The Billionaire and His PA novel Chapter 99

Felix steadied himself against a nearby shelf as he took quick, successive breaths. Cassie was fine. She had to be fine. He started to circle the supermarket again, searching for her amongst the multitude of shoppers. When he didn’t see her, he did it a third time. And then a fourth time. But there was still no sign of Cassie anywhere. If it were Eliza that had disappeared, his first instinct would have been that she was trying to play a cruel prank on him. But Cassie didn’t play pranks. And if she was playing one at the moment by hiding from him, she would have popped out sometime during his first search around the supermarket.

He headed back to the check-out section, cutting into the queue and ignoring the people on it who complained and cursed as he shoved past them to get to the front of the line. “Have you seen my girlfriend?”

Emily looked at him stunned. “No. You came to the counter without her. I remember that you mentioned her, but I never saw her. Is everything okay?” She asked.

Felix left the counter without giving her an answer. For almost a minute, he stood blankly, staring at nothing. Cassie couldn’t have just vanished into thin air. An hour had passed since he had last seen her, so there was no way she had been in the restroom all that time. If she had run into someone she knew and had stopped to chat, he would have definitely spotted her with the person on one of his four trips around the supermarket. All that implied that she wasn’t in the building anymore. It was extremely unlikely, but there was a probability that she had left without him. She was soaked through and the dress she had on wasn’t exactly made out of the most suitable material for fighting off the cold. He theorized that she had found her way back to the car, despite the fact that it was still raining outside, so that she could wait for him in the comfort of its warmth.

Realizing that, he dashed out of the supermarket barely registering the yells of Emily and the security guard as they tried to find out if he was okay and remind him about the shopping cart filled with all of the things that he had just bought and left behind in his haste. His feet pounded against the pavement and rain drops tapped against his body as he ran across the road, carelessly darting past vehicles and pedestrians alike. Even though his lungs burned and his muscles ached, he pushed on, running at top speed until he got to where his car was parked.

He stopped abruptly once he approached his vehicle, lips slightly parted as he panted. Water continued to drip from the clouds, onto his face and into his open mouth as he fumbled around for his car key, nearly dropping it down the sewer when his hands shook with anticipation as he tried to open the door. He flung the door open and his face fell when he found that it was empty. Cassie wasn’t in the car. And there was no way she had been there ever since they had both left together as none of the seats were damp from her wet clothes. He chided himself for even thinking that he would find Cassie when he opened the car door. She might have been cold but she wouldn’t have sat in the car with the windows wound up and the engine off.

Also, there was no way she would have walked all the way back to the car under the rain just because she was cold. And even if she did, she wouldn’t have left without first informing him. He grabbed his phone from the driver’s seat and started the run back to the supermarket, this time paying attention to the faces of the people that he passed in case Cassie was amidst them. He dialed her number multiple times all the way to the supermarket, hoping to get through to her but it kept going to voicemail.

By the time he burst through the doors of the supermarket, everyone was looking at him like he was crazy. He ignored the stares and the whispers as he faced the security man. “Did you see me come in here with a woman about an hour ago?”