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I feel like telling them to fuck off and leaving this to Tino, but now he’s out there, and he also has no idea what’s going on. What if he does something to upset Mackenzie and she does to him what she did to this Professor Kassell? I’d never considered Mack might be dangerous to us. I’d always believed we were the ones who could harm her. To my surprise, a tiny thrill goes through me that leads straight to my cock. I think of the times she’s slapped me, how she bit my chest while we were fucking. Yes, our Duchess has violence inside her, but we never truly knew how deep that well ran.
I turn and pick up my cell from where I’d left it on the bed after trying to get hold of the asshole last night, and then scroll to Tino’s number. I hit the green button to call, and then press the phone to my ear. It doesn’t even ring. The call just goes straight to voicemail.
I leave a brief message. “Hey, it’s me. Call me back, ASAP. It’s important.”
Then I end the call and bring up the app I’ve been using to trace Mack’s phone. It doesn’t only tell me her last known location, it also tells me what calls and texts she’s been receiving, plus what she’s been doing on social media, which, considering Mack thought she was hiding out from the police, is nothing. Right now, though, there’s only an error showing.
“What the fuck?”
Last known location was…? A gas station a few hours north from here. It should have updated again by now.
“Tino,” I growl. “Fucking Tino.”
What’s he done? Messed with the app so we wouldn’t be able to find her? Switched off his phone so we can’t contact him either? I know exactly why he’s done it. He wants her all to himself.
That son of a bitch. I’m going to fucking kill him.
Chapter 10
Kirill
Dom turns up at my door looking like he’s about to tell me the world is ending.
He’s pale, too, and it makes the now-healing injuries his father gave him look even worse. What the fuck is going on? I’ve heard some shit has gone down, but I’ve had my own shit to deal with.
My father is on his way, and he’s furious.
“Where is Valentino?” I ask. “Where is Mackenzie?”
Dom rakes his hand through his hair. “You’re not going to like this.”
“Too fucking right, I’m not. Tell me. Now.”
I do not appreciate being made to feel like a…what do they call it? A third wheel…or in this case, a fourth wheel. We are supposed to be in this together, but now they treat me as though I have no right to be included. That fucks me off. That seriously fucks me off.
Dom sinks to a chair and puts his head in his hands. I don’t like this stance from him. He seems defeated.
“You know our little Duchess? Our prim and proper girl? Well, seems a lot of it was just as act.”
“I have no idea what you’re saying.”
“She killed a man. Or at least she tried to.”
“Schto?” I’m so shocked the what comes out in Russian.
Dom continues, “I thought the only reason she and her mother came here was to get in with my father, but I was wrong—or at least partly wrong. They came here to protect Mackenzie.”
Despite myself, I give a cold laugh. “That went well.”
Poor girl falling in with us. I don’t really include myself in that. I don’t think I hurt her the way Dom and Tino have. Tino with his fucking cameras, and Dom with his fucking issues.
This is the worst possible time for this to be happening. I’m already sick to my stomach at the news that my father needs to see me, face-to-face. He hasn’t told me the exact reason, but I can take a good guess. He wouldn’t be traveling all this way if it wasn’t for something deeply serious.
I glance at my watch.
“Oh, I’m sorry, do you have somewhere you’d rather be?” Dom sneers. “Am I keeping you?”
“Fuck you. My father is on his way.”
