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.”

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

laugh as we park in the

and James follows me inside, all the way to the

“It’s like I’m so excited that Ethan is alive and desperate to meet him,

shoulders, stopping me from pacing

the worst, not now. It doesn’t help anything. Let’s

he thought Tobin might have been behind it,” I replied. “So that’s where we

grab a

possible places I

that bar where he asked me to

them from likely to least likely, even though I’m not sure what Tobin might have been thinking when he made

know, something I might think is crazy could have seemed

take Ethan, except then I realize putting

him

tell James after we’ve been at it

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

had half as much confidence as James, but I can’t shake the almost crippling worry about what’s happening to my son right now in

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