(Ronan’s POV)
I was out of the house and in my car before I could even think about it. My hands flexed around the steering wheel as I broke every speed limit to get to Julia as fast as I possibly could. She had sounded so scared on the phone, and when she said, “I need you,” it was like all of the hurt and bad feelings between us over the last few days disappeared.
Is she hurt? Is she in danger? Has something happened to the baby? I hit the wheel, furious at myself for not running after her as soon as I had realized she was gone. After several threats of firing, my house staff told me she had left a few hours earlier, taking only a small bag.
I had told myself that she had been called away for some emergency, work or family, and that was why she hadn’t taken everything, or tol
