49
Nikolai
Chloe’s brown eyes are wide with fear and shock as I set my weapon down on the desk and shepherd her out into the hallway, where Pavel is waiting. My heart thuds furiously in my chest, adrenaline pumping through my veins as I order harshly, “Get her, Slava, and Alina to the safe room.”
He nods, grabbing Chloe in a bear hug. “Lyudmila and the two of them are inside already.”
“Wait!” Chloe cries out as he picks her up and carries her down the stairs. “Let me help. I can—”
I don’t hear the rest of what she says because I’m already back inside my office. I can’t take the time to calm my zaychik, not when every second brings Alexei Leonov closer to our door. And it has to be him. He has to be the one behind this. Our faces must’ve blipped on some security camera at the hospital,
