Chapter Two Hundred Seventy-Four

Stephen

We followed Sephie’s signal. As we got closer, it was obvious that she had stopped moving. It was going to take all of us to keep Adrik from rushing into whatever was waiting for us. It was highly likely that they were going to use Sephie to set a trap for

Adrik.

We got within half a block of Sephie’s signal and Viktor stopped us. “She hasn’t moved for a few minutes. I think it’s best we see what we’re walking into first. We don’t know if Ivan is still with her or how many guys they have.”

“You and Andrei go check it out. I won’t be able to hold myself back if I go,” Adrik said.

Viktor nodded and he left with Andrei on foot to get a better look at where Sephie was. They were only gone a few minutes. The looks on their faces when they returned made us all panic. Viktor held up the tracker he’d given Sephie, along with the helmets they were wearing when they left the warehouse.”

“Hopefully this means Ivan is still with her, at the very least,” I said.

We could all tell that Adrik was slowly losing control of his anger. I’d seen him when he’d lost control a few times. The carnage that he left in his wake was impressive. He wouldn’t hesitate to burn this city to the ground if it meant finding her. Lord help the people of the city if something happened to Sephie. There would be no survivors.

toward Misha. “Anything?” he asked, almost desperately. Misha got that faraway look

tell, but

Adrik said. “She

her. Ivan will protect her, as long as he’s with her. They don’t know who they’re dealing with when it comes to both Ivan and Sephie. Ten bucks says they escape before we can find them,” Viktor said, trying to put Adrik at

We had planned on holding him until the bosses were taken care of and then turning the doctor over to the police. They would get the credit for capturing him and he would have a very public trial for his crimes against

watched 24/7 to make sure he didn’t try to escape. The guys watching him said he’d gotten home about an hour before we arrived and had been in the house since. There were a few lights on in the house. The rest of the block was quiet. We waited to see if we could see movement in

moved silently and quickly to the house. He was inside in seconds, moving like a ghost through the house. The doctor didn’t know what hit him. His face was unrecognizable by the time we got in the house. It took all four of us to pull Adrik off the doctor. We managed to push him to the

to the bikes. He was slowly becoming distraught as his mind played out every scenario around Sephie being captured. We needed to find her quickly or there

my earpiece out and clicked it off, motioning for him to do the same. He did, but had

he said,

Sephie on his own. He can feel her. I know

minute, then a small smile crept over his face. “Stephen,

Sephie

you can. The

me away from Adrik. There was no time to say anything to him before we were gone, I knew I would see him in a few minutes, but there was a gnawing feeling in the pit

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