Pursuing Phoenix: Nova Satellite Security by Linzi Baxter

Author:Linzi Baxter [Baxter, Linzi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

11

Jacob

Lily always talked about how she enjoyed cooking and that she wanted to be a chef. When she agreed to go on a date with me, I called one of my longtime friends, the owner of a five-star restaurant, Chef Marcus. He agreed to come to my house and cook us dinner, but I didn’t want him to cook the dinner alone—I wanted him to do it with Lily. Marcus had been on a good deal of food network TV shows, and I hoped it would make her happy.

“Sir, do you want to go up and see if she’s okay?”

I looked at my phone again. Lily hadn’t texted me back. “I’ll be right back,” I told Henry.

I opened the door to the SUV and got out. Nobody was behind the front desk inside the lobby, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up—something wasn’t right. I hurried to the elevator and pressed the up button. It felt like an eternity before the elevator doors opened. I quickly punched the button for the tenth floor and waited for the elevator to climb. I knew which apartment Lily was staying in because the bodyguard I had hired was in the apartment next to hers.

I hurried down the hallway then knocked on the door. Nothing. I jiggled the handle to see if it was unlocked. It wasn’t. I knocked harder on the door and yelled Lily’s name.

The door behind me sprang open. A six-foot-two man with short hair and a black T-shirt stood there. Over his chest was the logo of the security company I’d hired. “Where’s Lily?” I asked. It was the guy’s job to know.

He glanced at the door then back to me. “Lily said she was going on a date with you tonight, so I didn’t think I had to follow her.”

I closed my eyes and counted to ten. I’d paid the company thousands of dollars to make sure Lily was okay. Ignoring the security guard, I turned and ran back down the hall.

I pulled out my phone and scrolled through my contacts until I found Kat. I hit the dial button as I got into the elevator. Her phone rang four times before it went to voicemail. I clicked the end button and pulled up Lily’s number again. Instead of ringing, it went straight to voicemail.

When the elevator opened, an older man stood at the desk. I quickly pulled up a picture of Lily on my phone. “Have you seen this woman?”

The older man looked from my phone to me and back to my phone. It looked like he wasn’t going to answer me.

“Please, I was supposed to meet her tonight, and I can’t find her.”

“What’s your name, young man?”

“Jacob Black.”

The older gentleman’s eyes widened, probably because my brothers and I owned the building. We used property managers and management companies to run all of our real estate deals, though, and it was my first time setting foot in the building since we had bought it. But for once, I didn’t care that I was using my name to get what I wanted.

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