Chapter Fifty Three

CADEN'S POV

Following the guidance of a couple hotel security that volunteered, we returned to the trail of the hike earlier.

This time, not for the fun it'd been about earlier but for a more serious situation like the search of Chelsea.

Hopefully, someone finds something of hers soon to help us track her current whereabouts so this nightmare can end already.

After the day we had, all I'd just wanted was to spend the rest of the night with Jade, probably cuddled up and catching up on the latest episodes of that show I know she follows, but here I am instead.

It's almpst like everytime I make a little progress with her, something just happens out of nowhere and sets us paces back.

Now she blames herself for being with me and not noticing that her friend hadn't returned with the rest of us and though I'd tried everything to make her see that that was in no way her fault, the guilt eating her up had been visible on her face.

In the moments before I'd left with the search group, she had wi