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I grab my phone and call the guy I have there, but while Ellie’s awake, she’s still there, for obvious reasons. “Call me the moment she turns up,” I say, “if she turns up.”
Pacing, I go to the foyer, because I’m half inclined to get after her. But I don’t know where she’s gone. Home?
That’s my first instinct. But Mia isn’t gonna just go home and hide. She’s going to do something. Go through the wreckage, yell at someone, visit Ellie.
My money really is on the last one, so why is unease eating at me? It doesn’t make sense.
I whirl around and almost fall over Leo. “Damn, you need a fucking cat bell.”
“Christian,” he says stonily, “we need to get people on everyone associated with Russo. If they were after her, we haven’t got them all. This threat’s going to last if we don’t do something.”
“Like me marry her?”
He sighs. “Do you want to? There are others—”
“If anyone touches her, I’ll kill them. Like I told you.”
“So, you then.”
That unease turns to lead. “She won’t have me. I fucked things up.”
There’s a buzzing sound coming from somewhere in the foyer. It starts up but I ignore it, focusing on Leo, who’s looking at me like he’s never seen me.
“What did you do? Tell her she’s a fucking piece of ass and nothing more? If you did, I’ll kill you,” he says, not sounding concerned, like he’s the only one in on something here, even as he hands out threats to me like candy. “Or better yet, let Mia.”
“Don’t talk about your sister that way. Of course, I don’t think that.” I rub a hand over my face. “Mia has her own mind. And . . .”
I love her.
How did this get so fucked up?
“Okay,” he says when I don’t finish my sentence. “That’s good enough for me, but break her heart and I—”
“Might be a bad time, but I have something,” Theo suddenly says, interrupting. We turn as one and he’s there, at the top of the foyer, face pure ice. “We got a call.”
The buzzing starts again, and I ignore it. “Who?”
“Russo. Seems they’re claiming they’ve got Mia. They’re going to make sure the contract goes ahead, after all.”
The bottom falls from my world. I clench my hands and switch modes. Pure, emotionless hard professional.
Never, not even when the girls were taken last time, has anything been so difficult.
“Your father is working an angle.” But Theo’s gaze is on me. “We need to split up—”
“Hold on.” The buzzing is back. I look around and that’s when I see it. Near the door. Something that resembles a cell phone.
I’m there in seconds, sweeping it up. Ellie’s been calling, but I ignore that. There’s a text still on the screen and the address . . .
Near Hellfire.
I check my gun, pulling it from the holster. Loaded, but I like to make sure.
“Christian?”
Looking up at Theo and Leo, I just say, “Do what you need. Send Nicolo after me.”
“Where the fuck are you going?”
