Chapter 22

Human world*

Rowena's pov

Giselle and I sat at a table in a popular local bar down the street, and while Giselle kept sipping from her tumbler of beer, I was lost in my thoughts of where exactly Jaden could have gone.

"It's been hours since he went missing; don't you think it's time we involved the cops?"

She stared at me for a while, swallowed the beer she was storing in her mouth for reasons best known to her, and dropped the tumbler.

"And tell them what?

A grown man left the house last night after a little argument, and now we can't find him anywhere, and worse still, his number isn't connecting?" She replied dramatically.

"You call what happened last night a 'little argument'?

You were about to kiss your younger sister's lover, and you call that a 'little argument'!"

I was fuming, and flashes of what I saw last night kept replaying in my head as I fought with the urge to pull her hair off of her scalp.

"Well, if that's how you see it, then it's clearly not my fault that your so-c