Maxten's POV
I was going out of my mind. Kenzley was just fine at school and Ian was going to stay and hang out with her until she was out for the day. That took some sweet-talking to get the school to allow him to stay, but we still haven't found or heard from Lyla or Everette and my mind had gone to the worst-case scenario. He was dead, and she was sitting in someone's basement and having God only knows what to her.
My phone started ringing, and I quickly grabbed it, hopeful that it was her, but it wasn't. It was Conrad. I couldn't talk to him right now. If he knew that I'd lost her he would kill me, but that is what I would deserve. I also don't know if I could live a life without her, I thought, and then pushed it aside because right now, that is something I don't want to think ab
