Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Five

Irina

I woke up to find the bed empty. Dimitri was gone. I got up and went looking for him, finding him in his office with Alexei. They were surrounded by papers, photos, documents. They looked exhausted.

"Have you two been up all night?" I asked.

"We could not sleep," Dimitri said.

I walked over and saw what they were looking at. Old family photos mixed with police reports. "You are trying to figure out if Mikhail did it."

"Yes," Alexei replied.

I sat down with them. "What have you found?"

"Nothing conclusive," Dimitri said. "Everything points to him, but it could be a setup."...