“You have exactly five seconds to tell me why you’re calling. After that, I’m hanging up and sending my men to find out.”
Turns out, she only needs one. “It’s about April.”
My senses go on high alert. “Explain yourself.”
June seems to hesitate. Then, all in one breath: “I was supposed to meet her at the hotel today. We were on the phone earlier and suddenly, the call cut off, so I thought maybe her phone died, but then I got to the hotel and she wasn’t there and the gorillas weren’t there, either—”
I filter out the panic and zero in on the one piece of information that really matters.
It’s fifteen minutes by car from my apartment to the hotel.
I make Grisha get me there in five.
“Oh, good, you’re here!” June rushes over to us as we step out of the elevator. “Also, wow, she wasn’t k
