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Chapter 15

The questioning of Sonya Karp didn't go as well as we would have liked.

No matter what, the woman refused to answer any questions.

After about an hour of shouting at, threatening and torturing her, we took a break from the interrogation.

Silence fell over the room as nobody spoke. Sonya just glared at me as I held my stake firmly.

I glanced at Rose, noticing she had almost sagged against the wall and looked like she was about to pass out. There was a gash on her forehead that was bleeding and she was pale.

"What happened to your head, Rose?" I asked her, not remembering her hurting herself, or even seeing the cut when she had been wrapping the chain around Sonya. Then again, I had been a little distracted trying to keep Sonya in place.

"Huh?" She asked, seeming a little dazed. Her fingers came up to her forehead and swept her beautiful hair away from her eyes. She looked at her fingers when she felt the blood on them and looked vaguely surprised.

"I'm fine," she told me, sounding and looking anything but fine.

I glance at Sydney and back to Sonya again in less than a second, catching her attention.

"Go lay her down and clean it up." I told her. "Don't let her sleep until we can figure out if it's a concussion."

"No, I can't," Rose suddenly came to life a little. "I can't leave you alone with her…"

"I'm fine," I insisted, a warm feeling spreading in my chest as I realised that she was as worried about me as I was about her. "Rest up so that you can help me later. You're no good to me if you're just going to fall over."

Rose still protested, despite my good argument. Sydney however, saved me the effort of enforcing my point by grabbing Rose by the arm and led her towards another room that I assumed was a bedroom. Rose stumbled a little and leaned on Sydney for extra support.

The door swung shut behind them and I tried to focus my entire being on Sonya. It was hard though, when I was feeling quite worried for Rose's well-being.

Sonya didn't try anything else, and Sydney returned to the room not too long after.

"How is she?" I asked.

"She's doing that creepy thing where she looks into Lissa's mind," she answered.

We didn't say much after that, and a couple of hours passed.

My head snapped up when I heard a car pull up outside. I remembered what Rose had said about Victor and his brother joining us.

I wasn't very keen on the idea of having to watch my back with Sonya, Victor and Robert, not to mention Sydney, who I was supposed to be keeping safe.

"Go get Rose," I instructed Sydney, hoping those few hours' sleep had done Rose some good.

She got up from her place on the couch just as the doorbell rang. Sydney looked at me, silently asking me if she should open it.

I nodded to her and watched from across the room as she let in the two brothers.

The familiar man in the doorway looked tired and aged. His grey hair thin and wiry. I noticed his brother had a Dashkov resemblance as he followed his brother through the doorway.

"Ah, Belikov. Long time no see." Victor stated, eyeing me with that evil tint in his eyes as he entered the room, the other man at his heels.

I ignored him and tried to keep the majority of my attention on Sonya, while also watching the other two for threats. I gave a small nod in Sydney's direction as she left swiftly to get Rose.

A/N: I know it's short which is why I will be uploading Chapter 16 as well in a little while :)