26 Chapter 26: Let Me Hold You for

a While

In the back seat of the black Maybach, Caleb Mamet’s knuckles turned white as he gripped his phone, the atmosphere in the car tense and chilly.

Driver James couldn’t help but give Steve Price a meaningful glance: “You should try to calm the young master down. If this keeps up, we’ll freeze to death in here before we find the lady.”

Steve had just finished a phone call and took off his earpiece to report back to Caleb Mamet: “Mr. Caleb Mamet, our people have checked all the car accidents in the city in the last hour, and we haven’t found your wife.”

Modified cars are not that easy to drive, and accidents can happen if one isn’t careful so Steve had his people check the accident scenes immediately.

“Also, the traffic bureau has sent us a message, but since there are routine maintenance checks on some main roads, your wife’s driving route is still being

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confirmed.”

“Give me the computer.”

Caleb Mamet can’t wait any longer.

He impatiently ripped off his tie, and his well–defined fingers flew across the keyboard. In no time at all, the computer screen was filled with footage from surveillance cameras at every intersection in Libanan.

Thinking of the message Black Tide had just sent, asking him what it meant to like someone, Caleb Mamet couldn’t help but grind his teeth.

What does it mean to like someone?

This is what it means for him!

The thought of Xaviera Evans possibly being in danger, of not being able to hear that crazy woman

righteously demand kisses, and that there would be no other woman named Xaviera Evans in this world, drove him mad with anxiety.

deception or using

Me Hold

processing a few more accumulated files, Xaviera Evans finally

her bag, going down the stairs while wondering if Caleb Mamet’s anger

sound of urgent footsteps came from the

way, and in the next second, a tall

it, who let you

heavily, Caleb Mamet held Xaviera Evans in his arms without loosening his grip for even

beat, she instinctively took a step back to get a better look at Caleb Mamet’s expression, but the moment she moved, he closed the distance, his hot, powerful hand around

“Caleb…”

me hold you for a

Me

Mamet’s voice was hoarse as

head deep in the crook of

Price, standing on the floor below, quietly signaled to driver

stairwell.

been about ten or twenty

the time. Caleb Mamet let go of her, her legs

on with

her numb legs, she

with confusion.

tie gone, his shirt unbuttoned by three buttons, and hanging from his body, revealing half

covering his deep, dark eyes. He looked forlorn yet unbelievably

gaze lingered on his

like it was on fire, the heat spreading throughout his

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and button his shirt, not feeling relaxed until

Evans reluctantly moved her gaze away, “How did you find this

area was the old city, mostly inhabited by

didn’t answer.

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