You please stop that pacing,” Shelley said coming into his office to deliver some documents that he needed to go through. “You’ll wear a hole in the carpet.”

He didn’t bother to reply. He didn’t care about the carpet or the work he needed to do. All he could think about was that Chloe had disappeared into thin air. He couldn’t find her and it wasn’t from lack of trying. His only hope lay in the meeting they were supposed to have this morning regarding the installation of the management software.

He had spent the weekend playing private detective in the hope of tracking her down. He’d tried calling and...