DIMITRI

The atmosphere was thick with the weight of unsaid words as my men and I waited outside the store where Scarlett had just entered.

I could see it in the eyes of the passbys that they walked past that they were surprised to find me here. In their eyes a curious look hung as they either entered the store or just walk off.

It’s been fifteen minutes since she's gone in there, and now it was past 6PM. I just knew she couldn’t have gone through the back door so I told myself to be ...