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The big blades overhead begin to spin, and the noise drowns out any chance for conversation. I don’t mind. Konstantin is all business right now. His attention is focused out towards the window, his fist clenched tight.
It actually upset him that I wasn’t in his house when he came back.On the one hand, my heart is doing a little dance that I’m struggling to halt, because it means that on some level, hedidcare about me.
But on the other hand …
Croatia …
The name sounds vaguely Eastern European. That’s all I can come up with. But it sounds so familiar.
I rack my brain for every morsel of information I can get but I’m coming up empty. The answer seems to hover on the tip ofmy tongue. Huffing, I decide to table that thought for later and choose to turn my attention outward towards the scenery.
The helicopter starts making its way from the airstrip and over a city. The red clay rooftops remind me so much of the Amalfi Coast. Just like that, I’m reminded of the texts that Nadia sent me. About how there was a shooting outside of Zebra Club and how it burned down.
I stare back at Konstantin’s head. Is he connected to that somehow?
He must be, I tell myself.He’s a mob boss, remember?
I turn my attention back to the rooftops. Is Nadia on her way back to America by now? Or is she still in the Amalfi Coast?
Does she even know that I’ve been taken?
The city below us passes by in a blur, and that’s when I see something that looks familiar. An ancient castle rising up on a slope by the sea. And then that’s when it hits me.
Dubrovnik! That’s the city they filmedGame of Thronesin!
Funny, the castle looks so much smaller from up high. But the more important thing that pops into my mind is the tidbit that there’s been alotof tourism into Dubrovnik thanks toGame of Thrones.
Which means …
A terrifyingly tantalizing thought enters into my mind. If I can just get to Dubrovnik and find an American tour group. Maybe I can …
And then what?The same little voice that’s been bugging me this entire time pipes up.He’ll just come find you again. You can’t escape him.
I start chewing my lip again.
“Something on your mind, Kitty Cat?”
Oh shit, have I been staring at him this entire time?
“Nothing,” I reply. “Just getting used to being here.”
Soon, the city disappears behind us as we crest over a massive mountain. I look out the windows and see what we’re flying toward. Beyond a wide expanse of green hills, lying low in a valley, is a massive lake. Its placid surface has a lavender hue that mirrors the beautiful sky up above. Olive and cypress trees circle the water in man-made geometric shapes.
But what’s really got my jaw dropping is the castle.
It sprawls out in the center of the lake like a dragon on a pile of treasure. The spires reach to the heavens—I count twelve of them along the stone base. It’s hard to judge from up here, but I’m sure it’s several acres wide.
We begin to dip toward it. My head has gone fuzzy from disbelief. “Isthatwhere you live?”
“It is.”
My eyes bulge at him. “Are you a prince as well as a mob boss?”
Throwing back his head, he begins to laugh with his full chest. He doesn’t stop until the helicopter is beginning its final descent onto the flat roof of the castle.
“No, I’m not a prince.”
“I’ve never met a mob boss with a castle before.”
