Page 114 of Indigo Sky

Nate only shrugged, his face telling me I should just get it over with, and I groaned loudly before answering the call.

“Hey, Saul.”

“Is she with you?”

“Kate?”

“No, Princess Diana,” he deadpanned. “Of course I’m talking about Kate.Is she with you?”

I looked around the living room, as if, by saying her name, I’d manifested her into the space. But I hadn’t, and the undertone of alarm in Saul’s voice sent my heart racing at a rate that should’ve left me dead on the spot.

“No,” I answered. “She’s not here.”

“Where the fuck are you, Revan?”

“I’m at a friend’s place.”

“Why aren’t youhere?”

I swallowed. He didn’t know what had happened. He didn’t know that Kate and I had broken up. He didn’t know—well, he didn’t know anything from the sound of it. And I wasn’t sure right now was the time to divulge when we had a more pressing issue.

“When did you last talk to Kate?” I asked, turning back to the kitchen and seeing Nate focusing his attention on his phone.

“She called me this morning,” he replied quickly. “Don’t change the subject. Why aren’t you—"

“You haven’t heard from her since then? And she didn’t show up for work?”

I pulled the phone from my ear to check the time. It was after ten at night. The club had been open for over two hours. And Kate never skipped work if she could help it.

Howard,was the first thought to cross my mind.

Had something happened to her father? My heart ached at the thought that the old man could’ve died in his sleep while she and I were … fighting? Breaking up?

Could her heart survive that?

I sank onto the couch and held my head in the palm of my hand.

“What did she say?” I asked when he didn’t answer right away. “Was she okay?”

“I should be asking you that, asshole.”

The tension and brashness in his tone told me he knewsomething. More than he was letting on. I sighed. I wasn’t getting into this now.

“What did shesay?”

He huffed into the phone. “She said you two got into a fight, and she was going to pick up her car before going to Crystal’s place for the day before work.”

“Okay,” I said, standing abruptly. “This is good.”

“Is it?” he said with a snort.

I nodded as I walked toward Nate. “Did Crystal—"

“She’s not working tonight, but if you’re going to ask if Kate got to her house, I don’t know. I tried calling, but she was taking Jagger to the movies with her boyfriend.”

I narrowed my eye at Nate. “Huh. Okay. I’ll call you back.”

I hung up before Saul could reply, and I asked Nate, “You were supposed to be at the movies with Crys—Cassie?”

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