The second Kelvin dismissed the client, he raced out of the café. He had asked Amara to take Leila to the car, but there was no one there besides the driver, who hadn’t seen either of the women. His phone rang before he could pull it out and call Amara. It was his assistant.
“She’s in the bathroom,” Amara said as soon as he answered the call.
“Is she alone?”
Kelvin walked into the section where he had seen Leila enter earlier, but it was empty. If he hadn’t been busy with a client, he would have stormed into that place the minute he noticed Charles walk in. She had looked so uncomfortable being around him, and her text hadn’t assuaged his worry.
“Yes, sir. I stepped out to get a few things, but I noticed you were gone. The client, too.”
The footage from last week’s events rushed into
