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I’m angry and scared for Liam all at the same time. What is he doing, and is he okay? If he purposely gets himself killed, I’m going to strangle him.
I make feeble attempts to distract myself. Today, I'm in the library trying to read but not being successful at it. I've tried to read the same page over and over for the last thirty minutes.
A commotion outside the library distracts me again.
"We don't know what's going on, Lucy. There's nothing to explain." Niko's voice has that same firm tone that says not to contradict him.
"She deserves to know." Lucy doesn't seem to care that Niko is in Boss mode.
“There’s nothing to know. This isn’t the first time Liam has gone MIA.”
The words strike fear into my soul. Something's gone wrong.
“Yeah, well, that wasn’t the plan.”
The library door opens and Lucy comes in.
Niko stands behind her, his expression the epitome of fuming. "Lucy."
Lucy ignores him and comes over to sit with me.
Immediately, tears are in my eyes. "Is it Liam? Is he…?" I can't bring myself to say the word.
Lucy takes my hands. "We don't know. What we do know is that he's gone missing. We believe that Babichev has him."
I stare at her, not wanting to believe what she's saying.
"We're doing everything we can to find him. And by him, I mean Liam. But we will also find Babichev and kill him if Liam wasn't successful. We promised Liam we would do that, and we will. If Liam is gone, it won't be in vain?—"
"If Liam's gone, what’s the point?"
She draws me into a hug. "The point is he wants you to live. He wants you and this baby to have a long and happy life. You’ll do that for him."
I pull away. "You don't even like him."
"It's not that I don't like him. It's that I don't like the way he's treated you sometimes."
"He's only trying to protect me." I suppose it's ironic that I'm defending him on the very behavior that upset me about him.
"You must realize, don't you, that he loves you?"
The memory of his asking me to tell the baby that he loves him and the baby's mother comes back to me.
"She's right," Niko says. "I've known Liam since we were boys. There's no way Liam would've gone out on a limb in the FBI or even in the Bratva for anyone."
I look up at Niko. "He’d do it for you."
"True. But I’ve never seen him behave with anyone the way he has with you."
"What's going on?" Elena enters the library. When she sees Niko and Lucy, her expression turns worried. "Oh, no. Did something happen to Liam?"
"We don't know that anything has happened to Liam. We just haven’t heard from him, and he’s not where he said he’d be." Niko puts his arm around Elena.
"What about Babichev?" she asks.
"We’re still not certain about that. But whatever happens, I'm keeping my word to Liam," Niko says to me. “You’ll be back in your regular life. I promise."
I stare up at Niko. "What if Liam's okay? What if you find him, and you kill Babichev?"
