Anastasia’s POV:
I was out of my apartment in four minutes.
I did not change out of what I was wearing. I did not make coffee or think about the fact that it was nearly midnight or consider whether showing up at my brother’s door at this hour was reasonable. Marcus had sent me two sentences that had removed every other consideration from the room and I was already in the elevator before I finished reading them for the third time.
Elena is gone. And she took something with her that changes everything about Gerard Fontaine’s case.
I called him on the way down.
He answered on the first ring which meant he had been sitting with his phone waiting and that told me everything about the state he was in before he said a single word.
“I’m on my way,” I said.
A pause.
“You don’t have to,” he
