Missing Mrs. Lowry: The Billionaire’s Wakeup Call

Chapter 7

Megan grasped the car door then slowly let it go.

The atmosphere inside the car was stilling.

Sullivan had just returned from a business trip and had made a detour to the Lowry Mansion. He was visibly tired. With one hand on the steering wheel and the other rubbing his forehead, he spoke with impatience, “How much longer am you going to keep this up?”

By now, he merely thought it all was a tantrum

Megan feli a chill in her heart. Sitting up straight, she stared ahead and after a long pause, spoke softly, “Sullivan, I’m serious! I don’t want to be with you anymom

Sullivan tumed sharply to look at her. He was a handsome man, with well–defined features that Megan had once been quite infatuated with. But now, she felt nothing, not in the slightest

His eyes locked onto hers as he unbuckled his seat belt, “Get out!”

With a faint sound, the locks disengaged.

Megan stepped out immediately, walking briskly toward the villa’s entrance.

In the dim light, her back was as straight and resolute as her decision to divorce.

Sullivan lit a cigarette before getting out of the car and following her upstairs.

Their argument had ended on a sour note.

in the quest room, while Sullivan, too proud to cajole her, changed into his pajamas and lay down. But when going to

he was, Megan liked to sleep

the early moming, sunlight shone

and shielded his eyes, awakening in the process.

faint noises could be

them as the sounds of the housekeeper setting up the dining room, something Megan and the servants usually did together, including preparing his

slightly better, Sullivan got out of bed and strolled into the dressing room

Then he froze.

suitcase was

confirming that several of her fréquently worn

few seconds of silent contemplation, he closed her wardrobe and chose a business suit as usual, got dressed,

watch while heading downstairs. He casually asked the

housekeeper spoke cautiously. “Madam left early in the morning with her suitcase, Sir. She didn’t

“She’s gone!”

sat down to eat his usual breakfast of black

was captured by the

them for a moment, Sullivan asked the nearby housekeeper in

have breakfast, Sir. She just left the housekeeper answered

picked up his phone to

exchange, he was about to hang up.

very calm, “Also, find out where

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