My eyes widen. “Where is Natasha?”
He frowns. “When I left she was in the bathroom. Is she not here?”
My anger turns back to Amelie. “I am going to say this once and once only. Get out of my room, get out of my life, and get your ass out of my horse stud. You no longer work for me. I never want to see you again.”
“Joshua, no,” she cries. “We love each other. Don’t let her come between us.”
I screw my face up in disbelief. “I don’t love you. How many times do I have to tell you that? You forced yourself onto me on Friday night and when I realised what the hell was happening, I pushed you off me. I’m beyond mortified at what happened between us. I’m in love with Natasha … and now you’ve fucked that up too. If anything happens to her, I swear to god, I will strangle you!” I scream.
She starts to cry. “Enough of the waterworks, bitch. Just go,” Cameron snaps.
“Where the hell is Ben?” I yell at Cameron. He runs his hands through his hair in frustration.
I start texting Natasha as Cameron grabs Amelie by the arm and pulls her out of the room. I walk over to the window. Tash … baby. Please come back. I look on the chair and I see her handbag. I rush to it and realise her purse is inside. She has no money. Dear god … where is she?
“What the hell is going on?” Max asks.
“She told Natasha a bunch of lies and now she thinks I have been sleeping with Amelie and she’s run off. She has no money. She’s alone and she’s not safe in this city.” I quickly pull on some clothes. “I’m going looking for her. Call the others. Get them back here now. I want her found.”
“Joshua, you can’t go out there without protection,” Max snaps.
“Are you kidding me? She thinks I have been sleeping around on her. You know how emotional she is. She will be freaking out somewhere. Get your ass into gear and find her. I told you not to leave her alone. Where were you?” I run down the hall and start to text her again as I wait for the lift.
Cameron is hot on my heels. “I will go down. You go up,” he asserts. The lift opens and the four bodyguards come out.
“Where in the hell have you been? Natasha is missing!” I scream.
Ben’s face drops. “What?”
“We had a misunderstanding and she has run off.”
“Did you track her phone?”
Why didn’t I think of that? I run back to the room to grab my laptop and see Max texting someone. “Is that Natasha?” I ask in desperation.
“No. I was looking up the hospital security system so we can check the surveillance tapes.”
“Good thinking.” I start to type double time, initiating a track on her cell. My heart is in my chest. Please … please Tash pick up. I call her again … no answer.
Adrian walks through the door, smiling. “Hey, I bought you coffee.”
My eyes flick up to him. “Do you have your laptop with you?”
He frowns. “Yes, in the car. Why?”
I drop my head in shame. “I need it to find Natasha.”
“What do you mean?” He puts the coffee down so hastily it spills. “Where is she?”
“Amelie told her that I slept with her and Tash has freaked and taken off.”
“You slept with Amelie!?” He gasps.
I drop my head. “Sort of.”
“What the hell does that mean? You can’t sort of sleep with someone you idiot!”
I nod as I type. “It just happened and then I realised what I was doing and I stopped it midway.”
“You are the biggest fuckwit I know. Why in the hell would you give that stupid bitch ammunition against you?” He sighs as he runs his hands through his hair in frustration.
I keep typing.
“She won’t come back. You’ve done it this time. She will never forgive you.” He shakes his head in disgust.
“Shut the fuck up and get your computer!” I yell as my heart starts to speed with panic.
He runs out of the room. Cameron comes through the door and throws me a piece of paper. “This is the hospital security system. I brought my laptop for you.” He throws it onto the bed.
“Thanks. Cameron, what if those people have her? What if she is danger?” I stammer nervously.
Cameron puts his hand on my back. “I thought you were going to tell her. She would have understood if you just had told her.”
My lip quivers in regret. “How do you tell someone you love that you had sex with someone else? I tried. A couple of times I tried, but the words wouldn’t come out of my mouth.”
“They came out of Amelie’s mouth easily enough though,” he says, void of emotion.
“I thought…” I sit back and put my head into my hands. “This is all my fault.”
“You are an …” he shakes his head, “imbecile.”
Max walks back into the room. “I’m going to go outside on the street and ask a few questions. See if anybody saw anything.”
“I don’t think she would have left the hospital. She has no money on her. I am tracking her now. I will hack the security system to check the exits and see if she left. This hospital is so huge. How in the hell are we going to find her?” I say, defeated.
Max walks over and puts his hand on my shoulder. “She will be ok. She’s tougher than you think. When she calms down she will hopefully come back.”
My eyes meet his. “She doesn’t deserve this Max. I’ve totally messed up. It just happened. I didn’t mean to hurt her. I thought we were broken up. She left me.”
He gives me a sympathetic smile and nods. “I know. Shit happens.” With that he leaves the room.
Adrian runs into the room and starts to set up his computer on the table.
I quickly start to hack the hospital security on his computer as I track her phone on mine. My heart is in my throat … Where are you Tash?
Ben comes rushing in as I crack the security code and he starts to watch the replays of the last twenty minutes on all doors of the hospital. I send the immediate visual to Adrian’s laptop. Once again I try to text Natasha:
Natasha please.
We need to talk.
It’s not how it looks.
I love you.