LEIGH
"What do you mean, looking for Susan and Ava?" I asked, staring between the three women, my heart already thudding with dread.
"Apparently Susan took Ava out at six this morning, and no one's heard from them since," Lilith said, shooting up with a phone clenched in her hand, and circling over.
"And Ava's phone is here," she added, her tone dropping into panic. "Ava never leaves her phone behind."
My heart was beating fast at the worst-case scenarios whispering into the center of my brain, but I kept fighting them off.
"We don't know anything for sure yet. Have you tried calling Susan?"
"She's not picking up." Lilith's eyes glistened with apprehensiveness. "What if they left us?" Her lips were trembling.
"What?" My ability to give her hope was weak, for I had the exact fear too
