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"Brother you look worse today. Far much worse." Adrian said immediately he walked into his brothers office.

He sat down on the sofa, his sympathetic eyes not leaving his brothers face. For three months his brother Michael had been searching for his secretary. At first he didn't understand why he was so determined to find her when he could easily have gotten another replacement. It was not until his brother in a drunken stupor confessed his feelings for Gloria.

When Gloria suddenly went missing with her went his brothers peace of mind. Now he was either looking sad, angry or regretful. Not even him could make him smile.

"I've spread the word east and south and still no one can tell me something about her. Anything. It's like she just disappeared into thin air. But_" He breathed out resting his head on his hand. "I don't want to believe she disappeared. Gloria is alive and I just have to find her even if it means me turning ocean city to a war zone I have to find her." Michael added standing up.

Ever since Gloria got missing he couldn't seat down for long, anytime he did he felt he was wasting ample time, time he could use to intensify the search for her. Sitting agitated him so much he passed on it most times.

"She could be dead and__"

"Don't you dare! Don't you dare say that!" Michael shouted pulling up his brother by the shirt, his grip firm on him firm. He was breathing heavily as a result of his rage. "she is not dead she can't be. She just can't be." He muttered over again letting go of his brother with a weak sigh.

He perched on his table and tried to catch his breath. The emotional state he was just put into by the mere mention of the possibility of Gloria's death was too much for him to handle.

Adrian's eyes remained wide open. His heart pumped hard against his chest. He breathed out severally before his heart rate returned to normal.

His brother was previously never aggressive as a matter of fact his little brother was the nice one amongst the duo, the ever loving patient one. He was the Stefan to his Damon. The one that did good. Never had he laid his hands on him.

Michael doing this just showed him how important the woman was to him. He had to help his brother find her by any means possible.

"I'm sorry." Michael quickly apologized. "I shouldn't have said that. It's a delicate topic. Honesty is not exactly fair in topics like this."

"No its OK." Stefan admitted sitting down. "Touche. I overreacted but all this is getting me so worked up, I swear I just might lose my mind!" Michael drawled, pulling his hands over his face in frustration.

"That won't happen brother as long as I'm alive. That brings me to the question I've been dying to ask you since I got in here. What are you willing to do to get her back? How far can you go for her? How much risk are you willing to take for Gloria."