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“Sure. I’ll be there as soon as I can.”
My heart is in my throat as I close the door to our suite. What if she comes back and I’m not here? I shake my head and walk to the elevator. I’m going to speak to the desk clerk again while I wait for Paul. Someone must have seen her leaving here today. Maybe Erin even saw something? It’s a long shot but I am already clutching at straws here.
A few moments later, I stand outside Erin’s room and wait for her to open the door. I doubt she will have any useful information but then right now I don’t know what’s useful.
The door opens a few seconds later. “Shane?” She looks at me in surprise as she fastens her earring. “I was just getting ready for dinner. Come on in.”
I follow her inside and close the door.
“You fancy a drink?” she asks with a smile.
“No,” I shake my head. “Have you see Jessie today?”
“No. I’ve been working all day. Should I have?”
“No, but she’s gone missing,” I say the words and even though I know they’re true, they don’t seem real.
Erin stares at me and I swear I see a smirk flicker over her lips.
“Did you just fucking grin at me?” I snarl.
She sighs dramatically. “Oh come on, Shane, it’s not like she hasn’t walked out on you before.”
I cross the room to her in one stride. I have never laid a finger on this woman in anger. Not even when I found out she had been lying to me for years. Not even when she accused my brothers of ruining our engagement. I grab her throat and she blinks up at me in shock as I push her back against the wall.
“She did not walk out,” I hiss as I squeeze her throat harder. “Somebody fucking took her.”
“Shane! You’re hurting me,” she whimpers.
“Hurting you?” I narrow my eyes at her. “You’re lucky I don’t snap your fucking neck. I know you don’t like her, but she is fucking everything to me. Everything! And you fucking smile when I tell you she’s missing.” I release her from my grip, afraid that I might go too far if I don’t let her go now.
Erin rubs at her throat and gasps for breath but I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for her. She has made her dislike for Jessie clear from the outset.
“I’m sorry,” she mumbles.
“Have you seen anything suspicious at all?”.
“No,” she says with a shake of her head.
I glare at her and then I walk out of her room, but she shouts to me before I reach the door. “Everything? Really?” she sniffs.
I turn on my heel and look at her. “And then some.”
Chapter 20
Conor
Iclose the safe in Shane’s office and walk down the hallway to my brothers’ room to find them frantically packing. As soon as we got off the call with Shane, I started to look for flights while they made arrangements for the club and the businesses for the next few days. It was good we all had something practical to focus on because it prevented us from spinning out worrying about what the hell has happened to Jessie. Walking inside Liam and Mikey’s bedroom, I toss their passports onto the bed.
“Alejandro’s plane is at LAX and it will take at least six hours to get here and refuel.”
Liam frowns at me. “That’s too long.”
“I know, so I got us on a flight that leaves in two hours. Better get your asses moving. The car will be downstairs in fifteen.”
“Thanks,” they reply in unison. I turn to go to my own room and throw a few things in a bag when Mikey’s voice stops me.
“We’ll find her, won’t we, Con?”
