Tick Tock Boom
My girlfriend was a police officer.
One day, I got kidnapped, and the explosives on my body were ten minutes away from detonating when the kidnappers ordered me to call her.
Instead of worry, all I got was relentless scorn and a tongue-lashing.
"Caleb, are you seriously doing this right now? How could you be so petty and jealous when a life is on the line?! Lucas' cat is in danger. It has been stuck on a tree for three days, and that cat is as important to him as his own life!
"If I don't save them in time, you'll be the one at fault!"
Over the line, I heard the voice of a young man that sounded, to my ears, anything but genuine. "Thank you Jamie, you're the best!"
That man was my girlfriend's childhood friend, Lucas White.
Before the bomb exploded, I sent her a final message.
[I hope we never see each other again. Not in this life, and not in the next.]