Page 94 of Sapphire

I put my hand on his shoulder, giving it a squeeze. “Tell me about your girlfriend?”

He instantly lights up and tells me all about her. How she is the daughter of their housekeeper and someone his father thinks is beneath him. We talk and talk, and he gets progressively drunker and drunker. We are both lying in bed. He’s kicked off his shoes, his suit jacket has been thrown haphazardly on the chair, his tie is thrown over the lamp, and he’s rolled the sleeves of his business shirt up.

“Reece.” I turn and hear him snoring ever so lightly. Poor guy, he’s passed out cold. I thank the powers that be that I chose him tonight. I just hope Gracie was as lucky with his father.

I hear a phone message beep, and my eyes notice his phone sitting on the bedside table. My heart starts to pump. Freedom, escape, Tomas, and Mateo. Carefully, I lean over Reece and pick up his phone. I touch it and it lights up. I swipe it, and it asks for a fingerprint to continue.

Shit, shit.

Then I look down to where Reece is snoring, I carefully pick up his thumb and press it against the screen so the phone unlocks. I want to scream with excitement, but I can’t wake him up. I quietly sneak out of the bedroom to the bathroom and dial Tomas’s number. He has his phone plastered to him so he will probably pick it up first. I wait as it rings and rings.Come on, I shout to myself, pleading that someone picks up the phone.

“This is Tomas.” His voice, his deep gravelly voice, answers the phone and my body instantly warms.

“Tomas, it’s me, Zoe,” I whisper into the phone.

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TOMAS

“Zoe? Zoe, is that you?” I can’t believe it. Am I dreaming? The unknown number flashes at me.

“It’s me, but I don’t know if I will have long.” She’s whispering. She’s taking a big risk calling me.

“Are you okay?”

“I wish I was back with you.” I can hear the sadness in her voice.

“Mateo and I are going to get you back, okay? We are coming for you, baby.”

“I don’t know where I am.”

“Let me get Enrique, and he will be able to trace the call.” I rush down the stairs from my office to the living room.

“Zoe’s on the phone, Zoe’s on the phone!” I scream, almost falling down the stairs.

Everyone looks up and Mateo bolts toward me.

“Zoe!” he calls into the phone.

“Mateo.” Zoe’s crying.

“Oh my god, it’s really you.” He’s shocked, we have dreamed about this day for so long.

“I miss you. I miss you both. But I don’t have much time. Please you have to find me.” I can hear the panic in her voice.

“Give me the phone, I have to plug it in,” Enrique says.

Reluctantly, I give him the phone, and he plugs it into his computer.

“Zoe!” Sophie screams into the phone.

“Soph?”

“I’m here, sis. We are going to get you back, okay?”

I hear sobbing on the end of the phone as Zoe breaks down. “I want to come home.”

It breaks my fucking heart.

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