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“I don’t mean it like that.” Liam’s leg continued to bounce. “I just meant that… she left without waking me up this morning. We had such a good night last night but there was something?—”
“What something?” Sawyer cut in immediately.
“We spent some time at the park with Marie and it was all happiness and light, but then she got a text or an email or something.” Liam’s hands twisted together over his knees. “Her mood shifted after that and even though we had fun, it’s weird that she just up and left.”
When I turned around, Sawyer’s phone was already in his hand. He pressed one button and held it to his ear.
“Did you ask her about it?” I asked Liam, walking over to him.
“Of course I did but she was a closed book. I’d wanted to ask her again over breakfast…” Trailing off, he sighed. “It might be nothing but I just can’t shake this strange feeling that something is wrong.”
“She’s not answering her phone.” Irritation bled into Sawyer’s voice and he stared down at his phone, dark brows pulled close together.
A beat of silence passed between us where the same thought echoed around like sonar.
Was something wrong with Callie?
“Do you know what facility her mother stays at?”
“Yes,” Sawyer answered immediately.
——
The building looked quite cozy when we arrived forty minutes later. Calle still wasn’t answering her phone and we had left Crane Enterprises with another assistant under strict instructions to call Sawyer the moment Callie arrived.
Logically, I knew her phone could have died, or there could have been a hundred reasons why she was late and ignoring calls. None of that shifted the sour worry in my thoughts.
“Excuse me.” Liam reached the desk first and faced down with a perky young woman who looked rather alarmed to be faced with three tall men.
“Can I help you?”
“Yes, we’re looking for Callie Everheart and her mother.”
“Everheart…” The woman turned to her computer. “Are they staying with us?”
“Her mother, Sarah Everheart, is a patient here,” Sawyer said.
“You know her mother’s name?” I asked him quietly.
Sawyer sent me a glance. “I know everything about her.”
Not everything, I thought quietly. If he did, trying to find her wouldn’t be this hard.
“I’m sorry,” the woman said, glancing up at Liam. “I’m not finding anything on the system for an Everheart. Are you sure you’re in the right place?”
Both Liam and I glanced pointedly at Sawyer, who stepped forward. “Positive. I sent flowers here last year.”
“Everheart?” Another woman, much older and more stressed-looking than the first, appeared from the back office. “She doesn’t reside here anymore.”
“What?” Sawyer straightened up like a bolt. “What do you mean?”
“She was moved to a different facility at the request of Callie’s husband.”
Husband?!
An uneasy silence filled the car as we drove to the new facility's address. Callie still wasn’t answering her phone, and our desire to get in contact with her was growing urgent.
“Did she ever mention a..?” I asked softly from the back seat.
