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“I cannot be getting sick right now,” I mutter.
I should probably take some aspirin or something. I’m standing to grab it from the kitchen when my phone starts to ring from my room. I have no idea who could be calling me at 5am. I’m tempted to ignore it but when it starts to ring again, I head into my room to get it.
It’s my sister. Which is odd. Katerina is not a morning person. I can’t remember the last time she was up before 7am. She loves her beauty sleep.
“We have a problem,” is what she says as soon as I answer.
“Yeah, I know,” I say, clutching my stomach that’s still queasy. “Dimitri’s an idiot who kidnapped an innocent woman and is refusing to give her back.”
“They took her,” Kat breathes.
That gives me pause. “What do you mean?”
“I mean they took the woman back. Two hours ago, some men in the De Luca family stormed into headquarters. They found her.”
My heart stops. “How did they find us?”
“I don’t know. But they didn’t stop with taking the woman back. They broke into the safe in Papa’s office, stole a couple of files. And they killed five men who were standing guard. It was a clean job. They were able to override our security system. We had no idea something was wrong until they were gone.”
“Oh God,” I breathe.
“Yeah, we’re screwed. I’m heading over there now to determine what documents they took. This is not good, Sophia.”
“I know, I know. I just can’t believe they found the building. It’s very well hidden.”
“We should have been prepared for this,” Katerina says in frustration. “I should have thought about it. Since our identities were exposed, it wouldn’t have been that hard to follow any of us there. Honestly, we slipped up and now we’re in trouble..”
I stop listening to her as my mind zeros in what she said.
Any of us could have been followed.
I think back to yesterday and how upset Tony was. But he wouldn’t. Would he?
“Sophia!” my sister shouts, bringing me back.
“Yeah,” I say, my throat dry.
“I need you here. Papa’s furious. Thankfully, he’s directing all his rage to Dimitri right now. This is his fucking fault. I can’t believe he’s only been back two days and has managed to screw things up so monumentally. I thought he was here to help us.”
“He’s an idiot,” I mutter.
“Yeah and now we’ve got to clean up his mess.”
“Okay, I’ll just get dressed. I’m on my way.”
As soon as she hangs up, I feel another wave of nausea that has me running to the bathroom and throwing up. Once I’m done, I head back to my bedroom and lie face down on my bed, groaning.
I allow myself a pity party of five minutes before I’m getting to my feet. I drink some coffee, take some aspirin and immediately feel stronger. After a shower, I call Albert to come pick me up.
Right before I leave my house, I cave and send Tony a text.
It was you, wasn’t it?
He replies within seconds. Just one measly word.
Yes.
Fuck you, Tony.
