The Woman Trapped in the Dark by J. D. Mason

Author:J. D. Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Cut Other People Open

THE EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION WAS BEGINNING to take its toll on Jordan. His patience was tissue paper thin and other people were starting to notice.

“Hey, Jordan,” one of the heads of his engineering group said, coming into Jordan’s office. “Sorry this is late. I got held up in a meeting.”

“I needed it half an hour ago,” Jordan snapped back unapologetically.

“A … again, my apologies. I hope it’s still useful,” he said, holding out the portfolio.

“It’s not,” Jordan responded without bothering to take the document.

“I’ll hold on to it. You might need it later.”

The man stood there like he was expecting some kind of atta-boy pat on the back, but Jordan had nothing for him.

“I’ll e-mail you a soft copy as well,” he said, clearing his throat before finally leaving.

Jordan’s executive assistant, Jennifer, appeared in the doorway. “I had the valet bring your car around like you asked,” she told him. “The senator’s assistant called to say he’s on his way to the restaurant.”

“Thank you, Jennifer.”

On the ride down in the elevator, Wells’s warning echoed in Jordan’s head: “If you insist on taking your happy-go-lucky rich ass out there and stirring the pot of all the wrong people, you might as well consider her dead now.”

Of course the man was right. Every second of every day since she was taken threatened to derail Jordan and turn him into a raving maniac. He couldn’t afford to lose control—for her sake. He couldn’t afford to fall apart. But that thought that he might not ever find her, might never see her again, skirted across his mind constantly. And what would he do if he lost her? Who would he become without her in his life? Could he go back to living the way he had before he’d met and fallen in love with Abby? Living. More like existing.

Jordan understood the risks involved in meeting with the senator if he was, in fact, involved in any of this. Then again there was the chance that Jordan was wrong about him and that he knew nothing of Abby’s abduction. Too many coincidences had struck him as odd, though, and he needed to see for himself if even the slightest bit of suspicion that he had about the man could be true. If there was even a remote chance that the sonofabitch could lead Jordan to Abby, he couldn’t let it slip past him. Time was running out, and Wells was no closer to finding Abby now than he was the night Jordan reached out to him to find her.

He’d had Jennifer contact the senator’s office, inviting him to have drinks with Jordan. The man accepted immediately.

“Needless to say, I was surprised by your invitation,” Senator Addison said as the server set their drinks down on the table.

Jordan silently studied every movement, every nuance of him, hoping to latch on to a clue that he might actually know about Abby’s disappearance. He had to be careful not to give away any sign whatsoever that he was suspicious of him though.

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