Chapter 21 - Maddie
IT TOOK ME A WHILE to get myself under control. I couldn’t explain why I was so devastated by Novak leaving; after all, I’d been the one to tell him to do so. In fact, I’d lied through my teeth to force the issue. But my heart ached and heaved all the same at his absence. I blamed it on the hormones surging through me thanks to my pregnancy, but I had the feeling I was only lying to myself.
This was something different entirely.
Ultimately, I did get out of bed, though. It was the reminder that my brother was out there somewhere, that Novak was hunting him that brought me out of my bed in the end.
Novak had told me a lot of things about my brother. Bad things. He’d accused him of murder and stealing and getting in bad with whom I could only assume was the mob. Part
