Page 28 of Winter Love

“Your mother is my mother, moron.”

“My mom never said she had another kid besides me and my siblings. Are you sure about this?”

“Oh for fucks sake. My father was an asshole. He was with your mother when she was in England for a family vacation.”

“My mother talked about a family vacation when she wasfourteen. Are you fucking kidding me? What the fuck?”

“I told you, my father was an asshole.”

They stop talking and I hear footsteps getting closer. I keep my breathing steady as I can.

“Are you sure you didn’t over do her dosage?” William asks.

“She’s fine. I’m hungry. Let’s go get some food.”

“You realize that they’re going to be looking for us, right?”

“They’ve been looking for us for over a week now and haven’t found us. What makes you think they will now?”

“Well, we have Emma. They’re gonna be more inclined to look now. We made the first move.”

“No, little brother.Youmade the first move. And we still need to eat. We can drive out of town. Now let’s go.”

I hear them walking away as they continue to argue. Then a door opens and closes. I hear more voices but they’re too far away for me to make out what they’re saying. I finally pry my eyes open and try to focus on my surroundings.

Chapter Fifteen

Emmanuelle

I’m in a house, I wish I could see outside. The room I’m in has no windows and I don’t like that. Maybe I’m in a basement? I focus on thinking about Lukas and his handsome face. That smile he gives me, it can light up a dark room. And that’s what I need right now, a light in this dark. I know they’ll find me, the question is will they find me before William or Pinky decide to do something to me.

I keep dozing off, it’s hard to stay awake. The slam of a door jolts me awake and I hear Pinky yelling at William. I’m not sure how long they’ve been gone, but something’s got them riled up.

“See what you fucking did? We can’t even leave this shithole town!”

“You’re such a baby. We got food. Wasn’t that what you wanted?”

“Do you understand that we’re stuck in this shitty little town?”

“We’ve been in Wintervale for three weeks. Why does it matter now that we can’t leave?”

“It matters.”

These two act like they’re a couple with all the bickering they’re doing. I wonder why they can’t leave Wintervale. Is it because of me? It makes me smile to think that Pinky’s stressing out over all of this. Maybe it’ll keep them from hurting me. The door to the room I’m in opens.

“I know you’re awake. There’s no way the sedative we gave you is still working,” Richard says as I feel his hand slide up my leg.

My eyes open and I stare at him. I refuse to show him any fear. I don’t care what he does to me. I will never let either of them break me. I will survive this and get back to Lukas and my family.

“You’re very pretty. I’m sure William won’t mind sharing you. After all, brothers should share.” He smirks at me.

Oh, gross. I really hope he’s not serious. If William got jealous over someone he knew and assumed I liked…would he really do something like that? I say a silent prayer that they find me before anything can happen.

Lukas

It’s only been six hours, but it feels like days. As soon as we realized Emma was missing, the guys sprung into action to help the police. Road blocks were up in no time, and the neighboring towns were alerted. We don’t think they’ve left town. At least I hope they haven’t. It had only been maybe thirty minutes between when Galen saw Emmanuelle and when he realized she was missing. So I have a lot of hope that we’ll find her soon. We’ve been asking around and there are some residents thathave seen either William or Richard. That’s a blessing because now they know to keep a lookout for them.

Jared told us not to put up missing person flyers or ‘have you seen this person’ type of flyers. Because we don’t want to spook them and force them to do something to Emma. If they touch one hair on my girl’s head, I will end them. I’m not usually a violent person. But this is my Emmanuelle. There are no boundaries when it comes to her.

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