Billionaire, I Am Not Your Wife! novel Chapter 33

Chapter 31: The Search For Sedona

Logan’s POV

He handed it over without hesitation, watching me with those serious dark eyes that he’d inherited from Sedona, as he was waiting for me to give him an answer. An answer that I had no idea what to say to.

I held the ring in my palm, feeling the weight of it, a ring that I have never seen Sedona take off because she was too happy to be called my wife.

“Dad? Is Mom coming back?”

I had no answer for him. For the first time since this nightmare began, I had absolutely no idea what to tell my son.

I couldn’t sleep that night.

lay in bed staring at the ceiling, turning the wedding ring over and over in my fingers, grandmother’s words still circling through my mind on an endless loop. *Something’s very wrong. That girl loved that boy more than anything. She wouldn’t walk away unless she believed she had no other choice.*

At 3 AM, I gave up on sleep entirely and went to my home office, where I sat down at my computer and opened Sedona’s financial records. She’d had access to our joint account for three years, though she’d rarely used it for anything beyond household expenses. I pulled up the transaction history, scanning backward through the entries.

There it was. Three weeks ago-a charge from Chicago General Hospital. The same day she’d called me multiple times from Disneyland. A significant amount, which was unusual for a mere pain reliever medicine, if she had bought it. No, this particular transaction was consistent with something along the lines of diagnostic testing or specialist consultation.

I hadn’t even noticed it in the account. Hadn’t thought to look. stared at the entry for a long time, then closed the laptop and sat in the dark.

In the morning, I told Mrs. Peterson I had an errand to run and asked her to take Nick to school. Then I drove to Chicago General Hospital, parked in the lot, and sat in my car for ten minutes talking myself into walking through those doors.

The emergency department was quiet at that hour, the night shift was finally winding down as I saw the night staffs, signing out, preparing to head home while the day shift was coming in, ready to sign in and work.

I approached the desk and explained to the intake administrator that I was looking for records related to my wife’s visit several weeks ago.

“I’m sorry, sir, we can’t disclose patient information to—”

“She’s my wife. I’m concerned about her whereabouts. She’s disappeared and I think she may have received some kind of diagnosis here that-” My voice broke slightly on the last word. “Please. I’m her husband: I just need to know if she’s okay.”

The administrator looked at me with professional sympathy and explained, again, about HIPAA regulations and patient privacy. thanked her mechanically and moved to a waiting area, trying to think of another approach.

I sat there for almost twenty minutes before a.nurse approached me-middle-aged, kind-faced, the kind of woman who’d probably been doing this job long enough to develop her own personal protocol for situations the rulebook didn’t quite cover.

“Excuse me,” she said quietly, sitting in the chair beside mine. “I couldn’t help overhearing your conversation with the front desk. Are you asking about Sedona Hayes?”

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