"Hello?"

"PELLA,"

"ISAAC? What's the time?"

"Where is KYOLINE?"

"What?"

"Where. Is. KYOLINE?"

"Look, she left the kids here. They were supposed to stay with her for two weeks anyway and were looking forward to it. She has gone off to the Bahamas on her own. She needs the break.".

When she tells him all she knows, he hangs up and calls the airline to confirm. But she never boarded the plane. Shit. Where the devil is she?

He rings PELLA again. "She never boarded the flight. What else did she say?"

"That's all she told him."

"Her best friend," he grinds out, trying not to put irritability in his...