Chapter 15: Searching
Cal's Point of View
I smiled evilly as Lovejoy came into the room. He had better have some news, or I would seriously consider getting myself another assistant, so to speak. I steepled my fingers and put my feet up on my desk, taking in his demeanor and trying to read what he was thinking. It was impossible I knew but, more often than not, I tried anyway. He sat down in the chair across from my desk, and then looked up at me.
"Well, what are you just sitting there for? What did you find out?"
"She didn't take any taxi from the taxi services here."
"Lovejoy, how many times do I have to tell you? She had to have taken a taxi from here, what was she supposed to do, walk to another state?"
"She could have taken a plane."
"Well, check the airports then!"
"I already did."
"Well?"
"They had no trace of her."
I rolled my eyes, "Then how would she take a plane, do you presume?"
"It could have been private."
"Really? If she didn't go at a commercial airport, where else could she go? Lovejoy, seriously. Sometimes I don't know why…"
"I'll check the private charters and the train station."
"Well, hurry up and get on the ball. Oh, don't worry about the train station. She wouldn't have gone on the train; they make her sick. I think that's the only thing she told me the truth about."
"I'll be sure to remember that, sir."
"You are dismissed now."
He stood up from the plush chair and started walking towards the tall, ebony colored wood of the door, reaching for the gleaming, gold handle.
"And Lovejoy?"
"Yes?"
"Find her," I growled.
He nodded, and then walked out. I sighed deeply. She'd better hope she was half a world away and in a town that wasn't even on a map, for me to be wasting all this money and time on her. She wasn't even worth it anyway. Why was I even looking for her? To look good in the public eye. If I inherited my father's business, had her as a wife, I would be well on my way to the position I believed I could obtain. Wife? I had a maid already; I had a couple of them. The only time she would be good for anything would be at social parties, and the times I wanted her at night.