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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.

hearing something about the accident, but there

“I’ve booked us tickets for the earliest

hearing that. “Yes!” My voice was weak, and I

a ton of questions in the back of my head, but they

when the plane made an emergency landing at the airport, but I think they’ll be fine,”

see

so I sat in the living room with my arms wrapped around my knees. The next four hours felt like hell as I sat there in the huge and empty villa, waiting

 house

packed my stuff and left the house as quickly

the tickets in hand by the time I got

at the time as most of the people

“We’ve got

at all, did you?”

at me. “I could

kept quiet, simply

long, and it was soon our turn. I handed my flight ticket and ID card over to the security officer, who

saw that Nick had already cleared security on his end and urged the officer, “Yes, that’s right. Could you please hurry it

but we’ll need you to cooperate

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