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“You were working. I saw that you got the money, so I figured you were done.”
I did my best not to get more pissed, but it was hard. I’d put Ekaterina on a leash a long time ago, so why the fuck was I the one getting dragged around? A low sigh slipped my lips, and a growl followed.
“Then did you figure out where she went?”
Felix swallowed so loudly that it echoed in my ear. “She woke up and came downstairs. We talked a bit and then she got a text. After that, she ran outside. I hacked into her phone, and someone sent her a picture of Rhea Karalis all tied up and a location. I tracked the GPS of her car and from what I can tell, it’s abandoned.”
I got to my car quickly, slammed the door, and put Felix on speaker. “Why the fuck am I paying you? You’re useless as fuck.”
“Calm down,” he tried to reason. “Traffic cameras caught her and two black SUVs following her. Her location doesn’t have camera coverage, but I can find where the other two cars went. I’m assuming they have her in one of those two cars.”
“How long will that take?”
“I don’t know,” he responded reluctantly. “It will take a while to get a match. I’ll work on it the whole night.”
I clenched my jaw. “What about her phone?”
“It got shut off not too long after her car stopped. That’s a dead end.”
“Fuck,” I mumbled, slamming the steering wheel. “Redirect all of this to Dominik, not Aleksei. From what I’ve heard, that man isn’t in his right mind at the moment.”
“I’ll call you as soon as I get something.”
The line went dead.
There was a tracker in Kaya’s arm. It was supposed to tell me her location as soon as it got taken out, but, for whatever reason, it wasn’t working. I couldn’t pinpoint her location, at all.
I remained seated in my unmoving car for an hour. It took a lot of mental strength that I lacked at the moment to regain my composure. How the fuck did that girl manage to attract trouble wherever she went? If she wasn’t on a killing spree, she had people after her.
And even when she tried to lie low, it came back like a boomerang.
Ekaterina thought she was being slick but during her stay in Texas, she met up with a woman. Felix couldn’t see her face but the moment he described the woman as having a big scar all over her right arm, I knew who it was.
She was the closest thing to a competitor I had, but not quite. All of the assassination she’d been doing was for Antonio De Luca. I was unsure of what their relationship was, given that he was married, but she’d been working for him since she was eighteen, officially. Unofficially? Who knew.
Lilia Santorini, twenty-seven, father unknown, mother an addict. Aside from her physical appearance and some basic information, there was nothing I could find out about her. De Luca made sure no one would ever track her down, and that was suspicious; however, it was something irrelevant.
It was a fact that Kaya never had a lot of friends. Hell, she even despised her brothers more often than not. Rhea Karalis was probably the only one she thought of as being worthy of her time. So, what was the deal with Lilia and Kaya?
The two, officially, never crossed paths, yet they’d met up twice before Felix went to bail Kaya out of jail. Either Kaya had something on Lilia and was blackmailing her in exchange for help, or their rotten personalities made them a match made in Hell.
Ekaterina was a sociopath, whereas Lilia was known to simply be brutal.
It was… irritating, to say the least. The only person who Lilia was truly loyal to was Antonio De Luca. Despite his connection to my little lion, no one trusted that bastard. Aleksei kept his distance, whilst remaining cordial. Dominik, on the other hand, had yet to recognize his existence. That alone made me despise his little relationship with Kaya.
I turned the car on and sped off. Felix texted me the location of Kaya’s car. Of course, it had to be in the middle of nowhere. Nothing but woods and her bright-red Audi on the side of the road.
At first glance, there was nothing wrong with it. The car was in its best state, as was expected of Kaya. However, as I got closer, I saw something on the backseat of the car. It wasn’t locked, and it was a surprise that no one had stolen it, given that the key was in the engine.
It was a small, crumpled piece of paper. It was unlike Kaya to keep junk in her car, given that she was a perfectionist. Even a small fingerprint on the window was enough to piss her off, let alone a piece of paper.
“Don’t worry. I’ll find her for you.”
It was signed by The Rapscallion. A loud snort came from the depths of my throat. That motherfucker was slowly reaching the limits of my patience. I threw the piece of paper and slammed the goddamn door shut.
Who the fuck did he think he was? Time was ticking, and whoever had Kaya didn’t have pure intentions. The mere thought of her being tortured, again, at her father’s hand, again, brought nothing but fury that seemed to grow with each passing moment.
This needed to end now. Her father better pray that the lowlifes he paid off would be loyal because I have no desire to let Kaya play her little cat and mouse game with him. Irrelevant of her wishes, I would put a bullet through that bastard’s head.
