A Divorce He Regrets (Raina and Alexander) novel Chapter 276

The threat worked too well.

“We had an unscheduled landing,” they confessed.

“What?”

“One of the plane’s engines stopped working and we had to land in another state for repairs,” the man on the other side of the line begrudgingly replied, his voice cracking from fear. “We had touched down in Florida and immediately we had sorted the issue, the plane had taken off again.”

My heart fell into my stomach and I felt like retching, I couldn’t think, my head wasn’t even working.

We hadn’t thought of that. Hell! We hadn’t planned for a situation like that.

Anything could have happened during that stop. Anything had happened.

Within an hour, Alex, I and Carter were on a flight to Florida. On the journey there, we barely said anything, each of us tense and scared of the unknown. There was nothing to say and nothing but determination and the steady fear that was pulsing through us and slowly eating away at our gut.

When we landed in Florida, we didn’t wait a second. Carter was quick in bringing out his badge and flashing it in their faces, barking orders at the airport authorities while Alex and I demanded that they give us access to every single information that they had ranging from the passenger lists to the boarding passes to the crew member interviews.

When we went through the manifest, Raina and Faith’s names were on both flights.

Which meant they were supposed to be there on the private island we had booked for them but they weren’t and we were back to square one.

The realization washed over me and it burned like acid had been poured on my face.

We were led to the back office and even though we were impatient and tense, we sat around the battered conference table with papers, documents and laptops scattered in front of us. The tension in the air was thickening with each second that passed and I felt so hot that I felt that the room would explode with the brewing emotions.

Less than thirty minutes later, Anthony had arrived and he was sitting across from me as he leaned against the table, pointing to a place on the map of the airport and the surrounding area he had laid out.

“You’re looking at all of this wrong,” he finally spoke up, his voice slicing through the thick air. “You’re only focusing on the flight, but what you don’t know is that the flight was nothing more than a distraction. To set you guys off and make you start chasing shadows.”

He tapped against the map again, his fingers firm and his shoulders straight.

“They might have been taken when the plane landed for repairs,” he explained with all seriousness. “That was the best time to make their move.”

“What the fuck?” Alex muttered under his breath but it was loud enough for all of us to hear. He slammed his hand against the table so hard that the papers rustled and the table shook.

“They could still be in the city,” Anthony added after the noise had died down. “I would bet my life on it.”