Revenge After Divorce by Black Rose

Chapter 246

My knees buckled under me, the shock of what I was seeing hitting me like a physical blow. “No,” I whispered, the word barely escaping my lips. “What happened, Ethan? Where is she?”

He didn’t speak immediately. His gaze dropped to the floor, as though he couldn’t bear to meet my eyes. When he did speak, his voice was low, almost broken. “Xander… Xander has her,” he said, and the words cut through me like a knife.

I felt the world tilt beneath me, the floor shifting under my feet. Olivia, my Olivia, was in Xander’s hands. The man I had always known to be a predator was now holding her, and I couldn’t protect her from him.

I felt the weight of my failure like a crushing force. I had promised to keep her safe, and now she was somewhere, alone with him, God only knew what he was doing. My mind raced, but there was no solution, no quick fix. All I ́ had was the overwhelming sense of helplessness.

in the silence that followed, all I could think was that

thought of facing them, knowing I couldn’t give them any good news, made my stomach churn. How could I explain that Olivia was missing, possibly

felt like an eternity, I found myself looking up, though I wasn’t actually staring at the heavens. I was staring at the ceiling of the hotel room, but it felt like I was reaching for something beyond the sterile white walls and flickering lights. In my heart, I was praying. I

horrifying than the last. Every second that passed felt like a lifetime, and yet, I had no control over the situation. I didn’t even

went after the monster who had taken their mother. We needed a nanny, someone

to hit the streets, kick down doors,

they could handle. But I had no choice. We had to move fast, and we

to steady myself. I had to be strong for them. For