Swallowing my anger, I spoke to her gently, "Do you have a phone? We could call your parents to come get you."
"Mommy told me to stay with cold brother," she answered simply.
Cold brother? Xavier, I assumed. Because of his perpetually icy expression?
And her mother had instructed her to stay with him?
I was stunned.
I exchanged a confused glance with Sebastian.
So she wasn't some vulnerable woman Xavier had manipulated at a party - her mother had actually approved this arrangement?
If that was the case, it wasn't our place to intervene.
"Let's take her to building management," Sebastian suggested. "They can contact Xavier to come collect his new girlfriend."
"That's perfect!" I agreed immediately.
We escorted her down to the lobby and handed her off to the property manager.
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