Chapter 83. The Necklace

MICHELLE

I started looking throughout my room, including on the dresser, the carpet, and everywhere else around me; but, I was unable to locate the necklace anywhere.

“Oh, shit! No!” There was a palpable sense of terror in the tone of my voice. When I went back to my family in West Virginia, my mother gave me that necklace as a gift, and made me promise her to take care of it.

My anxiety was at an all-time high when I suddenly became aware of a knock at the door.

“Michelle…” that was Devon’s voice. “Are you there?”

But I really couldn’t care less about that. My mind was only filled with one thought. Where exactly did I drop my necklace?

“Michelle…?” The reverberation of Devon’s voice caused me to jerk my head towards the direction of the door.

“I’m here! Please come in…” I replied hastily before tearing open the covers of the bed to look for my necklace once more.

As I realized that I hadn’t found it in the towel either, my stomach san