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“As long as it doesn’t get me killed.”
“It might be a little dangerous,” I admit.
“Now you’ve gotten my attention. What is it that you’re trying to do?”
“I have about…” I lower my voice to a whisper. “Ten kilograms of Protodafinil sitting in a duffle bag in my hotel in Mexico.”
“Don’t joke around like that,” Gabriel warns.
“I’m not joking,” I say, looking over to the duffle bag in question. “You’re going to have to trust me on this. I picked it up near the border, and I want you to have it.”
“Obviously there’s a catch.”
“I need your private army on Monday. We’re taking down the Dimalona Cartel.”
“Now I know you’re joking… Nikolai, please tell me you’re joking.”
“I’m not joking,” I reply flatly.
“I told you not to tell me that,” he groans.
“Listen, I’m offering you two million dollars’ worth of P50 in exchange for your soldiers. I don’t even need you, really, but if you want to join, you –”
“I don’t go anywhere without my men,” he snaps, cutting me off. “And that’s not really two million. Here, it goes for closer to one and a half.”
“I’ll get the rest of the money to you once we dissolve the leader of the Dimalona Cartel in acid,” I reply, gripping the phone so tight that my fingers ache. “I just need a yes or a no, so I know I’m not wasting my time here.”
“No… Yes… Yes and no. I need to know more about what you’re trying to do.”
“I already told you,” I reply, frustration growing in my voice. “I’m going to destroy the Dimalona Cartel. They’ve been giving me trouble for too long. Recently, they kidnapped one of my guys near the border and sent me a video of them throwing him into a pit of snakes. Now, they’ve snatched up some American woman’s cousin and they’re holding him for ransom.”
“I didn’t know they were capable of all that. Things must’ve gotten worse,” he says, his voice cut with deep concern.
“My point exactly. We need to take them out now before it gets to the point where we can’t handle it. I want your help.”
There’s a long silence, and for a moment, I think he’s decided to quit talking to me. But eventually, he comes back, breathing into the phone with the longest, most dramatic sigh I’ve heard from a man before. “I can lend you my people, but I want to know everything. That means names, dates, details… everything. If I get the feeling that you’re holding something back from me, I’m out of this bitch faster than you can blink.”
I’m glad he can’t see how wide my smile is right now. He wouldn’t trust me at all. “I’ll give you everything. Jasha is coming down before Monday, and we’re all going to get together and hash this out.”
“Not much time,” he mutters.
“That’s why I’m giving you the P50. You think I’d be paying you so much if this wasn’t such short notice.”
“Shrewd motherfucker,” he says with a laugh.
“You know it.”
“Well, get the details to me as soon as you can. You said you were already in Mexico?”
“Close to Dimalona,” I affirm.
He sucks air sharply in through his teeth. “I’d be careful if I were you. They’re opportunists, and if they caught you lurking around, I’m certain they’d try to take you out.”
“Funny enough, they already tried. Pissed me off a bit, and now you understand why I’m after them so hard now. They’re getting ballsy, spreading out too far, and I think it’s about time they were put in their place.”
“Six feet under.”
A smile lifts the corners of my mouth. “Exactly.”
