OLIVIA
I threw myself on the nearest chair, feeling like my knees were going give out at any moment. They felt so weak, and I knew if I continued to stand, they were not going to hold my body any longer.
My head was buzzing, many thoughts flooded my mind, I couldn’t concentrate on just one. I kept seeing Lupita’s face before she left. She didn’t look like the woman I used to know. She had changed and that look on her face got my insides cold.
The way he said Xander just helped and how she looked at me when she said it got my stomach twisting in knots. My dad was right, I was naïve, I thought my family was complete when I saw Lupita.
I was so happy after the gift Ethan gave me, and I thought things were going back to normal. But oh boy, was I wrong. “Don’t look so disappointed now, you should have expected this.” I looked at my dad. Who or what did he think I was.
I was nothing like him, I didn’t suspect everyone I met and besides, it was Lupita we were talking about. How could she have changed so much in just a short space of time.
“Dad, please tell me everything. Why were you having her followed, did you expect she would do something like this?” he shook his head. “I didn’t have her followed, Nick did. I don’t know why he did, you will have to ask him that.”
He paused and looked at me with pity in his eyes. “The men reported to me when they couldn’t get hold of Nick, and I asked them to continue to follow her and report back everything they find.” ‘Nick, why the hell did you have her followed.’
I didn’t know whether to be angry or grateful for what he did. “Can you please ask him to come here. We all need to talk.” My dad still gave me that look, I didn’t want his pity, I wanted solutions, and I wanted to know what was wrong with me that each friend I made wanted to hurt me.
“I haven’t been able to get hold of Nick for the past three days. But don’t worry, my men are looking for him.” what the fuck was going on, where the hell did Nick go?
“Ethan!” I needed to find him, I needed to know what the hell was going on. “Ethan!” I was pacing and I kept calling for Ethan. “Ethan!”
“Am right here, jeez! Olivia. Why are you calling my name like that as if I have done something wrong?” I ignored his questions and asked mine instead. “When did you last see Nick?”
He thought about it. “About a week ago when he come to see me. wow, I wonder why his been so quiet.?” I looked at my dad.
The last time he saw Nick was three days ago and the last time Ethan saw him was a week ago. Something was not right, Nick never stayed silent for that long. Why didn’t we notice he was gone?
Well, I had my own things to deal with, I had no time to think about anyone else but myself the past couple of days. “Get Marcus’s laptop and locate him.” Ethan lost all the humour and looked at me with a serious expression.
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