(sorry its so short, I didn't have much time to write today but I wanted to put something. just so readers know, there will probably be a new chapter AT LEAST every other day.)
"Ryan, we got a trace," Jesse said successfully. "Somewhere in Loving County, Texas."
"Thanks so much, Joe," Ryan said, letting out a sigh of relief. "Annie hung up. there was definitely something wrong. But I heard Emma and she was scared and confused…and Jesse, you gotta find my little girl." Tears swelled in Ryan's eyes.
"I'm getting them to fire up the search helicopters right now. I'll put you on one of them if you can get here before seven."
"I'm out the door."
Damon motioned for Colby to sit down on the bed. He let out a sigh.
"Well, tell me!' Colby ordered after sitting down.
"Some guy at Cambias," Damon began. "I tried to tell you yesterday, but you didn't come up to your room. The guy…he offered me five thousand dollars." Damon said this like it was five billion dollars.
"What did he want you to do?" asked Colby, afraid to hear the answer.
"I had to get Annie and Emma in this alley," Damon said. "By Emma's school. Lure them in there, somehow. I guess. The day they were kidnapped."
"What?!" Colby shrieked. "Why the hell would you do that?!"
"I didn't!" Damon retorted. "Do you really think I'm that stupid?! Even though the guy said he had something to settle with Annie, I knew there had to be something else. And get this: he said he was her x-husband."
"Ryan?!" Colby exclaimed.
"Not, it wasn't Ryan Lavery," Damon said surely. "It was someone else."
Colby stopped to think for a moment. "Well, Annie did have a husband before Ryan. Terry McDermott."
"That was his name!" Damon said triumphantly. "McDermott." Colby's face remained blank, almost in a petrified way. "What?"
"Terry McDermott died over three years ago."