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Chapter 21

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONEMY FIRST CHOICEAURORAI stepped toward him.One step.Then another.Aleksandr didn’t move.That surprised me.For days, he had always been the one moving first when I needed something.When I was hurt.When I was afraid.When I woke screaming.When I couldn’t stand.When Nikolai reached for me.But now—nothing.His arms remained at his sides.His expression gave away almost nothing.Only his eyes.Those dark eyes watched every step I took.The open door remained behind me.Cold night air moved through the entrance.Freedom.Real freedom.I could turn around.Walk outside.Ask him for the keys.Demand a phone.Call Whitney.Call the police.Call anyone.Aleksandr had just told me I could.And somehow—that made walking toward him feel different.I stopped directly in front of him.He looked down at me.“Aurora.”“You said something before.”His jaw tightened.“What?”“When we were still at the estate.”He knew.I could tell by the way his expression changed.I cont

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Chapter 22

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWOTHE HUNT BEGINSNIKOLAIThey were gone.I stood in Aleksandr’s bedroom and stared at the empty bed.For several seconds, nobody spoke.Nobody was stupid enough.The room still carried signs of them.Blanket pulled back.A glass on the nightstand.Medical supplies missing from the bathroom.Several pieces of Aleksandr’s clothing gone.Aurora’s borrowed boots gone.His black travel bag gone.His weapons—gone.I turned.Roman stood near the doorway.Viktor stood beside him.Three guards waited farther down the hallway.All of them looked like men who understood that someone was about to suffer for this.“Where are they?”Nobody answered.I looked at Roman.“Where is my brother?”“I don’t know.”Wrong answer.I crossed the room.My fist connected with Roman’s mouth.His head snapped sideways.He stumbled.Viktor moved.One step.I looked at him.“Don’t.”Viktor stopped.Roman slowly straightened.Blood appeared at the corner of his mouth.He wiped it with his thumb.“I

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Chapter 23

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREEBECAUSE YOU STAYEDALEKSANDRShe didn’t know I was watching her.Aurora stood in front of the kitchen window with her coffee between both hands.Barefoot.Wearing one of my shirts because the clothes I’d packed for her weren’t comfortable against the bruises on her stomach.The shirt reached halfway down her thighs.Her hair was messy from sleep.Her face was still bruised.The sight of those bruises made something ugly move inside me every time I looked at them.But she was here.Safe.Free.And smiling.Barely.But smiling.She’d been standing there for almost five minutes.Looking at the trees.At first, I’d assumed she was thinking about Whitney.The call had been emotional.Aurora had cried.Laughed.Cried again.Threatened to hang up on Whitney twice.Then she’d told her something I hadn’t expected.I need time with him.With me.She had told her best friend not to come.Not because I had asked.I hadn’t.If Aurora had told Whitney where we were and asked he

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Chapter 24

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURWHAT COMES NEXTAURORANothing happened.That should not have felt strange.But it did.By six o’clock that evening, nobody had come through the trees.No black SUVs appeared at the end of the road.No helicopters flew overhead.No men with guns surrounded the house.Nikolai didn’t kick down the door.The windows didn’t shatter.Nothing happened.And somehow—that was harder to trust.I stood near the living room window watching the trees while Aleksandr moved around the kitchen behind me.The sun had begun disappearing between the mountains.Long shadows stretched across the yard.Everything looked peaceful.Normal.Too normal.“You’ve checked that window eleven times.”I glanced over my shoulder.“You counted?”“Yes.”“That means you’ve been watching me.”“Yes.”At least he didn’t bother denying it anymore.I turned back toward the window.“Maybe I like the view.”“You don’t.”“How do you know?”“Because every time you look, you check road first.”I frowned.I ha

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Chapter25

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVEIF I HAD TO CHOOSEALEKSANDRAurora went upstairs twenty-three minutes before I did.I knew because I looked at the clock when she left.Then again five minutes later.Then seven minutes after that.Then eleven.By the time twenty-three minutes had passed, I was standing in the kitchen staring at the same security feed I had already checked four times.Nothing.Trees.Driveway.Side yard.Rear entrance.Empty road.No headlights.No movement.No Nikolai.I switched cameras.Nothing.Again.Nothing.I should have been relieved.Instead, I trusted silence less than gunfire.Gunfire told you where enemy was.Silence made you wonder.I set the tablet down.The house was quiet.Too quiet without her downstairs.That irritated me.Not because I wanted her making noise.Aurora always made noise.Cabinet doors.Questions.Bare feet against hardwood.Random humming she probably did not realize she was doing.Arguments about things that did not require arguments.Pineapple.

