Elise’s hands shook as she dialed her father.
He answered instantly.
“Elise? Honey? What’s wrong?”
She tried to explain, but her voice cracked. Mara took the phone and finished the story.
A long, heavy silence. Then—
“Listen to me,” their father said, every word measured and cold. “Do not move. Do not answer anything else they ask you. I’m coming there right now.”
The airport staff didn’t know one simple fact:
Their father, Adrian Rowland, was the Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Skyward Holdings — the corporation that owned the airline operating that very flight.
And the moment he ended the call, he was already dialing his terminal operations director.
