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“I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
Despite not wanting to, I let him go. I could see it in his eyes, he was genuinely confused.
“You need to calm the fuck down! Stop seeing me like I’m the fucking bad guy, Adrian! We’re on the same side!”
“Paige is gone.”
Three words.
Three fucking words were all it took for my brother to show fear.
“How do you know she’s not at the gym or something?”
“She wouldn’t have left me.” Not beating around the bush, I questioned, “Have you talked to your wife?”
Through a conflicted, tormented expressed, Cade confirmed, “No.”
“Fuck!” I seethed, grabbing onto the lamp on the nightstand before I chuckled it across the room.
Glass shattered to the floor, piling at our feet.
“I know how this looks, Adrian…”
“If you did, you wouldn’t have the balls to just stand there, Cade.”
“Stop threatening me,” he ordered, looking around the room as if it held all the answers. “I don’t know where my wife or Paige is, okay? But what I do know is that wherever they are, they’re probably together. Alright?”
I listened intently. He was right.
“Hayley’s a victim in this.” He stepped into my face, standing tall. “I don’t know what the fuck is happening right now or how we got pulled into this nightmare. All I know is that we need to find them. Right the fuck now. This obviously goes deeper than what we could have imagined. We need to work together to get them back.”
There was something about my little brother going to bat for his wife I couldn’t overlook. Cade was smart. He wouldn’t be married to a psychopath without even knowing it.
“Then start talking. Because I can’t find anyone from Paige’s past that could be responsible, so who has your wife fucked over?”
He shrugged, shaking his head at me. “I honestly don’t know. I’ve been awake all night trying to get her to answer her fucking phone. Racking my brain over what is going on. I’m at a loss. You’ve been around Hayley. What enemies could she possibly have?”
Feeling completely out of control, I left him there. I needed a minute to think clearly. I was running on nothing but emotion and that was never a good thing. I didn’t recognize this man I’d become. All I knew was if something happened to Paige…
I shoved away the mere thought of it from my mind as Cade walked into the living room.
“Do your guards know she’s missing?”
“No.”
“Don’t you think that would be a good place to start?”
“No.”
“Okay, Adrian… I need you to actually answer my questions.”
“I am. If my guards were loyal, she wouldn’t be missing, Cade.”
He jerked back in understanding.
“Yeah, I have to come to terms with the fact I trusted someone I shouldn’t have with her life. I’ll deal with that shit later. Right now, we need to find her.” I hesitated for a second. “Because I can’t live without her anymore.”
“Holy shit…” he breathed out, shaking his head in disbelief. “You’re in love with her.”
