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I can’t hold back the tears as I’ed into darknessCHAPTER 27KynanThe Four Seasons is an absolute zoo when I get there There are several police cars in front of the hotel and on the side of the e lot where I pull my car around tooff the area where she was abducted Yellow plastic cones have been placed on the ground beside her purse and cell phone A technician is taking photos
Cruce meets me at my car door as I exit I make a quick introduction between him and Saint when he joins us
“I a sorry,” Cruce says, and I can’t stand the remorse in his voice It’s almost as if he doesn’t have any hope ill find her, but I’ from an emotional place just as I am
“Did you get anything froot here?” I ask
Nodding, Cruce pulls his own phone out “Yeah The text she sent you was still visible on her screen, and I took some pictures”
He pulls up the ie Joslyn had with her stalker My gut burns so badly I’ht double over and voet her I’d never in a ined he would try to trick Joslyn into voluntarily going with him
And that’s squarely onshoulders, not Cruce’s
I have to ad Lynn, Harry, or her rier withI should have prepared her better
“Kynan” Madeline’s voice co straight at ht behind her Her face is red, her eyes are wet, and she looks like she is in exquisite pain This is the face of a wohter could be dead
She throws herself in my arms I immediately and protectively—since she is Joslyn’s
Iot to find her It all happened so fast She just went inside to use the bathrooh We followed her in, but she was just gone She knehat she was doing If I’d known, I would’ve stopped her”
Shaking ive Madeline an empathetic smile “You wouldn’t have been able to stop her Neither could Cruce The stalker sent her a text before she got to the hotel, and she had planned it all out She was detero with him It’s nobody’s fault”
Exceptto take all the blame for this one since I did not impress upon Joslyn how she should trust me and only me It makes me wonder if the declarations we ether are rooted in any type of reality Shouldn’t she have trustedto tell her to do so?