I close my eyes, trying to process this new nightmare. “So what am I supposed to do? Hide forever?”
“Go back to Vin,” Arkady offers, as if it’s the most obvious solution in the world. “Let him protect you.”
I laugh in his face. “Right. Because I can totally trust him.”
“You can trust that he won’t let anything happen to you or that baby.” Arkady looks at me with unexpected seriousness. “Whatever else he’s done, whatever lies he’s told… That much is true. You know it is.”
I turn away, looking out at the city passing by. All these normal people living their normal lives, blissfully unaware of the shadow world lurking just beneath the surface.
“Take me back to my motel,” I say finally. “I need to think.”
He sighs but relays the instruction to the driver. When we pull up outside my seedy
