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The accent was strong, impossible not to recognize.Russian.
“Who’s speaking?” I demanded.
“My name is Misha Babanin.”
I recognized the name. “You like cutting up people.”
A soft laugh drifted in my ear. “The knife is not my weapon of choice. Regardless, you consider a rapist a person?”
“The Stepanov boy was a rapist?”
“Da. Had my Pakhan not dealt with the situation, I’m certain that your sister-in-law would have suffered his attention too.”
My jaw worked at that. “Why are you calling me? I’m not a liaison with the Bratva.”
“I don’t need a liaison. I have information foryou.”
“From?”
“My Pakhan.”
“Why didn’t he call himself?”
“Because he’s indisposed.”
“Indisposed how?”
“Injured.”
“Lyanov’s in the hospital?” That was news to me.
“You may have read about a bomb that went off in Moskva’s Petrovsky Park recently… He was caught up in the blast.”
My brows lifted in surprise. “Why the hell was he involved in that?”
“I didn’t say he was involved. I said he was caught in the blast. He has been unconscious ever since but when he woke up, he wished for me to tell you something.”
This made no sense, but that he didn’t just come out with what he was supposed to tell me clued me into a sorry truth. “It comes at a price?”
“Doesn’t everything?”
I had to laugh. “Lyanov shouldn’t mess around with the Five Points.”
“My Pakhan told me to give you this information. I’m the one who is putting a price on it.”
“That isn’t your place. I’d heard the New York Bratva bred mutiny better than rabies spreads around a pack of dogs, but now I’ve got proof of it.”
A growl, rather fitting considering my metaphor, rumbled in my ear. “I do not betray my brother. I ask for help on his behalf.”
That had me frowning. “What kind of help does he need?”
“His… loyalty to the Bratva has been called into question. TheKrestniy Otetshas deemed him unfit to lead us here. We are evacuating him from Moskva as we speak.”
“And?”
“And Moskva will learn that we do not always answer when it calls.”
I blinked. “You’re separating from them?”
