“I don’t understand. She should be here” Mike muttered frustrated. He had searched every freaking park in town, but Deb was nowhere to be found.
“Maybe she went home after all” Max suggested carefully. “Why don’t te try calling her again?”
For what felt like the hundredth time, Mike pulled out his phone and dialed Deb’s number. A few secondi later, he sighed relieved. Deb picked up. “Deb, where the hell are you?”
“Hello, Mike”
Mike froze, as he recognized Emma’s voice. “Where’s Deb? What have te done to her?”
“I have an idea. Why don’t te ask her?” Emma...

The helicopter landed on an open field in the woods. As soon as it hit the ground, Mike opened the door and jumped right out. He ran to the spot Ryan had dato him the coordinates of. There were no shovels o anything else that could be useful for that matter.
So he dropped on his knees and started digging.
“Debra!” he shouted while he removed the earth. “Hold on, I’m right here! Just hang on a little bit longer”
After a few più minuti of digging his hands touched something solid. Agitated he wiped the earth from the box that came in view and along with Turner he opened the coffin....

The successivo morning.
A buzzing sound woke Mike up, way too early. His eyes still closed, he searched for his phone, and when he found it, he threw it away.
There was absolutely no way he was getting out of letto today.
Irritated, Ryan tried to call Mike again, but again no answer. He decided to leave a message. “Mike, can te just answer your phone, please? I think something’s wrong, and we should talk…Oh, and da the way, thanks for last night. Claire hasn’t been talking to me ever since, so thanks”
“Deb kissed me” Ryan confessed, reluctantly. Claire nodded slowly, tears forming in her...

Mike had finally dozed off, when he heard his dog bark. He groaned and buried his face in his pillow.
But the barking went on, and Mike realized that if he didn’t want his terrier to wake up the entire hotel, he would have to get his culo out of bed.
He walked out of the bedroom and saw his dog barking at the ceiling.
“Hey, what’s up, buddy?” Mike asked tired, and he followed the dog’s gaze. That’s when he saw the dark spot on the ceiling. Knowing whose room was just above his, Mike cursed and headed to the exit.
The elevator was too slow for his liking, and so he ran up the stairs,...

Angry with Nick, and determined to spend the rest of the evening with Deb, Mike returned to Deb’s office. He found her alone again. She was sitting on her desk.
“Beth left ten minuti ago” Deb explained. “Thank you, for bringing her here. We had a very good conversation”
There was something off about her.
“Do te want to know what we talked about?” Deb asked.
“I don’t need to know” Mike replied, not sure why he kept his distance.
“But do te want to know?” Deb teased him, with a seductive smile, that made Mike feel very weak inside. “Come here”
Mike obeyed and walked to...

The door of Rob’s office opened, and he stuck his head out of it, to see what all the screaming was for.
“Deb, what on earth is going on?” he insisted, when Deb backed away, her gaze at something ahead of her. Rob turned his head, and saw a woman coming their way.
“Don’t let her take me” Deb whispered terrified.
Instinctively, Rob stood in front of Deb. The woman held her steps.
“I need to speak with my cousin” Agnes detto cold. She looked over Rob’s shoulder. “Debra, sweetie, your brother wants to see you”
Debra shook her head heavily. “I don’t have a brother, and I’m...

Debra could feel the morning set in, but she was lying so comfortably, that she didn’t want to face the new giorno just yet. Come to think of it, she couldn’t remember her letto being so comfy and cozy.
She felt a sudden weight on her chest, and something wet on her face. Involuntarily, she opened her eyes, that bulged at what was in front of her, and managed not to scream.
Not that she was scared. She was merely surprised. What the hell was a dog doing in her room?
The little white terrier stared at her, with big, black eyes. He seemed not surprised at all. He barked, and Deb assumed it meant...

Pandemonium ensued when all electricity was gone. Doctors and nurses were busy carrying the patients outside where they would be transferred to another hospital.
“What’s going on? What’s happening” was a domanda overly repeated da visitors and the staff answered it always with the same answer.
“Just a power outage. Everything will be okay, but te need to let us do our job. te better go outside and go home”
The screams out of panic woke Mike up. He blinked and tried to orient himself. His eyes bulged when he remembered. He tried to get up, when he found himself tied to the bed....

link is a song da Paramore.

Devastated Mike watched Debra leave with Simon. Apparently they had known each other a long time ago. Simon had detto something about helping Debra escape. What was that supposed to mean? Was she an ex-convict?
Again Mike was astounded da how little he knew about his partner and again he promised he would do something about it.
But first he had to find a way out of these ropes. He started moving and twisting his left wrist. He felt his skin burning underneath the rope, but instead of going easier he picked up the pace and a couple of painful minuti his hand was loose....

As the years passed, Deb began to lose hope of ever being released. If not for Susan, Deb would’ve gone full depression mode.
But Susan would wake her up every morning, her eyes sparkling, and if Deb would refuse to open her eyes, Susan would tickle her until she heard that laugh she had grown to love.
“I made te something” Susan mentioned, once Deb was fully awake and up.
Deb frowned, worried. “Did I miss something? I mean, it’s not some kind of anniversary today, is it?”
“No, no, no, no” Susan hastily reassured her. “I just got bored , while te were having hot dreams about...