Chapter 29: Max

I read her text message...over and over again. I leave the gala in a hurry to go and make this all better with Maisie, her phone kept ringing when I looked at her message.

I felt like the biggest fool going. Why couldn't I have just told her the truth about why I had to take Sarah. Now she's found out and I deserve the cold shoulder but it doesn't mean I'm going to give her the opportunity to avoid me when all I want to do is get on my knees and beg for her to understand and to forgive me.

I ring her phone again and it answers after the second ring.

"Maisie! Thank god, baby listen-"

"It's Ivy."

"What are you doing with Maisie's phone?" I ask a little worried that she now doesn't want to see me and I'm going to have to knock all of her walls down again.

"I...I just got home and her phone was on the floor. The door wide open and her bedrooms light is on as well"

The tension in my chest tightens so hard I fear the absolute worst already!

"Where would she have gone? She's