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“You do now that your father and Dima are dead. And since Valentina is still MIA, I want a replacement. And Tori…fuck, she’s a hellcat. So much fire in her. I should’ve contracted for her instead of Valentina, fucking cold fish that she was.” His grin widens. “But with Tori there are so many possibilities. And the longer you take to pay up, the more time I’ll have to try them all out.”
I fist my hair, a sharp pain assaulting my chest. “What did you do with her and Natasha?”
“I was wondering when you’d ask about your own personal captive.” His demonic eyes narrow and he brings the phone close to his face. “They’re both alive, if that’s what you’re asking. How long is a question I don’t know the answer to since you’re challenging my request for payback.”
“Fuck your request. If I walk inside, you’re dead, Dmitri. There won’t be any payback. There will only be death, do you fucking hear me?”
He lets out a sigh and nods his head like he’s resigning himself to that fact. And fuck yes, it’s a fact. A cold hard one. “I hear you.”
But…
The harsh reality is that he didn’t pull this shit expecting me to bow at his fucking loafered feet.
I clench the phone, squeezing it so hard, my fingertips numb. Watching, waiting. Christ, I spend so much of my time doing just that while I pick the perfect second to pull the trigger and end the life of my target du jour.
This time is different because my finger’s not the one on the trigger.
“And I can’t say I disagree with you.” He flips the screen, and an invisible noose loops around my throat, tugging hard.
Natasha is tied to a chair in Boris’s office, duct tape slapped over her mouth. Tori is restrained in a matching chair on her right.
Their faces are bruised and tear streaked. Two hands appear on either side of the screen with guns pointed at them both.
Rage tears through me, the explosion imminent. “You motherfuck—”
“Death is coming, Luka. But only you can decide whose it will be.”
