#Chapter 75: An Unexpected Discovery

Aurora POV I pace the small bedroom like a caged animal, my thoughts race faster than my feet move, every step a stutter of panic and helplessness that I try, and fail, to swallow down before I scream in hysterics. Gianna is curled up on the edge of the twin-sized bed, mouth pressed into a thin line like she’s trying to bite back screaming into the pillow next to her. I’ve tried everything—soft words, dumb jokes, even trying to talk out a plan on how we’re going to contact her father—but nothing gets through to her anymore. She’s gone quiet, which is worse than her crying, honestly. At least tears mean there’s still fight in her. I’m not sure how much fight I have left either, though. But I know we have to get our hands on a phone. Somehow. Stefano is the only one who’ll move fast enough to get us out of this before Alek does something irrevocable. Once he knows his daughter has been taken by the Russians, the very men who they’ve feared this entire time, it’ll be li