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CHAPTERTWENTY-SIX
ALEXEI
Iwoke up, once again, to an empty bed.
The sheets were cold beside me meaning she’d been gone a while. I got up and padded over to my laptop and brought up the security cameras, rewinding to see when she’d left.
“7:45 again? Where do you go so early?”
I could see she was doing her best to be quiet and not wake me up.
“Why though?” I asked no one, biting my lip as I watched her leave on the screen.
Nora was behaving weirdly. She’d left every morning without a word about where she was going. When I asked her about it, she evaded me, giving me vague answers about errands.
I wasn’t so pussy-whipped as to accept her answers without question. True, I liked having her around, and the sex was out of this world. But I didn’t know enough about her to trust her implicitly.
Yesterday, I lojacked her phone after she’d fallen asleep.
I had my breakfast in a leisurely manner, going through my day. I had collections at three a.m., but aside from that, I was free. It would have been nice to spend that time with Nora, just getting to know her.
I tried calling her, and she didn’t pick up. I tried again, and again, just in case she was away from her phone or somewhere loud. She still ignored me. She was leaving me no choice.
She forced me to track her like a goddamned stalker. It was upsetting, I won’t lie. Chasing after a girl was not on my bingo card for this or any year. Frankly, it made me feel a bit sordid, pathetic. The only thing that consoled me was that my suspicions were purely professional. Whatever games she was playing, I needed to get to the bottom of it lest they come back to bite me in the ass.
I activated the GPS and located her. To my surprise, she was at St. Mark’s hospital in downtown New York.
Lucky for me, it was a hospital where I sat on the board.
“What the fuck is she doing there?” I frowned.
She’d been fine when she left in the morning—at least, she had looked healthy on the screen. What could have happened to her between now and then?
Maybe she went in for chemo. That would explain why she’s not answering the phone and why she leaves at the same time every day.
My heart sank. I didn’t want that to be the answer. Getting in the shower, I cleaned myself as fast as possible before dressing up and leaving the house. I checked the GPS and saw she was still in the hospital. Taking the fastest route, I made my way there.
“Excuse me?” I leaned in to catch the receptionist’s eye.
She looked up with bright eyes. “Yes, sir? Can I help you?”
“I’m looking for someone. Nora Walsh? She might be a patient here.”
Her brow furrowed. “Nora Walsh? Let me check.” She began to hit some keys on her computer, peering shortsighted at the screen. Finally she looked up, shaking her head. “I don’t have a Nora Walsh in the system.”
It was my turn to frown. I nodded, thanking her, and then moved away so I could check on the GPS. It said that Nora was still in the hospital somewhere albeit not stationary.
“Janice darling, how are you?”
The voice sounded familiar, and I glanced towards the reception to see who it was. To my surprise, I saw that it was Nora’s stalker from the club, and he was dressed in a doctor’s coat. I stared in disbelief. He was busy flirting with the receptionist and didn’t notice me.
I followed him as he walked away, and happily, he turned down an empty corridor. I hurried up and caught up to him, closing my fingers around his throat and pulling him back so he almost fell on his back. I steadied him as I choked him, spinning him around to face me.
“Hello again.”
He stared at me, eyes boggling. He opened his mouth and tried to shout. I squeezed his throat harder.
“I’m going to ask you one question, and you’re going to answer. If you do not answer, I will press down against your hyoid. You’re a doctor, right? You know what that’ll do to you.”
