Chapter Sixty-eight

“This can’t be happening,” Derek muttered incredulously after a frightened Elaine came to announce to him that Rachel had been abducted at knife-point by Sam.

“Oh, God! What have I done?” Yasmin wailed.

“Calm down, Mom. I’ll call the security guys at the gate right away,” said Derek briskly. “He can’t have gone very far with her, so we can still find them.”

“We should call the police too,” Elaine suggested. “What’s their emergency number here?”

“Where the heck is that ambulance?” Yasmin demanded irritably. “Javier has slipped into unconsciousness. He needs to be taken to the hospital immediately.”

As they scrambled around the house to make phone calls from different phones, Zoe who was now awake, walked across the room and placed her favorite stuffed toy, Binky, on Javier’s chest.

“Don’t be scared, Binky is going to help you,” she whispered to the unconscious chef.

Just then, they heard the wails of an ambulance siren as it sped through the driveway.

“Finally!” Said Yasmin, thr