SWNOVELS Chapter 66
Chapter 66
Dante's POV.
Some thing was terribly, horribly wrong.
I had known this from the minute that meeting had come to an end. Sophia was
not the easiest of woman to persuade and after all the progress that I had
thought we'd made over the week away, I really hoped the two of us could move
forward and explore us but many many things had the way of that cancelling out
efforts and sending me to the pits again starting back right where I had been.
gotten in
Between Pheobe trying to put out glass news to the tabloids and the verdict
passed by the meeting, I knew that Sophia was furious with me and, as always,
she would not wait back for me to explain things to her.
Once the meeting had come to a conclusion, I rushed after her trying to dodge
the other colleagues that tried to greet me. Nothing mattered to me more than
getting to Sophia and clearing out the air before she made this even more bigger
of a deal than it was in actuality.
I had made it to out of the board room and there had been no sign of her.
Naturally, I assumed that she had headed to her office and I rushed over only go
find her office empty and her assistant looking rather confused at my presence in
an empty office.
After asking around, a red head mentioned seeing her leaving the building on
their way up and I immediately rushed down to the loby and stormed out of the
revolving doors which I hated. I made it to her car but found it odd that she had
chosen to walk to where ever she decided to go to.
I walked all the way to the cafe down the road where I knew Adam and her
frequented but there was no trace of her there either. Running out of placed to
find her, I called her office again to ask the ever eager Lucy if Sophia had
returned to which she informed me that Sophia had left for the day because her
bag had been taken.
Defeated, I walked back to the parking lot with the intention of driving to her
house but some thing didn’t bloody add up. How the fuck could she have headed
back home when her car was still very much where I had last seen it parked in
the spot that had been reserved for her vehicle.
I fished out my phone from my blazer pocket to call her up but then let it be
knowing that she was never going to answer in her state of mind. She never ever
took my calls when she was furious with
1. me.
Where the hell could she have been?!
I gave up and a stormed over to my car. My anger bubble beneath the surface
and I itched to
pound my fist in to some thing just to let out my frustration. I headed home with
the intention of fixing myself a strong drink then taking an icy cold shower to
relieve myself from being in her presence for more than five minutes without
being able to touch her.
At some point between trying to cool down my own temper and pouring drink
after drink, I had
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given it a rest and dropped my cup on the cabinet. I was never one to be outright
drunk and I could hold my alcohol pretty impressively and I also knew not to drink
excessively.
I groaned not being able to help myself and reached for my phone. With out
letting any of my own thoughts talk me out of it, I dialled Sophia’s number and
waited for it to ring. When it did no such thing and went to voice mail instead, I
began to get a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach.
I was on the verge of trying again assuming it might just be a network issue when
my phone rang in the palm of my hand. I stared at the unfamiliar number before
answering the incoming call.
“Hello? Is this Mr Crawford?” The feminine voice spoke from the other end.
“Yes. Speaking.” I said with a crease forming between my brows.
“This is Nancy, your daughter's nanny. She introduced herself before going on. “I
would like to know if you have heard from Miss Sophia? She hasn't returned
home yet and she is never late.” Nancy sounded worried and I could hear Hayley
in the back ground mumbling some thing but she sounded scared.
Sophia hadn't returned back home yet. This did not sound good. She may be
angry at me but she would never ever be so careless towards Hayley.
“I need to get going but I can't leave unless Hayley is with another trusted adult.”
She explained. responsibly holding more concern for Hayley than any thing else.
I immediately rose from my study and reached for my keys. “I'll be over in a few
minutes, Nancy. thank you for letting me know about this. Please stay with
Hayley until I get there.” I hung up then rushed out of the study and the house
entirely before I made it to the car.
I tried
my best to stick to the speed limit and be a safe driver but fuck it, I needed to get
to Hayley and make sense of what was going on and figure out where Sophia
was at this time of the night.
As I drove down the paved drive way to Sophia's inherited home, I noticed that
her car was still not home and she hadn't magically appeared as I had hoped she
would by the time I had gotten here. I didn’t want to accept that some thing had
happened to her just yet but it was really beginning to look like that.
