Chapter 48: Prized

[Erin]

What should I do? What the hell should I do?

This thing…if Nikolai sees me holding this thing, he will falsely accuse me of stealing it. He's erratic, he takes things into his own hands on the spur of the moment, and sure is he will think that I stole this from him. But on the second thought, why would he put something this precious inside the pocket of his coat as though he had only acquired it from a thrift store? I was under the impression that he had stashed it away inside some highly secured titanium case that only his biometrics could open. Not like this. Tucked so carelessly as though it does not possess any high value.

Hell, it even has a higher value than myself.

“Oh, God. What should I do?” I jump out of my bed, struggling to unfasten the straps on my heels and kicking them off. I pace back and forth, wracking up my nerves as I stare at this shiny little thing—well it’s not really tiny cause it's almost big as my thumb, but hell, this cost a fortune.

Now that I hav