Chapter 30
She looked frantically around the room, reaching for the light switch and turning it on. The window was open, a cool breeze blowing the curtains, a dresser moved out of the way, but her mind refused to acknowledge the scene.
Someone must have heard the baby crying and taken him, trying to be helpful. The maid or her father. One of the other staff. Somebody.
She walked into the hallway just as Trudy came around the corner.
“Have you seen the baby?” she heard the frantic edge in her voice, registered the concern on the maid’s face in response to it.
“Isn’t he down for a nap?”
“My father must have taken him. I’m sure that’s it.”
“No, ma’am. Your father left more than an hour ago, before the police came.”
The police. The police were here because Mason had been here, right in her room. How had Mason gotten inside?
“Matteo!” She was running now, screaming his name and flying back down the long hallway as fast as her feet would take her. All she could see in her mind’s eye was the note that had been left in the baby’s crib weeks before.
Bastard.
Matteo was in the hallway, jogging toward her. “What is it?”
“The baby! Nico’s gone. Somebody took my son.”
Then Matteo was on his phone barking out orders to close the gates, call in the security team, to stop anyone on the premises.
The light of her life was gone. An overwhelming dizziness swept over her and her vision got dark around the edges. She passed out before she hit the ground.