I cut him off. “I know.” And I did know. Because I knew her. Sophia was ruthless and resourceful when she wanted to be. And clearly something important was waiting for her in London. So important, in fact, that she had risked almost smashing a man’s skull in so she could get to it.
“Get that head wound looked at,” I snapped and left him there on my rug. I didn’t have time to babysit him right now. Sophia had left hours ago.
Nerves rattled my body as I glanced at the watch on my arm. Itwas almost ten. She had a major head start, but I had one thing she didn’t have.
I had a jet.
She would need to fly commercial.
Pulling the phone to my ear as the elevator hurtled downward, I said, “Get the plane ready.”
“Are you going anywhere in particular?”
I paused. “Yeah, London, England.”
She might have a head start, but that’s where I would find her. And then all of this would be over. Once and for all.
Two hours later, I was in the air, and my phone was blowing up.
“What have you found out?” I snapped because so far, no one had called me with good news. It was like Sophia had disappeared into the ether.
Again.
Only this time, I wouldn’t let her.
I’d let her go once before, and it had almost destroyed me. I wouldn’t let the same thing happen now.
Even if part of me hated her, I still loved her. I loved her enough to let her go if that’s what she really wanted, but she would have to tell me that to my face.
Nothing else would do.
“Someone booked a flight to Budapest this morning.”
My eyebrows slammed down. What the hell was in Budapest? Why would she go there and not London?
Was I wrong about everything or…
“Any connecting flights?”
No, I wasn’t wrong. She was still heading home. She was just trying to make me lose her trail.
I smiled before I could help myself. God, she was amazing. Even if she drove me insane, I had to give her her due.
She really was a clever little thing. If she had been a man, she would have been unstoppable.
“None. She paid cash.”
Of course she had. She had stolen it from my office safe. Whichwas, in part, my fault. If I hadn’t used her birthday, she would have never gotten inside.
“My guess is that she will book a flight there when she lands,” he continued.
I agreed. That’s exactly what she would do.
But where would she go when she got there? The chances of intercepting her at an airport when I didn’t know which one she would fly into were slim to none, so I would have to intercept her somewhere else.
Leaning forward, I pinched the skin between my eyebrows
Where would she go?
