Jace Sherwood
It'd been a week since Amelia and Leigh arrived from Paris. Rose and Dimitri were still on the mend but every day was a step closer to being able to go home. Sonja had called me every night for an update on her brother. He'd called his family twice but left it to me to keep them updated.
I didn't mind but I knew they'd all prefer to hear from the man himself. Dimitri had managed to get out of bed without assistance for the first time today, and was currently sitting outside in the garden with Rose- not talking?
News had just come in this morning that Vasilisa Dragomir was missing. Ibrahim Mazur had called Matthew this morning with the news. The last person to see Vasilisa was her husband when they'd gone to bed. When he'd woken up she'd been gone. It hadn't been obvious at first that she was missing but after a few hours, it was clear that something was wrong.
Amelia had paled at the news. "Lissa is due in two weeks."
Leigh's eyes had darted to the window where Rose and Dimitri sat in the garden. "What are we going to tell them?"
"Nothing?" Matthew raised his hands when Leigh and I looked at him. "Zmey doesn't want us to tell them. He's worried about what Rose will do if she knows that Vasilisa is missing."
"Lissa is her BEST FRIEND!" Leigh shouted angrily ignoring Amelia's attempts to get her to be quiet. "Do you have any idea what she'll do to us if she finds out that we kept this from her?"
"She'll be upset," I snorted at the understatement of Amelia's words. "But I'd rather her upset with us then off on a suicide mission that'll get her killed… And let us not forget that Alistair is still a threat. What makes you think that Rose won't be putting Lissa and the baby in more danger by being there."
Leigh was still shaking her head when Amelia finished. "I won't lie to her about this."
"You haven't told Dimitri?" Matthew gave a shake of his head and turned to the window. "You're just postponing the inevitable."
"We're trying to protect them," Amelia argued. "It's best that they don't know."
"I disagree." I ignored the protest and continued. "The moment we tell them they'll want to leave for Paris. It is a risk that Alistair will find us- but Rose and Dimitri are two of the most resourceful people I have ever met and if they can't find Lissa no one can. There is a reason the feds want them off the streets... Dimitri has contacts you can't even imagine, and Rose is one of the best hackers I've ever come across. If we don't tell them and something happens to Lissa, and the baby, and they could've helped what do you think they'll do?"
"Jace is right," Leigh turned to Amelia pleadingly. "We have to tell Rose and Dimitri the truth."
"Tell us the truth about what?" Dimitri and Rose asked in sync from the doorway. Silence fell over the four of us as we turned and face our friends. "Somebody had better start talking."
