Chapter 18 - Connor

My hand tightens around my phone as I hold it up to ear as I grit my teeth.  “What do you mean you don’t know where Deanna is?  How do you not know?”

The P.I. clears his throat.  “Sorry, sir.  I was sitting outside the house waiting for them to leave, but they never came back out.  I’ve checked around the company.  Some staff knows nothing, but I was lucky to find a few that told me that her and Dotty took some days off for a vacation.  However, I’m still not sure how they got past me.”

Idiot.  A bumbling idiot. 

From the couch, Ryan looks across the hotel room at me and mouths, “What?”

I take a deep breath and shake my head as I look down at the floor and turn my attention back to the P.I. on the phone.  “Is there anything that you can tell me?  You’ve been monitoring her for several days now.  There has to be something that you can give me.”

Ryan gets up off the couch and walks towa