The sound of the landline roused Tim Horton from an uneasy slumber. He sat up and for a couple of seconds wondered what he was doing in the dining room in the middle of the night with the lights on and Diane sat across the table opposite him. Then reality hit him like a single hard punch to the gut as he remembered everything. Diane was the first to pick up the handset. She listened for a couple of seconds – a stiff, blank expression on her face – before putting the phone on loudspeaker and placing the handset in the middle of the table. The kidnapper’s disguised voice immediately came on the line. ‘You fucked us up, Horton!’ he yelled, his words tearing round the room. ‘Now your son pays. Listen to this.’ There was a two-second pause, then Max’s voice came on the line. ‘I’m scared!’ he was crying. ‘Please don’t hurt me. Please … Mummy!’ Diane let out an animal howl and grabbed wildly at the handset, putting it to her ear. ‘I’m here, baby, it’s going to be all right.
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