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Me:I don’t.

Eoghan:You’re a shit flyer.

Me:So? I’ll have a couple of whiskeys to take off the edge. It would help if aerodynamicists could decide how planes actually stay in the air.

Declan:You read too much, Conor. That’s always been your problem. Sometimes, you just have to appreciate technology. You don’t have to understand it.

Finn:At the risk of this developing into an argument about aerodynamic lift and how Declan can’t talk when he can wax lyrical for hours about why Mondrian liked squares, WHO is behind Lodestar’s disappearance?

Me:According to Maxim, a guy called Anton Kuznetsov. They attended a party together. She went into the guy’s office and never came back.

Brennan:That sounds really loyal. Attending parties with a guy from the Bratva and going into some fucker’s office AT said party?

Declan:Shut up. Lodestar’s different. She’s ex-CIA and she’s on a mission to annihilate the Sparrows. This ain’t like Camille deciding to swan off at some gala with the Dragon Head of the Triads.

Aidan:If the local Bratva isn’t on Lyanov’s side, then we have no way of helping you get to her, Kid.

Me:I’ll figure it out.

Declan:You’re not on your own in this.

Eoghan:If you need me to fly over, just tell me.

Brennan:FFS, same.

Aidan:I’m not fit to fight. My knee’s a thousand times better but I’d just slow you down. I can send men though.

Me:Stop. I don’t need any help yet. First, I need to get on the ground. Then, if I need backup, I’ll call them in, okay?

Declan:We’re here for you, Kid. Always. Brennan’s just being his usual grouchy-ass self.

Me:I get it. You all baby me. But I’m not a child even if that’s my nickname. Maxim Lyanov did me a solid. The least we can do is back him if he has the support of the foot soldiers here. Which we know he does.

Brennan:He’s been a solid leader so far. One of Camille’s cousins told her that the mid-to-lower ranks love him. It’s upper ‘management’ who have a problem with him.

Aidan:Why?

Brennan:He believes in playing fair.

Declan:Meaning he spreads the cash around so the upper ranks get less of a cut?

Brennan:Sounds like it.

Eoghan:Kid, I’ve heard of that Kuznetsov guy.

Me:You have? I haven’t. Misha indicated that the Kuznetsov family holds a lot of power in Russia.

Eoghan:Yeah. I remember now. I had to take a specialist class and there was this real-life situation that was being used as an example of how NOT to do shit.

Eoghan:This guy was driving along with his wife and kid in, fuck, Ohio? I think it was anyway. They had diplomatic plates. Someone took them out.

Brennan:What kind of teaching moment was that?

Aidan:What kind of class were you taking?

Finn:How to be G.I. Joe, lol.

Declan:101 :P

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