Chapter 63: Missing In Action

Olivia’s POV

There was nothing good about the morning when I woke up a couple of hours later to find my bed still empty. My pillows and duvet still smelled like Joshua but the actual human being was nowhere to be seen. Even though I knew that there was no need to panic, my heart still clenched in worry. It would have been different if he had disappeared or walked away after a fight, but we had just had a mind-blowing night of love-making after we both professed our love for each other and the idea of becoming each other’s better halves. It didn’t make any sense to leave unless he wanted to, but that was not who Joshua was since the last thing he would ever want was for me to get up and see that he was not beside me.

There must be another explanation.

Sitting up on my bed, I reached out to my side table and grabbed my phone. Once again, there was no missed call or unread text from Joshua, in fact, based on what I could see, the last time he had been online was at 11 pm, which was a