A primal growl formed in the back of her throat, and she stepped forward to meet Jack as he entered the water. He took her face in both his hands and...kissed her quite tenderly—not at all what Chloe expected after such a long separation—and she resisted when he first tried to break away. Being bigger and much stronger, he easily broke her grip and held her at arm's length. For several moments, Jack looked intently into her eyes. She felt their souls reconnecting and understood then why he. A viscous punch to the gut was what greeted me. The next thing I knew, I was being picked up off the floor and slammed into a kitchen chair. No one said a word but I could feel something quite sharp pressing against my throat. Sarah was bound to her chair with duct tape on her mouth. I tried to speak; this got the blade pushed harder against my throat and the feeling of blood starting to trickle down my neck ended my visions of being a hero. Soon after I was bound just as my wife was.The. When Dakota and Jill both saw the reports on the news, they also began dialing up Tina.I told Dakota to call the jet crew and let them know that we will be heading to Phoenix as soon as possible. I went outside the bedroom to John and Diane’s bedroom. I pounded on the door; John opened it up after me pounding for a couple of minutes. I told John and Diane to get dressed as we were all heading to Phoenix. He seemed puzzled as to what I was talking about, but I wasn’t in the mood to stand there. Her eyes began to play tricks on her. The vertical blinds covering the sliding glass balcony door looked like they were pulsing to the rhythm of the electronic music thumping through the stereo system. Her skin looked (and felt) like it was glowing. She had never been more fascinated by anything than the sight of her own hand in front of her face in that moment. She looked at each of her friends' faces closely and felt an all-consuming warmth, a joy that she had never experienced before..