CHAPTER 129

The streets blurred together as I drove, my focus narrowing to one point: Theo. He was the key. I was certain of it. He might not have taken Varya himself, but he knew more than he was letting on. And I was going to find out what that was—no matter what it took.

By the time I got to Theo’s building, I parked my car opposite across the road, my heart was beating fast. The lights were on in his apartment, he was home. I had to pause for a couple of moments, while the rage that was boiling inside me subsided a little.

I had to make sure that my mind was not going to be swayed by my feelings. I had to keep my mind alert.

Then, forcing myself to proceed, I climbed the stairs and reached the door of Theo’s flat, which seemed to me to be the heaviest in the world. Not thinking twice I knocked on the door when I finally got to his house.

I knocked and heard the sound rebounding in the empty corridor. I sat there with my jaws tense, waiting to make my move, unmoved by the delay made by the oth