Alex Drakos: For Your Precious Love by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe [Monroe, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2024-03-29T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

They sat around their living room as if they were at a Wake. And night was turning into early morning. And still no word.

Kari was still on her feet. She couldn’t keep still to save her life. She paced that floor like a soldier on duty. She walked and turned and walked and turned. Alex sat in a chair staring into space. Blaming himself for being in Cincinnati chasing a dream when he should have been home with Jordan. Maybe he would have saw it coming. Maybe he would have been able to protect him. He ran both hands over his face. He was a wreck. He could not have loved Jordan more had he been his own biological child.

Gloria and Oz were in the game room with their daughter and Jovani and Angela, and they couldn’t concentrate either. Gloria allowed the girls to play whatever video games they wanted to play, on the kiddie computers. She looked over at her husband.

If she was in a bad place, Oz was near death. He loved Jordan as if Jordan was his own son, and the idea that he was out there missing after a horrific assault did something to her usually happy-go-lucky husband. Gloria saw it all over his face. That was why she went to him and held him, and he held her back. They had issues. There was no doubt about it. But right then they needed each other. They were not going to rest until Jordan was back home safe and sound. They could only imagine what Alex and Kari were going through.

It was worse than they could have imagined. Alex felt as if his insides were being chopped to pieces and Kari could barely breathe. Tope was on the phone with his security details, constantly checking every single post leader to make sure there was nothing suspicious going on even if it was barely suspicious. Griffin Coles, Tope’s boss and the head of all security across all sectors of the Drakos empire, a big black man who commanded respect just by showing up, had flown in from New York and was on the phone too. Only he was contacting every security chief in every Drakos corporate entity across the globe to find out if they knew or had heard anything at all. They were grappling at straws, but it was better than doing nothing. Reno, Sal, and Tommy, known collectively as the Gabrinis, had all their men on the ground searching for answers too. Searching for Jordan too. It was an all-hands-on-deck approach that Alex ordered. Only they were flying blind. They had no intel. They didn’t know what deck their hands needed to be all on.

Tope ended his call and looked around. Because he was missing somebody. “I saw your chef and your other household staff downstairs in the servants’ quarters. But where’s your house manager? Where’s Rudolf?”

“On vacation,” said Alex.

Tope glanced at Griff. Although Griff was still on the phone, he removed his phone from his ear and asked a question.

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