The echoing silence was my background noise as I paced the terrace.

I haven't been as worried and distressed as I was today. Agonized too.

Vince's men were finally getting deployed tomorrow to go save him. Trent finally gave the order. It's great and all, but the fact that enough time has passed already leaves me intensely agonized.

They must have hurt him a lot already. They hate him so much, there's no doubt they've spent a week torturing him.

My heart breaks for him, in more ways than ...