The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 2140

Laurel was completely silent.

However, she knew this wasn't the time to interrogate her.

"Get ready," Laurel ordered. "I'll pick you up in a bit, and we'll go check his place."

"Okay."

...

Twenty minutes later, Laurel's car pulled up outside Stella's building.

Stella climbed in and gave her Joshua's current address.

"I've got people looking into his movements," Laurel said as she drove. "But there's nothing yet. He must have erased his tracks."

After Laurel's initial call, Stella had asked her own contacts to do some digging, but they had also come up empty.

Stella stared out the window at the blurring scenery, her jaw tight.

Laurel hesitated before asking, "How exactly do you know where he lives?"

"I've been there," Stella replied.

She then gave Laurel a brief rundown of everything that had happened recently.

Laurel listened in stony silence for a long time.

Finally, her voice broke the quiet of the car.

"It seems that even if he's forgotten you, he's still drawn to you."

Stella turned to look at her. "Don't you think it's possible his memory returned?

How else do you explain all these coincidences?"

"If he remembered, why would he manufacture all these coincidences?" Laurel countered.

"Is he afraid you won't figure it out? If he's using these methods to remind you, why not just tell you directly?

Is he the type of person to beat around the bush?"

Stella had no answer.

She couldn't figure out his endgame either.

"Could he be trying to get back at me?" Stella wondered aloud.

She punched the numbers into the keypad, and the lock beeped as it disengaged.

The house was dead silent, without a single sound to be heard.

Since it was Laurel's first time here, she had no idea where the master bedroom was.

Watching Stella navigate the hallways with ease until she reached a specific door, the look in Laurel's eyes grew even more complex.

Stella knocked first. When silence answered her, she traded a glance with Laurel.

Laurel gave a firm nod, and Stella pushed the door open.

She had no idea if he was even home, let alone in his room.

But as she stepped inside, she froze.

Noticing her stop, Laurel asked, "What's wrong? Is he not here?"

"No," Stella murmured, recovering her wits. "He's here."

Laurel hadn't actually expected him to be home.

She hurried forward, only to find Joshua lying motionless in bed. His eyes were clamped shut, and his skin was flushed an unnatural shade of crimson.