Chapter Thirty-Five

Mace's Pov

When I got home, her things were still there, but she wasn't. I immediately stepped outside to ask her guards, but the guards said she hadn't come home. I grabbed Leo by the neck and punched him a few times in the face, asking him why on earth he would leave her all alone.

He kept on giving pathetic excuses, but I wasn't in the mood to listen to his gibberish. I was so nervous and scared that something might have happened to her. I paced my room a couple of times and then decided to call her best friend. It rang a couple of times, but she didn't answer. I made Ray call Grace and report to me if she had seen Tilda. I grabbed a bottle of whiskey from the liquor cabinet, poured some out into a glass, and poured it in at once.

I was growing impatient as I waited for Ray's call. A few minutes later, my phone rang, and I picked it up immediately. I sighed in relief when he told me Tilda was with grace. He tried to get me to change my mind and not