James jumps into the SUV at the last second and then I tear down the mountain at breakneck speeds.

I’m in this huge rush to get home-back to the Rathborn mansion-but I don’t even know what I’m going to do when I get there.

I don’t have the first clue about finding a missing child, especially my own child whom I didn’t even know was even alive until less than an hour ago.

I feel like I’ve been strung on a live wire.

Like my whole body is being electrified and I need to do something.

Anything.

I’ve never felt this kind of panicked desperation before and the worst thing is I have absolutely no clue how to find my son.

“For the record,” James finally says as we’re turning into the gates of the mansion. “I didn’t know either. I guessed a while back, and maybe I should have said something to you. But I wasn’t sure, and it would’ve been worse to get your hopes up if it hadn’t been true that Ethan was still alive.”

“Do you agree with what he did?” I ask in a bitterly vicious voice.

“Honestly? I don’t know,” James replies with a shrug “Yes, keeping the truth from you was the absolute worst thing he could have done. Would I have done the same thing if I was in his place? Maybe Do I get it? Part of me kind of does.”

the problem,” I mutter angrily. “I kind of get why he did it as well. But I’m still so angry, I want to find whoever did this and run them down in

laugh as we park in the circular

and James follows me inside, all

need my brain to calm down long enough to work out what to do,” I tell James as I start pacing. “It’s like I’m so excited that Ethan is alive and desperate to meet him, even as I’m absolutely terrified that something will happen before I can get to

stopping me from

now. It doesn’t help anything. Let’s go

it,” I replied. “So that’s where we should start. Work out where Tobin might hide

grab a

possible places

and that bar

to least likely, even though I’m

all I know, something I might think is crazy could have seemed

lands are too obvious a place to take Ethan, except then I realize putting

him

after we’ve been at it for

time,” James says calmly. “We can search all these places if need be, but we

almost crippling worry about what’s happening to my son right now in the hands of people who want to hurt Aaron, if

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