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I nod, taking a cigarette from my pocket and lighting the end.
“One day till you got everything you need,” Francesco muses.
I stand up from the chair and walk toward the cart stocked with alcohol in the corner of the room. I pour myself a glass and bring it to my lips. Then I reach into my pocket for my phone, which has been blowing up for the past half hour. I couldn’t answer it because I was too focused on the paper in front of me.
I have six missed calls from Dimitri.
Shit.
I dial his number, and the phone doesn’t even finish the first ring before he picks up.
“Mikhail, what that fuck, man? Answer your phone when I call!” he shouts.
“Sorry, I was busy,” I tell him.
“Sloane is gone.”
Everything in the room slows down as I hear those words come through the phone. Panic shoots through my bloodstream.
“What do you mean she’s gone? Where the fuck is she, Dimitri?”
“I don’t know. I fell asleep on the couch for a couple hours. When I woke up and saw it was past noon, I went to check on her, but she wasn’t there. I looked through the house and found nothing. Her shoes are gone.”
My grip strengthens around the edges of my phone. “You fell asleep.”
“It’s been a long couple of days, man.”
“You. Fell. Asleep.”
“I’ll find her.”
“You’d better fucking find her.” I hang up and stride toward the door.
“What’s going on?” Adrian asks.
I put the end of the cigarette out in an empty bottle of vodka. “She fucking left.”
“Sloane?”
“Who the hell else?” I run my hands through my hair. She fucking left. Why would she leave? After last night, I thought things had gotten better between us—but of course, she has to defy me. It’s in her nature to do the opposite of everything I say. She’s a manipulative little brat.
“Okay, think,” Lev says. “She’d go back to try to get in contact with her father, right?”
I shake my head. “She’s careless, not stupid.” Then I take the empty bottle and throw it at a wall, flustered. “Fuck!”
* * *
Hours pass by as I frantically tear apart the city looking for her.
She is a fucking witch. She used her body to gain my trust just to betray me.
My phone chimes, and I see an alert from my bank about a withdrawal. My head falls back and I let a laugh slip through my lips when I see the number. Without thinking, I approve the payment. Sloane will always get what she wants, and I hate her even more for it. She’s got a magic wand that’s able to demand anything of me and I’ll simply oblige.
I update Dimitri on where she is and tell him to pick her up. I expected more of him, but I can’t be mad. I’ve had them doing a lot for me. I should have stayed with Sloane or at least brought her with me today.
And now I don’t know what I’m going to do with her.
CHAPTER24
