He had her tied to a chair. She looked so small and helpless sitting there slumped over that it was all I could do not to storm the door. He wasn’t in my line of sight at first but I could hear movement. When he finally did come into view he was cleaning what looked like a nine inch hunting blade.

I called on all my training and said a quick prayer before crawling on my stomach over to the door. There was no way to get in there without alerting him but I couldn’t leave her in ...