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told her we had to wait. And even
if she was my girlfriend, it would be silly to be jealous over a
crush she had in the past. She obviously doesn’t feel the same way
about him anymore. I know how she feels about me. She loves me. And
I know she’s not the kind of girl who says it lightly. She truly
means it.
    “ Do you think she’ll be mad that I
called him?” Alik asks.
    I turn to look at him.
    “ I talk when I’m nervous. I really
just want to find my little sister,” he says.
    “ I will find her.” No matter what,
I will.
    I turn back to my computer and Alik just
watches me.
    I think I liked him better when he hated
me.
     
    Trust.
     
    Katerina.
    I pace back and forth in the
basement.
    “ Do you have to walk back and
forth like that?” Damon asks. He’s sitting on the hard floor with
his back against the wall. I couldn’t sit there any longer. My butt
is numb. Actually, my whole body is.
    “ Yes, I do.”
    I hear him let out an annoyed sigh.
    He doesn’t realize that being locked in this
basement is about to make me go mad. I can’t take it. I need to
move, because it helps. I hate sitting still.
    “ You’re getting on my nerves,
Katerina,” Damon says.
    I stop and turn to him. “I can’t sit there.
I’m going stir crazy. We have to get out of here.”
    “We will,” he says. Now he’s the one
assuring me . “I
know that my dad will find us soon. Tristan will find us soon. If I
know him, I bet he hasn’t slept a wink since you went missing. If
we can be found, we will.”
    I walk over to him and sit on the floor beside
him. I hug my legs against my chest. I rest my cheek on my knee and
look at Damon. “I’m kind of scared.” I don’t like to admit this to
him, but he’s the only one I can talk to right now.
    “ Me too,” he says. “I’ve been
trained on what to do in different situations, but they’ve always
been how to get away from the bad guys. I’ve never been trained in
what to do once the bad guy has you. A lot of good that training is
doing down here.”
    “ If we get out of here, I am going
to train harder than ever before,” I say. “I don’t want to ever be
weak enough to get kidnapped again.”
    “ I don’t think Tristan will ever
let you out of his sight for that to be a problem,” Damon says. “I
bet he is going out of his mind trying to find you. If I weren’t
here with you, I’d be doing the very same thing.”
    “ I don’t think I’ll want to be out
of Tristan’s sight either. I feel safe with him.” But I’m totally
okay with that.
    The door to the basement opens and I watch
Salvador slam the door behind him and descend down the stairs
towards us. He looks mad.
    “ Are you okay?” I ask
him.
    “ Fine,” he says, his voice hard.
“We’re moving locations.”
    “Why?” I ask, my heart pounding
hard against my chest. Moving is not good. It’ll just make it harder
for Tristan to find us.
    “ They’re getting close to finding
you,” Salvador answers. “Or at least Rafael thinks so.”
    He calls his dad by his first name?
    “ I’m supposed to drug you,” he
says, pulling a syringe out of his pocket.
    “ Please, don’t,” Damon
says.
    Salvador looks at him. “Shut it,
American.”
    He really doesn’t like Damon.
    “ Are you going to drug us?” I
ask.
    He shakes his head.
    Relief floods through me, and I feel hope for
the first time since being in this awful situation.
    Salvador sits on the floor in front of his and
drops his voice to a whisper. “I want to help you guys. But I need
you to promise me something first.”
    “ Anything,” I say.
    “ I don’t want to be in trouble.
Not with Russia or the US. I want to be free and I don’t want
anything to do with my father and this group anymore,” he says. “I
never had a choice. And if I did, I never would’ve chose
this.”
    “ Done,” Damon says.
    “ I also want to go to that
American school you guys go to,” he says. “I’ve never been outside
of Russia, but I want to.