Chapter 136 Tiana tried to move, to assess the damage, but her body wouldn't cooperate. Her legs, both of them now, refused to respond to her commands. She could feel them there, could feel the pain radiating from them, but they wouldn't move. The phone. She needed the phone. She craned her neck, searching, and saw it through tear-blurred vision, still upstairs where it had fallen, its screen glowing uselessly twenty feet above her. No. No, there had to be another way. Think. Think through the pain and the fear and think. Nikolai had broken every traffic law getting there. He'd called Tiana's number seventeen times during the drive but there was no answer. He'd tried the house phone but it just rang and rang. He'd pushed the Range Rover to speeds that made the engine scream, running red lights, taking corners so hard the tires left rubber on the asphalt. Sandy had called him back once to say she was stuck in traffic, wasn't going to make it in time, that he needed to get there
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