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Chapter 26

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXTHEY’RE NOT FAR BEHINDALEKSANDRThe sound woke me instantly.Not loud.Not enough to wake most people.But I was not most people.My eyes opened in darkness.I did not move.Aurora was curled against me.Her cheek rested against my chest.One arm lay across my stomach.Her breathing remained slow.Deep.Asleep.I listened.Nothing.For three seconds.Four.Five.Then—Crunch.Gravel.Outside.My body went cold.Someone was walking.I moved before thought finished forming.My hand covered Aurora’s mouth.Her eyes flew open.Fear exploded across her face.I immediately brought one finger to my lips.“Quiet.”The word was barely breath.She nodded.I removed my hand.Another sound.Closer.Crunch.A footstep.Definitely.Not animal.Not branch.Person.Aurora heard it this time.Her hand closed around my wrist.I slid from bed.Gun.Dresser.I crossed room silently and took it.Aurora sat up.I pointed toward floor beside bed.“Down.”She moved immediately.No argumen

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Chapter27

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTHE SISTER WHO SURVIVEDAURORAAnya.The name seemed to change Aleksandr.He didn’t move.Didn’t speak.Barely seemed to breathe.But his hand around mine had become so tight that I could feel every scar across his palm.I didn’t pull away.Viktor kept driving.The SUV bounced over the uneven road, headlights finally on now that we were far enough from the house that hiding them no longer mattered.Trees flashed past the windows.Darkness swallowed everything beyond them.And Aleksandr stared straight ahead.“She’s alive?”I asked quietly.Viktor glanced into the rearview mirror.“Yes.”Aleksandr’s jaw flexed.“You saw her?”“Yes.”“When?”“Three months ago.”Aleksandr’s head turned slowly.“Three months?”Viktor didn’t answer.“You knew for three fucking months?”“Yes.”The word landed like a bullet.Aleksandr released my hand.Not because he was angry with me.Because suddenly he needed both hands.One dragged through his hair.The other curled against his knee.

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Chapter 28

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHTEIGHT YEARS OF LIESAURORAI woke up warm.That was the first thing I noticed.The second was that I couldn’t move.Not because I was tied down.Not because there was a chain around my ankle.Not because someone had locked me inside a room.Because Aleksandr was practically wrapped around me.One heavy arm across my waist.One leg tangled with mine.His face buried against the back of my neck.His hand rested on my bare thigh beneath the blanket.For several seconds, I didn’t move.I just listened.His breathing was slow.Deep.Aleksandr was asleep.Actually asleep.That felt rare enough that I didn’t want to ruin it.I looked toward the window.Morning light seeped around the curtains.Gray.Early.I had no idea what time it was.My body still hurt.But less.The bruises along my stomach were tender rather than screaming.My lip wasn’t throbbing anymore.My cheek felt tight.I could live with tight.I shifted carefully.Aleksandr’s arm tightened instantly.I smil

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Chapter 29

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINEBEFORE NIKOLAI ARRIVESAURORANobody moved.Nobody spoke.The phone remained in Aleksandr’s hand.The call had ended.But Mikhail Volkov’s final words seemed to remain in the kitchen.Get her out of that house before Nikolai arrives.Her.Me.Again.Always me.I stared at the phone.Then at Aleksandr.His face had changed.I had seen Aleksandr angry.Terrified.Protective.Violent.Soft.I’d watched him find the sister he believed had been dead for eight years.I’d watched him learn his father might still be alive.But this was different.He looked—betrayed.Not surprised.Not exactly.Betrayed.Because hearing a theory was one thing.Hearing the voice of a dead man was another.“Aleksandr.”His eyes remained on the phone.“That was him?”I asked.“Yes.”Anya spoke behind us.“It was.”Her voice shook.Aleksandr looked at her.“You knew.”“No.”“You knew he was alive.”“Yes.”“You knew he could contact us.”“No.”“Don’t lie to me.”“I’m not.”Aleksandr slammed the

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Chapter 30

CHAPTER THIRTYHOMEAURORAAurora, the name on your birth certificate is not Monroe.I couldn’t stop reading it.The sentence was only nine words.Nine words shouldn’t have been capable of changing an entire life.But apparently they could.I sat frozen in the back of the SUV with my mother’s letter trembling between my fingers.Outside, five armed men surrounded us.Behind us, Nikolai was hunting.Somewhere out there, Mikhail Volkov—the man who was supposed to be dead—was alive.And beneath the window of the bedroom where I’d grown up was something my mother had hidden from me.Something about my birth.Something about my name.“Aurora.”Aleksandr’s voice pulled me back.I looked at him.He was watching me carefully.Not the armed men.Not Viktor.Not Anya.Me.“What?”“Breathe.”“I am breathing.”“Barely.”I looked down.He was right.I pulled in a slow breath.Then another.It didn’t help.“My name isn’t Monroe.”“We don’t know exactly what letter means.”“It literally says my name

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