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“Are you all right now, Charlie? After everything?” Faith asked.
Charlie shook his head slowly. “It’s going to take me a while to get past watching you fall into that traffic. Not being able to stop you from getting hurt.” He shook it off, but she could see it haunted him. “But what’s important is you. How do you feel about going home?”
Faith shot Cat a look, but the other woman shook her head. Charlie wasn’t doing great, but they’d keep an eye on him. They’d keep working on their matchmaking service, which would hopefully help distract him.
“Not great. I haven’t really talked to my family since I came here. I don’t know what is going to happen. I texted them that I was coming home and bringing my boyfriend, but I’ve been too scared to check my texts since. I’ve even booked us a room at the local motel because I don’t know how I’ll feel about staying in my old house.”
Or if her parents wanted her there.
“It will be fine,” Cat reassured her. “You know that Reuben won’t let anything or anyone hurt you.”
Yeah. That was partially what she was afraid of. Reuben Jones and Public, Missouri did not really seem to mix.
“Will you be all right flying?” Charlie asked with concern.
“I don’t know. Alejandro and Cat are lending us their private jet which will help since Reuben thinks it will be better for me to travel in Little headspace.”
“You got this,” Charlie told her, clasping her hand.
“And if anyone isn’t nice to you, then tell me and I’ll kick their butts,” Cat told her.
Her phone started ringing and Faith picked it up, surprise filling her as she saw who it was.
“Who is it?” Cat asked.
“It’s Cammie.”
“Whoa. Have you heard from her since she here?” Cat asked.
“No.” And it had hurt, she wasn’t going to lie.
Faith had sent her a message to wish her luck, but she’d heard nothing back.
They’d been friends a long time and she’d really thought that Cammie would have been in touch before now.
“Are you going to answer?” Charlie asked.
“Put her on speaker,” Cat urged.
She nodded and answered, putting it on speaker. “Hi, Cammie. How are you?”
“I need to know where he is.”
“Sorry. What?” she asked in confusion.
“Where’s Eric, Faith? What did Reuben do to him?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, Cammie,” she said coldly. Was Cammie going to ask how she was? Faith had kind of hoped that once she got away from Eric, her friend would realize what a horrible person he was.
But perhaps not.
“Eric has gone missing. Reuben had to have something to do with it. The house is in foreclosure, there’s no money in the accounts, his boss fired him and hasn’t heard from him since. So where is he?”
Cat stared at her with wide eyes.
That was it.
She was done.
