Chapter 40: Six Feet Under

Chapter 40: Six Feet Under
It had been hours since Giselle had been out. Tanner was getting worried now and called her, but he was unable to reach her. After settling Zana in the room, he picked up his coat and went out.
When passing by the lobby on the first floor, he told the front desk in English, “Hi, can you send someone to care for my six – year – old daughter in room 1510, I am in a hurry to go out now.”
“Okay, sir.” The front desk staff answered politely.
Tanner thought of something again, took out his mobile phone showed the front desk staff Giselle’s picture “Umm… Have you seen her come through here?”
“No, sir, I have not” the front desk staff looked at her colleague “I will check with my colleagues and see if they have seen her” she started contacting her colleagues via the walkie – talkie.
“Can you tell your colleagues to inform me once they see her” Tanner turned to leave when he came face to face with Colton.
“What happened to Giselle?” Anger was evident on Colton’s face. Colton was going to the elevators with his executives when he heard Tanner asking the front desk staff worriedly about Giselle. It got him worried too and he rushed to where Tanner was standing. “Where is she, Tanner?”
Tanner was stunned, he had not expected to see Colton at all, frowning he contemplated whether to tell Colton the truth or not and how he was going to react. Sighing, he decided to tell him the truth “She said she was going to walk around a bit, but she has not come back yet, and her mobile phone is switched off too.”
Colton’s expression instantly darkened, and his tone was tinged with anger “She is pregnant, and you let her go out alone? This is not New York, did you even think about that? Fuck! How can you be so careless about your child?”
Tanner wanted to say that the baby in Giselle’s stomach was not his, but then he remembered what Giselle had told him “Mr. Black, don’t talk when you don’t know the whole story. I would…”
Colton ignored him and took out his phone walking away from the front desk “Trace her location.” Colton stormed out of the hotel leaving behind his executives and a seething Wanda. He got inside his car and drove away in search of Giselle.
Even though Colton did not spend much time with Giselle he knew that she loved photography and books. She had absolutely no sense of direction.
Colton started driving towards the location that was pinged to his phone by his team “How can you go off on your own like this in a foreign country, you stupid woman!” he started yelling to himself as he drove through the streets.
Tanner frowned looking at Colton’s retreating back, for a man that did not love his wife, Colton was sure showing a lot of concern, he even left his lady love behind! ‘I don’t think you are right in assuming that Colton doesn’t love you, Gi!’

Colton’s PoV
“Stupid! Stupid! Woman!” I was cussing and yelling searching the streets for that dumb woman ‘I mean who leaves their phone off when they have come on a trip to a foreign country and especially when they are PREGNANT!’
I parked my car at the location where her phone was last on. Glancing around, I couldn’t see any place where she could have gone, there were a lot of shops but none that might be helpful for her!
Deciding to walk a bit and have a look around on foot, I googled for any cafés nearby or bookstores or scenic places, and voila there was a café three blocks down in the same direction that I was walking in.
When the café finally came into view the first sight that caught my attention was the woman sitting in a chair elegantly. She had a book in her hand and seemed engrossed in it “Fuck!” I raked a hand through my hair and crossed the street.
I walked into the café and swung the door open not bothering with the staff that voiced their greeting “Woman! Are you trying to give me a heart attack?”
She yelped and jumped in her seat startled “Colton!! What the fuck!”
“That’s what I am saying ‘What the fuck!’ Why are you alone here and why is your phone turned off? Did you think of your baby while taking off on foot? What if something would have happened to you and to your baby? Why are you so careless and reckless!” I was rambling while she simply looked at me stupefied.
“Colton… calm down… look nothing happened to me, alright! I just wanted to see the scenic view and take a stroll… Wait! Why are YOU yelling at me? You are here with your girlfriend, you should be worrying about her not worry about me!” The nerve of this woman!
I scoffed and chuckled rubbing my hands down my face while I looked at our surroundings “At least turn your goddamn phone on when you are out!”
I tried to curb my anger as much as possible, I had to be mindful of her pregnancy, and boy was this testing my patience level! All I got from her was silence, but she did me the favor of turning her phone on “Thank you, now can we get going?”
“I can take a taxi to the hotel” ‘God please give me patience to not do something that I am going to regret!’
Sighing I spun to her “Don’t test me, darling! Get in the damn car and buckle up or I will do it for you.”
If she was not going to back down nor will I and she bloody well get it in her head that she can never win one over me. I stepped closer and was about to pick her up when someone came into my periphery.
“Is there a problem, Miss?” ‘Oh, he is so asking for his death!’
“No, Liam” she turned to him and gave him a smile that could make a man go crazy for “No problem here.”
“Yeah, bud” I turned my attention to him ‘Kid! This is what she is into now?’
“Here is my number, call me if you are having a problem or if you just want to see the city” ‘Oh BLOODY HELL! When the fuck did she meet him, that he is being so cozy with her?’
‘And she took his bloody number! Is this how she has been making a fool of me? By meeting men behind my back while I sit in the office and think about her?’
I could not help but scoff “Is this how you met up with your lovers?”
“I am sorry?” she was glaring at me and if looks could kill, I would be six feet under right now! “What the fuck did you just say?”
“Oh, you heard me all right!” I gripped her forearm and shoved her inside my car being careful not to hurt her. “Your boyfriend is worried for you. Call him!”
She looked at me with her brows furrowed in confusion ‘Seriously? How many boyfriends she has that she looks so confused about?’ “Tanner Knight! Don’t tell me you lost track of your boyfriends?”
The look on her face was comical, yet it managed to confuse me “Oh, first of all, I don’t have boyfriends, Mr. Black and since you are NOT in this imaginary list of boyfriends that you are talking about, you don’t have to worry about me!”
I gave a sideways glance at her and tried to decipher the meaning behind her words coz it sounded like she was telling me something! Choosing to not mull over it, I just scoffed and remained silent for the rest of the ride back to the hotel.