There’s no reply.

My coronary heart charge accelerates as I step again out of the toilet, whipping my head in each instructions of the hallway. There’s one other women’ washroom farther down and across the nook, and I determine to examine that earlier than I actually begin to panic. She’s not there both.

Pulling my telephone out of my pocket, I textual content Kol and Sid to satisfy me within the hallway. Nero might be already gone, and there’s no sense bothering him once I’m seemingly panicking for nothing.

Besides deep down, I do know I’m not.

I spy Kol and Sid operating down the corridor towards me, leaving folks staring after them.

“What’s happening?” Kol asks, and I see a few of his army coaching kick in.

“Anabelle went to the toilet, and he or she hasn’t returned. I checked the ballroom and each bogs out right here, and he or she’s gone.” I push a hand by my hair and grip the strands onerous.

“Okay, first… there’s no likelihood she simply ran out on you? Did you guys have a battle or a disagreement? Did she appear off in any respect earlier tonight?” Kol asks.

I step towards him. “She didn’t run off and depart me. One thing’s occurred.”

Sid steps between us. “Okay, if she’s nowhere to be discovered, we’ve got to imagine that somebody has taken her or harm her, that it’s not a medical emergency or one thing.”

My chest squeezes on the thought of somebody kidnapping her to do her hurt.

“Let’s cut up up and have yet one more search for her earlier than we hit the panic button,” Sid says. “Kol and I’ll look in right here, and also you examine exterior. Possibly she went to get some air.”

All of us look on the pouring rain and know that’s not going, but it surely’s the one place I haven’t appeared but.

“Textual content when you guys discover something.” I run towards the door as if my life is determined by it, and in some methods, it feels prefer it does. As a result of if one thing has occurred to Anabelle, I don’t understand how I’d transfer on.

I push that thought from my head as I race out the entryway and beneath the portico. The 2 greeters are chatting and look startled after they see me. I in all probability appear to be a rabid animal.

“Have you ever seen a girl with a yellow costume come out right here a while within the final twenty-five minutes?” I ask.

They shake their heads in unison.

“No, sorry,” the one says.

I don’t waste one other phrase on them, operating out from beneath the portico into the driving rain. “Anabelle!”

I don’t know precisely what I’m on the lookout for, however I hold shouting her title, operating across the constructing. It’s not till I’m on the alternative facet of the constructing that I spot one thing gold on the walkway close to the place the driveway meets the curb—Anabelle’s masks.

I’m soaked by as I choose it up, feeling as if somebody has caught an ice choose in my coronary heart. Although I wish to crumble and disintegrate worrying about what could be taking place to Anabelle, I can’t permit that to occur. As an alternative, I let the craze take over.

How dare somebody attempt to take what’s mine?

I pull my telephone from my pocket and fill Kol in on what I discovered. He tells me to satisfy him within the safety workplace. I don’t know the place that’s, however I’ll discover it.

I tug on the closest doorways, discovering them locked. They have to be exit-only. In frustration, I set free a roar towards the sky, intent on destruction, then run round to the entrance of the constructing with the masks in hand. If that is the final piece of her I ever maintain, I’ll rain down hellfire on whoever has harm her.

The identical two guys are standing on the entrance, me wide-eyed as I strategy.

“The place’s the safety workplace?” I demand.

“Um… I’ll present you to it.”

“Hurry.”

I comply with him there, and once I get inside, I discover my two brothers already standing round a desk with just a few displays throughout it.

“Something?” I push my method between them.

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