Those maybes, though, tangled quickly with darker thoughts. What if she’d been in an accident? What if someone had followed her? What if the missing passport had somehow put her in danger? Fear swelled, heavy and insistent, no longer something he could push aside.
Finally, Adam called Leo, trying to keep his voice steady and failing. He described what had happened—the prank, the missing passport, the unreachable phone, the strange emptiness of the day. Silence followed on the other end for a beat too long before Leo said he was coming over.