“And your Little girl.”
“Yes Rae, we are going to find my Little girl and bring her home.”
Just as Emmettwas returning from putting Rae down to sleep Miles' phone began to ring on the table. Glancing down he noticed it was Beau calling and quickly put it on speaker.
“Hey man. Sorry to call so late, but I just heard your voicemail.”
“No worries. I’m just hoping you can help me.”
“Tell me from the beginning everything you know and then we can go from there.”
So the guys settled in and poured out everything to Beau about all the things they knew about Olivia. They left nothing out in hopes that it would make finding her easier.
“Alright, give me a few days and I’ll get back to you. In the meantime, just settle in and try to keep life moving as normally as possible. I know that will be hard, but you have to. I’ll alsoput out a call to my contact at the police department and see if there was anything found at her apartment. I’ll be in touch.”
Saying bye, Miles sat back and let out a whoosh of air. He hoped that if anyone could help him find his Little girl it would be Beau.
Knowing that there is nothing Miles could do, he told Emmett goodbye and headed out the door towards home.
He hoped that it wouldn't take Beau very long to find information and that his contact at the police department would be able to help.
Miles didn’t know how long he would be able to survive without information about what was going on with his Little girl.
Letting himself inside of his house. Miles made his way and let Diesel out the back door.
If anyone was taking this harder than him it would be Diesel. Over the last two weeks Olivia had been gone, Diesel had been moping around the house looking for her.
Knowing there was nothing else that he could do for the night, Miles went and took a shower hoping to wash away the feelings of today. Once done, he let his dog in the house, giving him a pet before heading to bed.
It had almost beena week since he got the call from Beau and Miles was starting to get real antsy. He kept wracking his brain as to what could be taking so long.
His heart raced when his phone started ringing on his desk. Glancing down he quickly grabbed it when he saw it was Beau.
“Hey man. It’s nice to finally hear from you. Did you find anything?”
“Yeah, it took a little bit longer to pull the information that you needed because before Olivia moved to Ivory Mountain, she never existed.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that Olivia Carter never existed.”
“So who is she then?”
“After weeding through dead ends, I finally found the loose string I needed. Her name is Cassidy Taylor.”
Miles couldn’t believe it. Why would she have lied about her identity? That just didn’t seem like something Liv would do without good reason.
“Okay, just give me a run down.”
“Cassidy Taylor - Born in Plainsville, Tennessee she grew up with her mom after her parents got a divorce when she was seven. Straight A student through high school and college. During college she met a guy by the name of David Taylor, who is now a police captain in their local department and they got married in two thousand twenty-two. From there it was a lot of ER visits and unexplained bruises and broken bones. The last week Cassidy Taylor existed, she ended up being admitted for emergency surgery following what the hospital reports as a car accident. After that night, she ran and Olivia Carter was born.”
Miles’ mind was racing with all this new information. How could anyone as sweet as his Little girl have been through the trauma that she had been.
“A few weeks ago Olivia started receiving texts and phone calls from an unknown number. I traced it back to an unlisted number, but was able to run the information on it and see who purchased it. David has been stalking your Little girl for weeks, taunting her about how he was coming for her.”
He felt like a failure for not seeing the signs. All the scaredfaces, frozen looks in her eyes, and the jumpiness that she always seemed to have. It all made sense now.
“So where is she now? I’m guessing that the stupid son of a bitch has my Little girl.”
