Companions And Nightmares

Amber has been feeling guilty and worried about her sister.

"Troy, my sister, we have to save my her, I don't know where she is right now and what she might be going through. Maybe she's being raped daily to serve as punishment for my disappearance". Dark thoughts forming in her little head.

I left her there, and she could be gone by now. They do unspeakable things to women. At this very moment, as I am at peace and safe with the man of my dreams, she is probably being tortured and raped. She will break."

She starts to sob so uncontrollably that Troy could feel her pain in his heart.

"You have given me so much, and I don't want to seem ungrateful, but I can't help her without you. These men are dangerous and carry guns, and the thought of putting you in danger is unbearable. We need to go to the police to get help. There are many guards; only two were in constant contact with me. However, I remember many different voices. There are more women, too. I remember hearing them quietly cries as if they didn't want to be heard being weak, except I could hear them through the walls. Oh God, please we have to hurry!"

Troy remains calm and listened to her, "Amber, calm down and listen carefully. I have a friend in the FBI. Yesterday, when I left you alone for a couple of hours, I went to meet him. With my job as a private investigator, Jake and I have worked several cases together throughout the years. I was going to have him check missing person's files and see if he could find out anything about you. I trust him with my life, and I trust him with yours, as well."

The look of panic on her face is what he put there by his own selfish actions. A misunderstanding he will correct right now.

"Look at me, Baby. Don't get the wrong idea or we are going to have a come to Jesus talk next. You are mine, mine to protect, mine to make love to and only mine to love. I will never trust your safety solely to someone else; however, I do trust Jake to help me keep you safe. He would never betray me, and I'm not just going to leave you with someone else unless I have no other choice. Do you understand me?"

Once she relaxed and quit letting her thoughts go in all directions, she finally nods her head. "I am going to send him a picture of you so he can check the database for me. I don't want to involve too many people in case someone is watching for a search on you. Depending on the kind of connections your kidnappers have, they may be searching hospitals, clinics and also missing person searches."

Now that he knows what happened to her, it confirms his gut instinct of keeping her hidden.

"Jake is undercover and being placed as a guard in a house that keeps women they abduct until they find buyers. He knew about the theft from the house and also that two guards were found dead, but the product was not. Product meaning you."

She jerked back to look at his face, trying to determine if he thought so little of women. He cracked a smile at her fierce little hellcat. "There's my little fighter; he knew she was in there somewhere. No, Amber, I do not think so little of women or people in general. These monsters that takes women use these terms to disconnect from humanity. You are nothing to them but a commodity, so instead of calling you women or girls they refer to you as product."

Jake is aware of the situation, and he knows a little about you. I didn't know about your sister at the time, so I will have to get the info to him soon. He is going into the house on Friday, and I need to get him a picture of you. Do you have social media or an email that may have family pictures of the two of you? Now that we know who you are, we can work on saving your sister."

At the mention of family, thoughts of her dad crashes into her mind. Oh my God, he must be so worried. "Troy. My dad! He has to be sick with worry. We lost my mom a few years ago, and we are all he has left. Please, we have to contact my dad," She sobs.

"Can I use your phone? I need to call him." Then remembering something the tattooed guy said once. "Troy, the guy who beat me said he had watched us for months and knew we would be perfect candidates. He told me that they wanted virgins and he never saw us go out. Is it possible that he could know my dad or us? Could my dad be in danger, as well? Why were they watching us?" He felt a full-blown panic attack coming on, but Troy seems to read her like a book and rolls her to her back.

He knows at any moment she is going to start hyperventilating, so he rolled her underneath him and straddled her thighs. He griped both wrists in one hand pinning them above her head. He hates to use her hormones as his personal weapon, but that seems to be the only thing that helps her mind become blank. He smashed his lips to hers and kissed her like it's their last time. She immediately relaxes beneath him, becoming warm and liquid. As the tension leaves her body, he sees that as his cue to finish their conversation.

"Amber, listen to me." Her eyes are heavy, but he has her full attention now.

"If what you say is true about them watching you, there is a possibility that they do know your dad. It is also possible that if they think for even one second that you got away, your dad's will be the first place you would run to, so they will be watching. They may have the house bugged just waiting for the call. I know you want to put him at ease, but it will only be temporary relief. Right now he only knows you are missing, which is horrible for any parent. If you show up without Tori, he is going to want to know what happened to you both. Are you prepared to tell him and have him imagine what is still happening to her? I am not a parent, but if they got to you again, I don't know how sane I would be once I found you. Believe me; I would find you or die trying. Your dad will be no different."

Tears are pooling in her eyes to run down her face and disappear into her soft chocolate waves. Troy knows her mind is trying to find a way around the truth but coming up empty.

Letting her dad or the press know she is alive is the worst possible thing they could do. Not only would it put her in more danger, but Tori, as well. They would move the holding house rather than take the risk that Amber might be able to find it and probably dead. They are probably still looking for proof of life, and until they find her body, they won't stop looking and risk exposing their multi-billion dollar operation. Alerting anyone of her whereabouts will just ramp up the kidnapper's efforts to find her."