Page 80 of Sincerely, Your Enemy

“Got the address,” TJ says and rises to his feet. “Let’s go.”

Oh, Sierra, if you survive this…

I’m going to make you wish you hadn’t.

TJ

“Turn left.” I hear the panicked edge in Lacey’s voice, but her words aren’t sinking in, mere background noise as I play out all the horrible ways my sister could be getting hurt at this very moment.

I never should’ve left her alone. God, I’m such an irresponsible dick.

What the fuck were you thinking, Mom? Why did you think I could be trusted with her?

You should’ve known that I’d end up losing her, too.

“TJ, left!” Lacey grips my shoulder, shaking me back to the here and now. I’m jolted to reality just in time to slam the brakes and take an abrupt left.

“How far?” I grit out and clench the wheel tighter, as though my knuckles aren’t already drained of blood and paler than snow.

“Ten minutes,” Lacey says, her voice shaking with fear, and I reach over the center console of the car to grip her hand resting on her lap.

Don’t ask me why, but I feel the need to touch her. I can barely fucking deal with my own emotions right now. Still, I have to help her get a handle on her own.

She reciprocates immediately, squeezing my hand so tightly I can feel the cold metal of the rings on her fingers dig into mine.

She inhales a breath. “D-Do you think they’re?—”

“Let’s not go there. Not yet.”

My phone goes off before she can muster a reply answer. I’m stupid enough to hope it’ll be Kelsea. Until I see the caller ID.

Chance.

My stomach sinks like a rock.

“Shit, I had plans with the guys. Can you put it on speakerphone?”

Lacey grabs my phone sitting in the cupholder, accepts the call, and presses the Speaker button.

Chance’s voice erupts down the line from the moment she picks up. “Dude, you’re thirty minutes late. I know you were dropping your sister at your girlfriend’s place, but what the fuck is taking so?—”

“We think someone’s trying to kidnap our sisters,” I cut him off.

“Back the fuck up, what?” His voice is thick with shock.

“Is that TJ? Tell that motherfucker he should’ve been here a half hour ago,” a voice I recognize as Theo’s blurts in the background.

“Shut up. Something’s going on,” Chance tells Theo and proceeds to put the call on speakerphone. “What makes you think that?”

“We don’t have time to explain. All we know is the girls are supposed to be meeting up with some creep at the park.”

It’s pitch-black outside. Whatever scumbag is behind this would have no difficulty shoving the girls into the back of a van and driving off.

All the media’s been talking about is how there’s an influx of young girls going missing in the area. With the way all these kids have been falling off the face of the earth, I have no doubt we’d never see our sisters again.

“Do you know where they are?” Theo asks just as Lacey tells me to take another left.

“We’re on our way there now. But we don’t know who we’re dealing with. For all we know, there could be ten guys behind this.”

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