Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-One

Irina

I stood frozen.

A stranger was planning to raise my son?

My hands trembled as I tried to process what Dimitri had just revealed.

Lucia.

The woman who had raised Dimitri and Alexei.

The woman who blamed me for destroying their brotherhood.

"We need to move fast," Viktor said. "Every second counts."

"Check the footage again," Dimitri told Mikhail. "See which direction she went."

Mikhail pulled up the security cameras.

We watched as Lucia left the villa.

She walked calmly, carrying Nikolai like nothing was wrong. Like she had every right to take my baby.

She went to the east gate where a car...