178 MONSTER

ARIEL'S POV Still on my way to Andre's company, my mind was racing with millions of thoughts and thousands of questions, since I was extremely worried at the moment. Panicking as hell, hoping for no hope to be lost. My phone started ringing. I didn't even want to glance at it, but I just decided to, and it was a good thing I did that. Mason was the one who was calling. Now I just hoped that he wanted to put an end to all of this madness, just like the scenes that took place in my goddamn imagination. After parking my car, I answered the phone call. "Mason, you son of a..." "Hush Ariel. You don't have to be so rude to me. A while ago, you were begging for your children's safety." "Yes, so please tell me, where are my kids? Where's Lukel and Janice?" "Hold on a minute; I thought you wanted to start this conversation in a rude way. What happened? You changed your mind?" "I don't have time for all this, Andre." "Oh, you do, Ariel. You have plenty of time for this. Well, not plenty