Landon Hawthorne had sent people to find Aria Sterling, but five days passed, and the men he sent out returned empty-handed.
"What's the meaning of this?" Landon Hawthorne asked, completely baffled.
His subordinate was helpless, shaking his head, which was slick with sweat. "We couldn't find Mrs. Landon."
"What do you mean, you couldn't find her?" Landon demanded.
She was a grown woman. She couldn't have just vanished into thin air.
The subordinate wore a look of utter frustration. "The phone number Mrs. Landon left is switched off. We went to the Jennings family, but they said she hasn't been back. Her father said he hasn't seen her since he brought her to Azurewave Manor. Miss Jennings did say she saw her once, but that was in the hotel lobby when you saw her too, Mr. Landon. She's just… gone."
