Chapter 22: Any Means Necessary

“Learn anything?” Blake asked once Jessica made it back to Nick’s place. She handed him the bag she’d taken from Brody’s room filled with letters, notebooks and a map.

“The police have put an APB out on the Rolls Brody was driving that day but nothing’s come up yet. There haven’t been any demands, no phone calls made on her cell since 2pm on the day she went missing and they haven’t been able to trace the phone either. They believe it’s turned off which I can attest to seeing that she hasn’t answered any of our calls or texts.”

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Chapter 21: Taken

“Have you sent word to her parents?” Stone asked as he sat sharpening his nails with an emery board.

“Don’t worry about them,” Brody growled and looked back at the door that held Natalie, blowing a curl of smoke lazily from his lips. “Once she misses her ballet rehearsal her Mom will contact the National Guard and make it breaking news worldwide.”

“Good,” he chuckled and lodged the file towards the coffee table. “Pretty soon her wolf should come looking for her too.”

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Chapter 20: You Again?

- Blake, are you there?

Natalie began a text as she threw herself onto her bed listening to her mother and the ladies of the South Preston Women’s club go about planning another event for the upcoming season. It was the constant parties, constant phony charities and constant smiling for the cameras that made Natalie roll her eyes. None of them ever meant to do any real good for the people of the city. It was all about keeping their names in the papers and proving to the people of Cresting Heights what ‘great humanitarians’ they were.

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