NIKOLAI
FOUR MONTHS AGO
When I woke up, he wasn’t there. Not even a f*****g hair strand out of place. Just gone—like he’d never existed. And what did I find out? That my Claude had been pinned to the ground like an animal and taken. No warning. No chance to fight back. Snatched and dragged away.
Gone.
And that was it.
I tried. Christ, I really f*****g tried. I did everything I did the last time—tried to slipped in, tried to tracked him, tried to used Enzo, used everyone I f*****g could. Nothing worked. They were ready this time. Had it locked up tighter than a damn vault, and all I could do was watch the gates disappear right in my face.
That was four months ago.
And every single day since, I’ve been crawling up the walls. I haven’t slept right. I haven’t breathed right. Not withou
