Chapter 26: Let Hold You for a While
In the back seat of the black Maybach, Caleb Mat’s knuckles turned white as he gripped his phone, the atmosphere in the car tense and chilly.
Driver Jas couldn’t help but give Steve Price a aningful glance: “You should try to calm the young master down. If this keeps up, we’ll freeze to death in here before we find the lady.”
Steve had just finished a phone call and took off his earpiece to report back to Caleb Mat: “Mr. Caleb Mat, our people have checked all the car accidents in the city in the last hour, and we haven’t found your wife.”
Modified cars are not that easy to drive, and accidents can happen if one isn’t careful so Steve had his people check the accident scenes imdiately.
“Also, the traffic bureau has sent us a ssage, but since there are routine maintenance checks on so main roads, your wife’s driving route is still being confird.”
“Give the computer.”
Caleb Mat can’t wait any longer.
He impatiently ripped off his tie, and his well-defined fingers flew across the keyboard. In no ti at all, the computer screen was filled with footage from surveillance caras at every intersection in Libanan.
Thinking of the ssage Black Tide had just sent, asking him what it ant to like soone, Caleb Mat couldn’t help but grind his teeth.
What does it an to like soone?
This is what it ans for him!
The thought of Xaviera Evans possibly being in danger, of not being able to hear that crazy woman righteously demand kisses, and that there would be no other woman nad Xaviera Evans in this world, drove him mad with anxiety.
He didn’t care anymore about the deception or using him as a decoy!
After processing a few more accumulated files, Xaviera Evans finally packed up her things and prepared to go ho.
The old staircase echoed with every step she took. She carried her bag, going down the stairs while wondering if Caleb Mat’s anger had subsided yet.
Just then, the sound of urgent footsteps ca from the bottom of the stairs.
Xaviera Evans stepped aside to make way, and in the next second, a tall figure rushed up and pulled her into his arms.
“Damn it, who let you drive around like that!”
Panting heavily, Caleb Mat held Xaviera Evans in his arms without loosening his grip for even a mont.
Such an intimate distance made Xaviera Evans’ heart skip a beat, she instinctively took a step back to get a better look at Caleb Mat’s expression, but the mont she moved, he closed the distance, his hot, powerful hand around her waist trembling slightly.
“Caleb …”
“Let hold you for a while.”
Caleb Mat’s voice was hoarse as he bent his back and buried his head deep in the crook of Xaviera Evans’ shoulder.
Steve Price, standing on the floor below, quietly signaled to driver Jas, and the two silently left the stairwell.
Had it been about ten or twenty minutes?
Xaviera Evans couldn’t rember, but by the ti Caleb Mat let go of her, her legs had gone numb.
“What’s going on with you?”
As Xaviera Evans rubbed her numb legs, she asked him with confusion.
Caleb Mat looked a bit disheveled, his tie gone, his shirt unbuttoned by three buttons, and hanging from his body, revealing half of his collarbone.
His hair hung down ssily, covering his deep, dark eyes. He looked forlorn yet unbelievably attractive.
Xaviera Evans’ gaze lingered on his collarbone.
The area under her gaze felt like it was on fire, the heat spreading throughout his body.
Caleb Mat felt uncomfortable and gave a light cough, raising his hand to cover up and button his shirt, not feeling relaxed until the button below his Adam’s apple was fastened.
Xaviera Evans reluctantly moved her gaze away, “How did you find this place?” This area was the old city, mostly inhabited by nostalgic elderly people.
Caleb Mat didn’t answer. How could he answer? Should he say it was because he was worried about her? Because he had invaded the traffic bureau’s system to find Xaviera Evans’ location?
Although he admitted in his heart that he liked Xaviera Evans, it was impossible for Caleb Mat to say it out loud!
This woman is heartless!
With a cold snort, Caleb Mat turned and walked down the stairs in high spirits.
Xaviera Evans:
Downstairs, Steve Price and driver Jas leaned against the wall smoking, their eyes occasionally scanning the old stairwell.
“Old Jas, don’t you think our Mr. Caleb Mat has finally fallen for a woman? The Caleb who has always ignored won finally t his match.”
“Impossible. ”
Driver Jas shook his head: “How long have Mr. Mat and the lady known each other, and with their acquaintanceship… no way, no way.”
Steve Price pushed up his glasses, his words loaded with aning, “You’re speaking too soon.”
It didn’t matter how they t or how long they knew each other; what was important was that Steve had been with Caleb Mat for so many years, and this was the first ti he’d seen him lose his composure over a woman.
Steve Price couldn’t help but feel that their boss had fallen, and he had fallen hard, when he thought of Caleb Mat’s expression upon finding out Xaviera Evans had driven off in a modified car..
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