“Well, I didn’t take you to Xena because I don’t know where she is. If you’d stopped to listen to me, Iwould have explained that.”
“Like I should trust you?” Nikolai grabs my arm and starts hauling me down the sidewalk. I don’teven try to pull away. I know it’s hopeless.
“You should trust me. I’m the reason she was in the hospital.”
“You mean you’re the reason you were in the hospital,” he says.
I frown. “The EMTs on scene told me that Xena was loaded into another ambulance and—”
“And proceeded to slaughter the EMTs and leave the ambulance abandoned on the side of the road.”
“Yes,” Nikolai bears down. “She slaughtered innocent people who were there to help her, and thenfled. That’s the kind of person you were working for.”
“I wasn’t working for her! I was working fo
