“Missing? What do you mean, missing?” Gabriel asked as he looked around the room as though he expected Trey to jump out of his hiding spot and burst into laughter for pulling a prank on them.
Trick looked up over the laptop with a frown. “Missing… as in… Not found. Absent. Gone. Disappeared. The Oxford dictionary defines it as…”
“Are you done?”
“I don't know. Do you have more stupid questions?”
“Enough, both of you!” Edward’s firm voice cut through the air like a hot knife in butter.
The entire room went quiet for a tense moment. Trick’s lips thinned as he made a visible effort to stay quiet. He then lowered his eyes and looked at the screen of his laptop, but didn’t seem able to continue whatever he had been doing just seconds before.
Gabriel had been the last person to arrive. He
