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confront. This is just another situation, nothing to get wound up over.” She stood up, wrapping a sheet around her in an attempt to look slightly more dignified. “If you really think I would hold something over you, you are greatly mistaken. I was just shocked when you told me. I don’t think you can find my reaction that surprising, honestly.” She looked down. “I was close to him.”
     
    He crossed his arms, looking at her critically. “So, what exactly are you proposing?”
     
    “Let me out of here. Let me fulfill the promise I made to you about what we are and who we are going to be.”
     
    He tapped his fingers against his chin. “What about all of this?”
     
    “Do you think I will tell anyone? Your fate and secrets are irrevocably bound up in mine. I’m just as invested in making sure both of our reputations stay spotless.” She stared at him, unblinking. “However, if you put me back in a place like this again, I will make sure the entire world knows everything you have ever done to me or any other girl.”
     
    He smiled. “I knew there was something in you that I liked.”
     
    “I’m glad we are in agreement.”
     
    He stepped away from the door and opened it for her.
     
    Trying to suppress her shaking, she walked by him. “Also I don’t think I will be sleeping in your room anymore. This house has enough spare bedrooms. I’m sure there is some other place I can sleep.”
     
    He frowned and said, “That’s fair I suppose.”
     
    “It most definitely is,” Sierra said, as she stepped over the threshold and let herself breathe a sigh of relief.
     
    She couldn’t help but think, I did it. I got out of that room. Now, I just have to find Chad and fix this. All of it.
     
    ***
     
    The next day, after James left, Sierra called Chad. She wasn’t sure what she was going to say or how she was going to say it. She had ignored him for four months, and she didn’t think she could just fall back into his arms like nothing had happened. She thought that maybe he would be understanding though when he saw everything she lost, and she wondered what he had lost, as well.
     
    The call went straight to voicemail. Sierra knew that she couldn’t expect him to answer her call or care about what she had to say. There was no reason for that sort of thing.
     
    She decided that she would head out to his apartment and try to convince him in person. She was sure she still had the address somewhere, as long as he still lived there and hadn’t left town. There was no reason for him to stay; but, there was only one way to find out. So, she got in her car and drove to the other side of town.
     
    ***
     
    She rang at his apartment building over and over, but there was no answer. A friendly-looking woman appeared at the door. “Can I help you, miss?”
     
    “Yes. I’m looking for Chad Pender. Do you know if he is in?”
     
    “Oh no, miss. He hasn’t been home for weeks now, not since the big wedding.”
     
    “Can I speak to the super?”
     
    “You are.”
     
    Sierra smiled in acknowledgement. “Did he leave a forwarding address? Any word of where he was going? When he would be back?”
     
    “No. On the day of the wedding, he disappeared early in the morning and then never came back. Are you a friend of his?”
     
    “I hope to be. We had a falling out. I hope I can fix it.”
     
    “I hope so, too. That boy’s been a mess since he came back from Vegas. I figured he just lost big, but he has been like a maniac. Out at all hours of the day, making calls, drinking like every day is his last on earth and tomorrow he goes to the gallows. Sure hope he is all right.”
     
    “Me, too,” Sierra said, dread creeping across her. “Thank you for all your help.”
     
    “No problem. Have a nice day.”
     
    Sierra got back in her car and banged on the steering wheel in frustration. She was starting to get a sneaking, dangerous suspicion about what had happened to Chad, and she was indirectly