#Chapter 330 – Missing

Sinclair

“Where is she,” Roger growls, pacing through our living room as Ella sit on the couch feeding

Rafe, watching him anxiously. “I’ve been everywhere looking for her – at the clinic, at her

apartment –”

“You must have just missed her, Roger,” Ella says, as worried as he us but wanting to calm him

down. “She calls me every morning and night to fill me in. It sounds like she’s just super busy at

the clinic it got very overwhelmed when she disappeared with us for a few days.”

“He’s keeping her there,” Roger murmurs suspiciously, his anxiety really doing a number on him.

“She broke up with him, and he pretended to accept it, but he’s keeping her trapped in the clinic

so she’ll agree to give him another shot –”

“You know she’s not doing that, Roger,” I say, leaning against the fireplace mantle and taking a

deep breath. Honestly, I don’t want to be in here handling my brother’s paranoia, but Ella sent me

a little shout down the bond letting me know that she needed some help. He’s been worked up for

days, of course, but really seems to be going off the deep end now. Not that I wouldn’t be too,

honestly, if I was freshly mated to Ella and then she disappeared for five days.

“How do you know,” Roger snaps at me, his eyes flashing with rage.

“Because,” I reply, my wolf responding to the challenge in his voice by raising his hackles. “I

know Cora. She wouldn’t do that. You have to trust her.” I stand up straight, my body language

communicating to Roger that I can take him, and if he needs someone to pin him to the floor, that

I’ll do it. After all, my mate and my infant child are in this room. If he flips out… their safety is my

priority. Not his.

“He’s right, Roger,” Ella says, trying to keep her voice even. “Honestly, she sounds fine, she’s just

really busy. She told me to… tell you she loves you.”

“But why won’t she pick up my calls?” Roger snaps, spinning on her, “why, when I go to the clinic

to see her, is she conveniently not there? Why is she never in her apartment when she says she

is!?”

interposing

and

looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear in the driveway. “I’m not going to hurt anyone.”

leaning back against the mantle.

sighs, nodding to the baby,

him down

her, watching her carry our little boy out of the room,

gone, I turn my attention back to my brother.

need you to come back, Roger,” I say, my voice

into the windowsill and not turning

when she hasn’t talked to me for days. And I don’t even

wrong.”

long pause, considering. “Did

Rodger spits, spinning on

and meeting his furious eyes. “Did you

her question

shouts. “I didn’t do

a little shrug. “If you didn’t do anything, then

her. And your only choice is to keep reaching out, and wait

can do now

away from me again, desperate.

the truth,” I reply, sighing. “Because my answer wasn’t ‘go rip

over your shoulder so you can more easily

and angry. “Obviously that’s

where she was.”

him, putting a hand on his shoulder

don’t move away – I’m bigger than he is, anyway. I can take what he throws

Roger,” I say quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end, if you approach this with faith

And in the

cult problem,” he sighs, closing his

into my advice

a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm around his shoulder and giving him a

“and when you finish it, your reward

Isn’t that a

he sighs, shaking his head and covering his eyes with his hand. “But

I’m out

through my teeth. Because there’s

he’s like this. He’ll

So I turn him, my arm

to sort through the

wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that

team together to better speculate about

front door to

the

the possibilities and my muscles bunch as I sprint to get in

the office door together so that I can

just in case it’s a

team forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over

never, ever come through the first door

that they barely have

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