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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.

the news on TV in hopes of hearing something about

called me back about fifteen minutes later. “I’ve booked us tickets for the earliest flight. It departs at

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

questions in the back of my head, but they all

an emergency landing at the airport, but I think they’ll be fine,” he said after a

see you

phone, 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

 suppose a smaller house would‘ve been better...

packed my stuff and left the house as

with the tickets in hand by the time I

the time as most of the people there were in

at his watch when he saw me and said, “We’ve got

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

raised an eyebrow at me. “I could

kept quiet, simply

was soon our turn. I handed my flight ticket and ID card

urged the officer, “Yes, that’s right. Could you please hurry it

we’ll need you to cooperate with the

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