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IVAN
I hang up with Cora and call Yasha.
“Let me go in,” he pleads as soon as he answers. “This is my mistake. No one else should die because I didn’t protect Francia well enough. Let me go in alone. Right now.”
“Not a fucking chance.”
“Ivan,” he growls.
“No.You’re not going in there to die for this. We had no reason to believe Francia would be a target. Not after every attack for the last two weeks has been aimed directly at Cora.”
“I should have anticipated it. That’s my fucking job.”
“Your job is to be my second. To do what I ask,” I retort. “You carried out the security measures I ordered.”
“But I should have—”
“Your job is also to do what I fucking say, not argue about who is at fault,” I snap. “Shit hit the fan, and it’s not time to figure out who threw it; it’s time for us to clean up.That’sour job.”
He lets out a frustrated breath. “Okay, but someone has to go in. The place is like the fucking walking dead. No one is answering calls and the cameras are down.”
“They could be holding the guards and Francia hostage inside the unit.”
“Maybe. But people with hostages are looking for someone to talk to. It implies negotiations. Whoever did this, they aren’t talking.”
I nod. “You’re right. This is something else.”
Something worse, I think. Though I don’t want to say that out loud.
“Where are you?”
There’s a long pause. I know Yasha is trying to decide whether he should tell me or not. Following my orders has never been an issue for Yasha… until his honor is on the line.
“Yasha,” I bark.
He sighs. “I’m at the parking garage one block south. I wanted to get a vantage point on the building and come in on foot.”
“Stay there and wait for me. We go in together.”
I hang up and turn to walk inside…
Only to find my father standing in the doorway.
“Our fearless leader is going to get himself killed on his first full day on the job,” he sneers. “What a legacy.”
He looks worse than he did when I saw him last night. I take it our conversation didn’t sit well with him.
“If you don’t have a good reason for being here, then get out of my way. I’m busy.”
“I’m not sure why I’m here just yet.” He shrugs and meanders casually across the patio. He runs his finger along the back of a chair as he walks. “I might try to convince you not to make a huge mistake. Or I might let you run into an unknown situation, get yourself killed, and run the Bratva into the ground…which would serve you right.”
I snort. “Who told you about what’s happening?”
“Some of the men still know where their loyalty should lie. They thought thepakhanought to know what was going on.”
“Then you know I’m busy.”
I start to walk towards the door, but he shifts into my path. “You aren’t going to waste time and money on a woman of no consequence. I sat back and let you shack up with your little girlfriend and protect her friends, but no one is going to die to save them.”
