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“If I don’t get an update from Doctors Without Borders soon, I’m going down there.I’ll search the damn building and entire premises myself.They checked her bedroom and acted like that was all that needed to be done.Bullshit.I’m getting on the next plane if I have to.”

“Yep.Expected nothing less,” Aaron told him.“I’ll come, too.”

A new email popped up on Ryan’s computer screen, and he rushed over.“I’ll call you right back,” he told Aaron.Ryan clicked on the message, trying to focus.It seemed to be from one of the other nurses, but he wasn’t sure how she’d obtained his email address.

Alarm bells began to go off in his head.

Your Avery and her roommate Luciana are missing.No one has seen them since lunch.Avery left a note for me with this email address.I’m sorry to say I just found it now, slid under our door.She said to contact you if anything is wrong.

Something is very wrong.

We just searched the supply room and found blood.I called the police.You must come help look for her.- Ada

He reread the message, frantic, and pounded a fist on his desk.White hot rage flashed through him, followed by a chill of fear.

Someone had taken her.

Chapter 25

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AVERY AWOKE, CONFUSEDand disoriented.Her stomach roiled, and she felt an unsettling wave of nausea washing over her.She was both hot and cold, breaking out in a cold sweat, and she suspected it was whatever Walters had drugged her with causing her body to react strangely.She was jostled as she lay there, restrained, but no one was nearby, and confusion filled her.

Wait.Was she...moving?The ground beneath her rumbled, and she realized she was actually in the back of a truck.

Blinking, she looked around.

It was dim, but there were shapes coming into focus.Sounds.Conversations.

Horror swept through her as she realized she was off to the side in the back of a truck but not actually alone.Several men were talking quietly in Spanish, and she quaked in fear.She was tied up.Gagged.Maybe Walters hadn’t actually assaulted her, but this was far worse.He’d given her to these men.

She strained to understand their words, to make sense of what they were saying.

Words like “buyer” and “price” bled through her confusion.

Were these men selling her?

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