She kept wrapping herself around him as she slept and it irritated him, but it wasn’t the only reason he had been unable to rest. He’d been awake for hours but had no idea why. Paolo had left the city on business so Bane hadn’t needed to worry about Katerina doing anything to infuriate her husband, for a change. All seemed calm right at that moment, but he just couldn’t shake the feeling something was coming.Had Amber been hurt? The thought hit him out of the blue and, try as he might to dismiss it, once the question occurred to him he had to have an answer. Bane cast a look at Katerina’s unconscious form and snuck from the room, pants in hand. He found a quiet corner of the house, out of earshot of any of the other occupants, and dialled the number his friend had given him. Solomon had insisted Amber give it to him in case they’d been separated on their journey to her home. Bane had taken it from him without really knowing why he wanted it at the time. Any idea he might have had of staying in contact lasted only as long as it took him to remember how much danger that would put her in.“Hello?”Bane swallowed a groan at the sound of her voice.
