Page 46 of Savage Little Secret

“Because we have bigger plans for you.”

I stop struggling, his words sending a chill racing down my spine. “Plans? What plans?”

Light rustling sounds hit my ears. “I think you should rest for now. We’ll talk later.”

“Wait, what?” I say before something sharp bites my thigh.

I jerk and realize too late what it is.

He just injected me with something!

“Sleep tight,” he says, amusement lacing his voice.

“What did you do? What is this?” I shout at him as I hear him walk away from me. “Hey! Stop!”

My head suddenly starts to feel heavy and dizzy. I blink slowly as the sensation intensifies. My entire body feels like it’s floating. “You can’t do this…you can’t…”

A low chuckle drifts down the stairs. “You really should’ve paid closer attention to who your boyfriend makes enemies with.”

The last thing I hear is the sound of his fading footsteps as I slip into unconsciousness once again.

17

Dmitri

The car is upside down in a ditch, its roof crushed in like a kicked skull.

“Do you think she survived?”

The question echoes in my mind as I stare at the wreckage of my S-Class on the side of the road. The same car that Cara took to escape to who knows where.

“Dmitri?”

I tear my eyes away from the dented metal and shattered glass to look at Andrei, a pit forming deep in my stomach.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that,” Andrei tells me, sounding genuinely apologetic.

“There’s no body,” Isaak speaks up from behind me as he gives me space to look at what I can only call a fucking disaster.

After it became clear that Cara was nowhere to be found, I said fuck it and launched a full-scale investigation into finding her. Over the past week, I’ve scoured the city for information on her whereabouts, not caring who I pissed off and what enemies I made.

The Council has stopped returning my calls. They say I’ve lost perspective. That I’ve let a woman make me reckless.

Some of my men won’t even assist me. Some will. Andrei immediately offered to help once I explained everything to him. I’ll remember who stuck with me and who didn’t.

When all of this is over and I find Cara, there will be consequences. But for now, my efforts are strictly on locating her.

It seems like she didn’t get too far before she crashed my car.

“Have you touched anything? Moved anything?” I question Isaak as I turn to face him.

He shakes his head. “I was just driving by and surveying the area when I found it. All I did was look inside to see if she was in there or not.”

I breathe in deeply through my nose before approaching the car. What’s left of it. My feet feel like they’re made of lead as I trudge forward, my eyes sweeping over the battered, upside-down body of my car.

I crouch down near the driver’s side window, broken glass crunching under my shoes as I peer inside. My stomach churns.

“There’s blood on the ceiling,” I say aloud, my words clipped.