Once the plane lands I look out the window and see that we are, in fact, back home.

Thank fucking god.

I look at Michael. "Do you know if Thalia's plane landed?" I ask Michael while standing up from my seat and walking towards the exit of the plane.

"No. But Mr. De Luca texted me asking me where she went."

I furrow my eyebrows. "Shouldn't she be home already?"

"Yea that's what I don't understand. I texted him back, but he just left me on read."

"Maybe she is at home then," I shrug.

Michael and I get off of the plane and he gets my bags while I get inside the car.

The drive home isn't that long. Michael is driving me to the De Luca estate because Ace wants to have a meeting. He texted me saying that he wants to talk about the mission and something else, but he didn't tell me.

Honestly, my mind isn't on that though. It is still on the fact that fucking Thalia didn't answer any of my calls or texts and she left without me. I am so pissed off. At first, I was just confused but now I am mad and frustrated.

Once we get to the estate, Michael parks the car in the driveway and I get out and go inside the house. I walk through the house and it's empty, so I go to where Ace's office is. I knock on his door once I am in front of it and wait for him to give me the go ahead to go inside.

Ace doesn't let anyone go inside his office without knocking, only Thalia, Killian, and Aria.

"Come in," I hear Ace say, making me open the door and walk inside.

I see Aria sitting on Ace's lap with tears in her eyes as Ace rubs her lower back and looks at her with love and sympathy in his eyes. My mom and dad are sitting on the couch with sad expressions on their faces.

What the fuck?

Ace turns his head to look at me and his facial expression changes. His fists are clenched and he looks mad as shit. He looks like he is going to punch something, anything.

Maybe me.

"What's wrong?"

"Sit," Ace states and I refrain from rolling my eyes and walk to the chair in front of his desk and sit down. "What the fuck happened while you and Thalia were in Russia?"

Where the fuck is Thalia?

That's my question.

"Nothing," I shrug. "We took care of Draco and I killed him after getting the location of the Ivanov's estate," I say, while digging in my pocket and getting the location of the estate and giving it to Ace. "Where's Thalia?"

"That's what I am trying to figure out, Alexander. You see, my daughter left Moscow before you yet you are here before her? I have been trying to call Peter, but he hasn't been answering."