Chapter 329 – Missing

Sinclair

“Where is she,” Roger growls, pacing through our living room as Ella sit on the couch feeding

Rafe, watching him anxiously. “I’ve been everywhere looking for her – at the clinic, at her

apartment –”

“You must have just missed her, Roger,” Ella says, as worried as he us but wanting to calm him

down. “She calls me every morning and night to fill me in. It sounds like she’s just super busy at

the clinic it got very overwhelmed when she disappeared with us for a few days.”

“He’s keeping her there,” Roger murmurs suspiciously, his anxiety really doing a number on him.

“She broke up with him, and he pretended to accept it, but he’s keeping her trapped in the clinic

so she’ll agree to give him another shot –”

“You know she’s not doing that, Roger,I say, leaning against the fireplace mantle and taking a

deep breath. Honestly, I don’t want to be in here handling my brother’s paranoia, but Ella sent me

a little shout down the bond letting me know that she needed some help. He’s been worked up for

days, of course, but really seems to be going off the deep end now. Not that I wouldn’t be too,

honestly, if I was freshly mated to Ella and then she disappeared for five days.

“How do you know,Roger snaps at me, his eyes flashing with rage.

“Because,” I reply, my wolf responding to the challenge in his voice by raising his hackles. “I

know Cora. She wouldn’t do that. You have to trust her.” I stand up straight, my body language

communicating to Roger that I can take him, and if he needs someone to pin him to the floor, that

I’ll do it. After all, my mate and my infant child are in this room. If he flips out… their safety is my

priority. Not his.

“He’s right, Roger,” Ella says, trying to keep her voice even. “Honestly, she sounds fine, she’s just

really busy. She told me to… tell you she loves you.”

“But why won’t she pick up my calls?” Roger snaps, spinning on her, “why, when I go to the clinic

to see her, is she conveniently not there? Why is she never in her apartment when she says she

is!?”

interposing my

and

Roger growls, forcing himself to turn away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear in the

leaning back against

Ella sighs, nodding to the

get him down for

little boy out of the room, my heart surging with love

When they’re gone, I turn my attention

I say, my voice soft. “We need you

the windowsill and not turning towards me. “How can I

anything when she hasn’t talked to me for days. And I don’t even

wrong.”

I say after a long pause, considering. “Did

spits, spinning on

and meeting his furious eyes. “Did

her question

he shouts. “I didn’t do anything!”

there’s your answer,” I reply with a little

And your only choice is to keep reaching out,

literally nothing you can do

turning away from me again, desperate.

I reply, sighing. “Because my answer wasn’t ‘go rip the world

you find her, and then sling her over your shoulder so you

that’s what

where she was.”

laugh and move over to him, putting a hand on his shoulder that makes him

he is, anyway. I can take what he

I say quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end, if you approach this with faith

And in the meantime, let me

cult problem,”

into my advice a little bit.

of it as a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm around his shoulder

“and when you finish it, your reward is that my son

Isn’t that a

his head and covering his eyes with his hand. “But you

continues, “before I’m out there looking for her again.”

lying through my teeth. Because there’s no way

for Cora when he’s like this. He’ll completely freak her out, and

him, my arm still around his shoulders, towards the

to the office to sort through the

wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that we

to better speculate about the

door to the house

is instantly on his feet and moving towards the door, only one

the possibilities and

me as we reach the office door

just in case it’s

a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several things at once, the

through the first door if they didn’t

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