Chapter 61

I didn’t know where the sound was coming from, and it took Ryker wrapping his arms around me and pulling me into his chest for me to realize that it came from me. I was the one who was screaming but how did I not know? I couldn’t process any of my thoughts. There was only one sentence repeating over and over again in my head and that was, ‘I need to find Audrey’.

Guards rushed into the room at my screams and I couldn’t even form the words to tell them what they needed to do. It was Ryker who instructed them to search the castle for Audrey and also showed them the open window. I could barely process the conversation around me, I just kept wondering how someone managed to sneak into the room and take my daughter right under our noses.

I ran my fingers through my hair in frustration as I paced the room. Normally my first thought would have been Tyson considering that tantrum he threw earlier but he was with us at the exact moment she went missing and unless he can be in two places at once then there is no way that he took her.

While Ryker spoke to the guards, I found myself detangling from his hold and walking into the bathroom. I could feel his eyes on me but I didn’t bother giving him an explanation. I searched the bathroom and then the closet. Ryker must have realized what I was doing because he quickly dismissed the guards and walked over to me. He waited until the door clicked shut behind us before he spoke.

“Talk to me,” he breathed softly. “I want you to use your words and tell me what’s going on.”

“What is going on is that my daughter is missing,” I tried to drag my hand out of his grip but he refused to let me. “Ryker, I need to look for her. She could just be playing a rude game of hide and seek.”

“Our daughter, Camilla,” he corrected before sighing. “She isn’t here and you know it. But don’t worry, we will find her. Whoever took her cannot have gone

far.”

“We don’t even know when she was taken!” I couldn’t stop the yell before it came out of my mouth. “We were in this castle doing heavens knows what and our daughter was taken from right underneath our noses. I knew it was a bad idea for us to get back together. We should have never-,”

“Camilla, don’t do that, please. We had nothing to do with her being taken. I know you’re upset but this isn’t going to make it any better.”

“We should have been here.”

“Maybe, but we can’t start thinking about the ifs or you are going to make yourself sick,” he said and I sniffled quietly. “We are going to find her, I promise you that. We will find her and we will bring her back home and this will all be like a bad dream.”

I wanted to believe him because it was a better alternative than thinking my daughter could be dead or sold or tortured.copy right hot novel pub