Page 418 of Forbidden Billionaires: Vol. 11
“Oh. Right. I was just talking to Sophie on the phone. But everything is okay. No need to worry.”
“Well, I still need to finish my sweep.”
“Really, Briggs, everything is fine. I was just spooked form a scary movie I saw earlier this week.”
“I’ll make it quick.” He walked past me and opened up my bedroom door.
Kill me.
Briggs walked into my room and I just stood there, waiting to hear the guys talking. But Briggs emerged a minute later, walked down the hall, and opened the door to the billiards room next.
Had Axel actually gone back downstairs?
Briggs checked out my mom’s office, my dad’s office, and the other guestroom before walking back over to me. “I’ll check upstairs too, but everything is fine down here.”
“Thanks, Briggs.”
“Call me if you hear anything else suspicious.”
“I will. Goodnight.”
“Goodnight.” He walked out of the hallway.
I waited a beat and then ran back into my room. I opened the trapdoor and went downstairs. I stepped over the glass shards from the candle as I looked around the room. But Axel was nowhere to be seen. “Axel?” I popped my head out into the hallway, but he wasn’t there either.
Crap.Had he left? I was supposed to be keeping him here all night and all morning. I pulled out my phone and called him. I heard his phone ringing upstairs. I went back over to the staircase as Axel answered the call.
“Shhh,” he said. “I’m hiding.” And then he hung up.
So drunk.I went back upstairs and closed the trapdoor. Seriously...where was he hiding? I looked in the closet, but I was pretty sure Briggs would have looked in there already.
“Axel?” I whispered.
He didn’t respond.
Was there another trapdoor in this room that I didn’t know about? I spun around in a circle. “Axel, where the heck are you hiding?”
I heard him giggle. I turned and stared at my bed where I’d heard the noise. “Axel?”
“Sh,” he said.
What the?I got down on my hands and knees and looked under my bed. Axel had somehow squeezed himself under the frame. I honestly had no idea how he’d even fit under there. There was literally zero room for him to move.
He put his finger to his lips to tell me to be quiet.
“Get out from under there,” I said.
“No. I’m hiding.”
“Axel.”
He laughed.
“The coast is clear. Get out.”
He wiggled a bit. “I can’t. I’m stuck.”
Seriously? “How did you get under there then?”
