Forgotten by Jane Blythe

Author:Jane Blythe [Blythe, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jane Blythe
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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10:42 A.M.

“What’s going on?” Parker asked joining the gathering in the living room at Tessa’s mansion. Matilda and a very stressed looking Daniel were sitting on the couch, Matilda tightly clutching his hand. J.J. was yelling into his phone. Casey and Winter were hovering together in the corner, deep in conversation. And Wyatt was pacing restlessly.

“Tessa’s gone,” Daniel growled accusingly as he leapt at him.

“Daniel, don’t make things worse,” Matilda jumped up with Daniel and rested a calming hand on his shoulder.

“What do you mean Tessa’s gone?” he asked with a familiar sinking feeling in his stomach. “Gone like going away for a few days or like something happened to her?”

“Alright,” J.J. hung up, “please tell me Marty found something so that we can officially report her as missing.”

“He’s done her bedroom,” Wyatt answered, “but he didn’t find anything, he’s doing the kitchen now.”

“What’s he looking for?” Parker asked again, wondering why exactly it was that he’d been summoned here.

“We already told you Tessa is gone,” Daniel repeated, glaring at him with a look of utter contempt.

When Wyatt had phoned him all he’d said was that he needed to come out to the mansion. In the middle of a conversation with Hope, who had been very vulnerable ever since their visit to the apartment, which he had known was going to be a bad idea, he’d dropped her off at Elisabeth’s and come straight out here, not exactly sure what to expect when he arrived.

“Tessa and I were supposed to spend the day together,” Casey explained.

“Well she probably just disappeared to avoid it then,” he answered confidently. If Tessa didn’t want to do something then she’d go to great lengths to avoid it. After they had miscarried their child it had taken him months to coax Tessa out of the house, when she was dealt an emotional blow her typical response was to burrow herself in.

“I talked to her,” Wyatt shot back. “She promised she wasn’t going to make excuses, or cancel at the last minute, feign illness, or disappear,” he finished emphatically. “We had a deal.”

Wondering briefly just what Wyatt’s side of the deal had been. “Maybe she just needed some time by herself,” he suggested, remembering their last conversation and how badly that had ended.

“Why would you think that?” Wyatt asked with a suspiciously raised eyebrow.

“Things have been pretty tense lately,” he answered lamely.

“Parker?” J.J. shot him a terse frown.

“Fine,” he relented, “I came to see Tessa last night, to try and sort things out, but suffice it to say things didn’t end well.”

“You two fought again?” Winter sighed.

“I tried,” he protested, wondering whether in fact he’d only pushed Tessa further than she could handle and she’d done something to hurt herself. He didn’t think that Tessa would ever do something like that but the fact that she had been seeing a psychiatrist for months, given how she felt about them, was a pretty clear indicator of how much she was struggling. “Did you try calling her?”

“She didn’t take her phone,” Wyatt told him.

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