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My heart cracks, and my stomach twists in knots because I don’t have answers for her. I’m going to do everything in my fucking power to make sure our daughter’s absence is short-lived. I guarantee that. She will have our baby back in her arms.
“My father put the house on lockdown. All the staff is here that we know of minus Rueben who was supposedly sent out by Bonnie to check the venue for the gala redo.” I cross the room and stand beside the bassinet, pulling up the pad and moving it from its normal spot.
I need to make sure we didn’t miss anything; a ransom note, something the bastard dropped when stealing her… anything.
Nothing.
“Do you think he has something to do with this?” Alistair asks.
“You know I’ve never trusted that man,” I snarl. “Did you pick up anything on your cameras?”
“Seems the perp knew it was there. The camera was pointed at an angle that kept the door out of frame. We have a shadow, but I can’t make out who it is,” Alistair tells me, and I see him squeeze Scarlett’s hand.
“Can you tell if it’s a man or woman?” I ask because if we have anything to go off of, it’ll be a start. We can weed out some of the staff then, cutting our interrogation time down a little.
“I’m confident that it was either a woman or a man with a small frame. The shadow is on a smaller scale, so it can’t be any of your men or your father. You're all built like fucking linebackers,” Scarlett rattles off like she’s a fucking criminal investigator.
Alistair and I both look at her, surprise written in our expression.
“What?” She glares at us when we don’t respond.
“I just didn’t take you for the FBI type. But I would agree with Cupcake.” Alistair pulls her closer and kisses her head.
“Show me.” I nod at the laptop.
Alistair turns the screen my way and hits play. Sure enough, a dark figure medium height and skinny is seen entering our room and a few seconds later exiting. I don’t see Luciana but whoever they are could have her tucked under their shirt to be hidden from view.
“I agree with you, Little Star. This will help rule some of the staff out. I’m having them gather downstairs for questioning. Thought you two would like to join me. Three minds are better than one. I also thought if someone doesn’t cooperate, then our wife could release some anger.”
“Even if you asked me to stay put, I’d tell you to fuck off. I want my daughter back, and I’m going to do whatever I can to help with that. Let’s go.” Scarlett stands and heads toward the door like a woman on a mission.
“I’m going to sound like a dick for saying this, but let’s be honest I’m a little fucked in the head, and we all know this. If it wasn’t for our baby being taken, I’d say this would be fun. We’ll have to let Cupcake hurt people after Lucy is back with us.” Alistair gets up from the chair and blows out a breath before following after our woman. If I wasn’t in the mindset of getting our daughter back, I’d slap him for that comment.
Time to see who decided to betray me.
CHAPTER 27
ALISTAIR
“This has gotten us nowhere!” I shout, picking up the nearest item I can find, a glass vase, and hurl it against the wall. It explodes, sending glass and flowers crashing to the ground.
“Enough!” Emerson barks. “This is not how we do things, Alistair. We keep a level head so we don’t make stupid choices.”
“Level head? Level fucking head!” I snarl, my chest heaving. “Our fucking daughter has been gone for most of the day!”
“We’ll find her.” Emerson’s face softens a little. He can see this isn’t normally how I am. I’m the calm, cool one. I think through everything before making a move if I have the time to do so. But right now, I’m fueled by fear. I’ve never been so afraid in my life. It’s worse than when Scarlett was attacked at the gala because at least I could see with my own eyes that she was safe, and with my own hands she had no injuries.
My daughter is gone and I don’t know who took her. Are they taking good care of her? If she’s crying, are they holding her? What if she’s hungry, are they just going to let her starve?
“Hey.” Scarlett’s soft voice snaps me out of my thoughts. “Look at me.” I turn, finding my strong amazing woman staring up at me. “We are going to find her. We are going to make whoever dared to fuck with us and our family pay.”
“You’re so fucking amazing, you know that right? So strong.” I grab her face with my hand and press a hard kiss to her lips. It’s quick but gives me the strength I need. “You're right. We will find her.”
We spend the next hour interviewing everyone with no luck.
“Mr. Rossi?” says a voice from behind us.
We turn around to see one of the cleaning ladies.
