With a somber look, I nodded and headed out the door.
Derrick was already on the phone with central giving them all of Susan Powell and Bob Freeman’s information.
I climbed into the passenger seat of the car and pulled out my cell and called Brad back.
“Grayson! Please tell me you’ve found her. Please!”
Squeezing my eyes shut, I shook my head. “Not yet, sir, but I promise you I’m doing everything I can to find her.”
“You don’t think this is connected to those . . . to those other . . .”
My stomach felt sick as I pushed the door open. “No. I’m going to find her and bring her home safely; as God as my witness I will not let her down. I
made a promise to protect her and I’ll chase her to the ends of the Earth if I have to.”
The silence over the phone was almost deafening. “Call us when you find something out.”
I quietly said, “I will.”
I hit End and turned to Derrick. “I’ve got an APB out on Susan Powell’s car. Looks like she hasn’t shown up for work in the last three days. No one has heard from her or seen her at her job.”
“Her plates?”
“I’ve got Mandy running it through now. If she’s been through any intersections we will find out soon.”
My hands slammed against my face as I scrubbed them up and down. “Not soon enough.”
“Derrick, if Black’s suspicions are true, and this guy is our rapist murderer, he has Meagan. He has my girl.”
“We’ll find her.”
I turned and looked out the window and I prayed I’d find her in time.
Meagan
I STOOD AT the window and watched the snow silently fall to the ground. Susan had been back in once to bring me something to eat. I could see another light in the distance and wondered if that was where Susan was staying.
I’d thought about breaking a window and trying to run, but I had no jacket, no shoes and was only wearing a pair of dress pants and a dress shirt. I’d freeze to death before I made it a few miles.
Closing my eyes, I wondered where my cell phone had gone. Or my purse. I’d give anything to have something to put on my dry cracked lips.
The door wiggled and I turned to stare at it. When it opened and saw the same man I had seen in the hallway, I instantly walked away from him.
He walked slowly into the room and shut the door as he stared at me. “You’re so much prettier than the others.”
“The o-others?” I asked as I pinned myself up against the wall.
His eyes looked my body over. “Yeah. The other’s. None of them were like you though. The moment I first saw you I knew I had to have you. Then you had to go off and start fucking around with that cop.”
“Gray,” I whispered.
The look in his eyes turned and anger quickly washed over his face. “Do not say his name. You’re mine now and I’m going to take my time with you for a little while.”
My body shook as I looked over his shoulder to see Susan standing there.
“She’s pregnant.”
The guy stopped dead in his tracks as I silently cursed her for telling him. How could she let slip that I was pregnant?