Alison

“Are you okay, baby?” Adam squeezes my hand gently.

I look at him and smile. “I’m nervous, Adam. I’m a little scared, too; I haven’t seen my mother in nineteen years.”

Nineteen years almost to the day, Mike Chambers abducted me while on a trip with my friends. Father had allowed me to go shopping for a dress, one I needed for my brother’s wedding, as long as guards were with us.

I wasn’t often allowed to go shopping without my mother or a Lady’s Maid to keep an eye on me. But this day, my father wanted to give me a little bit of freedom. I can’t imagine what it’s done to him all these years, wishing he hadn’t given me that time without proper bodyguards. Those that came with me stayed away, hidden so as not to scare my friends.

How was someone able to take me in front of a shopping centre full of people and Royal bodyguards?

I don’t think I’ll ever know the answer to that. All I do know is one moment, I was laughing with my friends as we left the dress shop, the next, I was waking up i