Her Secret Santa - Miley Maine Page 0,51

right thing? If I told him where I was, I had no guarantee that my family would not be harmed. But if I didn’t tell him then I could be assured that they would be killed within minutes. I didn’t have a choice. I had to at least try to help them.

I gave him the address. “Good,” he said. “Now you had better be there when I get there. So, I’ll see you soon. Until then you can dream about me and rest easy that your mom and dad will be just fine. It’s been a long time coming, honey. And you are about to get what you deserve, bitch.”

He ended the call. The house was silent. I was shaking almost uncontrollably now. What was I going to do? He’d found me. It was happening. It was all happening just as I had feared it would. Oh, shit. Fuck! I was in so much trouble.

“Stay calm,” I told myself out loud. “Stay calm. Tony did train me for this.”

I had to call Tony. I dialed his phone. I thought he wasn’t going to answer at first, but he picked up on the fourth ring right before his voicemail did. “Julie? What’s wrong?”

I could sense the urgency with which I was calling. I tried to keep calm and rational, but I was starting to freak out a bit. “Saul. He found my parents.”

“What?”

“He called me from there. He forced me to give him the address here. He is on his way. I don’t know what to do.”

“Relax,” he said. His voice was so calm and reassuring. “You will be fine. I will alert Billy and his team. They will be on standby and we will wait for him to arrive. We have to pretend that none of this is happening. In fact, this is perfect. We’ve been waiting for something like this.”

“We have? No! I haven’t!” I yelled.

“Yes. This is perfect. He will fall right into a trap. We will have him nailed the second he arrives. Don’t worry about a thing, honey. I’m on my way back. It will be ok. Just stay calm and try to keep your mind on something else. Whatever you do, don’t leave.”

“What about my parents?”

“I’ll have some guys take care of it. I’ll alert the cops. We will get a SWAT team in there to get them out safe and sound and without alerting Saul to let him make any change in his plans. He has to think he is succeeding. We can get him to Alaska. Then we will have him by the fucking balls.”

“I just wish I was as confident as you are about things,” I said. “I’m so scared. I need you here.”

“I’m on my way. I hope I can get there before he does. It depends on how soon he can get on a plane; I suppose. Or he may drive. So, hopefully I will get there. I’ve got my private jet. I don’t have to adhere to a time schedule.”

“Ok, be safe,” I said. “I love you.”

“I love you, too.”

I sat there holding the phone and drinking my coffee. I knew I should have felt better about things, but I didn’t. How did I know that my parents were even home? Saul could have been on the move with them. He might have taken them to some other random location. He was far too crafty to take lightly. I had to remember that. The man was an animal, but a very cunning animal.

I took my coffee into the living room and sat down. I tried to think of good thoughts, happier thoughts, and I tried to put myself into Tony’s shoes. He was fully confident that this was a good thing. He was fully confident that this was the best thing to happen.

I just didn’t think I could go through with it. But what would I do? What could I do? Besides just wait.

I had never been more frightened than I was at that moment. It was just like being back in that world where I was married to Saul and I had to plot my own escape. It had been the fight from hell to escape his clutches and now I was having to go through it all over again. I had to put him away this time. He had kidnapped my parents. That alone was enough to send him to prison for many years. But we’d have to make it all stick.

I was sure Tony could do