HIS STRIPPER, HIS WIFE novel Chapter 119

Chapter one hundred and nineteen

Adrian

Days passed and none of my calls went through, not even one. Every single time I dialed her number, it rang out or went straight to voicemail, like she had blocked it or refused to see my name on her screen anymore. I told myself I would give it a day, then another day, then another, and somehow a full week slipped by without a single word from her.

I missed her more than I wanted to admit, there were moments in the middle of a meeting, staring at numbers on a screen that meant nothing to me, when her face would just appear in my head out of nowhere, the way she laughed at something stupid I said, the way she rolled her eyes when I tried too hard to annoy her.

“Could you be falling for her already,” a voice in my head asked quietly everytime and I shut it down fast every single time. I didn’t have the space to think about that right now. All I wanted was to talk to her, to see her, to watch her smile at me again even if it was just for a second.

The day it hit exactly one week, I decided I couldn’t keep waiting for her to pick up a phone she clearly had no plans of answering. I remembered I had a friend who managed one of the branches where she used to work when she started, so I called him, hoping he could tell me if she was still coming in or which location she was assigned to now, I just want anything that would let me plan a visit that didn’t look like I was chasing her down.

The call connected, but it wasn’t him on the other end. His assistant picked up and told me he was currently out of the country on a business trip and wouldn’t be reachable for another week at least. I thanked her and hung up, more frustrated than before.

IKnowing she had moved from her former place, I knew I needed her new address, and there was only one person I trusted to help me get it without asking too many questions.

Immediately I called Felix into my office. He walked in already looking cautious, like he expected another version of the conversation from the week before.

“Do you know Bianca’s new address?” I asked, straight to the point. “You go to the hospital with Emma sometimes, don’t you? I figured you might have picked it up along the way.”

Felix shook his head slowly. “Sir, the last time Emma went to the hospital, it wasn’t me that took her. It was Bianca. She was the one who brought her sister that day. I only met them there because you asked me to check on things. When they were done, I was the one who dropped Emma off afterward, but it was at her place of work, not her apartment. I never actually got the home address.”

“Arghhh.” I hit the table softly, more out of frustration than anger, and rubbed a hand over my face. This was getting harder than it needed to be, one dead end after another, and I was quickly running out of patience for any of it.

There was only one option left and I’m sorry but I just have to take it. “Call Amanda in Finance for me,” I said, and Felix left without another word. A few minutes later he came back, and behind him walked Amanda, her expression already carrying a trace of confusion about why she had been summoned to my office out of nowhere.

“Sir, is there a problem?” she asked, glancing between me and Felix like she was trying to piece together what was going on.

“No problem,” I said. “I need Bianca’s home address.”

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