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"You know where she is?" I growled. I could throttle him for withholding this information from me. I needed to know where she was. I needed to know she was safe.
"Damn straight." He rolled his eyes. "You think I'd let her leave again after the last time? I'm not stupid. Tell me what's going on and be straight with me."
"Tell me she's safe." I whispered. I'd tell him anything and everything so long as she was safe.
The anger in Caleb's eyes dulled. "She's safe, Jace."
I sighed, falling back in my chair when Laura popped her head into the office. "Is everything all right Mr. Rush?"
"Yes, Laura." I sounded tired. "Has the woman who was in my office left the floor?"
"Yes," She nodded.
"Good. Please call for a new door."
"Certainly." She turned and walked back out. I knew I would have a door by the end of the day. She was efficient like that.
I looked to Caleb and found expectant green eyes on me. "Spit it out."
"Olivia is in danger."
A frown pulled at his brows, distorting his features. "What?"
"Listen to me Caleb." I snapped. "When I first started seeing her, she started receiving letters from someone who calls himself her savior."
"Are you sure it's a man?" He interrupted.
I nodded. "I had Gabe study the letters. Someone who more than likely knows her writes them. But apparently, this person knows a whole shitload about me too."
"And they are threatening her?"
"Not exactly." I shook my head, feeling frustrated. "The letters threaten to hurt me. He wants her to walk away from me but she refuses to do it. And I can't walk away from her. I have to find this son-of-a-bitch!"
"What was Lexie doing here?" Caleb asked, balancing his elbows on his knees as he leaned forward in the chair.
"A letter was sent to her."
"By the same guy?"
"Yes." I confirmed. "He signed the letter as her Savior." I smirked maliciously. "That's what he calls himself, the twisted fuck."
Caleb whistled. "What did Lexie's letter say?"
"Pretty much the same thing as Olivia's. Only that if I don't rethink this, he'll unearth all my skeletons for the world to see one by one until I have nothing left."
"Do you have skeletons?" Caleb asked seriously.
"Only the ones you know about."
"They aren't that bad." He sounded honest. "The world won't care."
"I don't give a fuck about the world." I barked. "I care about what Olivia will think."
Caleb shook his head, clearly stunned. "So, Lexie wasn't here to get you back?"
"That's where it's confusing. At first, that's exactly what she was trying to do, but when I refused to reciprocate her feelings, she went on about the letter," I paused as the events started clicking into place in my mind. No…it couldn't be.
Caleb, obviously coming to the same conclusion spoke first. "Do you think Lexie has something to do with the writer?" He rubbed his chin. "A deal maybe?"
"It's starting to sound that way."
Caleb nodded. "Shit," he shook his head. "What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to continue looking into it. But I'm going to look into Lexie too. I'm going to have someone follow her." I looked into Caleb's eyes. "You'll look too? See if you find anything I miss? I can't ignore this and take the chance Olivia might get hurt."
"Of course." He nodded. "Do you have any suspects?"
I nodded. "Yeah."
"Who?" Caleb asked.
"His name is Bryce Cane."
Caleb's brows pulled together in a scowl. "Cane? Why does that name sound so familiar?"
"Bryce Cane is Jacob Cane's son."
"As in Cane Investments?"
I nodded. "As in Cane Investments."
"Why would his son have anything to do with the letters?"
"He's in New York." I said through tightly clenched teeth.
Caleb rubbed his forehead. "Jace, the Cane's travel here for work all the time. Why would you even think to be suspicious of him?"
"Because he dated Olivia while they were in college."
His eyes widened. "Holy shit." I gave him time to let the information sink in. "You think he's a disgruntled ex?"
"Who has information about Rush Industries and its owners." I watched Caleb process the information. "I pulled a lot of my stocks when I was going through the mess with Lexie. I didn't want to take the chance of it going public and taking the financial hit with stocks dropping. If he's smart he'll have linked the court case with my pulling the stocks. It wouldn't take much convincing to get Lexie to spill facts about our relationship regardless of the court orders."
