Chapter 77: Nyrissa Is Missing

"I have told you all everything I know. The noise woke me up, and I rushed out to help Natalie, and one of the men knocked me out. I didn't get a good look at them," Mandy snapped as she gingerly held her arm against her chest. "Where is Nyrissa?!"

Paul was leaning against the desk, giving Mandy a dark look. The anger radiating off him was so obvious that there might as well have been a dark cloud circling him. What made it even worse was that Ryan could feel the same tension in Sam as she stood next to him.

"What's wrong?" Ryan asked her quietly.

"Her story doesn't make sense," Sam told him. "I read the report on her injuries. If the kidnappers just knocked her out and took off... Why would they beat her?"

Ryan stiffened at Sam's implication that Mandy was lying. "Are you say Mandy had something to do with Natalie's disappearance?"

Sam immediately shook her head. "No. Mandy would die before she let anything happen to Natalie or Nyrissa. I know that implicitly."