Chapter 164

ROBERT'S POV

The guard at the desk glanced up at me, irritation etched on his face.

“Calm down, sir,” he said, holding up a hand to placate me. “I’ll check the visiting book.”

I watched him flip through the pages with painstaking slowness, my impatience mounting. Finally, he found Ariana’s name.

“You just missed her,” he said, looking up. “She left a few minutes ago in a cab.”

I muttered a curse under my breath and rushed back outside. The summer night air was thick and he