For those of you who follow me on FB, you’ll remember my Saturday post featuring Callum, the IT brain of Boston’s Irish Mob. Today’s snippet is the reason he was on my mind. Well, this snippet and other scenes invovling Cal and Sophie. The prompt for last #ThursdayThreads is: **Where are you going?”** I’m pretty sure Sophie is positive about where she’s headed…

Sophie pressed against the wall, ordering her thudding heart to slow. With great care, she inhaled. The male voices, muted as they were, wafted from behind the cracked double doors. Brian Boru’s office. She strained to hear the conversation and to identify the owners of those voices.

“Do you know where he is?” That had to be Boru, she thought.

“No, and that’s the problem, Brian.” She wasn’t sure who spoke.

“But you’re sure he was taken?” Boru again.

“Oh, aye. Several of the shopkeepers saw him get snatched.” That had to be Mick O’Connor.”

“But no one could identify who took him.”

Ah, she thought. Ronan O’Conner. Her heart and lungs seized. If the brothers were both here, seeing as they were the Boru’s top lieutenants, that meant something bad had gone down. And then, with a certainty that stabbed her in the heart that had just started beating again, she knew. Callum. They were talking about Callum. Thugs had snatched him off the street. That’s why he was late.

Well, they might not know who’d taken him, but she had a wicked sure idea. Easing back the way she’d come, she made it to the stairs unnoticed and dashed up them to the guest room where she’d been staying. She pulled on boots and a quilted jacket before adding the knife she kept stashed in the boots she now wore to her coat pocket.

With the stealth she’d learned as a teen sneaking out of her father’s house, she gingerly descended the back stairs and made it through the kitchen to the back door. Where Ronan stood, arms crossed. She shivered all the way down to her toes. This man was far scarier than her father ever dreamed he was.

“Where are you going?”

“To get him back.”

Can you tell I’m having fun with this book? I hope so, because I am. I love all the characters and I worry about giving each of them enough “screen time.” Well, technically, that would be page time. LOL The thing is, this started out as Ronan and Maura’s story and it turned into so much more. Which is why I’ve kept moving my word count goal higher. I’m hoping 100K will be enough. If not, I hope I don’t keep anyone up a couple of nights finishing it. Oh, who am I kidding? I TOTALLY hope that happens! That means I’ve done my job as a writer, drawin y’all into the story and making you care and worry about the characters as much as I do. Anyway, I’ll leave it to your imaginations as to what comes next. Writers, your mission, should you accept it, is to riff upon the prompt. And the question today is for everyone–writers and readers alike. Where are you going today?