Chapter 28
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Dexter
Three missed calls. Three voicemails. I hung up on the last one just as I stepped into my apartment after working through most of the night. My phone had been on silent at the office as we’d been focused on saving Daniels & Co’s place in the competition.
One crisis bled into another. The new stone was in place on the tiara but Hollie was thirty thousand feet up on her way back to Oregon.
Her messages were garbled and muffled. All I could glean was that she had to go back because her parents and her sister were threatened with eviction. What I didn’t understand was why it took Hollie to fly five thousand miles to sort it out. Her parents and Autumn were adults.
Instinctively, I pressed call, even though I knew she’d be in the air. A phone rang in the kitchen. I followed the sound and found Hollie’s Daniels & Co phone on the counter. Locked.
I didn’t even have her US mobile number.
I scrolled through my phone, looking for Autumn’s number then realized we’d only communicated by email about Hollie’s birthday. We’d never actually spoken.
I wandered through my apartment, looking for signs that she was coming back, but her mobile and four still-covered dresses for tonight’s event told a different story.
There was nothing left of Hollie in London.