Chapter 142

Officially, I had gone for forty-two hours without sleeping or hearing the children’s voices. By the time the hunting party finally gathered at the McCords’ property, I was feeling energized but not very willing to be patient. I was tired, irritable and—

And talking on the phone with Rex did not improve my condition much; he had told Toshi to go immediately to the Krasnoyarsk village. Perfect.

“I thought we agreed that this wasn’t a call to the Circle,” I said, annoyed.

“It’s not. I didn’t call Milo. Neither your father nor your brother have called their people.”

That was true and worth mentioning. I snorted, with the device pressed to my ear. A tense atmosphere was felt inside Luke and Kaylee’s house. She didn’t seem very happy to have three Arab aristocrats under her roof (or to have to serve them tea), but she seemed quite friendly to them despite everything.

“Did my father tell you to do this?” I asked, in Spanish.

“The only orders I received