A Divorce He Regrets (Raina and Alexander) novel Chapter 276

The threat worked too well.

“We had an unscheduled landing,” they confessed.

“What?”

“One of the plane’s engines stopped working and we had to land in another state for repairs,” the man on the other side of the line begrudgingly replied, his voice cracking from fear. “We had touched down in Florida and immediately we had sorted the issue, the plane had taken off again.”

My heart fell into my stomach and I felt like retching, I couldn’t think, my head wasn’t even working.

We hadn’t thought of that. Hell! We hadn’t planned for a situation like that.

Anything could have happened during that stop. Anything had happened.

Within an hour, Alex, I and Carter were on a flight to Florida. On the journey there, we barely said anything, each of us tense and scared of the unknown. There was nothing to say and nothing but determination and the steady fear that was pulsing through us and slowly eating away at our gut.

When we landed in Florida, we didn’t wait a second. Carter was quick in bringing out his badge and flashing it in their faces, barking orders at the airport authorities while Alex and I demanded that they give us access to every single information that they had ranging from the passenger lists to the boarding passes to the crew member interviews.

When we went through the manifest, Raina and Faith’s names were on both flights.

Which meant they were supposed to be there on the private island we had booked for them but they weren’t and we were back to square one.

The realization washed over me and it burned like acid had been poured on my face.

We were led to the back office and even though we were impatient and tense, we sat around the battered conference table with papers, documents and laptops scattered in front of us. The tension in the air was thickening with each second that passed and I felt so hot that I felt that the room would explode with the brewing emotions.

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