Inside the pad, in shaky red ink, were two chilling words:
“HELP ME.”
My heart stopped. I looked around frantically, but the woman was already gone, swallowed by the crowd. I rushed back to my boyfriend, hands trembling, and told him what happened.
He laughed it off. “Probably a prank,” he said.
But deep down, I knew it wasn’t.
I couldn’t just ignore it.
I told a security guard what happened and handed over the pad. Within minutes, police arrived and started reviewing cameras.
Turns out, the woman was a missing person.
She had been abducted—and was being watched so closely she couldn’t cry for help out loud. That pad? It was her desperate lifeline.
Lesson?
Always trust your instincts. A small act of attention can save someone’s life when no one else is looking.
