Felix's phone clattered to the ground.
He snatched his subordinate's collar so hard his knuckles whitened and snarled,
"What did you just say? Who is it? It's Ariella? It's really her?"
The subordinate hurriedly fumbled out the photos in his hand and held them out to him.
"Mr. Cole, look. This is all the intel we tracked down."
The shots showed me and him, laughing and fooling around through city streets, locked in a deep kiss on a mountain peak, holding each other tight under a sky exploding with fireworks.
Felix's head split open with a blinding, throbbing ache. He clamped both hands over his skull, and his voice shook so hard it cracked.
"Go! Go get her back right now! I'm going overseas to look into this myself!"
The subordinate looked like he was about to burst into tears.
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