Chapter 51

• Renz paced anxiously as he waited in the bar of the lounge. He craved a strong drink, but he knew he needed to remain as alert as possible. Lena had been missing for four days, and he was no closer to finding her.
• For his brother was as elusive as he was cunning. Not even yet thirty years old, he navigated the seedy underworld of München with a prowess that rivaled the experience of a man twice his age. To the world that knew him as Ludovic Wolfenbarger, his money was a result of successful coal mining. But to those that knew him as Aleksandr Rikhard, he built his fortune on the bodies of desperate and poor young women.
• Renz had checked every "A.R." brothel he could find, for he was certain that was where Lena had been taken. To his disappointment and increasing fear, Lena was nowhere to be found in these standard whorehouses. He knew she'd been taken to a place especially deplorable, where women rarely survived longer than a few months.