Page 131 of Cruel Honor

Then a knock on the door makes us both sit up straight. Katya turns the TV off and grabs the gun Dimitri gave her.

“Evie, it’s me.”

“Juno,” I say, surprised. I’m not exactly shocked she’s back. She’s never one to give up. I need to end things with her once and for all.

I get up.

“Wait, Evie—” Katya starts to say, but I’ve already opened the door.

Juno is there.

But standing next to her is Abram.

Chapter

Nineteen

EVIE

My first instinct is to slam the hotel room door shut. Abram dashes forward to stop me, but I put my entire body into the door and shut it. He bangs on the door, making me jump away.

“It’s Abram,” I whisper to Katya, running over to her. We stand side by side. Katya has her gun in her hands, pointed at the door.

“What the hell is Abram doing here? How did he find us?”

“Juno. She was with him.”

“Did he kidnap her?”

“I … have no idea.” A thought occurs to me; one I don’t want to give any attention to but have to. Did Juno bring Abram here of her own accord?

Abram continues to bang on the door.

“I’m gonna call for help.” I grab the hotel room’s phone and call down to the front desk. A perky woman named Amanda answers. “Yes. Hi. Uh, we need help. There’s a man at our room—room 114—banging to get inside. He’s trying to hurt us.”

“Ok. We’ll send a security guard right up to you.”

“Thank you.”

“I have a gun!” Katya shouts. “So don’t even think about doing anything.”

I put the phone back down and hurry over to Katya. “They’re sending a security guard. Hopefully, that will make Abram leave.”

“I don’t want you dead,” Abram says through the door. “I just want Dimitri dead. I take it he’s not here.”

“No, he’s not,” Katya says. “So, you need to go.”

“All right. But you see, I’m still angry with him for kidnapping my daughter and killing my other daughter. So, I think I am going to kidnap both of you then murder you so Dimitri knows what my pain is like.”

“No,” Juno says. “You said you just wanted Dimitri. You never said you wanted Evie.”

So, that proves it. Juno brought Abram here to get to Dimitri but she only served to put Abram back on our path.

“I will shoot you!” Katya screams.

“Hey!” Another gruff man’s voice enters the fray. “You need to walk away from that door now.”

It’s the security guard. It has to be.

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