Sleeping With The CEO
Chapter 343: Helicopter

Chapter 343: Helicopter

For the record, Cassandra Haven would have liked it noted that she was not a helicopter mom.

She did not hover about while her son tried to live his best life.

All that she did was make sure that he was safe.

And that he was happy, that was it. She was not an overbearing mother. She was just a woman who’d had to raise her son as a single mom, while running a huge company. It had not been an easy task. But as difficult as raising him alone had been. She had managed to raise a strong, independent young man.

But even now that Derek was a grown man who could take care of himself. Cassandra was having trouble just letting go of all of the control that she’d had. Especially when it came to keeping an eye on him. After the whole debacle where she had made the monumental mistake, of breaking him and Emily up. Cassandra had realized that she needed to loosen the reins a bit, otherwise she would lose her son for good.

And she was trying. She really was. He was an adult now. He no longer needed protection from her. Her son was always managing to get himself out of sticky situations without her help.

The only hovering that Cassandra did when it came to her son now, was through the phone. Either through calling, texting, or using the tracking feature to determine his location from time to time.

He knew about that and he was alright with it. Just so long as she did not abuse the privilege. Being able to track him through his phone was not much. Especially when one considered how much surveillance Cassandra could have had on him given the amount of money and power that she wielded.

But the phone tracking was a lifeline that Cassandra used to calm herself whenever she felt like checking on him without bothering him.

That day Cassandra should not have felt the need to check. Derek had told her that he was taking Emily on a picnic after all.

But her heart would not settle. She hadn’t been able to shake the feeling that something was wrong.

She’d tried to go the less invasive route first, sending him texts and messages. Just hoping for a simple reply...

’I am fine mother,’ or maybe even a picture of himself and Emily just having a good time. But there had been no answer. Something that almost never happened. Derek did not make a habit out of ignoring her.

Cassandra had gone from texts to calls after that, and those had not connected at all.

Instead she had gotten error message, after error message. And that was when she had begun to worry. She had finally gone for option three, the tracking his location through the phone.

When she had not been able to find her son’s whereabouts, Cassandra’s worry had skyrocketed. She’d had his car tracked instead, feeling all types of guilty as she had done so.

But justifying the invasion of privacy by telling herself that she would apologize to him, and admit upfront what she had done. A few minutes after she had sent out the request. She had received the exact location of Derek’s car.

When she had been told that the car was parked on the side of a road, she had breathed a sigh of relief. And then she had been told the name of the road, and her mind had gone completely blank.

When she had come back online, she had not just been a helicopter mom.

She had been an entire mothership. From police, to firefighters... anyone from any organisation that could help, Cassandra had instantly called. Not even bothering with lower ranked employees. Going straight for their bosses.

Never in her life had Cassandra been as grateful for her status, and her money as she had been. She had immediately sent people to check.

Word had gotten back to her soon after, that the car had been found exactly where the coordinates said it was. But Emily and Derek were nowhere in sight.

"We will keep looking until we find them, Mrs Haven. Do not worry," The man on the other end of the line had said.

His words meant to be comforting. He probably said them to dozens of people everyday, and they might have worked for others. But for her, they did not instead they had triggered something deep within Cassandra, and everything had faded from her. She barely remembered getting into the car. But somehow she had blinked and had been at Jane’s place. Where she had finally fallen apart, everything sinking in.

Scaring Jane half to death before she managed to get herself together and properly explain herself. The two of them falling apart again at the realization that history was repeating itself.

But as they slowly got themselves under control and Jane looked at Cassandra with red-rimmed eyes.

Derek’s mother realized that things were not exactly as they had been 20 years back. The two of them were stronger now, wiser. And it showed when Jane took a deep breath, and spoke up.

"Have you reported it yet?" She asked. And Cassandra nodded.

"I also have private search teams out looking," She added, and the other woman nodded.

"Good. The two of us are going out there, and we are going to help in the search efforts," Jane Molson said. And Cassandra looked at her, stunned.

She was used to being the planner in situations but somehow with everything going on. It had not occurred to Cassandra that they too could be out there lending a hand. She had been too busy falling apart to even consider that possibility. But now that Jane had mentioned it, Cassandra could see no other way. The last time they had lost family. They had been nothing but crying messes on the floor.

This time they would be out there in the thick of things, and not sitting around waiting for news like damsels in distress.