Chapter 164: Give Me My Child
"I want my child back." Saira said into the phone as soon as the man answered the call.
And received an immediate reply, "No."
"What do you mean no? I said I want him back. You have to bring him back to me!"
"No means exactly that, Saira." His tone didn’t waver. It was calm, flat—dangerously so. "When the child was born, you made your choice. You handed him over instead of taking the other choice and coming with the child. It can be considered you sold your child. Whether it was legal, moral, or just a desperate move at the time, it doesn’t matter now. The fact remains—he is mine now. The only reason you still get photos is because I made a promise. A small mercy. Nothing more."
"If you don’t bring me my child, I will sue you! I will have you charged for kidnapping! I was barely in my right mind when everything happened..." she snapped but the man simply laughed.
"Sue me? Charge me for kidnapping?" he echoed, his amusement laced with cruelty. "Really? And how exactly do you plan to pull that off? You seem to forget—you don’t even know who I am. You’ve never seen my face, not once. You don’t even know what I sound like outside of this call. I’m a ghost, Saira. A voice without a face. A name without a trail. You can’t sue someone who doesn’t exist, Saira."
"I’ll find you.I swear I will. I’ll find you if it’s the last thing I do." Saira whispered desperately but the other person only chuckled in answer and said tauntingly,"Will you? I’d advise you to think that through. Because if you try to threaten me again, if you so much as breathe wrong in my direction, all I have to do is change my number. That’s it. One button, Saira. Just one. And then—poof. The last connection you have to your son will vanish. Gone like smoke. So don’t call me with threats. Don’t make demands. Not unless you’re prepared to lose everything."
"I want to introduce him to Adam," she blurted out desperately when she realized that he was about to hang up, probably.
There was a pause. The line went so quiet that for a moment, she thought the call had dropped. She stared at the screen of her phone and breathed a sigh of relief when she realized he was still there. Finally, he answered, "What did you say?"