Point Blank Seal

“A man broke into the center, into Ms. Lori’s room. Jen, he tried to take Mikey.”

Chapter Five (#u46a7807e-34b5-5688-a14a-acd85a67ef0e)

Jennifer gulped and pressed two fingers to her throbbing temple. “Where is Mikey now?”

“He’s in my office with me. We’re waiting for the police right now.”

Shifting the phone away from her mouth, Jennifer tapped Olivia’s arm and said, “I have to leave. Mikey’s okay, but something happened at his day care. Tell Sandra I’ll be gone the rest of the day.”

Olivia’s eyes grew round. “Go, go. I’ll get your class back to the school and dismiss them.”

As Jennifer hustled from the auditorium, she continued with Franny. “What happened? What do you mean someone tried to take him? Was it someone who tried to sign him out and pretend I sent him?”

Had Miguel tried to pick up his son, not realizing the security measures in place at the day care?

“I mean take, Jen, as in forcibly try to remove him from the center.” Franny released a little sob.

A blast of adrenaline shot through Jennifer’s body and she quickened her pace back to the school. “Are you sure Mikey’s okay?”

“He’s fine, sitting here having a snack. I don’t know what we would’ve done if that other man hadn’t charged into the play area and challenged the man who had Mikey.”

“What? Another man?”

“As the man ran into the playground with Mikey under his arm, another guy leaped over the fence and knocked the kidnapper down. He got Mikey away from the man and handed him over to us. The kidnapper ran and the last I saw of Mikey’s protector, he was going after him.”

Mikey’s protector? It had to be Miguel. He’d saved his son’s life twice in two days.

Jennifer’s heart was still beating erratically by the time she jogged the two blocks to Mikey’s day care. When she got there, a police cruiser was stationed out front.

She bolted through the front gate and ran to the play yard, where two cops were talking to Franny and Lori. Panic stabbed the back of her skull when she didn’t see Mikey with them.