Chapter 52

I was obliged to stay put inside our confined room for hours. Not a single message. Not a single phone call.

Ethan kept himself busy with the search for the girls whilst keeping a bunch of men around our house.

I highly doubted if I needed, since Jake would never pull an ordinary stunt like that. He is smart. He is capable of doing something that no one expects. Not even us, who know him better than anyone else.

If Jake is really obsessed with the idea of pursuing me, he will have nothing to do with the girls. He will set them free, but it will have a price to pay.

All I want is for Ethan and his men to find the girls before he hurts them and uses them against us. His actions will do no good for anyone. Not even to himself, at a point.

I sighed and rested on the couch. Right then, I got a call.

“Yes?” I answered into the phone.

“Where are you?” Ethan asked.

“I am still here in the place you locked me in.”

“Can you elaborate?”

“No.” I replied.

“Skylar.” He called out my name in a warni