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I hang up and focus on Santino, who studies his phone screen intently.
“She’s on the move again,” he announces. “She’s leaving the station. She must have spotted us.”
What did he expect? We’re hard to miss.
He signals to our men to come back and calls the ones he can’t see.
After the night we spent together, why did she run?
She gave herself to me like never before. All of her was mine. I didn’t imagine it.
What happened after I got out of bed this morning? She looked so upset in the video footage.
Taking a deep breath to find some calm, I close my eyes for a second.
It’s long enough to sense her. She hasn’t left at all.
She’s still here. I feel her watching me.
My eyes fly open, and my gaze is drawn to the train that’s about to depart. I search every window for her face but see only strangers.
My heart rate is through the roof. I know like I know my name, she’s on that train.
“Get on that train,” I yell at the closest soldier, but he can’t hear me over the station noise.
I run toward it, wildly gesturing to him to get on the bloody train… but it’s too late. The doors close before he gets anywhere near them, and the train pulls out from the platform.
The hairs on my neck stand like nails.
I glance up at the digital sign on the platform.
Milan.
Shit! If she gets to Milan, she could take a train to anywhere or change to a bus or taxi.
“She’s on that fucking train,” I tell Santino, who appears beside me. “It goes to Milan. Find out each stop along the way and have two men at each station. We’re driving to Milan and wait for her there.”
“She’s not on the train,” Santino insists. “Her signal is moving away, look. I think she took a taxi. Mauro is already following her, but we need to go now, boss.”
“She might have realized that the earrings have a tracker and given them to somebody who has now left. I’m sure she was on that train. Station the men as instructed.”
Santino nods but still tries to reason with me. “If that was the case, she could have taken any train since she arrived here half an hour ago, or she could have given the earrings to someone as soon as she got into Monza. She could be anywhere by now.”
Does he think I don’t know that? I want to wring his neck for pointing out the obvious.
I wish I’d listen to my instincts and implanted a chip in her. Then we wouldn’t be in this living hell.
“She could be on a bus or hitchhiking to get out of here,” Santino continues.
Hitchhiking… I can’t even think about that. She must realize how much danger she is in, surely?
My silence spurs Santino into action, and he’s already on the phone, firing off orders. We will wait for her at each station.
“We better get going,” Santino says. “It only takes the train eighteen minutes to get to Milan. I don’t think we’ll make it.”
“Mateo is closer than us. If he leaves right away, he should make it.”
I dial my brother. He answers on the first ring. “You’ve got her?”
