by Kailin Gow
“Where is she?” I said as I hurried behind him.
“Somewhere north of Paris. I have the GPS coordinates. We’ll follow wherever it leads us.”
My heart beat so hard, I had trouble hearing anything else. What could she be doing north of Paris? We headed to Errol’s car and I was relieved to know I had him on my side. He quickly punched the coordinates into the car’s GPS then turned the car out onto the road, following the directions given.
North of the city, he turned onto a narrow road lined with small homes. After a few miles we passed a stretch of deserted road and finally came upon a small, two story hotel.
“This is it.”
Shocked, I froze. Lilly was in a hotel on the outskirts of town.
“Are things good between you two?” Errol said.
“Uh, yeah. I think so. I mean, I thought so.”
“Any reason she would come out here to meet someone?”
Searing pain gripped my heart at the thought of Lilly having an affair. “No. There’s no reason. No, she wouldn’t. We’re happy. We’re…” We were in love, weren’t we?
Epilogue
Errol King
Taryn’s kid brother had fidgeted all the way to the hotel, and now that we were here, he didn’t know what to do. I could understand his fear, but we had to move quickly if we were going to save Lilly.
“So. How do we find out what room she’s in?” he said. “Do we just bang on every door?”
I glanced at the GPS. We were still fifty yards from the exact coordinates. Putting the car back into drive, I continued on until we arrived in front of the doors numbered twenty to twenty-seven.
“You think that’s where she is?”
“It’s one of these rooms.”
“Or one of the rooms on the second floor.”
He was right. There were more than a dozen doors she could be behind.
“Okay, I don’t care how stupid it looks and I don’t care if we bother a bunch of people. Let’s go knock on all of them.”
I shook my head. “Why don’t you let me go see what I can find?” I said.
“She’s my girl, Errol. I should be the one going in to save her?”
“Yeah, but we’ve got to keep a cool head, here. I don’t think you're there.” I glanced at the office at the other end of the hotel and Bobby followed my gaze.
In my peripheral, a shadow emerged from a room and disappeared in the darkness.
“Look, why don’t you go to the office. Give Lilly’s description and ask if they’ve seen her. Maybe they’ll even give you a key.”
“A key? I’m here to save my girl from Lord knows what, and you want me to get a key?”
“With the key, you’ll have the element of surprise. We’ll have a better chance if we can catch whoever’s behind this off guard.”
He wasn’t convinced by my argument, but he got out of the car and headed to the office just the same.
I hurried to the door the dark figure had emerged from and tried the doorknob. It turned easily in my hand and as I pushed lightly into the door, I was surprised by the lack of resistance. I could hear a soft male voice coming from inside and once the door was ajar I saw a dark haired man sitting on the edge of the bed. A woman lay back, her legs stretched out in front of her, but her face was hidden by the man’s shoulder.
Was I intruding on the private and intimate moment of complete strangers?
The door creaked and the man jumped off the bed and turned around. “What the hell?”
I glanced down at the woman on the bed, half expecting her to scream her head off at the sight of a strange man in her room, but it was Lilly and her frightened face was instantly transformed into one of relief.
Now that I was sure I was in the right place, I let my anger take charge and rushed the guy. “What the hell is going on here?” Pushing my elbow under his chin, I backed him to the wall.
At my height, we faced one another and stared, eye to eye. There was something familiar about him, and I was certain I’d met him before, but that didn’t diminish my anger. “Who are you?”
He pushed me off him with surprising ease and there was suddenly something awkward between us.
“Do I know you?” I said.
“I have no idea who you are,” he said.
“What’s your name?”
“Rial?”
“Rial…?”
“King. Rial King.”
Lilly gasped, basically echoing my very sentiment. I took a step back and stared at him. It couldn’t be, yet the similarities were right there, staring back at me. A slightly younger version of myself.
“Who…?” I choked. “What are your parents’ names?”
“Look, I don’t have time for this.”
I grabbed him and pushed him to the wall again, this time putting enough pressure to keep him from getting free.
“Eliza and Emmanuel,” he spit out.
It couldn’t be. I remember hearing something about a younger brother, a boy my mother had had when I was seven or eight, but the child hadn’t survived. My mother had been distraught for over a year. I remembered it so clearly.
“Rial,” I said. “I’m Errol King.”
It took a moment for my name to sink in. “King?”
“Yeah, the eldest son of Eliza and Emmanuel King.”
“Ha,” he let out as his lips turned to a devilish grin. “Well, how about that? So all this time, while I’ve been fighting and struggling just to make… Shit… Errol King, the great, world renowned chef Errol King is my brother. Now doesn’t that take the cake?”
This is the End of Part 2
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