Chapter 233

James jumps into the SUV at the last second and then I tear down the mountain at breakneck speeds.

I’m in this huge rush to get home-back to the Rathborn mansion-but I don’t even know what I’m going to do when I get there.

I don’t have the first clue about finding a missing child, especially my own child whom I didn’t even know was even alive until less than an hour ago.

I feel like I’ve been strung on a live wire.

Like my whole body is being electrified and I need to do something.

Anything.

I’ve never felt this kind of panicked desperation before and the worst thing is I have absolutely no clue how to find my son.

“For the record,” James finally says as we’re turning into the gates of the mansion. “I didn’t know either. I guessed a while back, and maybe I should have said something to you. But I wasn’t sure, and it would’ve been worse to get your hopes up if it hadn’t been true that Ethan was still alive.”

“Do you agree with what he did?” I ask in a bitterly vicious voice.

“Honestly? I don’t know,” James replies with a shrug “Yes, keeping the truth from you was the absolute worst thing he could have done. Would I have done the same thing if I was in his place? Maybe Do I get it? Part of me kind of does.”

of get why he did it as well. But I’m still

quick laugh as we

me inside, all the

out what to do,” I tell James as I start pacing. “It’s like I’m so excited that Ethan is alive and desperate to meet him, even as I’m absolutely terrified that

me from pacing and grounding me

think the worst, not now. It doesn’t help anything. Let’s go over what we know and

thought Tobin might have been behind it,” I replied. “So that’s where we should start.

to the desk and grab a

all the possible

chambers, and that bar where he asked me to

from likely to least likely, even though I’m not sure what Tobin might have been thinking when

I might think is crazy could have seemed totally

obvious a place to take Ethan, except then I realize putting a baby with a family is the easiest way to

him

I tell James after we’ve been at it for an hour.

calmly. “We can search all these places if need be, but we will find him, Leah, one

had half as much confidence as James, but I can’t shake the almost crippling worry about what’s happening to my son right now in the hands of people who want to hurt

once again,

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