“Come with me, Mia,” he demanded, gritting his teeth and throwing his head back as she moaned continually against his flesh, vibrating his c**k until his head nearly blew off his shoulders. “Come with me.”
His orgasm was wild and volatile, his whole body shuddering as he groaned his release, Mia never taking her mouth from him as she trembled from her own climax.
Max scooped her up and pulled her pliant body against him, wrapping his arms around her, knowing he held his whole world in his arms.
He rinsed them both gently and shut off the water. After drying them both, he carried his wife back to bed and held her, wondering how he had been lucky enough to get another chance with the one woman who rocked his entire universe.
They fell asleep entwined together, two pieces fit together perfectly. Max fell asleep in a world of total happiness and contentment.
When he woke up in the morning, Mia was gone.
It didn’t take Max long to panic. He hadn’t been concerned when he’d woken up to find his wife was already out of bed. The worry had started to set in when he couldn’t find her anywhere in the house.
“Shit,” he mumbled under his breath as he opened the door that led to the beach. “Mia,” he bellowed, getting no reply. There was no sign she had gone outside. The back door had been locked, something she wouldn’t do if she had ventured out to the beach.
Grabbing his cell phone, he checked with his security team, but she wasn’t with them, and nobody had seen her leave the house.
Disconnecting, he hit another number, waiting impatiently as it rang.
“This better be important. It’s early,” Kade’s rough, graveled voice answered.
“Mia’s missing,” Max told him irritably. “Is she there?”
“Hell no, she’s not here. I was sleeping. What happened?” Kade answered, sounding more alert.
Max released a disappointed breath before he answered, “Nothing happened. She’s just not here. Nobody saw her leave. Neither of the cars is missing.” He froze as he entered the dining room and saw Mia’s phone, keys, and a piece of paper lying on the dining room table.
“Hold on. I found something,” Max told Kade, cradling the phone between his shoulder and ear as he moved the keys and snatched up the paper. His eyes scanned the words quickly.
Max,
My memory finally returned and I remember everything. I left you voluntarily. I didn’t think our relationship was going well and I thought it was time to separate.
I’ll have divorce papers served as soon as I can.
Mia
“What the f**k?” Max cursed violently into the phone, grabbing it as he tossed the note onto the table.
“What? What happened?” Kade asked anxiously, totally awake now.
“She’s left me. On purpose. She doesn’t want to be married anymore,” Max told him robotically, unable to comprehend the words Mia had written as he told Kade what was in the brief and impersonal note.
“Bullshit,” Kade’s voice exploded through the phone. “She’s in love with you. You know she is.”
“I can’t make her stay if she doesn’t want to,” Max answered, feeling like his heart was shattering. “She never wanted to be with me. She just didn’t remember.”
“You never gave up on her, man. Not once. Don’t give up now. There’s something going on that we don’t know about,” Kade argued, sounding like he was getting dressed as he was speaking, his voice muffled.
“Nobody forced her to write that note. Nobody is forcing her to leave. She made her f**king choice. Twice. Obviously she remembered that she didn’t love me,” Max uttered quietly, resigned. He’d spent years believing, never giving up, only to have her leave him once he’d found her again. To hell with her. He couldn’t do this anymore. He’d been deluding himself all along, thinking that Mia loved him the same way he loved her. She obviously…didn’t.
“Max, you know her. You know this isn’t Mia. We need to figure out what’s going on,” Kade said urgently.
Max plopped onto the couch, everything he’d always believed completely shattered. At that point, he didn’t know what to believe. All he knew was that he was imploding, and his whole world was being torn apart. “Truth is, maybe I never really knew her at all,” he replied brokenly.
He disconnected the call and stared blankly at the opposite wall, trying to bury his emotions, trying to force them deep inside until he was completely numb. He knew if he didn’t, he’d never survive.
Chapter 7
Kade Harrison entered his brother Travis’ office at Harrison Corporation without knocking, shoving against the solid oak hard enough to make the door swing with powerful force and slam against the wall with a massive thud. Ignoring the sound, Kade focused on his brother, sitting behind his desk, buried in a mass of paperwork. Travis looked at Kade briefly, and then his eyes returned to his work, apparently unconcerned that Kade had nearly broken the heavy wood door.
Kade wasn’t surprised to find his brother in his office, even though it was Saturday. Travis was always in the office. He was pretty sure his brother had a secret apartment hidden away in this building where he slept a few hours before returning to his office again.
Dropping into the chair in front of his brother’s desk, he simply asked, “Where is she?”
Travis looked up again, his gaze narrowing as he met Kade’s scowl. “Who?”
“Mia,” Kade hissed impatiently, watching his brother’s face. They were fraternal twins, Travis older than him by a mere twenty minutes, but they shared the same blue eyes. But while Kade was fair like his mother and Mia, Travis’ hair was as black as a raven’s wing, his features resembling those of their father. “She couldn’t have done this alone. And there’s only one person I know who could pull this off.” Dammit, he knew Travis knew something. Mia was an intelligent woman, but she had to have had an accomplice, someone close to her to help her disappear so thoroughly for over two years. No one could cover their own tracks that well. And nobody was as painstakingly detailed and as cunning as his twin. This deed had Travis written all over it. “Two disappearances with no sign of her? Where is she, Travis? This is killing Max.”
Travis sat back in his chair, lacing his fingers together behind his head. “What do you mean…two? She’s back.”
“She’s gone again,” Kade stated flatly, eyeing his brother’s expression for a moment, fairly certain Travis didn’t know she had fled…this time. The two of them disagreed on almost everything, but they were twins, and they could still read each other well. Sometimes too well.