Nancy had let me in through the front door which I was pleased to see had been
locked before I had gotten here. Hayley had been curled up on the couch looking
far too distraught than a child her age ought to have been.
Nancy petting her head slowly
ing to comfort her but when Hayley heard me approach the living room, she
immediately ran over to me.
“Mama isn't home yet. She didn’t come home today. She is always home when
the big hand on the clock hits 12 and the small hand points are 5.” Hayley’s voice
w
tensed and laden with fear and I knew that I would have to calm her down and
get her to bed first before I could do any thing else.
I looked to Nancy who had rose to her feet as well all ready to leave for the night.
“Thank you do
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much for staying longer and informing me about this. I apologize for the
inconvenience, nancy.” She nodded curtly at me but her eyes were just as
worried as his Hayley’s had been.
“It is no trouble at all, Mr Crawford, Hayley is like my own and I would never be
careless to leave her by herself because it falls out of my working hours.” She
said gently before leaving. I felt like she wanted to tell me more but she held back
because of Hayley,
After Nancy had left, Hayley clung to my legs and I reached down to pick her up.
She was
embling and scared at the fact that her mother didn’t come home. I was petrified
myself and held of thinking about all the things that could go wrong.
I had to focus on Hayley first. It was important that she was calm and settled
before I even made any further phone calls. I rubbed her back as she tightly
wrapped her arms around my n*eck.
“Where is mama?” Hayley asked me the question that I wished to God I had the
answer to
What was I even going to tell her? I could say that I didn’t know or that I'm going
to look for her because that would only cause further anxiety to her. Even though
my gur told me that something was definitely wrong because Sophia would never
ever do such a thing especially if it meant being careless to Hayley. In the times
that I had observed her with Hayley, one thing was evident and that was that
Sophia put Hayley above all else and as her highest priority. Nothing else
mattered to Sophia as much as Hayley did.
“It will be okay, Hayley. She'll be back home soon.” I kept my voice low as my
own thoughts raced through my mind.
It felt rather ironic that the very same day Pheobe leaked her fake news. Sophia
just goes missing less than twenty four hours later. What made it even more
freaky was that her car had still been parked in the work parking lot.
“But where is she?” She asked the dreadful question once again and I had to
think of some white
lie.
after all
I think she went over to Adam's. They are friend and I'm sure she'll be back
before we know it.” Her head lifted of my shoulder so that she could look at me
with reluctant eyes.
“Why didn’t Adam come over here? He always comes her when they want to
catch up.” She asked innocently recalling her observations.
“Err, because I wanted to spend some time with you this evening.” I said with a
broad smile and saw her begin to relax. “Have you eaten dinner yet?” I asked her
and she shook her head causing her soft hair to bob around.
“Would you like some pasta?” She immediately nodded with eagerness and I
carried her to the kitchen and set her on to the counter.
After a full hour, Hayley had been fed, showered and ready for bed but I stayed
with her until she was fully asleep before I headed out to the foyer to make a few
urgent calls.
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wrong.
I paced the length of the hallway not finding it with in me to even sit until I had
received some sort of feedback from Frederick. He would take long and asked
me for just ten minutes but it felt like the most longest ten minutes of my
existence.
When my phone buzzed again, I pressed the green button and moved away from
Hayley's bedroom door to not disturb her.
“Tell me you have found some thing solid, Fred.” I nearly begged once I put the
phone to my ear.
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doesn't look good at all.” F***. When
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shows her leaving the building and
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“He drugged her up and carried her a few rows back where a white van had been
waiting.” Dammit! This was worse than I thought I didn't think she would have
been kidnapped.
“Did you try and get any identification of the man?” I asked impatiently, my hands
running through my hair far too ughly as I pulled trying to ease the sudden
headache that unleashed upon me.
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Demetri was not operating alone. I was willing to wager all that I was worth that it
was Pheobe who had been behind all of this. If they so much as harmed a single
hair on Sophia, I would rain hell on both of them until they wished they had never
ever walked this earth.
“Try again to find out even the direction in which that van was headed.” I said to
Frederick before hanging up.
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