Chapter 140

Several aspirins later, I was still just as nervous. I don’t know how my father and my brother managed to snooze for a couple of hours; I couldn’t sleep a wink, much less stop thinking about Johanna and Rex. I had already drained the battery on my phone and Mikhail’s on calls to my “beta,” my mother, and Kaylee McCord. It wouldn’t be long before we landed in Athens to refuel, but by my calculations, we still wouldn’t reach the United States for another eighteen or twenty hours.

Anything could happen in the meantime. My skin kept burning, my stomach contracted, but I wasn’t going to sleep no matter how much my body screamed for it. Haydar had a tremendous advantage over us.

Fuck jet lag.

Being surrounded by the smell of felines didn’t bother me as much as I thought. Alhasan had stayed on the tarmac with Ami, waiting for another plane; so the two women had taken off with us. A frosted glass coffee table separated us, with several used bottles and glasses on it. The c