Page 46 of Beautifully Ruined
Later, Cade leans against the door to the bedroom we’re staying in. “You should go to bed. Any luck?”
I’m not really sleeping, so this helps. “Yes and no.”
He comes over and kisses me. Then he smiles. “We’ll find her. I’ll do everything I can to help, I promise.”
I hug him tight. “I’m glad you’re in my corner.”
“Vi, I know what this means to you. I’ll do anything for you.”
My heart flutters.
His hand touches my face. “Just…give yourself some time for you. You’ve been at this day and night.”
“And when you work?”
He smiles. “Point taken.”
When he leaves, I throw myself back into it.
I’m obsessed, I know it. And I learn everything I can about her, which is a lot, just from everything she’s posted online.
She’s been missing a year, though, not the eight months she told me. It shouldn’t matter, but it does.
Gianna was adamant.
So…was she moved?
I decide to read about her going missing, something I avoided because I figured I’d learn more reading about her life than a plea for her.
When I get to a photo of her and her parents, I stop.
Her father… He’s Joseph Walsh, a congressman.
And he’s on my list.
He’s not looking for an intern, but he has had them in the past and?—
My breath catches.
I get up.
“Cade?”
Silence. So, I call out again.
“Cade?”
I head down the stairs, calling out, and I finally end up on the bottom floor where I haven’t been. It looks like a waiting area. “Cade?”
From nowhere a door opens, and he appears.
The door’s hidden by faux cupboard drawers.
His glasses are on his head, and he doesn’t move from the doorway. “Yeah?”
“Gianna’s father is Joseph Walsh.”
“Congressman, I know.”
