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!?”

step forward, interposing my body between

mate and my brother.

window, looking for Cora,

murmur, leaning back against the

take Rafe upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to

get him down

her, watching her carry our little boy out of the room, my heart surging with love for

gone, I turn my attention back to

say, my voice soft. “We need you here.”

into the windowsill and not turning

me for days. And I don’t even know what I

wrong.”

a long pause, considering. “Did you

Rodger spits, spinning

just a question, Roger,” I say, shrugging and meeting his furious eyes.

her question

he shouts. “I didn’t do anything!”

then there’s your answer,” I reply with a little shrug. “If you

And your only choice is to keep reaching out, and wait

can do now except

snarls, turning away from me again, desperate.

reply, sighing. “Because my

and then sling her over your shoulder

arrogant and angry. “Obviously that’s what I would do, if I even

where she was.”

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

move away – I’m bigger than he is, anyway. I can take what he throws

you for it, in the end, if you approach this with

And in the meantime, let

want me to work harder on this cult

my

it as a puzzle,” I say, slipping my arm around his shoulder and giving him a

finish it, your reward is that my

that a great prize?”

he sighs, shaking his head and covering his eyes with his hand. “But you get maybe three

this,” he continues, “before I’m

reply, nodding and lying through my teeth. Because there’s no way I’m

the streets looking for Cora when he’s like this. He’ll completely freak her out, and it sounds

spooked already. So I turn him, my arm still around his shoulders, towards

to the office to sort through the

this, wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that we

team together to better speculate about

door to

towards the door, only one person clear

wary, more aware of the possibilities and my muscles bunch

pushing behind me as we reach the office

in case it’s a threat

go dark as I see my reconnaissance team forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack

through the first door if

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