Chapter 66

Dante’s POV.

Some thing was terribly, horribly wrong.

I had known this from the minute that meeting had come to an end. Sophia was not the easiest of woman to persuade and after all the progress that I had thought we’d made over the week away, I really hoped the two of us could move forward and explore us but many many things had the way of that cancelling out efforts and sending me to the pits again starting back right where I had been.

gotten in

Between Pheobe trying to put out glass news to the tabloids and the verdict passed by the meeting, I knew that Sophia was furious with me and, as always, she would not wait back for me to explain things to her.

Once the meeting had come to a conclusion, I rushed after her trying to dodge the other colleagues that tried to greet me. Nothing mattered to me more than getting to Sophia and clearing out the air before she made this even more bigger of a deal than it was in actuality.

I had made it to out of the board room and there had been no sign of her. Naturally, I assumed that she had headed to her office and I rushed over only go find her office empty and her assistant looking rather confused at my presence in an empty office.

After asking around, a red head mentioned seeing her leaving the building on their way up and I immediately rushed down to the loby and stormed out of the revolving doors which I hated. I made it to her car but found it odd that she had chosen to walk to where ever she decided to go to.

I walked all the way to the cafe down the road where I knew Adam and her frequented but there was no trace of her there either. Running out of placed to find her, I called her office again to ask the ever eager Lucy if Sophia had returned to which she informed me that Sophia had left for the day because her bag had been taken.

Defeated, I walked back to the parking lot with the intention of driving to her house but some thing didn’t bloody add up. How the fuck could she have headed back home when her car was still very much where I had last seen it parked in the spot that had been reserved for her vehicle.

I fished out my phone from my blazer pocket to call her up but then let it be knowing that she was never going to answer in her state of mind. She never ever took my calls when she was furious with

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Where the hell could she have been?!

I gave up and a stormed over to my car. My anger bubble beneath the surface and I itched to

pound my fist in to some thing just to let out my frustration. I headed home with the intention of fixing myself a strong drink then taking an icy cold shower to relieve myself from being in her presence for more than five minutes without being able to touch her.

At some point between trying to cool down my own temper and pouring drink after drink, I had

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to be outright drunk and I could hold my alcohol pretty impressively and I also knew not to

able to help myself and reached for my phone. With out letting any of my own thoughts talk me out of it, I dialled Sophia’s number and waited for it to ring. When it did no such thing and went to voice mail instead, I began to get a horrible

it might just be a network issue when my phone rang in the palm of my hand. I stared at the unfamiliar number

Crawford?” The feminine voice spoke

I said with a crease forming between

have heard from Miss Sophia? She hasn’t returned home yet and she is never late.” Nancy sounded worried and

be angry at me but she would never ever be so careless

going but I can’t leave unless Hayley is with another trusted adult.” She explained. responsibly

for letting me know about this. Please stay with Hayley until I get there.” I hung up then rushed out of the study and the house entirely before I made it to the car.

I tried

stick to the speed limit and be a safe driver but fuck it, I needed to get to Hayley and make sense of what was going on and figure out where Sophia was at this time

paved drive way to Sophia’s inherited home, I noticed that her car was still not home and she hadn’t magically appeared as I had hoped she would by the time I had gotten here. I didn’t want to accept that some thing had happened to her just yet but it was really

door which I was pleased to see had been locked before I had gotten here. Hayley had been curled up on

her head slowly

heard me approach the living room, she immediately ran over to

the big hand on the clock hits 12 and

I would have to calm her down and

her feet as well all ready to leave for the night. “Thank you

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for staying longer and informing me about this. I apologize for the inconvenience, nancy.” She nodded

by herself because it falls out of my working hours.” She said gently before leaving. I felt like she wanted to tell me more but she held back because

and I reached down

that her mother didn’t come home. I was petrified myself and held of thinking about

first. It was important that she was calm and settled before I even made any further phone calls. I rubbed her back as she tightly wrapped her arms around my n*eck.

mama?” Hayley asked me the question that I wished to

never ever do such a thing especially if it meant being careless to Hayley. In the times that I had observed her with Hayley, one thing was evident and that was that Sophia put

back home soon.” I kept my voice low

leaked her fake news. Sophia just goes missing less than twenty four hours later. What made it even more freaky was that her car

She asked the dreadful question once again and I had to think of some white

lie.

after all

are friend and I’m sure she’ll be back before we know it.” Her head

here? He always comes her when they

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