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Title: Constant
Author: Cindy Ryan
POV: Charlie
Charlie stared at the wooden pieces in his hands. Try as he might he couldn't remember where he had seen it before. All he kept seeing was Amita's terrified face as she was taken from him.
Her screams and the sound of the explosion blocked out his thoughts.
Blocked out the math that would help bring her home.
Home...
The word echoed in Charlie's tormented thoughts.
All he wanted was Amita home...safe.
Especially after those horrible dark moments when the jeep exploded.
When he thought he'd lost the woman he loved forever.
Charlie set the evidence bag down on the table and rubbed at his dry tired eyes.
He had to think...had to focus.
If he didn't they could lose Amita again and that Charlie knew he wouldn't recover from.
Charlie had taken Amita for granted over the years.
She was always there.
A constant in his busy life.
Now she was in the hands of a mad man.
The mathematician's blood ran cold at the thought of what Amita had been through...what she was going through...
Images of them finding Amita bloodied and bruised flashed in front of his mind's eye.
Charlie swallowed hard and shook his head to clear it. Pain answered at the movement and Charlie shoved the nausea back.
His head hurt like hell but that didn't matter.
The only thing that mattered was getting Amita home...safe.
Opening his eyes Charlie picked up the wood pieces and went back to work.
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