A Billionaire In Disguise novel Chapter 166

When Rome got home, he was about to head upstairs when he saw Scar approaching him from the opposite direction.

With a look of confusion in his eyes, he faintly smiled and mumbled, "Boss, you are home,"

"Yeah," Rome muttered, looking over Scar's shoulder. "Did something happen to Catherine?"

"No. Miss is upstairs, in your bedroom."

"Then why isn't sh…"

Holding in the rest of his statement, Rome walked past Scar and hurried upstairs, heading straight for their bedroom.

When he got inside, an his gaze rested on Catherine, laying on the bed, he let out a sigh of relief as he gently closed the door.

Then he walked over to the bed, sat beside her, and gazed at her face.

At first, he didn't notice it. But after taking a closer look at Catherine's eyes, he saw that her lashes were fluttering.

"Are you asleep?" Rome mumbled without taking his eyes off hers.

Gently squeezing her eyelids, Catherine pinched onto the sheet as she fought against her urge to raise her lashes.

"Are you angry with me?" Rome calmly uttered.

Silence followed his remark, and as he swayed his gaze away from her, Rome's sight rested on her phone.

For a moment, he hesitated. Then he picked it off the nightstand and gently pressed the power button.

"Did you not hear your phone ringing?" Rome mumbled, gazing at his miss calls on her screen.

"No. I put my phone on silent when I got home." Catherine whispered with her eyes still closed.

But when she didn't hear Rome's voice for a couple of minutes, she finally raised her lashes and her gaze met with his.

"You've been crying. What's the matter? Did something happen?" Rome hastily asked with a look of concern on his face as he stared into her puffy red eyes.

"Nothing happened," Catherine mumbled, swaying her gaze to the left. "Why are you back home this early in the morning. I thought you were supposed to be back later today."

"Can you not change the topic, please, and tell me what's going on?"

"It's nothing."

Taking a long look at her, Rome paused and then said, "Okay, tell me, and I will be the judge of that."

At first, Catherine didn't utter a word as she gazed at him. Then she realized that he wasn't going to let the matter go, so she pushed the cover off her, sat up in bed, and pouted.

"Chloe is missing." Catherine softly uttered as tears began to settle in her eyes again.

Immediately, Rome's face went blank as he stared at her. Then he took a deep breath and said, "What do you mean by she's missing?"

"Well, Dash texted me this morning to ask about her whereabouts, and even though I told him that I didn't know where she was, he didn't believe me, and now, no one else believes me except my father and mother!"

Sniffing back her tears, Catherine looked into Rome's eyes and mumbled beneath her breath, "They all believe that I have something to do with Chloe's disappearance."

Furious, Rome tightened his fist and firmly uttered, "I leave town for a day, and suddenly, they think they can bully you. I guess I wasn't loud enough the other day! Maybe if I start taking more drastic measu…"

"Can you help to find Chloe first, and then we can talk about punishing my family later," Catherine said with sad eyes. "Please!!"

"Well," Rome mumbled, clearing his throat.

When Catherine raised her brow as she stared intensely at him, Rome drew a deep breath and said, "That's what I was calling you to tell you."

Refusing to blink, Catherine kept her gaze solely on him, and Rome hesitated for a second before saying, "Chloe is not missing."

"What?" Catherine mumbled.

"Chloe is in Archenland."

"Archenland?"

For a moment, Catherine's face went blank, then her skin grew pale, and with a look of confusion in her eyes, her expression became cold.

"How do you know that? Nobody in the family knows where she is." Catherine asked, holding herself back from thinking negatively.

"I don't know how she did it or how it happened, but she suddenly showed up in my suite," Rome said.

Not thinking straight, Catherine frowned and mumbled, "Is she the reason you made a change in your flight?"

"No. Of course not. Where is your head at?" Rome dumbfoundedly uttered.

"I don't know. You tell me. Because right now, I don't know what to think or feel!"

"If you are wondering if something happened between us, I can tell you now that nothing happened."

Keeping silent, Catherine held in her breath as she looked into Rome's eyes. Then she softly intoned, "Really? Nothing happened?"

"Yes," Rome said without any hesitation.

For a while, Catherine blankly stared at Rome while striving to make sense of everything and not allow her imagination to run wide.

Then she finally suppressed her feeling of doubt and mumbled, "How did she get access to your suite?"

"I don't know. But Brook and Blaze are looking into it. " Rome calmly said.