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“The truck is rigged with C4 and set up to remote detonate. We get in, take the kill shots and leave before the truck blows the place up.” I furrow my brow confused.
“I thought you wanted the men he had?” I ask Bishop. The smirk is gone and his expression changes to annoyance.
“Those guys are too loyal to their Dons, we’ll find another way––”
“I’ll ask Tony,” Kiara cuts in. Bishop sighs but even he has to know that Tony Bennett is the best option he has.
“No.” Everyone turns to Vincent, taken back by his outburst.
“Why?” King demands.
“Because, you cannot bring a hoard of men into Russia without them knowing about it. The best thing to do is get your plant in and wait for them to be able to infiltrate their organization. They have people in the government, police, army, hospitals, you name it, they have it. Vladimir runs Russia, there is no doubt about that. To take him down you need to be smart and patient.”
“And how do you suppose we do that, Vincent?” I’m surprised that Bishop isn’t being an ass and brushing Vin off.
“Gage needs to find a way in. He needs to weed out the rats and find a way to turn them all against Vlad,” Vin answers as I look to Gage. He is going to go undercover in the Bratva, he could get killed!
“How?” Knight asks. Vin looks to Knight and Koby with a devilish smile on his face.
“You both are going to help me remotely hack every server that they have. Vladimir has to have dirt stored somewhere and I’m betting all the information we need is stored behind a fuck load of encryptions that we will need to decipher.”
“And how are we supposed to get akeyloggerinto his hard drive?” Koby snaps.
“Wedon’t, I do.” I’m on my feet in a nanosecond and glaring down at Vincent. He at least has the balls to look bad that he didn’t tell me this. “Gucci––”
“Don’t you dare fuckingGuccime! When the hell were you going to tell me you were going to Russia?”
“While you were orgasming?” The girls chuckle, while the guys snicker. I narrow my eyes to slits, a whoosh of air escapes Vin before he speaks again. “Carlina, you know what my job is, what it entails and what I have to do. I’m fucking good at what I do and I’ve never missed a shot before until… you.” He climbs to his feet ignoring everyone else as he cups my face between his hands and implores me with his eyes to understand. “I’m leaving with Gage. I’ll be back as soon as I plant the bug, then I’ll work remote.”
“From where?” I whisper.
“Here,” Bishop answers for Vin. Warmth spreads through me that Bish isn’t being an ass about this whole situation. I reach up and grip Vincent’s forearms, holding his gaze so he can see how fucking serious I am.
“You better fucking come back or I swear I’ll burn each of your houses to the ground and spit on your fucking grave.” A wide smile spreads across his face before he quickly plants a kiss on my lips.
“Deal, Gucci.”
“King!” At the sound of Allison’s worried shout, everyone is on their feet and racing from the room with King leading us.
“Allison?” King screams, I can hear the panic in his voice.
“In here!” she calls back. We all come barreling around the corner into the living room. King rushes to Allison who is standing behind the couch looking pale as fuck. He grips her face whilst running his gaze over her, checking for any injuries. She bats his hands away and turns to the TV mounted on the wall, she lifts her hand that holds the remote and turns the volume up.
‘Yes, that’s right, Cameron. Local authorities are now at the scene and we can confirm that a body has been pulled from the water. A local fishermen spotted the body early this morning on his way back to shore and alerted local police. We have no identification at this time––’
“Turn it off!” Knight shouts. Allison fumbles with the remote for a second before the TV goes black. No one speaks, everyone is too lost in their own heads trying to come to terms with what we just saw. Vin’s arms wrap around my waist as he pulls me to him, I can feel his warmth against my back but I still feel so… cold. My baby brother, my beautiful innocent baby brother who would never hurt anyone is…
“Boss?” I turn to see Luka standing in the entryway. Bishop’s gaze is still on the blank screen, standing still as a statue, unblinking. I don’t even know if he’s breathing. “Boss?” Luka tries to draw his attention again but gets nothing. “Bishop!” Luka yells, and that finally snaps him out of it. He shakes his head and blinks rapidly before looking around the room. King holds a sobbing Ally to his chest, his eyes are void of any emotion. Koby has her arms around Knight who is as pale as Ally was. His eyes are rimmed with tears and I can see the devastation in his eyes. Kiara hugs Bishop around the waist resting her head on his chest, but it’s like Bishop doesn’t even feel her there, his arms hanging limply at his sides.
“What?” Bish croaks out. Luka moves into the room and stops in the middle so we can all see him. I can tell from the look on his face that he already knows what we saw.
“The body was dumped this morning. Someone looped my video feed so I wouldn’t pick it up until the news crew announced it.”
“Why?” I breathe. Luka flicks his gaze to me and the pity in his eyes has me leaning further into Vin.
“Someone outside of the families is doing this. I don’t have proof but I’m working on it. Someone knows where we go, what we do, where we are at any given time and they are playing in my blind spots.” The frustration is clear in Luka’s voice, he hates being outsmarted.
“Whoever is doing that to you is more than likely the one who hired me to take out Carlina.” Luka nods his agreement to Vin. “We find out who hired me to kill her, then we find your rat.”
