Next to You (Life) by Claudia Y. Burgoa

Author:Claudia Y. Burgoa [Burgoa, Claudia Y.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

After hanging up with the real estate agent in San Francisco, I call Becca, but there’s no answer. Feeling uncomfortable leaving a message, I hang up the phone and text her to call me when she’s available. I hope she’ll do it soon, since I plan to leave early and head to Boston. I want to be there when they pack all the cars from the warehouse and transport them to the new garage I had built in Napa Valley. There’s a one hundred and fifty acre lot that Buddy and I bought where we’ll start our own wine brand and build our homes on.

“Sir,” Betsy enters the room. “While you were on the phone, Mr. Sanders called, he wants you to contact him at your earliest convenience. His words were that it might be nothing, but he needs your help.”

More than twelve years of knowing Tyler were enough to know the cryptic message meant more than it’s not urgent. ‘It’s important to call, there’s a fire but please, don’t worry because I’ll have it under control soon.’ ‘Don’t help me, but if you can give me a hand, we might finish it before the end of the week.’

“What did you do now Sanders?” I ask while checking my unread email messages. They would keep my mind busy while he throws the bomb of some stupid headline that involves me and whatever model is trying to get some media attention. “I’m leaving for Boston soon, so make it fast.”

“Please, tell me you still have a bodyguard shadowing Becca, who can tell me her current location.”

“Bodyguard… location?” I flinch and automatically send a message to Nick to meet me at my office. I hope the five minute walk is shortened. “There’s no bodyguard, Ty. Why are you asking that? Is she okay?”

“I’m not sure.”

I don’t like the answer, I tried to call her number from the office phone one more time, but it goes to her voicemail—again.

“When was the last time you talked to her, Ty?”

“Yesterday, she babysat the kids.” There was a pause and some voices in the background. “Before she left, she promised Mattie that she would come early today. A silly request, he wanted some T-Rex chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast. It’s one o’clock and she hasn’t arrived yet, her phone is going directly to voicemail and she hasn’t been at work either. I already called them twice. I went to her apartment and the place is empty. I’ve been trying to find out her whereabouts all day.”

I want to chide him for not contacting me before, but I don’t see the point. Tyler stays on the line, while I call Buddy and Raj to check if they have talked to her, but neither one has spoken to Becca today. Randy puts everything aside on his desk as soon as I tell him we have lost track of her. He promises to have something within an hour. Nick returns as fast as he arrived to his office, the news that we can’t find Becca made him scowl and leave.

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