All Chapters of CRAWLING TO YOU: Chapter 111 - Chapter 117

Aiden’s POVWe were already home and I couldn’t stop pacing.My room suddenly felt too small for the noise in my head. I scratched through my hair for the one hundredth time, phone burning in my other hand while I waited for a call back that refused to come.Ben.He had to know something. Anything. He had been older. He had seen more of the orphanage’s damage and should have some answers to the questions in my head. If Daisy was lying…or if Daisy wasn’t Daisy at all…Ben should be able to remember something related to that. But when Daisy and I visited his home, he didn’t seem to act strange or doubt Daisy’s identity. So which is it?The call went straight to voicemail.I left a message anyway. ‘Hey Ben, it’s Aiden Calder. There’s something important I need to confirm from you. Call me as soon as you can.’Andy’s investigation into her hadn’t shown anything abnormal when he reported it before the meeting. Clean enough that I had signed it off as what it looked like on the surface…a

Aiden’s POV I gulped as Ethan’s voice kept filling the car, unaware that Julian and I were locked in a staring contest on our end. So, I ended the call without warning. Julian’s gaze was cold and questioning…like he was giving me one clean chance to come clean on my own before he forced it. Me? I felt cold inside, like I had swallowed the iceberg the Titanic hit. Damn. How could this much detonate in one day? All I wanted was a private helicopter, a straight line to New York, and Gabby in my arms long enough to prove she is still whole…kissing every inch of her skin just to reassure myself that she’s okay. And then the other voice in my head cut in, sharp and disgusted. ‘Damn you, Aiden. How do you still have the guts to think about holding her and kissing her fears away when you haven’t dealt with the fear sitting next to you?’ “Jules…” I started, clearing my throat, trying for casual and landing nowhere near it. I had no idea what to say or where to begin. He is clear

Aiden’s POVBut why her? She was old and not in her right mind. Why hurt someone defenseless and harmless… except he’s trying to hide something?Did she remember something? Something so important that she was killed for it?What the hell am I doing? Getting people killed and others traumatized with threats. Damn it, Aiden!I wiped the blood from my knuckles on the inside of my polo and forced myself through the hospital doors.My mind was still a mess of unanswered questions, but one thing had finally locked into place with ugly clarity. Elvis. Brad. Whatever name he was wearing now…he was the one behind all of this. And to make the whole thing worse, I still didn’t know what the asshole truly looked like. For all I know, he could have gotten surgery to change his appearance that we found on the official report. There's no reliable lead. Nothing solid enough to put a face to the voice that had just started circling the people around me like a noose.Marcus is in L.A. nursing a coma