CHAPTER NINETEEN
Keri felt a combination of emotions she didn’t know could all co-exist at once: hope, joy, fury, fear, and determination. She stood up from her hiding place behind the car and began to run toward her daughter, pulling her gun from her holster as she did.
She was still a good forty yards away when the man saw her. Without a word, he yanked Evie’s arm and pulled her toward the van. The girl looked to see what had him so agitated and saw her mother sprinting toward them.
“Evie!” Keri shouted.
Her daughter’s eyes went wide with shock.
“Mommy?” she said, her expression so familiar and so alien at the same time.
Before she could say another word, the man had shoved her into the van and closed the door. He was opening the driver’s door when Keri raised her weapon. She consi
