Chapter 2Steve didn’t wake up until after eight, because it was Monday—the second of his two days off since the shop was open Tuesday through Saturday. He knew Andy should be at work by now and decided to wait until noon to call him.
He had slept ‘like the dead’, as he thought of it, certain it was the result of his mind shutting down rather than reliving everything that happened the previous day. Now that he was awake it all came flooding back to him, giving him a case of the jitters. A decent breakfast and two cups of coffee helped somewhat to alleviate them.
It occurred to him that the abductor had taken his phone. Thankfully, he had an older one with the same contact numbers listed, buried in one of his desk drawers. He found it and put it on the charger in the bedroom, hoping it wou
