GONE

Siel felt her chest aching over what she just heard.

Suddenly it was so hard to breathe, and she wished she could erase everything that she had recently seen and heard from her mind. Besides that, her regret at showing up at the bar to look for Jonah is numbing her emotions completely…

As it was, she was already in bad shape before she even arrived at the pub.

Girl, he's left us at the ice cream parlor! And we don't have a ride. He said he'd be back, but it's already more than an hour, and the twins are falling asleep on their chairs! He said he'll be over at The Peacock but I don't know where that is!

She read at least twenty messages with the same theme and mood, along with about 10 unanswered calls, as she checked her phone back at the medical floor of Silvercrest skyscraper. All of them were from Nella and her panic level was on extreme red alert. She had no choice but to tell her counselor that she was needed elsewhere because of an emergency with her kids.

"I promise to be back