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kept him at school,” he answers.
    “Why?”
    “They don’t want to take Damon off campus right now. It’s for his protection.”
    “What’s going on?” I ask.
    “I didn’t want to tell you because I didn’t want to scare you,” Tristan says. “But there have been… sightings. Kids around campus keep reporting seeing a strange man on campus. The description they give always matches Kazimir.”
    “Oh my…”
    “That’s not all,” he says. “There have been reports of another man too.”
    “Another man?”
    “Your dad.”
    My dad.
    He’s in America.
    And really close to me.
    Maybe I should be scared, but I can’t help but hope that I see him. I miss my dad.
    “He won’t hurt me,” I tell Tristan, fully believing it. “My dad. He’s here to get rid of Kazimir. I know he is. My dad loves me.”
    “I know you think that, Katerina. But everything you’ve believed of your dad is a lie,” he says. “If you knew the things he’s done…”
    My heart beats faster at his words, and I hear the heart monitor.
    “I’m sorry. I’m upsetting you,” he says. “I just need you to stick around me the next few days. No offense to Damon’s bodyguards, but I’d rather keep an eye on you myself. I’ll take a break from my Russian language lessons.”
    “Hello, Russian girl sitting right here,” I say, trying to think of anything but my dad. “I can help you. Since apparently you’re going to be stuck with me anyways.”
    “Okay,” he says.
    “But you can’t tell anybody else about the whole fainting at the sight of blood thing. It’s embarrassing,” I say, then scratch my hand. “Ugh, they had to put an IV in?”
    “Yeah. Sorry,” he says.
    “Can I get out of here?” I ask.
    “I’ll get the nurse. I think they said you could leave once you woke up.”
    “Good.”
    Tristan walks out in the hall to get a nurse. I sit there, waiting. Wishing that I would stop getting into these kind of situations.
    The door opens up again, and I look up, expecting to see Tristan walking in with a nurse.
    Instead I see Kazimir. My heart races again, but this time out of fear.
    “ Well, well. Look what we have here ,” he says, speaking Russian. “ I never thought that boy would leave your side. You come to America and get not one, but two boyfriends. ”
    “ You need to leave ,” I say back. I yank the IV’s out of my hand and wince at the pain. I jump up. The machine starts making a loud noise. But I stand up, ready to defend myself.
    Kazimir curses and runs out the door just a couple nurses run in. Tristan runs in a few seconds later.
    “What’s going on?” one of the nurses ask.
    “Sorry,” I say. “I couldn’t stay in the bed.”
    The nurses mumble something under their breath, turn off the monitor, inform me that I’m free to go and leave the room.
    “What’s going on?” Tristan asks me.
    “Kazimir was here, Tristan,” I say.
    Tristan grabs my hand, and pulls me close to him. We walk over to the door and he looks down the hallway, I guess trying to see if he can spot him.
    “Which way did he go?” he asks.
    “I think he went that way,” I answer, pointing the way I saw him run.
    I expect Tristan to go after him, but instead he starts pulling me in the opposite direction.
    “Why aren’t you going after him?” I ask, as we walk quickly towards the stairs.
    He doesn’t slow down as we run down.
    “Because, Katerina, you’re my number one priority. I have to protect you at all cost,” he says.
    “Why?” I ask, pulling Tristan to a stop. “Why am I so important? I’m nobody. I’m not even American. I’m the daughter of a Russian terrorist.”
    “Because we can’t do this without you,” he answer. “Katerina, you are the key. You have to stop him.”
    “Stop him?” I ask.
    “Your dad. He’s not just after the president’s son,” Tristan says. “This is about so much more than that.”
    “What are you talking about?”
    “This is why your mom wanted you in