Chapter 167

The phone line went quiet, and Xavier could not hear Jessica’s voice again. He clenched his fist in annoyance. He felt his blood boil. How dare those men lay a finger on his wife? He was going to make them pay with everything in him.

For the first time in his life, Brian saw Xavier so angry. His eyes blazed as he watched him pace around the room, tapping away on his phone as his chest heaved with long breaths.

Xavier had been influential for as long as Brian had known him, and he had never seen him use that power for anything personal, but it was obvious he would not stop until he found Jessica.

“And I do not expect you to be sitting on your hands while my wife is in the hands of the kidnappers,” he snapped into the phone before taking it away from his ear.

He closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down. He needed to do eve