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“Heading out? Where?”
Twisting around and finding Cin leaning against the doorjamb and listening in, I said, “I’ve got a bad feeling.”
She straightened up—as aware as I was about the importance of following your gut. “About?”
“Troy.”
“You think she’s in danger.”
I rubbed my eyes as that strange urgency continued to pound at me like fists to the head. “Yeah. Dumb but…”
“Not dumb. We’ve wended a path across the globe that has led us to Troy. That path is traceable and Reinier is MIA. That has to concern Smythe and Foundry. The original six are suddenly down to two.” She peered at Conor. “Does this place have an armory?”
Her words weren’t reassuring but at least I didn’t feel like I was freaking out for no reason now.
“It’s an O’Donnelly family home,” he retorted. “Of course it does.”
I didn’t even have it in me to smile.
My cell buzzed as he guided D where she was most comfortable—surrounded by submachine guns.
Unknown:How goes the search?
My brows lifted at the uncanny timing of, well, it had to be Kuznetsov, didn’t it?
Was the timing too uncanny though?
I peered around, wondering if he was spying on us, but like Conor had said, I’d trouble-shooted his network security before I’d taken off. His code wasn’t just perfect; it was crazy beautiful in its complexity.
Me: Kuznetsov?
Unknown: Yes. You know my name. You use it.
Me: Do you know someone called Belyaev?
Unknown: Knew of him. He’s dead now.
Me: I know.
Unknown: Why do you ask?
Me: Do you know WHY he died? Or how?
Unknown: No.
Me: He died on the same day as your son.
Unknown: What?!
Me: Do you know that he was a Sparrow?
I purposely kept that cryptic. Whether or not his son was a Sparrow was something I didn’t feel like dropping over text. Whatever I thought of him, hewasold.
Unknown: I did. He was highly ranked.
Me: One of the highest.
Unknown: Was his death related to Aleks’?
