My boyfriend, Kevin Woods, was a forensic doctor. Meanwhile, I got kidnapped by the ex-convict he had helped sentence to prison in the past.
He and his accomplices strapped a bomb to me.
The kidnapper glared at me angrily. “You’re Kevin’s girlfriend, yeah? Tell him to get his ass over here right now!”
I was forced to call Kevin. He sounded very impatient when he responded. “I told you not to call me when I’m working! You’re so annoying!”
I explained hurriedly, “Kevin, I got kidnapped! They’re trying to get revenge on you! You mustn’t come to my rescue—”
Before I could finish my sentence, the kidnapper snatched the phone away.
Kevin’s voice drifted clearly from the loudspeaker. “Michelle, are you nuts? I told you I’m at work! How dare you joke around with stuff like that!
“Do you even know that Vi’s cat has been stuck in the tree for three days now? If I don’t save it, it’ll die! And to think that you came up with this reason just so you could get me to go home! You might as well just tell me that you’re about to die!”
I looked at the bomb strapped to my body. The ten-minute countdown was already shown on the timer.
“I—”
