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BOSS, Inc. #2
Kensington Zebra
June 2016
On Sale: May 31, 2016
400 pages
ISBN: 1420139029
EAN: 9781420139020
Kindle: B01501H2BS
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"Ms. Megan, thank God you're home! It's...it's Charlie.
I can't find little Charlie."
Meg's heart took a leap as she stepped into the house,
nearly colliding with her housekeeper, Rose Wills.
"Charlie's almost three. He probably woke up and
wandered off somewhere. He has to be here someplace."
But even as she said the words, worry jolted through her.
Telling herself not to panic, Meg hurried toward the
stairs.
"I put him down for a nap an hour ago," Rose said,
hurrying along behind her. "When I went back to check on
him, he was gone."
"You know how he likes to hide. He's just found a new
place is all." But fear had her pulse kicking up, and
her stomach started to churn. At the top of the landing,
she turned and ran down the hall to her little boy's
bedroom, the housekeeper close behind her.
Charlie wasn't in his small white youth bed. "Charlie!
Mama's home. Charlie! Where are you, sweetheart?" Meg
ran to the closet and pulled open the door, searched
through the stuffed toys and games on the closet floor,
but found no sign of her son.
Her heart was hammering now, her stomach balled into a
fist. Meg told herself to stay calm. There were dozens
of places a little boy could hide in a two-story house.
"Charlie! Charlie, where are you, sweetie?"
Rose's higher-pitched, worried voice chimed in.
"Charlie! Come out now. Your mommy wants you."
They searched upstairs but he was no where to be seen,
went downstairs and searched the floor below.
"God, Rose, where could he be? You don’t think he went
outside?"
"I always keep the doors locked and the chain on.
There's no way he could have gotten out."
They checked all the doors, but Rose was right. No way
could her little boy have gotten out of the house.
Meg ran back upstairs. She returned to his room, walked
over to the bed to see if the covers still held a trace
of warmth. Reaching down, she touched the soft blue
blanket with the sailboats on it, but none of Charlie's
heat remained.
Instead she spotted an envelope protruding from the
folds, her name in ink on the front.
"What did you find?" Rose walked up beside her.
"It's a letter." Her hands shook as she tore the
envelope open.
"I didn't see it before," Rose said. "Oh, dear Lord."
She started to tremble, her pendulous breasts heaving as
the implication sank in. She was a big woman, nearly as
tall as Meg's five-foot-ten inch frame. "What...what
does it say?"
Meg read the note and her heart clutched, then turned to
stone. "'We have your son. He'll cost you ten million
in cash. You've got three days or he's...he's dead. No
police.'"
Meg swayed on her feet. She gripped the headboard,
afraid she might faint. Dear God, my baby! She turned,
let Rose pull her into a hug, and her eyes welled with
tears. They clung to each other, both of them crying.
The housekeeper straightened away. "We have to call the
police. They'll know what to do. They'll get Charlie
back."
Meg shook her head. "No police. If we call them,
they'll kill him."
Rose crossed herself. "What are going to do, Ms. Meg?"
Meg closed her eyes and prayed for strength. Her dad was
extremely wealthy. He loved his grandson. Her father
could get the ten million dollars they needed to pay the
ransom.
But her dad was extremely controlling. And he believed
money was the solution to everything. What if the
kidnappers took the money and still killed her baby?
She thought of Charlie's father, Jonathan Hollander, the
man she had married to please her dad. Yes, he was
handsome. She couldn’t deny she’d been attracted to his
dark good looks and charming smiles. Her father hadn't
been able to see past Jonathan's impressive Harvard
education and his family's lofty position in society.
Meg thought what a no-good, lying, cheat he had turned
out to be.
She couldn't go to Jonathan.
Another man's image came to mind. Smart. Loyal to a
fault. Strong. Tough. Reliable. The one man she would
trust with her precious son's life.
"I know someone." Strength seeped through her as
determination set in. "I know a man who can bring
Charlie home."
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