Chapter 5

Claudia

It’s been a week since the attack. We still have no real clues.

Although I’m grateful to have Peelle, I’m worried sick about Osborn.

I don’t understand why they want him. I thought for sure by now they would reach out requesting us to pay a large sum to get him back, but there’s been nothing.

My stomach is riddled with anxiety, and I don’t know how to make it stop. I don’t know how to move forward.

Peelle spends lots of time with Laila and Lauren, but I can tell how much he misses his brother even though he tries to hide it. There are times he tries to play with Laila, but she enjoys all the girly thinks like playing dress up and tea parties! And he wants to play with dinosaurs and cars and it’s not the same without his brother by his side.

I sit in the playroom watching the three of them together and I could picture Osborn sitting right beside them. It breaks my heart to know that he’s not here.

He’s somewhere all by himself alone. Have they hurt him? Has he been fed?

I feel