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Chapters (109)
  1. Cover
  2. READERS ARE GIVING ALL FOR YOU FIVE STARS!
  3. Also by Louise Jensen
  4. About the Author
  5. Note to Readers
  6. Prologue
  7. Part One
  8. Chapter One
  9. Chapter Two
  10. Chapter Three
  11. Chapter Four
  12. Chapter Five
  13. Chapter Six
  14. Chapter Seven
  15. Chapter Eight
  16. Chapter Nine
  17. Chapter Ten
  18. Chapter Eleven
  19. Chapter Twelve
  20. Chapter Thirteen
  21. Chapter Fourteen
  22. Chapter Fifteen
  23. Chapter Sixteen
  24. Chapter Seventeen
  25. Chapter Eighteen
  26. Chapter Nineteen
  27. Chapter Twenty
  28. Chapter Twenty-One
  29. Chapter Twenty-Two
  30. Chapter Twenty-Three
  31. Chapter Twenty-Four
  32. Chapter Twenty-Five
  33. Chapter Twenty-Six
  34. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  35. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  36. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  37. Chapter Thirty
  38. Chapter Thirty-One
  39. Chapter Thirty-Two
  40. Chapter Thirty-Three
  41. Chapter Thirty-Four
  42. Chapter Thirty-Five
  43. Chapter Thirty-Six
  44. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  45. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  46. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  47. Chapter Forty
  48. Part Two
  49. Chapter Forty-One
  50. Chapter Forty-Two
  51. Chapter Forty-Three
  52. Chapter Forty-Four
  53. Chapter Forty-Five
  54. Chapter Forty-Six
  55. Chapter Forty-Seven
  56. Chapter Forty-Eight
  57. Chapter Forty-Nine
  58. Chapter Fifty
  59. Chapter Fifty-One
  60. Chapter Fifty-Two
  61. Chapter Fifty-Three
  62. Chapter Fifty-Four
  63. Chapter Fifty-Five
  64. Chapter Fifty-Six
  65. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  66. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  67. Chapter Fifty-Nine
  68. Chapter Sixty
  69. Chapter Sixty-One
  70. Chapter Sixty-Two
  71. Chapter Sixty-Three
  72. Chapter Sixty-Four
  73. Chapter Sixty-Five
  74. Chapter Sixty-Six
  75. Chapter Sixty-Seven
  76. Chapter Sixty-Eight
  77. Chapter Sixty-Nine
  78. Chapter Seventy
  79. Chapter Seventy-One
  80. Chapter Seventy-Two
  81. Chapter Seventy-Three
  82. Chapter Seventy-Four
  83. Chapter Seventy-Five
  84. Chapter Seventy-Six
  85. Chapter Seventy-Seven
  86. Chapter Seventy-Eight
  87. Chapter Seventy-Nine
  88. Chapter Eighty
  89. Chapter Eighty-One
  90. Chapter Eighty-Twos
  91. Chapter Eighty-Three
  92. Chapter Eighty-Four
  93. Chapter Eighty-Five
  94. Chapter Eighty-Six
  95. Chapter Eighty-Seven
  96. Chapter Eighty-Eight
  97. Chapter Eighty-Nine
  98. Chapter Ninety
  99. Chapter Ninety-One
  100. Part Three
  101. Chapter Ninety-Two
  102. Chapter Ninety-Three
  103. Chapter Ninety-Four
  104. The Following Letter Contains Spoilers
  105. Acknowledgements
  106. Book Club Questions
  107. Extract
  108. Chapter One
  109. About the Publisher

Minutes tick by and dark thoughts creep in. What if I am too late?

Hurry.

Again, my foot presses the pedal to the floor and we are roaring ahead.

Chapter Forty-Eight

Aidan

Aidan hasn’t been able to focus on the lecture since her text.

Ignore me & you’ll be SORRY

He had turned his phone off but now it’s the coffee break he worries that Lucy might need him and so he switches it back on. He was right to be concerned, he sees the missed calls from her. Has something happened at Kieron’s appointment?

He tries to call her back but it goes straight to voicemail.

Something is wrong.

He calls her again, again. No reply. He tries Connor. Kieron. None of them answering.

His handset beeps a text alert.

I have something you want. Clock is ticking. I’ll let u know where & when

It’s a slow and sickening dawning that she won’t ever leave them alone until she’s destroyed his family. How far will he go to protect them? The muscles in his jaw tighten painfully, his back teeth grind together. He knows how far he’ll go.

As far as it takes.

He’s only half an hour from home and, as Aidan speeds away from the hotel, he intermittently redials Lucy’s number, reaching her voicemail each time.

His quiet cul-de-sac is a flurry of activity. Police cars, a tangle of blue and white crime-scene tape sectioning off his front garden. He feels, he actually feels, his heart plummeting, free-falling into his boots, landing with a thud. He can’t get onto the driveway and so he screeches to a halt, half blocking the neighbours’ drive and almost falls out of his car. Outside the surrounding houses, occupants cluster on steps, huddling under the shelter of porches or umbrellas speculating about what might have happened inside this red-bricked four bedroom with its neat flowerbeds and double garage.

There’s a sense of detachment – a sense of this-can’t-be-real as Aidan ducks under the tape and pushes aside the policeman who demands his name and tells him he can’t go inside.

‘Try to bloody stop me.’ Aidan splashes through the puddles on his driveway as he sprints into his house. It’s a short journey, not more than eight steps, but during those eight steps myriad scenarios burn through Aidan’s brain, macabre images scorched onto his retinas that he’ll never be able to shake. It can’t be Kieron, there’d be an ambulance otherwise, possibly Lucy – his heart hurts at the thought of his wife beaten and bloody – but he knows, he knows before he’s told that it’s Connor.

The Taken.

I have something you want. Clock is ticking. I’ll let u know where & when.