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She pushes her bowl away and lays an arm across the table, reaching for Sam. “I changed my mind too. And I want to find the compound. I’ll help you, on one condition.”
Sam raises an eyebrow at her.
“If we find the Volkov brothers, I want you to spare Viktor.”
It’s my turn to fall silent from shock. Sam, however, explodes laughing.
“Have you gone completely insane? Both the brothers are on my contract.”
“I don’t give a shit about your contract,” she seethes. “I will only help you if you kill Aleksei and spare Viktor,” she repeats.
“Absolutely out of the question,” he snaps.
“Then find them yourself,” she growls back.
She gets up and attempts to storm out, but he grabs her as soon as she walks past him. Wrapping an arm around her waist, he pulls her until she’s sitting on his lap, her back to him. His nose buries in her hair, inhaling her scent.
“How can you expect me to agree to this,” he hisses against her head. “They took you away from me. They hurt you—”
“Alekseihurt me. Viktor never, ever, raised a hand to me. I promise you.”
“It doesn’t mean he gets to keep his life. They’re both dead men walking.”
“I have no doubt Jake is more than capable of turning on a tracker remotely. But you have one tiny problem; he loathes you.” She chuckles to herself. “Sam, he can’t stand the sight of you. Can you imagine going to him and asking for help without me?”
I watch Sam’s hands tighten around Rose’s waist as he comes to grips with how much we need her.
He pulls away slightly and glimpses at me.
“You get to kill one Volkov brother, or zero. Your choice,” she insists. Her stubbornness has no limit, and the exasperation and hesitation covering Sam’s features are palpable.
So, I help him. I nod, encouraging him to agree. Because once we know where they are, Rose won’t get to tell us who we can kill or not.
“I don’t understand how you can do this to me, Rose. How you can ask such a thing of me.” Sam shakes his head. “But if that’s the only way to find them, then fine.”
He grabs her jaw and turns her around to drop a kiss on her lips. “You win. Happy?”
She leans into his kiss and makes a show of her triumphant smile. “There’s something else.”
“You’re pushing it, princess,” I snap. “We’re trying our best to make this work.”
“I want to come with you when we find them.”
“No,” I cut her off before she can think of anything else. “You’re not coming with us. It’s too dangerous.”
“No one is coming,” Sam insists. “Not you, not Lik. This is a kill, not a bloody trip to Disneyland.”
She looks at me, Sam, and then straight ahead of her. “There are girls. Five of them in the compound.”
“Girls?” I repeat while Sam waits for her to continue.
She nods. “Aleksei keeps them. They’re his prizes of honor, the ones he doesn’t want to sell or send to brothels. They were sold to him, or the Wolves kidnapped them for trafficking.”
“Fucking hell,” I murmur, disgust wrapping around my heart.
“I want us to free them. I want him to watch them get free from him before he dies.”
“Were you with them?” Sam asks.
