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“Good. I want to hear from you as soon as Brian calls you,” I stated firmly.
There was no discussion that needed to take place. I wasn’t going to relinquish control over my life, not even for MaKayla.
I got into the car and started the engine. He didn’t move until I had driven through the gate and was out of sight. If he was wise, he wouldn’t call Damien about this. But if he did, my phone would be ringing off the hook.
When I got to the cottage and my phone still hadn’t rung, I knew Draven hadn’t said a word. Not sure if it was anything I had said, but I wasn’t in the mood for a lecture again. I knew it was all out of love, but no matter what they thought I’d been through, it was a hell of a lot worse. Everything had been ripped from me and the only thing I did was to choose not to just survive but thrive.
There was a price for that. And sitting alone in the cabin now reminded me of that.I’m alone. Even if I had someone here, I’d still feel alone.
It’s the way it was going to be from now on. MaKayla had her new life to live, and I needed to start my next chapter. Just not sure what that was going to look like.
I really could use an ally here in Tabiq. One that isn’t family.One like Declan.
CHAPTER4
Declan
“I can’t tell you what is going on. It’s nothing I’ve come across before. You’re right. Venus Prada has gone to great lengths to vanish off the planet. Not even a flight out of the county,” Tim Jones said as I sat across from him in his office.
“So, you agree she’s in trouble?” I said, a new level of concern filling me.
“Didn’t say that. It means that someone helped her. Even now as I search her name, the only thing that comes up is Halifax.”
“Are you giving up? Saying that you can’t find her?” I wasn’t so impressed if that was the case. Rian made him sound much more efficient than this.
“Decided to go a different route. Her daughter. And I found something very interesting. She got married two days ago.”
“Married?” I hadn’t expected that. I mean she’s twenty-five, so it’s not like a child bride, but still, seemed so young. “Who is the lucky guy?”
“Damien Blaze,” he replied.
“Sounds like an actor or something. Please tell me the guy has his shit together,” I demanded.
“Oh, he does. He is well known in the investigating realm.”
“A PI like yourself?” I questioned.
“No. He specializes in finding missing people. Abducted people to be more specific. And he is very good at it. How he met MaKayla is still unknown.”
I had a feeling it wasn’t by accident. “Is he from Halifax?”
“New York.”
Not someplace I could picture Venus going to. I remember her telling me that if she could, she’d live on the ocean. New York was the opposite. Busy as fuck all the time. I also couldn’t see her allowing MaKayla to go there on her own.
“What are you planning on doing now to find her?” I asked.
“I think at this point, I need to call Damien.”
“Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of us trying to find Venus without her knowledge?” I asked.
“As I said, someone is blocking her whereabouts. Damien wouldn’t have celebrated a wedding if his mother-in-law was MIA. He knows where she is. And if I’m correct, he’s figured out someone is looking for her. It’s only a matter of time before he knocks on my door. I might as well beat him to it,” Jones stated.
Made sense. “Do you have any photos of their wedding?”
He turned his laptop around and said, “There are just a few, but no information as to where it was held.”
It’s not as though I had traveled back to Tabiq since the night that I’d picked up Venus and her daughter, but there was a unique lighthouse that I wouldn’t ever forget. It was in the background of where MaKayla and Damien stood with the ocean scene behind them.What the fuck are they doing there?“Tabiq.”
