Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four

Dimitri

The knife trembled in my hands.

"Drop it," Alexei ordered.

I did not move.

"DROP IT!" Alexei roared.

One of the guards stepped forward and slammed his rifle into my stomach.

I doubled over, gasping. The knife clattered to the floor.

Alexei picked it up and examined it.

"A kitchen knife," he said. "How pathetic."

He looked at me with contempt.

"Did you really think I would not know about your little escape plan?" Alexei asked. "Did you think Lucia would not tell me?"

My blood ran cold.

Lucia. She had betrayed me.

"Where is she?" I demanded. "What did you do to her?”...