C20

Elijah carter pov

“Celine! She ran away! She’s not in the hospital.” Once Jack told me that. Once I replied instantly “I’m coming. Don’t move.”

I couldn't think of anything or where she might have gone. Or whether something bad happened to her and Jack tried to hide this from me.

And also it came to my mind that one of my enemies kidnapped Celine. Everything was possible. Even political figures do nasty things.

It was always easy to finish them and bury them deep. But this time was absolutely different, she wasn’t some sort of unneeded object or something I could live without— she was my heart! She was his wife!

I climbed the stairs in a hurry and all was in my mind to get my keys and my gun and my bullets and turn the town and the country upside down until I found her.