Page 17 of The Broken Promises

"Lily," he guesses when I take the phone from the end table. I shriek when he playfully slaps my butt. "Grow it back to the original one."

I playfully scowl at him and walk out. I answer the phone, giggling, but I suddenly stop when Lily tells me, "He knows everything."

“What do you mean? Who?” I ask.

"Gabriel. He knows what we did. What we planned to do. And the other stuff I did," Lily tells me.

“Where are you, Lily?” She sounds terrified and seems to be in a crowded place.

I haven’t checked on her because we agreed to stop seeing each other for a while because of Declan. They can easily connect the dots if they discover I’m best friends with Lily. Guilt struck me for a moment. I’ve been so happy and busy with Dmitri that I failed to check on her.

“I’ll ask Dmitri to send somebody to get you,” I offered.

"No, I can take care of myself," Lily declares in a panicky tone. "Just listen, Sasha. Don't interrupt me."

I look around to see if Dmitri is somewhere – eavesdropping. I peek at our room and find him sleeping. “What is it?”

“It’s Dmitri’s sister,” Lily starts.

Lily tells me a woman claiming to be Dmitri's sister came to see her. Dmitri's sister claimed my father asked her for help in providing my documents. So, when I used Sicily Kolotov as my name, she knew I'm alive. Lily didn't know the woman's agenda, but the latter offered to help us with our plan. She supplied Lily with information about Gabriel's business with the Bratva. Lily fed it to the authorities. Hence, Gabriel became the subject of numerous investigations.

“Lily?” I call when she stops talking. My chest goes on fire as terror engulfs me. “Dmitri!”

Dmitri walks out of the room and rushes to me.Dmitri’s sister.Is that why Dmitri knew all along that I was Sasha? He and his sister have other plans with me? My heart thumps hard and causes me to hyperventilate.

“Breathe, Sasha,” Dmitri brushes my cheeks and continues to calm me.

I look at him with suspicion.An heir.It must be what they need from me. Papa had other accounts under my name. If a DNA test can prove that a child is mine, the latter can claim all the money hidden under my name.

“Sasha?” Dmitri gives me a puzzled look.

He needs my money to defeat Gabriel. Is that it? With my money, the Fador can become as powerful as Vitaly. And with all the problems surrounding Gabriel and Vitaly, they can easily eliminate them.

No! I look at Dmitri, and once again, the question I dreaded crosses my mind. Does he really love me?"