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Ava looked around at that, and, yes indeed, they were in her childhood home in Minneapolis.
“Where do we look first, Ava, dearest?” Lin questioned.
Where had she put those knickknacks her dad had brought her back from China?
“Untie me, and I’ll take you to them,” she told Lin.
He motioned for one of his goons to do just that—untie her. He wasn’t easy on her either. Her poor wrists had taken a beating over the last two days. She rubbed them when he released her and shook her arms to get the blood flowing back into them.
Lin pulled out a gun then and motioned her to get up. She did and then made her way over to the staircase that led upstairs to her old room. It looked like nothing had been changed in the house with the exception of covers now covering the furnishings. She missed her dad. She missed her sister. Fuck, she missed Cap.
One of Lin’s goons came and whispered in his ear. Ava tried to hear what was said but they spoke Chinese.
“Let them come,” Lin said with an evil laugh. “We’ll be long gone.”
Oh dear sweet baby Jesus, Cap was coming. Part of her was elated while the other part of her was scared shitless.
“Let’s go, dearest—find me the drive and we’ll be finished with our business.”
Ava climbed the stairs slowly—trying to give Cap and whoever else was coming time to get there. Once she handed the drive over she was dead. Ava really didn’t want to die.
She found the presents her dad had brought her back from China two years ago. They were in her curio cabinet in her room. She made her way to the cabinet and pulled out three little statues of Chinese women. She broke the first one in half and shook it.
Nothing.
Lin just watched her intently.
She broke the second one and shook it.
Nothing.
She was down to the last one.
A sound downstairs, and Lin turned to look at one of his goons. He motioned him downstairs to see what was going on. The man took off at a sprint.
Suddenly, the lights went out. Ava was really sick of that, too. Darkness was not her friend. She pushed the last statue into her pocket and began crawling in the opposite direction of Lin. Lights marked the walls of the hallway outside her room, there one minute and gone the next. Someone was doing a sweep. The question was whether they were friendlies or the Russians.
Someone grabbed her from behind by her hair and pulled her back into the room.
“Not so fast, dearest,” Lin said in her ear.
He pulled her by her hair until she was standing with her back to his front, the cold press of a gun barrel at her temple.
“Ava!” Cap’s beautiful voice called out.
“She’s here,” Lin said with glee in his voice.
Then the lights were back on. Ava blinked against the light and finally was able to see Cap, standing there with a wicked-looking rifle in his hands. He was pointing directly at Lin.
“Your men are all dead,” Cap told Lin. “Let her go and I’ll let you live another day.”
Lin laughed at that. “How about me and Ava leave, and you go fuck yourself?”
Men were wraiths behind Cap as they filed into the room. There were at least six other men in the room now, all with weapons trained on Lin.
“Take the shot,” Cap said.
Within two seconds Lin’s head exploded behind her. Blood rained down on her and she screamed as she fell to her knees. Lin fell back away from her…dead.
