"Bryn, you need to calm down."

"I can't calm down!"

Briony's eyes were bloodshot as she glared at Stewart. "I just want to know where my son is!"

Stewart pressed his lips together, a deep crease forming between his brows. "He's not here."

"Not here?" Briony's voice rose, incredulous. "Stewart, are you playing games with me again?"

"I'm not lying to you. He really hasn't come back yet."

"I don't believe you!" Briony shot back, her voice trembling. "If you won't tell me, I'l find him myself!"

She spun on her heel and stormed out of the study.

Stewart didn't try to stop her.

Briony threw open one door after another on the second floor, searching every room.

No sign of her child.

She ran upstairs to the third floor.

She checked every single room in the house-even the maid's quarters, even the basement.

Nothing.

Her son wasn't there.

the last room, Briony felt her final shred

He's gone.

He was never here.

heaved as she squeezed her

grabbed everything within reach-files, pens, anything and hurled them at him in a

sharp corner of a book struck

across the floor, leaving chaos in

ragged. The last thread of control in

have

thought it was over, life blindsided her

and you're hiding him from me! You even put up

to do now? Drag me here just to keep him from me? If

to keep this a secret for the rest

"I never meant to-"

never meant to let me go. We're divorced, but you're still using our

apple bobbing as

now. Nothing I say

I'll listen. Tell me where is my

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