Page 43 of Thalia De Luca

The drive home isn't that long. Michael is driving me to the De Luca estate because Ace wants to have a meeting. He texted me saying that he wants to talk about the mission and something else, but he didn't tell me.

Honestly, my mind isn't on that though. It is still on the fact that fucking Thalia didn't answer any of my calls or texts and she left without me. I am so pissed off. At first, I was just confused but now I am mad and frustrated.

Once we get to the estate, Michael parks the car in the driveway and I get out and go inside the house. I walk through the house and it's empty, so I go to where Ace's office is. I knock on his door once I am in front of it and wait for him to give me the go ahead to go inside.

Ace doesn't let anyone go inside his office without knocking, only Thalia, Killian, and Aria.

"Come in," I hear Ace say, making me open the door and walk inside.

I see Aria sitting on Ace's lap with tears in her eyes as Ace rubs her lower back and looks at her with love and sympathy in his eyes. My mom and dad are sitting on the couch with sad expressions on their faces.

What the fuck?

Ace turns his head to look at me and his facial expression changes. His fists are clenched and he looks mad as shit. He looks like he is going to punch something, anything.

Maybe me.

"What's wrong?"

"Sit," Ace states and I refrain from rolling my eyes and walk to the chair in front of his desk and sit down. "What the fuck happened while you and Thalia were in Russia?"

Where the fuck is Thalia?

That's my question.

"Nothing," I shrug. "We took care of Draco and I killed him after getting the location of the Ivanov's estate," I say, while digging in my pocket and getting the location of the estate and giving it to Ace. "Where's Thalia?"

"That's what I am trying to figure out, Alexander. You see, my daughter left Moscow before you yet you are here before her? I have been trying to call Peter, but he hasn't been answering."

"So, what the fuck? What's wrong?" I furrow my eyebrows.

"We think that Vladimir got her. Peter isn't answering his phone, neither is Thalia and I am wondering why the fuck my daughter and you didn't go on the same fucking plane together? I thought I told you guys to come here together?"

I clench my fist at the thought of Thalia being somewhere else other than here.

Is she with the Russians?

Or did she really run away because she didn't want to face me?

Was she that afraid?

God, I don't fucking know what to do.

"I thought so too, Ace, but your daughter likes being a bitch to me for no reason," I spit without even thinking.

Ace will probably punch me but I couldn’t care less.

I am pissed and will probably need a good distraction after this shit.

"Watch it. Just because you are Leo's son doesn't mean I will not punch you. Watch how you talk about my daughter," Ace threatens and I roll my eyes.

"Your daughter is the one who left without me and decided to do things on her own. I was sleeping when she left, and she didn't bother to wake me up. Instead, she left."

Like a scared little bitch.

"Why did she leave though, Alexander? She had no reason to leave unless you pissed her off so what the fuck did you do?!" Ace yells, getting frustrated.

"Ace, calm down. We don't even know if Thalia was kidnapped or not," Aria says, trying to calm him down.

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