Page 37 of Innocent Bratva Hostage

My blood thundered in my ears, and everything else ceased to matter.

“Did she get it?” I asked, my voice eerily calm, which was a perfect contrast to the storm brewing beneath.

The maid nodded. “Yes, sir. I got it and gave it to her.”

I tilted my head. “Do you know what the result was?”

She shook her head. “She didn’t tell me, and I couldn’t ask. I had no right to as it was a matter of her privacy, but she wouldn’t have asked unless she was—”

“Pregnant,” I helped complete.

Realization slammed into the pit of my stomach like a train. It was exactly seventeen days since we made love; if she’d been ovulating, then there was a good chance she was pregnant, considering we didn’t use any protection.

The possibility that she was pregnant made me even angrier because now she wasn’t just putting herself in danger; she was also risking our child.

I needed to find her and bring her home. It was even riskier for her out there if she was pregnant.

Hurrying to the security room, I wrote down Giselle’s number on a piece of paper. “Find out where she is immediately; we don’t have time to waste.”

He nodded. “Yes, sir.”

“Order the other men to get ready. Tell me the minute you can trace her address.”

Dimitri sat down on one of the computers in the room and got to work. He was one of the best hackers I had.

As I returned to the main building, I pulled out my phone from my pocket and called Dobryn.

He answered on the first ring.

“Giselle’s gone missing.” I broke the news before he could utter his first word on the call.

“How the hell did she get past security, and why did she even leave?”

“As for how she managed to slip past security, you’ll have to ask Dimitri yourself.” I raked a hand through my hair and sighed from the frustration I was feeling. “As for why, she overheard my conversation with thePakhan. It’s been hours since she left, and I have no freaking idea where she could be.”

“We’ll have to find her before someone else does,” Dobryn said. “It’ll cause a lot of trouble if she gets into the wrong hands and gives them information about the shipment.”

I couldn’t give two shits about the damn shipment right now. All I wanted was for Giselle to be back home and unharmed. The shipment could wait; it didn’t matter nearly as much as she did to me.

“Dimitri is trying to track her location now. Take the men with you and comb the city as much as you can. I’ll tell you if we find her first.”

“What are you going to do when you find her?”

I couldn’t tell him about the pregnancy until I knew for certain that the result was positive. “I’m bringing my girl back home.”

Chapter 15 – Giselle

I hadn’t realized how terrible my decision to run away was until now. I’d thought I could simply go back to my apartment and move on with life as usual or book a flight to Oregon to stay with Mom.

I was wrong.

There were at least five men stationed in front of my home when I got there. All five of them were tall, dressed in suits, and had that murderous look on their faces that Andrei’s bodyguards had.

To be honest, I couldn’t tell if these men were some of Andrei’s associates whom I hadn't met or if they belonged to one of the rival families he mentioned. Regardless of the answer, I was determined not to get caught by them.

I’d turned around and found a café where I sat most of the afternoon. I didn’t have my credit card or any money on me, so I’d pretty much starved through the day, and now that it was nighttime, I was out of energy and with nowhere to sleep.

Running away like that was a hell of a bad decision. I should’ve kept my anger in check and recovered some of my things before leaving. There was no turning back now that I’d left, though.

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