“I didn’t waste any time after getting the text, I went straight to your home," Dorian said quickly, still breathing hard.Finding out he had Axel's address was of course a shocker, but there was no time to go into that now.“You weren’t there,” he continued, eyes fixed on me. “I went to your company, but none of the staff had seen or heard from you for days, no one had seen Axel either.”"Always snooping your nose where you're not supposed to,” Axel muttered coldly.Dorian ignored him and continued, “I called everyone I could think of, your friends, colleagues, anyone I could reach, but nobody had seen you for days.” His jaw tightened. “That’s when I started thinking maybe… maybe the message I got was legit.”“That Axel kidnapped me?” I asked, disbelief echoing my voice.He winced. “I didn’t want to believe it, Elara. But you were just… gone.”The silence in the room grew heavier as Cyrus face-palmed. “So you decided to play hero,” he said dryly, not even trying to hide the disappoin
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