Mr. Remington Got Me Pregnant novel Chapter 13

Landon’s POV

The whiskey didn’t burn anymore. It slid down easy, dull and familiar, like everything else in my life lately.

I sat slouched in my study, the lights turned low, shadows crawling across the mess I hadn’t cleaned in days. My desk was a graveyard of false leads, flight records, blurry surveillance shots, receipts from cities she never visited. All of it is worthless.

My shirt clung to my back, sleeves rolled to the elbows, tie half-undone. I looked like hell, but I felt worse. The investigator had just left, and he hadn’t told me anything I didn’t already know.

“She’s been careful, sir,” he’d said, polite but useless. “No cards, no trail, no legal name. Whoever helped her made sure she disappeared.”

“That’s your excuse?” I snapped, pacing the room. “After six weeks and a small fortune, that’s what you’ve got?”

He raised both hands in surrender. “I’m telling you the truth. She doesn’t want to be found.”

“Then I’ll find someone who knows how to do their job.” I pointed to the door. He left without a word, like they all did.

The second he was gone, I grabbed a report off the desk, crushed it in my fist, and threw it against the wall. It hit with a hollow thud, landed in a pile of others just like it. I sat down again, elbows on my knees, the glass still in my hand.

My eyes burned, not from the drink, but from everything I couldn’t fix. She was gone. And I’d torn the whole world apart trying to undo it.

The door opened behind me, slow and deliberate. I didn’t have to look up. I recognized the perfume.

“Rough night?” Marian’s voice was soft, like she thought that tone could slide in where I was weakest.

“Don’t,” I muttered, staring at the floor.

She ignored the warning and stepped inside, her heels tapping quietly across the hardwood. “You’ve been in here for days,” she said. “This isn’t good for you.”

“I’m fine.”

She set a coffee cup on the edge of the desk, the ceramic clinking faintly. “I thought you could use something warm. Maybe someone warm too.”

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