Chapter 67

Dante’s POV.

“Mr. Crawford.” I grumbled at being called and turned my face away from the direction the voice had been coming from but groaned when I felt a pain in my n*eck.

“M- Mr Crawford.” Again that voice had called me and I muttered some thing that I even I couldn’t care to make out

Again, the voice said my name but this time it had been accompanied by a shake of my shoulder that was impatient and none too gentle.

I jerked awake and instantly got hit right in the eyes by the damn sun striking me through the open curtains. Cupping my n*eck with my palm, I sat up straight and tried to make sense of where the hell I had been.

I couldn’t recall how and when I had fallen asleep on the couch in the living but some point between trying to figure out this mess, I might have dozed off.

“Good morning, Mr Crawford. I brought you some coffee.” Nancy said politely but I had felt like she had addressed me formally far too many times in the span of a minute.

Nancy rested the small tray that held a coffee mug and a few sugar cookies on to the table in front of me before straightening her posture and turning to leave.

“Thank you, Nancy, you really didn’t have to.” I grumbled but she smiled and left the room.

I turned my head from side to side trying to case the tension in my n*eck before reaching for the coffee and taking a sip of the hot, black liquid. It was good and just what I needed since some thing alcoholic would be questionable at this part of the morning.

As I reached for a cookie, I wondered what Sophia would say to me eating in her living room but the thought of Sophia had me drop the cookie back on to the saucer.

F***. I needed to get going.

I walked with the coffee mug over to the kitchen and tried to drink as much of it as possible. Hayley had been waiting patiently for breakfast as Nancy prepared it for her trying to speak to her as if nothing were amiss when we both knew otherwise.

“Has mama left you. kitchen.

message of when she’ll be home?” She asked Nancy just as I entered the

I saw Nancy freeze over the toast she had been buterring. “No, but I’m sure we’ll hear from her soon. Hayley sighed in frustration but when she saw me her eyes lit up in the way they always did.

“Did you speak to mama? Is she coming home soon?” Her round eyes looked up at me with so much of hope that my response would defer from Nancy’s.

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Dreame

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Chapter 67

single k*ss on her head. “She left me a message.” I said vaguely hoping

see her thinking.

will be back before you know it.” I ruffled her hair and she squealed moving her head away from

you later, little one. If you need any thing just tell Nancy to give me a call.” I looked at Nancy

felt like I had to before she began. asking me a sequence of questions that I did not have any of

on while I waited to hear back from Frederick. It was nearly noon by the time I

trying to find me some thing but to no avail. With each passing second I was beginning to lose my mind. I despised being so helpless. It felt nearly blinding that I had not a clue or

in hopes of finding some clue that would give any ideas

be a message from Frederick but as I fished out my phone and brought the screen to life, I was surprised to see a text message from a number that I had not seen let alone

a fraction of a second, I considered not even watching it since I had more pressing things at present

saw nearly had me wanting to rip every one in

shreds.

down Sophia suspended with metal bondage0

for mercy, she looked terrified but I couldn’t understand of what until I saw it. A blade had been pressed to her skin right before it dragged across illiciting a shrieking scream of pain from Sophia but the bastard didn’t

with this fucked myself. I was ready to end them with my

it took if it meant that it would lead me to Demetri

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I would take revenge for every scar on

Pheobe was a lunatic for even orchestrating such an act but she knew well how to take things too far. And she

video had come to an end and my phone began to ring immediately after. I stared at the the number that had been different to the one that had sent me a text before placing it to my

the time. You either show up

as did Demetri especially with a child on the way. Her father’s recent bad hand at the gambling scene had seen him lose even the little that he had to sustain his family, Pheobe’s grand masterplan to marry then

feit to make the arrangements for the money, in fact, it could be done in the next half an hour.

to life before I sped off back to the house. There were a few necessary calls I needed to make. One to arrange for the money

own. It was going to be a treat which was well over due. It was exactly what I should have done the first time when I had learnt the truth about those two.

was a half an hour before 5 pm and I had just one more call to make and that was to Nancy. I needed her to stay with Hayley until I got back. It was a

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