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 na?ve, I thought my family wasplete 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 toe 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 youst see Nick?"


    He thought about it. "About a week ago when hee to see me. wow, I wonder why his been so quiet.?" I looked at my dad.


    Thest time he saw Nick was three days ago and thest 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''sptop and locate him." Ethan lost all the humour and looked at me with a serious expression.


    "Olivia, what is going on?" I shrugged, I wished I knew but I knew nothing at that point. I just knew that no one has heard from Nick in days.


    "I have not heard from Nick in days, I have called and gone to his ce, but he is not there. Theyst saw him two weeks ago at work. I didn''t want to call my sister and ask. I didn''t want to worry her for nothing."


    Hearing that, Ethan didn''t wasted time and went upstairs. "What is going on dad, how long has Lupita been meeting with those men?" he shrugged. "I don''t know, but from what my men told me, she met with them four times. They are not sure if it was them who still went to her house or what."


    They went to her house? What was Lupita up to? "My men are not sure because the men who went in there were dressed as delivery guys. They couldn''t be sure if it were the same people or not."


    My insides ran cold. I had a bad feeling about the whole thing, if she were meeting with Xander''s men, what was her end game. What did she want? Ethan came back.


    "I can''t locate Nick; everyone''s tracker is live but his. It''s like it was taken off and destroyed." My stomach surged. Something was wrong and I had a bad feeling.


    We all installed trackers on ourselves in case someone got taken like I was. We wanted to be able to locate them and find them in time.


    ushad


    Everyone of us had it even the kids. Now Nick''s was off. "Lupita knows about the trackers." My dad


    reminded us. It was not as if it didn''t cross my mind, I just didn''t want to


    think about it. "When was thest time it was on?"


    I ignored my dad and asked that instead. "Three days ago. At his ce." Lord, what the hell was happening. why couldn''t we just have peace.


    "If he was taken then Lupita was involved. She knows about the trackers and am sure she told whoever took him about it. that is why it was removed before they took him from his ce" I hated my dad for saying that.


    "What is going on here Luke, where is Nick?" Ethan asked as if we knew more than he did. “Lupita has been meeting with Xander''s men." Ethan looked as if he had seen a ghost.


    "Olivia, I am sorry, but this sounds like an emergency, and I would like to have Emily here to keep her safe." He looked desperate, his Emily was not priority, Nick was but I knew he was never going to concentrate on Nick for as long as his mind was on Emily.


    "Call her and tell her toe." My dad was already without, and I was assuming


    he was busy with the men. I went upstairs to inform my husband.


    "Hey babe." He turned to look at me then frowned. He stood and came to me. "What''s wrong?"


    "Nick is missing, and Lupita has been meeting with Xander''s men." I told him.


    "Fuck!"


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