Total pages in book: 13
Estimated words: 12255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 61(@200wpm)___ 49(@250wpm)___ 41(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 12255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 61(@200wpm)___ 49(@250wpm)___ 41(@300wpm)
By the following morning I awakened still sitting in the same chair.
“Fuck.” I hadn’t meant to fall asleep down here. A check upstairs showed that she had left for school already, I could kick my own ass for letting her leave like that with things so up in the air but we’ll take care of it when she gets home this evening.
I kept myself busy and my mind occupied for the rest of the day into the early evening about the time that she was supposed to be returning home from school. When she wasn’t home at her usual time I didn’t think much of it, she’s a teenager after all with friends and a life. That was all going to change in a few short months with a baby, a change I had come to accept some time in the wee hours of the morning. The bottom line is that I love my girl I’ve never loved anyone the way I love her. I want to spend the rest of my life with her, and now with the baby. There was a new sense of excitement in my heart a son; damn I can already see it.
By six o’clock when there was still no sign of her I started calling around to her friends. No one had seen her after she left school hours earlier. I started panicking and ran out to my car with cell phone in hand. I took the route she would’ve taken home but there was no sign of her. I took the back roads and visited the places where the kids liked to hang out but there was no sign of her there either. I started feeling sick to my stomach as I headed for the sheriff’s office to file a missing person’s report. I was never so fucking scared in my life as I was when I walked into that place and had to give them information about my woman being missing. They tried giving me that forty eight hours crap but I wasn’t having it.
“Do you want to be sheriff next election Herman? Then I suggest you get your ass in gear and go find her.”
“No need to get all het up Ty it’s just procedure.”
“Fuck your procedure there’s a young girl out there all alone now get off your fat ass and go find her.” I didn’t wait around to see if he was following orders, he knows the deal if he wants the backing of the Bar D ranch this coming election he’d do what the fuck I tell him to do. I retraced my steps again willing myself not to give into my fear. It’s been a while since I’ve had to use my training the training that had helped me in and out of tight situations and dangerous locations in my work but that’s what I did. I went into warrior mode; if anyone had laid a fucking hand on her they were fucked. No judge no jury just me, and my sawed off shotgun. It never entered my mind that she might’ve run off no way. Every time the thought that she might’ve done that even tried to settle in my thoughts my heart hurt and my gut burned. If she did that I will tan her ass but good.
I couldn’t go back to the house; I made some calls in between calling her cell number every other minute and had people out searching. There was no sign of her car anywhere in town now her friends were all out looking for her. I found her closest girlfriend if anyone knew anything she would.
“Where is she Tracy?”
“I don’t know Mr. Durant sir I promise I would tell you if I did.”
She was nervous and fidgety, for a seasoned investigative reporter those were tells.
“You’re lying, now you’re a kid so I’m going to give you a chance here but don’t play with me if anything happens to her while she’s out there I will make everyone involved pay now talk.”
“She’s with Corey.”
“Who the fuck is that?”
“Our friend from school, they’re just friends she said she needed to get away for a bit and he said he’d take her…I think…I think he likes her more than a friend so he didn’t want her to be alone.”
“Where is she?”
“Um…”
“Do not fuck with me where is she?”
She gave me a location and I rushed back to my car, my girl was headed a few towns away, her little friend claims she doesn’t know what she was going there for but I had a bad feeling in my stomach that I did.
Chapter 9
The motel clerk started giving me shit until I threatened his ass and he passed over the key.
She was balled up on the bed crying while her friend sat in the chair next to her trying to calm her down. They both jumped and turned when I opened the door and walked in. I saw the look of relief on the young man’s face and that saved his ass from an ass beating.