“We also need to keep up on her mental?—”
A rare alarm rang from my phone, the specific notification making my muscles stiffen and my heart rate spike.Pulling my phone from my jacket pocket, I pressed the notification, my jaw clenching painfully as I confirmed the truth.
“What is it?”Sloane asked.
I looked down at the digital map on my phone, the usual blinking red dot suddenly no longer visible.
“Jaden’s tracking signal is gone,” I answered dryly.My eyes shot back to hers, my calm very close to snapping in half.“You said she was finishing her breakfast.Where?”
Sloane instantly stood from her seat.“Dining room.”
“Find her,” I ordered, exiting the map and dialing Scott.
“Yes, sir,” Sloane replied, rushing toward the door.
“Yeah?”Scott answered on the third ring.
“Jaden’s signal is gone.Search through the security cameras and find her.I want the entire estate on red alert until she’s found.”
“Got it,” he said and hung up.
Within seconds, the entire estate had completely come alive.Every guard, soldier, and staff member scattered throughout the property in search of my missing wife.
Something must have disrupted the satellite signal, and the question was what.I doubted Jaden would have had any success in tampering with her collar since the microchip was protected behind the diamonds.
Hurried footsteps and shouts echoed in the halls, the sounds of doors opening and closing as I stalked through my house.The longer it took to find her, the deeper my rage went.I checked every door down the halls, looked in every little nook and cranny she might be able to hide behind and came up with nothing.Until I finally came across a door to a guest bedroom that was locked.
Stepping back, I lifted my knee and kicked the door in, the jambs giving way as the wood splintered apart.I shoved through the rest of the door, nearly knocking it off its hinges when I found the last fucking thing I was looking for.Daniel had another one of my housemaids bent over the side of the bed, her face red with tears as he suddenly paused mid-fuck and looked up at me.
“What the hell, Darren?”he griped as he pressed his hand into her back, keeping her still.
Marching inside, I gave my brother a glare that could have incinerated him.
“I thought I told you to knock this shit off,” I growled as I walked around the corner of the room to check the guest bathroom to make sure every space in my house was accounted for.
“What the hell is going on out there?”he asked, his voice breathy from obvious exertion.
“Jaden’s signal is gone and the house is on lockdown until she’s found,” I answered, then nodded to the maid trying to quiet her crying.“Now let her up and help me find my wife.”
Daniel groaned as he rolled his eyes, reluctantly withdrawing his dick and tucking it back into his pants.The second she was free, she sprang up from the bed and ran out of the room without another look back, her hurried footsteps echoing down the hallway.I wanted to pulverize my brother into the floor, but right now, I had bigger priorities to focus on.
Once Daniel had righted his belt, he followed me out into the hallway.“How the hell did you lose her signal?”
“I don’t fucking know and don’t fucking care.Right now, all I care about is finding her.I’ll worry about the how after.”
And she had better still be in this fucking house.
Daniel wisely shut his mouth as he followed me throughout the house, looking in every possible place imaginable.After ten of the most frustrating minutes of failure, my phone finally rang with Scott on the other line.
“Check the west parlor,” he said upon answering.“I think I’m seeing her legs, but her face is out of frame.”
Hanging up, I stormed my way down the hall and around the corner to the parlor, catching a glimpse of pale skin through the glass of the double French doors.Nearly ripping them off the hinges, I watched Jaden’s body flinch from the floor, her head leaning back against Camaro’s body and pulling the headphones from her ears.
Relief burst from my lungs at the sight of her, but was then quickly replaced with an instantaneous uncontainable rage that rushed through my veins when her eyes connected with mine.
“Where thefuckhave you been?!”I roared at her, charging in.
Shock and confusion enveloped her face as she placed the large book she had been reading down against her chest.