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“Fine,” he sighs, tapping on his phone screen and then turning it for me to see.
I quickly tap out her number and hold my phone to my ear, pacing the hall.
“Hello?” she answers.
“Cassie?”
“Who’s asking?”
“Vinny. I got your number from Nico. Can I talk to Lexi? I have to ask her something and she’s not answering her phone.”
“Uhm, and you’re calling me? She’s not with me.”
I stop pacing and look at Nico. “She’s not?”
“No. Should she be? What’s going on?”
“I don’t know yet. I have to go.” I hang up and squeeze my phone, wanting to throw it against the wall.
“She’s not with her,” Nico says, and I shake my head. “Maybe she’s with her grandfather.”
“She wouldn’t need to lie about that. I need Stefano. Now.”
Walking back into the dining room, everyone goes quiet when they see the look on my face. “Stef, I need you.” I turn on my heel and stalk back down the hall to Michael’s old office, and I can hear the footsteps of more than just Stefano following me.
“What the hell is going on, Vin?” Leo asks, closing the door behind him and all my cousins.
“I’ve been seeing someone and she lied to me today about her plans. Her friend just confirmed that. I need you to track her car and phone, Stef. I need to know where she is.”
“Are you sure about this, Vin?”
“Yes,” I hiss.
“Alright.” He sits down at the desk and logs into the computer. “Give me her name and phone number.” I rattle it off and he starts frantically typing away, then frowns. “Her phone isn’t emitting a signal.”
“I called her just a few minutes ago and it rang. It didn’t go straight to voicemail like it was off.”
“She could’ve been driving and then went somewhere with a blocked signal like a tunnel or parking garage.” He keeps typing away. “I’m assuming you don’t have her car’s vin number on hand so I can get the GPS info, so I’ll just…” he trails off, focusing on whatever he’s doing. “Just give me a few minutes.”
Those few minutes are tense, and when Stefano squints at the screen and curses, my stomach drops.
“What?”
“Her car is in Chinatown.”
“What?” I bark, rounding the desk to look at the monitor myself. “What the fuck do you mean her car is in Chinatown? Where in Chinatown?”
Vinny zooms in. “South side. Around the corner from the Triads’ old gambling house.”
“Fuck,” I curse, rubbing the back of my neck.
“The one the Bychkov’s took over after we took out the Chen brothers?” Leo steps forward and asks.
“Yes,” Stefano confirms, and my stomach sinks.
“Do you know that’s where she is, though? Maybe there’s something else on the block,” Leo offers as an option, but I shake my head.
“No, that’s where she is. She fucking counts cards. She’s good, too. She did it at The Aces last week to piss me off and get my attention.”
