2.48 As I Remember

Rodger POV

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I started awake, almost falling off the couch as someone knocked furiously on the door.

Without prompting, the door flew open, Jamie standing naked in the doorway. He was a sweaty, panting mess, leaves and twigs all in his hair.

“She was taken,” Jamie bellowed, still struggling to catch his breath.

It didn’t take me more than a second to fully wake up, pushing off the sofa and sliding on the shoes laid beside me on the floor. I don’t even think they were my shoes. Kai’s by the feel of them, but my worst fear come to life was too much for me to comprehend anything else.

“When?” I demanded, grabbing my keys and pushing past Jamie out the front door.

“Ten minutes.”

“Where!?”

Jamie was right on my heels, nakedly hurrying into the passenger door before I put my car into reverse and pulled out of the dirt driveway.

“The main road. Cindy and Chloe were, like, just fucking swallowed,” Jamie tripped over his words. “It just ate his fucking car and closed before Alexi c