Stanley Batton instantly answered when he saw the caller was Sebastian Brenand. “What’s up?”

“Rachel Wood is missing,” Sebastian said without much preamble, sounding very worried.

Stanley could even sense his desperation through the phone.

Frowning deeply, he asked, “When did she go missing?”

“She’s been gone since last night," Sebastian answered. "All she left behind was a letter, telling me not to look for her. I only saw the letter after my meeting, but she might have left it in the morni