Chapter 16: If This Is What She Want
A month had passed.
Despite throwing himself into work, Zeke couldn’t shake off Cassidy’s lingering presence in his mind. One evening, after an unusually quiet dinner alone in the penthouse, he finally gave in to the weight pressing on his chest and called Blake.
Blake voice was quick and formal as always. "Yes, sir."
"Any updates on Cassidy?" Zeke asked, his voice low but steady.
There was a pause on the other end before Blake replied in a low voice, "The last time my team saw Madam was a month ago. She was heading to the airport... with a small suitcase. It looked like she was leaving."
Zeke straightened in his seat. His sharp brows furrowed. "And she hasn’t come back to America?"
"No, sir."
Silence fell between them again, cold, like ice.
"Does your team know where she went?" Zeke asked, his tone sharper now.
Blake hesitated. His instincts, sharpened by years of working for the Salvador family, told him something was off. He slowly realized that maybe... Cassidy had left without saying a word. Not even to her husband.
"I’m sorry, sir. They don’t know where Madam went," he finally replied, cautiously.