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after I returned home from the address, and I haven’t seen her since. Could you get me something for the blood? We replaced this carpet just six months ago.”
    “Your injury is the least of your worries. Now, Mr. Norland, call me a pessimist, but I do think you’re lying to me about your wife.”
    “She’s not here. She’s—”
    “Enough!” Another thump elicited a grunt from Roger. “You grossly underestimate the depth of our information, Mr. Norland. Tell me, should we add a charge of hindering an investigation on top of lying to an officer to your rapidly-growing list of transgressions?”
    “Do what you want,” Roger managed to say through a series of coughs. “I can’t give you what I don’t have.”
    “I’m growing tired of this,” the solider sighed. “I’ll tell you what. I’ll give you until the count of three to show us where Mrs. Norland is hiding. If you produce her, we’ll forget this little incident ever transpired, and your charges will remain as they are now. If you don’t, well, perhaps we’ll carry out your sentence right here, right now.”
    “Roger,” Elizabeth whimpered, louder but still not loud enough to be heard outside the garage. She began to squirm out from underneath the tarp, only stopping when she heard her husband’s voice.
    “No, Elizabeth,” he said. “There is no Elizabeth here.”
    “One. Mr. Norland, seriously. You’re making this harder than it needs to be. Two.”
    “Go to hell.”
    “Have it your way. I guess I’ll be seeing you there, though I’ll be arriving much later than you, I’m afraid.” A sudden blast shook the house, startling Elizabeth.
    “No. No. No,” she moaned, biting her bottom lip to suppress the scream that tried valiantly to escape from her throat.
    “Find her,” the leader of the group of soldiers commanded. “Search every square inch of this house. Leave no stone unturned; no object intact.”
    Given their commands, the other soldiers marched through the home—an army, it seemed, by the sheer number of footsteps that came from inside the house. Underneath the tarp, Elizabeth Norland curled up into the fetal position to make herself as small as possible. Just feet away, she heard the door that led from the garage to the inside of her house open with such force that it bounced off the wall on the inside. Footsteps from the house into the garage followed seconds later. By the sound of it, there were three soldiers making their way into the garage.
    Elizabeth remained still while their footsteps walked past her, searching the garage. Tools from the workbench fell down onto the concrete floor.
    “Search the vehicle,” a new, almost robotic, voice ordered the others. Unable to open the locked vehicle the traditional way, Elizabeth soon heard the sound of glass shattering as one of the soldiers broke through the window to unlock their SUV. Sounds of the soldiers rummaging through the contents of the vehicle soon followed. “It’s clear,” the voice proclaimed after a minute of searching. “Keep looking. Leave no stone unturned,” he said, mimicking the instructions of their commander.
    Footsteps soon resounded across the garage again, with each of the three soldiers searching different sections of the structure. “There’s a laptop in this toter,” one of them proclaimed.
    “Take it out of there. We’ll bring it back with us,” the one who’d spoken earlier answered.
    Elizabeth closed her eyes and took a deep breath, hoping the tarp would remain still. Minutes passed when she heard the sound of boots walking back up the stairs and into her home. Maybe they won’t find me after all , she thought, hopeful.
    “Sir,” the more vocal of the three soldiers spoke. “I’ve located the female subject in the garage.”
    What? Elizabeth felt a pair of hands forcefully grip one of her feet and pull her out from underneath the tarp, where she came face-to-face with the soldier who had found her.
    “Very good,” their