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Her daughter was gone.

“Teegan?” Liz’s voice was low the first time she said it. Not so much the second. “Teegan!”

Harley appeared back in the doorway then, his face far, far too still.

A thousand furious butterflies beat inside Liz’s stomach, and when she spoke, her words came out in a cracked whisper. “Where is she?”

Harley started to shake his head, and Liz saw the answer in his eyes. Her daughter was gone. Taken by whoever had assaulted poor Miss Wilma and left her unconscious.

Liz wanted to scream. To cry out. To pound her fists on the wall. To shake the old woman awake and demand to know what had happened.

Minutes, she thought desperately. We were in the other room for five minutes! Ten, tops.

She didn’t realize she’d said it aloud until Harley answered.

“That’s all it takes,” he said. “But we’ll figure this out, Liz. We’ll get her back.”

“How?” Now her voice was shrill.

Where was her daughter?

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