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Panicking would not help me right now.
The phone ringing from my back pocket broke up my random thoughts, and I plucked out my cell and answered. “Hey, Becky.”
“Charles”—her voice was a garbled sob—“Mary is missing.”
Her four words had my heart stopping in my chest.
It was an out-of-body experience, hearing the words but not knowing what to do with them.
I stood utterly still, unmoving, barely breathing.
There were a few other times where I’d had this sort of panic attack, not sure how to react, unable to connect my brain to my body.
For instance, when the doctors had told me that Natalie was dead. When Mason had called me at work, sobbing that my parents had been in an accident. And now … when Becky told me that my sweet Mary was missing.
“Charles?” She had repeated my name a few times before I responded.
“Mary’s missing? Where are you?”
Brad jumped off his chair, and both he and Mason faced me directly, their looks of complete shock most likely mirroring mine.
“I’m at the school. She didn’t go out of her normal door because they had a field trip. They dismissed from the south entrance and…” Her sobs heightened.
I was slow to respond, even slower to react. I should have been out of the corporate office and in my car by now.
“Don’t move. I’ll be there.”
“Cops are here. Kenzo just got here. They’re searching the vicinity for her.”
I hung up the phone and turned to the door, putting my body into action.
“What happened? Mary’s missing?” Brad said, the fear in his eyes evident.
“Yeah.” I pointed to Mason. “You get in contact with that PI and find out all we need to know about Paul. Tell him we need the info in the next hour. It doesn’t matter how much it costs to speed it up.”
“I’m going with you,” Brad said before I could give him a directive. “You don’t need the PI because I will personally find this guy and fuck him up if he has her.”
I couldn’t even let my mind go there.
I’m coming, baby girl.
We were both out the door in no time.
“Let’s go together because I want to drive Becky’s car home.”
Her nerves had been shot earlier. And so were mine now. Where could she have possibly gone? Warning spasms erupted within me, and it felt as though a hand were wrapped around my throat, preventing any air from getting in my lungs.Did he have her?
I gritted my teeth. I didn’t want my thoughts to swerve in that direction because it wouldn’t do me any good now.
“Give me the keys,” Brad said as we both approached my car.
I threw him a look, at him wanting to drivemycar.
“Charles, you know me. I don’t do good sitting still, especially when some son of a bitch has my niece.”
“Don’t say that. We don’t know that right now.”But where else would she be?
A chill black silence surrounded us, but I didn’t have time to argue, so I threw the keys at him, and he caught them midair.
