Chapter 178

SEBASTIAN

“Dahlia.”

That was all Diego said.

One word. One name. And suddenly the air in the room felt too thin to breathe.

“What about her?” I asked sharply, already stepping toward him. “Diego, don’t do that thing where you say nothing and expect me to understand everything.”

His jaw tightened. He looked at Kenna first, then back at me. “Seb…”

“Please,” I cut in. “You don’t get to walk away with that look on your face and leave me guessing. You know something. Tell me. I’ll do anything you ask me; just don’t keep me in the dark.”

He hesitated for half a second too long.

That was all it took.

Diego exhaled slowly, like a man deciding whether to cut a wire or let the bomb go off. “There was a distress call,” he admitted. “Some minutes ago.”

My heart slammed. “From Dahlia?”

“I guess so.”

My stomach dropped to my feet. “What did she say?”

“That she’d been kidnapped,” he said carefully. “That Alex Fisher was