Aria's POV
Lara was just a kid.
She must be terrified out of her mind right now.
I leaned my head against the cold cab window, bitter tears spilling uncontrollably down my cheeks.
Guilt ate away at my insides like acid.
Lara was innocent in all of this. Even if I was desperate to cut ties with Julian, I should never have let my little girl feel neglected, and now... now she was in life danger because of it.
"Please drive faster," I begged the cab driver, my voice trembling. "It's an emergency!"
Twenty minutes later, the cab pulled up to the outer edge of Ocean Park.
To my surprise, it was completely abandoned, overgrown with wild weeds and rotting wooden structures.
Though it sat right along the desolate coastline, the area was virtually deserted.
It was the absolute perfect
