek at the screen. It was message from Laura at the other end of the bar.
    “She is so hot, Quinn!”

CHAPTER 8
    “Tim, this room is awful!”
    “For crying out loud, Susan, it’s all we could get and it’ll have to do!” Tim retorted. He reached for his cell phone. “I’m going to call my brother and tell him we’re going to be late.”
    The kids were watching TV and it was way too loud. Tim went into the tiny bathroom and sat down on the toilet. Susan squeezed in beside him.
    “I’m taking a shower,” she announced. She leaned on him as she started to take her clothes off.
    Katie appeared at the door. “Mommy, Daddy, I forgot my teddy in the car. I need teddy to sleep tonight.”
    “Pete,” called Susan, “Go out to the car with your sister. Take the keys and lock it after you get her teddy.”
    Pete proudly grabbed the car keys and motioned for Katie to follow him. Already in their pajamas, they walked out the door and into the parking lot.
    * * *
    He saw the children come out from the room. He expected to see a parent follow, but instead the young girl followed as the boy unlocked the car with the electronic button. The little girl went into the back seat, looking for something.
    He knew he had to act fast. He silently sprang up from the side of the hedge and reached the boy in a single motion. He clamped his hand across the boy’s mouth and nose and held his thumb on his carotid artery. The boy looked at him in horror but didn’t move until he quickly slumped, unconscious, in the cradle of his arm.
    The little girl finally found what she was looking for and slowly backed out of the back seat, holding a teddy. Still holding the boy with one hand, he slipped his other hand around the girl’s head and clamped down hard on her mouth and nose. She began to wiggle but soon passed out. He pulled them both close to his body and fell back behind the hedge. Out of sight now, he dropped to his knees and pulled them both along in the tall grass around the building to where he had parked his van.
    He quickly and quietly slid them into the back of the van. He closed the doors as he slipped in. He tore off two large strips from a roll of duct tape and sealed them over the children’s mouths and then shot them full of the anesthetic he had chosen to have them sleep for a long time. He then slid the girl into a small sleeping bag. He put the boy in a larger bag he was lucky to have in the van. He hadn’t expected two children.
    He was in the bonus round , he thought.
    He knew it would be some time before they regained consciousness. By that time he would safely be where he needed to be.
    He quickly stripped off his black bodysuit and thrust it into a large garbage bag. He re-dressed quickly before he slid into the driver’s seat and started the engine. He looked into the rearview mirror and smiled wickedly.
    He knew he was now beyond the point of no return. His evil had just begun.
    They soon would be his children , he thought.
    * * *
    Susan couldn’t remember when a shower had felt so good. At least the water was hot.
    Tim was still sitting on the toilet seat, talking to his brother, as she toweled off and dressed in the clean clothes she had unpacked. She opened the bathroom door and heard the TV blaring.
    “Tim, where are Katie and Pete?” she asked, looking around.
    “They went to the car to get her teddy. Aren’t they watching TV?”
    Susan rushed out of the room into the parking lot. She saw their car. The back door was open. “Katie, where are you?” she yelled out. “Pete, are you hiding somewhere?”
    She looked in the front and back seats of the car. The children were not there. Then she saw Katie’s teddy on the ground.
    Fear welled up in her heart. She rushed back into the room. “Tim, the kids are gone!”
    “What did you say?” Tim ran out of the bathroom, still holding his cell phone.
    “They’re not in this room and they’re not in the car!” she shouted