Chapter 37. Seeking (1)

Rafael

[Sonora, Mexico]

Where could she be hiding? He had gone back to San Francisco on several occasions after the tzar’s wedding. Desperate for some clues.

Aware that the party was not the proper time and place for a lover’s quarrel, he had exercised some control and let her be.

He was back the next day to talk to her once more. He was even prepared to ask permission from her parents to take her out. Dominic, the overprotective asshole that he was, might not like it, but Rafael didn’t care.

She slipped through his fingers once again and was nowhere to be found.

Only to find out from the general, Alec, oblivious to Rafael’s desperation, that his little sister had gone off to college. In Paris.

He turned every stone in the capital of France, and she was not there. Next, he went to Russia and went home empty-handed.

It was been almost a year now, he had not stopped searching. He could talk to Dominic, confess everything, but he didn’t k