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Sapphire
Numb is how I’m feeling after two days of sifting through news channels for any new information about the crash. My guys have been solid throughout this craziness, but it’s all felt completely surreal to me. From calling the cops, to finding out from the resort that neither my sister nor the band showed up at the hotel.
I keep calling her phone (my phone) but there’s never an answer.
I had to call our parents, right after I called the cops.
Mom and Dad got a flight to the city as soon as they could and they drove out to Silver Valley afterward. They got in late last night, and they stayed in a local hotel.
I have no idea what they think of my mates, or my sudden embrace of my Omegahood, or anything else except what’s happened to Scarlett.
I called my boss after I spoke to the police, and she was able to tell me the private plane they were on belongs to Chaos’ Burning’s lead singer, Xane.
That’s literally all we know right at this minute.
“Oh, sweetheart, please stop pacing,” my mother chides from the kitchen table.
“She’s just worried about Scarlett. It’s okay,” my father says, taking her hand in his.
“It’s not okay,” My mother goes on. “I’m worried about you, Sapphire. This whole thing, it’s not like you. Agreeing to one of your sister’s crazy ideas like this. Coming out here and pretending to be her …” She shakes her head, her eyes going to my throat before she starts to frown.
“Can we not talk about that please?” I ask, wondering what the hell my mates are making of my parents. I introduced them as my true mates, and it’s obvious from my marks that I meant all four of them, but my parents have been reacting as if these guys are just Scarlett’s neighbors.
“Really, Sapphire, you could go home to the city, and we can switch to a hotel there. There’s no need to be out here just because it’s where Scarlett’s been living for a few years.”
Oh my God. I forgot how insufferable my mother could be.
She’s an old school traditional Omega.
She thinks the choices Scarlett and I make are strange no matter what they are.
“I live here now, Mom. With my true mates.”
Bishop shoots her a smile, though I can tell she’s driving him insane.
“Will you stop with this charade, sweetheart? I told you before, I can’t deal with this nonsense while your sister is missing.”
My father gives us a weary shrug. He doesn’t have the energy to chime in.
When a phone starts to ring in another room I glance at Bishop.
He frowns. “Odd. We don’t get too many landline calls anymore. I’ll be back.”
He abandons me in the kitchen with my parents. It’s not his fault. I can only have one of my mates with me during the day, every day right now because they have to cover their shifts when they’re off work and their vacation time is kind of limited.
“Sapphire!” Bishop calls out.
I dart out of the room, glad for the excuse to escape my parents.
He’s in the lounge, holding up a cordless phone.
Clearly, he yelled for me so I could get away from them.
He’s a lifesaver.
“What is it?” I mouth, not wanting to speak to another reporter.
“Scarlett,” he says, laughing lightly.
