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LUCIEN’S POV

The door pushed open and Zayne came in looking weary.

“Nothing?” I asked even though it was quite obvious. Zayne had decided to search for Adria in other places and he had told me to stay in case anything like her escaping happened or if any other clue came in, and it had been agony waiting.

“I searched almost everywhere. I just couldn’t find her. She just… she just seems to have disappeared from New Orleans completely. The unoccupied buildings, warehouses, everything… I checked it all. I asked people if they’d seen her but it was all useless. Some said they knew her but not her whereabouts. I checked out the place I was told she frequented, and it was the same thing.” Zayne informed me as his tired legs made their way to the sofa. He plopped down on it in exhaustion, and heaved a heavy sigh.

I hit the dining table at which I was seated and the food items on it jumped up at the force which I had hit it with.

“I met her mother. She was also searching with the police. Th