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“Do you know where Ms. Anderson is?” I didn’t trust Rebecca, so I had to confirm it with someone else.

“She was sending Rebecca to K City with Zachary. Oh, I think your husband went with them as well.” Nick was probably staying up late as he didn’t sound tired at all. I could even hear the faint clacking of his keyboard in the background.

“Have they checked in with you from K City?” I asked with a frown.

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“No, why would they? I’m a nobody!” He raised his voice a little.

“I meant your mother, Cameron. Did she text you saying that they’ve all landed safely in K City?” I didn’t know a lot of people in this circle, so Nick was the only person I could ask.

I heard a loud smack when he slammed his fist on his keyboard. “She has never talked to me about anything for over twenty years now. There’s no way she’d tell me about minor stuff like these! Anyway, why are you calling me this late at night? Is there something you wanted to ask me?”

“I’ve received word that the plane they took was involved in an accident. Could you please help me look into it?” He was the only person I could count on to find out more about what happened.

“Okay, I’ll go check!” he said after a brief pause and hung up the phone, leaving me to wait for his reply.

Feeling empty without Ashton around, I went downstairs and switched on all the lights in the villa.

in hopes of hearing

tickets for the earliest flight. It departs

that. “Yes!” My voice was

of questions in the back of my head,

made an emergency landing at the airport, but I

I’ll see

couldn’t go back to sleep after hanging up the phone, so I sat in the living room with my arms wrapped around my

 house would‘ve been better...

packed my stuff and left the house as

the airport with the tickets

as most of the people there were

me and said, “We’ve got half an hour left. I

any sleep at all, did you?” I asked when I saw how pale

me. “I could ask you

kept quiet, simply

my flight ticket and ID card over to the security officer, who gave me a strange look after seeing my

his end and urged the officer, “Yes, that’s right. Could you please hurry it up? We’re in a

need you to cooperate with the investigation,” the security

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