His world was finally falling apart again. First, he had lost his mother to the cold hands of death at a young age by those murderers, and now the woman he loved dearly had been abducted by those same people.

　　He wished he hadn’t ignored her calls, he wished he had listened to Esme earlier enough when she told him to talk to Annie. He wished he had gotten there on time, maybe she would have been safe.

　　Damien was filled with rage as he drove to the scene where ...