Alex
I woke up to a bloody nightmare. Melody was gone. She was taken from the penthouse suite while everyone was knocked out from the gas.
I asked my mother to call her brother, my Uncle Vanya, to find out if he'd heard anything about this going down. My uncle was Russian Secret Police and went undercover to join the Bratva to topple their father’s organization, but discovered the government was more corrupt than the organizations so he switched sides. Nothing went down in the LA criminal underworld that my Uncle Vanya didn’t know about. Everyone respected and feared him.
I suspected that one of the people following Melody around was Rosa’s older brother. I’d noticed his car around a few times while she and I were out, but I’d see it parked along the sidewalks at school, too. I took do
