Gone Missing by Rose Middleton

Author:Rose Middleton [Middleton, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, contemporary, private investigator, missing child, suspense
Publisher: Rose Middleton
Published: 2023-06-15T06:00:00+00:00

11.

“Our son?”

Lucy held her breath. Kit stumbled back, narrowly avoiding the overturned chair. The expression on his face was so distorted she couldn’t tell what he was thinking. If her admission to being a PI didn’t anger him, this surely had to. In heart-pounding silence, his jaw clenched. The muscles threatened to pop right through his skin while a vein throbbed at his temple.

His eyes darted from her to the computer screen and back again, blinking rapidly in a desperate bid to digest the words he’d just spoken. She could almost see the cogs of his brain spinning to try and put all the pieces of this inexplicable jigsaw puzzle together.

The revelation that Howard turned out to be his father was a frightening twist, but she could only focus on the way he stared at her now. It took all her effort not to turn and flee. The blue of his eyes darkened, zeroing in on her.

Say something, anything!

“I have a son?” he asked, his voice disbelieving but strangely hopeful.

Lucy nodded. “Yes. We have a son.”

His features softened. “And you couldn’t tell me. You had to go through it all by yourself?”

She shook her head. “Your mum was incredible. That’s why she always believed you’d come back.”

He blinked. “My mum helped you? She knew he was my kid?”

Lucy almost chuckled. Almost. “Who’s else would be, Kit? You were the first. The only at that point.”

He blushed, surprising her. “Oh.”

“But he disappeared,” she explained, careful to keep her voice even. If she let him see how deep her emotions ran, she’d end up a blubbering mess again. “When he was six.” She took a deep breath. “Three years ago.”

“I’m so sorry, Luce,” he whispered. “I wish I’d known.”

She nodded. “I wish that too. I would have loved for you to get to know him. He was a beautiful kid.”

He blinked. “Was?”

Had he not heard her say Wyatt had vanished?

“Lucy?” His voice dropped an octave, sending a shiver down her spine. “What do you mean?”

Her palms grew clammy. Taking a deep breath, she summoned what little courage she had left to say the words again. “He went missing three years ago, and I haven’t been able to find a trace of him since. I think he might be—”

In a flash, he closed the distance between them and pulled her to her feet, stopping her mid-sentence. A bright spark lit his eyes. She knew that look. It was the same hope she’d had soon after it happened, but she was a veteran at this. There was little hope of finding her—their—boy alive after so long. As awful as it was to hear it, Kit had to know.

“No.” He said firmly though it sounded more like a demand. “Don’t you dare say you think he’s dead. You thought I was dead.”

She shook her head. “It’s not the same, Kit. You were an adult, capable of looking after yourself. Wyatt was just six.”

A crooked smile tilted his mouth. “Wyatt. I like that.”

“Kit, listen—”

“No. You listen,” he insisted.

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