The room exploded into motion.
Agent Cole was already speaking into his radio.
Marcus grabbed his phone.
My mother looked like someone had drained every drop of blood from her body.
Rory sat perfectly still.
That terrified me more than everyone else's reaction combined.
Fear usually looked dramatic in movies.
Screaming. Crying. Panic. It was really very dramatic and loud.
Real fear looked very different on the other hand.
Real fear looked like Rory Callahan staring at her phone while her entire body went completely motionless.
The message remained on the screen.
The child belongs to me now.
Six words. Six f*****g words.
Six words powerful enough to transform an already catastrophic situation into something infinitely worse.
I crossed the room immediately. My hand found Ror
