Stern I had failed. I had fuc8ked up royally. I had let Kylie and her friend Analiese get kidnapped. I had one job and I failed it epically. I should have been fired. I probably would have if they hadn't gotten the jump on Moe as well. I'm sure he was thinking some of the same things I was. The girls were taken on our watch. The shame and anger had me wanting to hit the bottle hard those first few days after the incident. Sure, I got conked on the head and thrown into my own trunk. That was just the icing on a big fu8cking ugly as8s cake. I just had a minor concussion and was out of the hospital the next day. I guess I was passed out for about an hour. I came to when some of the sheriff's deputies found me later. By then, the girls were long gone, and Moe had been taken to the hospital.

