Page 138 of Sinful Promise

Igor holds the phone up to my face to unlock it before opening up my call log and scrolling through the list of contacts until he finds Dimitri’s name.

“It’s showtime.” He presses the call button and puts the phone on speaker.

I forget to breathe as it rings.

This is my one shot to warn Dimitri about what’s about to happen.

But how the hell am I meant to do that when one wrong word leads to a bullet between the eyes?

Think, Danil.

When the call connects, I have to fight against every instinct that is screaming at me to tell Dimitri the truth.

“Danil?” Dimitri barks.

I’ve never been so relieved to hear my brother’s voice in my entire life. “Dimitri. Liste?—”

“Where the fuck have you been?”

I catch the sound of the twins crying in the background, and my heart feels like it’s being ripped out of my chest.

I can’t let Igor take them too.

My eyes flick to Igor, who silently shakes his head in a silent warning as if he can read where my thoughts are going.

“I…I need you and the others to come to my apartment.”

“It’s four fucking A.M., Danil. Zara has been up all night worried sick about Emily, and the twins have barely slept.”

“I know, I’m sorry.”

“You’ll be much more than sorry when I get my hands on you, littlebrat.”

You have no fucking idea.

“And where’s Emily? We’re unable to track her phone, and I’ve had Alek and Reid out half the night looking for her. Everyone is worried sick, Danil.”

Fuck. I had hoped that Emily’s phone would somehow be on her, but of course, it isn’t. She put it in the pocket of my jacket, which must have been left behind when Igor’s men took us.

I need another plan.

“Danil,” Dimitri barks.

“Emily is fine, I dropped her at Jana’s. Her phone must have died or something.”

“The tracker would still work. That doesn’t make sense.”

I look at Igor, and he narrows his eyes at me.

He’s expecting me to fix this mess that he’s somehow created for me.

Fucking great.

“Knowing Emily, she probably dropped her phone in the bath or something, and it fucked up the tracker.” I glance at Igor, and he nods. “I’ll make sure to replace it tomorrow.”

“You better, Danil. After all, you're the one who insisted that you can protect her.”

If only he knew…

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