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.”

pick up my calls?” Roger snaps, spinning on

is she

is!?”

a step forward, interposing

mate and

growls, forcing himself to turn away and stalk to the window, looking for Cora, hoping she’ll magically appear

not,” I murmur,

take Rafe upstairs,” Ella sighs, nodding to the baby, who has finished eating. “See if I

him down for

little boy out of

gone, I turn my attention

come back, Roger,” I say, my voice

growls, digging his fingers into the windowsill and not turning

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

wrong.”

long pause, considering. “Did you

spits, spinning

and meeting his furious

make her

he shouts. “I

your answer,” I reply with a little shrug. “If

choice is to keep reaching out, and wait

can

snarls, turning away from me

the truth,” I reply, sighing. “Because my answer

you find her, and then sling her over your shoulder so you

and angry. “Obviously that’s what I would

where she was.”

a hand

he is, anyway. I can take what he throws

I say quietly. “She’ll thank you for it, in the end, if you approach this

of suspicion. And in the meantime,

on this cult

head, giving into my

of it as a puzzle,” I say, slipping

little squeeze, “and when you finish it, your

that

and covering his eyes with his hand. “But

“before I’m out there looking

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

for Cora when he’s like this. He’ll completely freak her

I turn him, my arm still around his shoulders, towards the door

sort through

spend hours doing this, wearing ourselves out looking for loopholes that

to better speculate about

the front door to

his feet and moving towards the door,

more wary, more aware of the possibilities and my muscles

office door together so that I

case it’s

go dark as I see my reconnaissance team forcing their way in, a black–robed figure trapped in their arms with a sack over his head. I think several things at once, the first

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

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