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“Not with me. You know that.”
“Do you even date?” She sighed. “Never mind. I’ll see what I can do. Where do you need to go?”
“Russia.”
I waited for the explosion. It came in the form of a growl. “Why the fuck do you want to go to Russia?”
Riggs, a church-going Evangelist, never swore. That meant I enjoyed it all the more when I made her do it.
As much as we were friendly, she was my handler. Granted, she didn’t ‘handle’ me much anymore. Once every four or so years I tended to hear from her. It was both bad and good luck that she’d called today.
Bad because I had other shit I needed to do.
Good because I needed to get to Star and I hadn’t been sure if I’d be able to leave the country without being stopped by TSA first.
A private jet was always an option, and I’d sneaked in and out of our borders via that method of transport in the past, but something about what was going down told me I needed to stay on the good side of the US government.
If that meant doing their bidding for a little while, jumping through some hoops, and dancing to their tune, then I’d do it.
“Well?” she snarled. “Why Russia?”
“I need to retrieve someone from there.”
“Retrieve?” She paused. “An evacuation?”
That was the problem; I didn’t know. Hell, I didn’t know if Star was eveninRussia. I was going off a bombing in Petrovsky Park and what felt like a wing and a fucking prayer.
I scrubbed a hand over my face then winced when I caught on the tear in the skin on my forehead.
Nothing about the last couple of days had gone according to plan.
Ever since Star Sullivan had entered my life, shit routinely went down the shitter, but these past few months had been worse than ever.
This whole crap fest had started with Katina, Star’s foster daughter, who had come to visit me, running away from her home in West Orange, New Jersey, to find my apartment building so she could tell me that her foster mother hadn’t been in contact with her and had skipped a call when she never did that.
I’d promised her I’d bring her home, then I’d taken Katina back to the Satan’s Sinners’ MC compound where I’d been greeted by the man who was dating Katina’s older sister—Maverick. It was only after his fist met my face that I remembered he was the one who was a Green Beret.
The prick might have been retired, but that didn’t mean he packed less of a punch.
The fact that I woke up in the hospital with an apologetic MC Prez sitting at my bedside told me that Katina had informed Rex, the Prez, and the rest of the Sinners’ MC that Ihadn’tabducted her and had, in fact, been in the process of returning her to her family.
I was still dealing with the migraine that came from my head being bounced off the driveway like a basketball, so this shit with the government was the last thing I needed to be juggling.
That was the problem though—it wasn’t like theyaskedme. Riggs didn’t call with requests.
Sheordered.
Rubbing my eyes, I muttered, “I’m not sure if it’s an evacuation or not. Someone important to me has gotten herself into some trouble over there. I just need to get her back here. I’m not a flight risk. You know that.”
“I know that your family situation has changed,” was Riggs’ cool answer.
I mocked, “Thanks for the flowers.”
“Your father was lucky that youarea governmental asset, Conor. It’s not a bad thing that he can’t create more chaos in the city streets.”
The bitch of it was I didn’t disagree with her.
My da had used me.
