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Pregnant.

I’m pregnant?

Does that man have super sperm?

My head spins. Shit, this just adds another layer of complicated to the complication I already have. And I don’t need that right now.

“He doesn’t know?” The doctor frowns, glancing at the door, seeming to put things together. “If this isn’t what you want, then you have options if you want them. We can be discreet.”

“T-thank you,” I say, trying to calm down. “I’ll think about it.”

Ilya storms in, looking upset, and terror grips me. Oh hell, did he overhear that conversation?

Did he hear the doctor talk about options because in Demyan’s world that’s a no-no. But it’s my body, not Demyan’s. And… Another Sasha— I stop because this right now is just complicated and I’m about to try and plead with him not to tell Demyan anything he might have heard when I register his expression. The look on his face isn’t about pregnancy. It’s something worse.

Demyan. I try to scrabble up. I’m furious at the man, but if something’s happened?—

“Erin.”

“What—”

“It’s Sasha.”

My world starts imploding and the monitor I’m hooked to starts beeping madly.

“You have to calm down,” the doctor says.

Ilya looks at her. “Get out.”

She scurries away.

“Ilya, what about Sasha?”

“He’s been kidnapped.”

Hysteria sweeps through me, and my body is numb. My vision blurs. “He’s what? My baby…” Something inside me snaps. I glare at him and reach out, snagging his jacket. I pull him almost on me.

“Call Demyan. Now!”

He presses call, and I snatch the phone from him.

“Ilya—”

“It’s Erin,” I snap. “What the fuck happened, Demyan? Who took my son? How? You told me we were safe, that he was safe.”

My voice is rising and I can’t stop it.

“I’m looking for him. I promise you I’ll find my son.”

I start to cry. And Demyan’s speaking, Ilya’s trying to comfort me, but I shout over Demyan and shove Ilya away.

“I don’t need anything but my son. Find him,” I sob. “I don’t care. Do what it takes, everything in your power to bring our child home safely!”

The phone slips from my fingers, and hits the floor and I collapse in on myself in a world of tears.

Chapter Thirty-One

DEMYAN

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