Undignified Games

Amelie rushed to her desk, heart pounding as she yanked open the very first drawer. To her disdain, it was completely empty.

"No... it can't be... He wouldn't..." she whispered, her heartbeat accelerating in panic. She tore through the remaining drawers, one by one, frantically searching every nook and cranny of her hotel room, but the phone Liam had given her was nowhere to be found.

Her mind raced with nervous thoughts once more. 'Fools... We never exchanged numbers, and Liam's number was always marked as private. I will have to meet him in person if I want to talk to him without that phone… but it was so important to him, it was his father's phone…'

With Samantha's employee contract missing, she knew exactly what happened; Richard was in her room while she was visiting Sophie.

Determined to get it back, she quickly grabbed her purse and called her driver, instructing him to prepare the car. She needed to go to the mansion immediately.