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.”

won’t she pick up my calls?” Roger snaps, spinning on her, “why,

is she conveniently not there? Why is she

is!?”

step forward, interposing my body between

mate and my

away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll

not,” I murmur, leaning back against

sighs, nodding to the baby, who has finished

him down for a

boy out of

gone, I turn my attention back

need you to come back, Roger,” I say, my voice soft.

into the windowsill and

talked to me for days. And

wrong.”

say after a long pause, considering. “Did you

spits, spinning on

and meeting his furious eyes.

make her

shouts.

little shrug.

to keep reaching out, and

There’s literally nothing you can do now except be

turning away from me

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

you find her, and then sling her over your shoulder

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

where she was.”

a hand on his shoulder that makes him jump a

bigger than he is, anyway. I can take what

you for

the

this cult

giving into my advice

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

squeeze, “and when you finish it, your reward is that

Isn’t that a great

his head and covering his eyes with his hand.

this,” he continues, “before I’m

and lying through my teeth. Because there’s no way I’m letting

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

she’s spooked already. So I turn him, my arm still around his shoulders, towards the door

head to the office to sort through the evidence we’ve sorted

wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that we

team together to

the front door to the house

towards the door, only one person

of the possibilities and my muscles bunch as

as we reach the office door together so that I can

case

in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several things at once, the first being

would never, ever come through the first door if they didn’t

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