Chapter 3

Richard's POV:

By the third day Anna had gone missing, I was starting to get seriously annoyed.

She'd never gone this long without reaching out to me.

No matter how I treated her before, she'd only sulk for a day at most, then come crawling back to me like a little kitten, begging for peace.

But this time, she finally grew a backbone.

James placed the signed termination agreement on my desk, the paper stained with a disturbing amount of blood. "Mr. Grant, Ms. Carter has signed it. She gave the 300-thousand-dollar check to the streamer, Lucas."

My grip on…