that something had gone wrong for me to call him again. I despised it that he was right. “She ran when I stopped at the cabin. When is the security arriving? As much as I’d like to go after her, I have no idea which way she went.”
Duncan laughed and I’d never wanted to punch someone as much as I did now. I’d never been a violent man. I went into medicine to save lives. The curse seemed to bring out all the worst traits. “Are you going to continue laughing or help me?”
“I’m going to do both.” Duncan said between bursts of laughter. “But you do realize how good it is to know you’re human and make mistakes. We all thought you were a robot programed to plan and follow rules. For years we’ve listened as you told us the gypsy gift wasn’t real.”
“You were right. I was wrong. There. Now tell me when the security is coming.” There was quiet on the other end and I looked down at the screen to see Duncan just staring. “Are you going to tell me?”
Duncan smirked. “I was savoring the moment. I’ve never heard you utter those words.”
Rolling my eyes, I debated hanging up and trying Albert or even Lucas. Maybe they’d tell me what I wanted to know. Glaring at my brother I hoped he saw how close I was to losing my shit on him.
“Argh, there’s the brother I know so well. I thought for a moment that you’d left us. I thought that the gypsy’s gift might’ve mellowed you out. You’re always so in control and straight and narrow.”
“For fuck’s sake Duncan, just tell me how far away is the security?”
“They should be there in fifteen or so minutes. Rafe will be your head security. He was Richard’s seconded most trusted man besides Cole. Did you know that Gillian co—”
I didn’t want or need to hear anything else. I hung up on Duncan, reluctantly got back in my car, and drive down to the cabin.
I hoped that Annabelle hadn’t gotten far.
* * * *
Annabelle
So my brilliant plan didn’t work. You know when you watch a movie and you yell at the stupid heroine to run and she does, but she doesn’t wait and stay hidden and the kidnapper gets in his car and picks her up again. I thought I was smart. I finally got away from the crazy guy who kidnaped me. Point one to me. I even waited a while before I came out of the bushes in case Carl drove by and saw me. The problem? I came out of the woods thinking I’d waited a safe amount of time for Carl to think I’d already gotten away, and flagged down a car, and guess what? Did you say the car was the crazy man’s security and they didn’t help at all, just picked me up and carried me back to a big SUV with three other big security men? Nope. I bet you didn’t.
Crossing my arms over my chest I glared at the men beside me. They were both huge, all muscle. The guy to my left was in his early to mid-twenties, with a military short hair and big brown eyes. The man on my right had the same short military style cut, but his hair was blond. I looked up to the review mirror and narrowed my gaze. I didn’t get a good look at the guy driving, but he seemed to be the tallest of the lot, and from the quick look I’d gotten, the scariest. He reminded me of Lurch, with almost black eyes and the haircut. The only difference between him and the TV character was this guy had wicked looking tatts. The man I focused my attention on though was the guy in the passenger seat. He was the one who’d captured me and placed me in the SUV between big guy one and two. “You can’t do this you know. This is kidnapping.”
The man in the passenger seat turned, his leaf green eyes laser me with a ‘don’t mess with me look’. His hair is dark with white sprinkled mostly on the sides. His jaw is square and he is quite handsome in an, ‘I could kill you with my pinkie’ kind of way. He seemed to be the guy in charge. “I’d like to see you find law enforcement willing to hear you accuse a Silverman of kidnapping.” He raised a salt and pepper