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“Well… that’s nothing to do with us.”
Katya made a dissenting sound.
I stared at her. “What? Tell me.” I was rapidly losing patience with all these secrets.
“Well, wekindakidnapped Igor the other day. Kirill came to his rescue. From their conversation, it’s clear they did something to her.”
“Did something like what?”
“They didn’t say.”
I had a sudden flashback of Kirill coming to my office, talking enthusiastically about the money to be made in sex trafficking. How we were already one step there with the strip club... How we could use it as a lure…
Look, I’ve never been a good guy. I’ve killed people, stolen from them, and sold them drugs. But I’ve never been about luring young girls to my club to be sold as sex slaves. We’re criminals, not aristocrats.
I had shut him down at the time and thought it was more or less the end of it. But now I was wondering if he went ahead with his plans anyway.
Suddenly something Katya said hit me. “Wait. Youkidnapped Igor? What the fuck Katya?”
“We wanted answers.”
“Have you any idea how dangerous these men are?”
“Don’t worry. They didn’t see me.”
“They saw enough to know Nora was involved.”
“Nah. I think Kirill just put two and two together because Nora’s been asking questions from the moment she stepped in this club. Maybe we shouldn’t have been so specific.” She looked regretful.
“You’re sure about that, Katya? Kirill’s been with me since day one. He’s my most loyal soldier.”
Katya heaved a sigh. “I know that Alexei. I know,” she said softly, “but why else would he have come to rescue Igor? How did he know about Celia? Has he ever tried to explain to you what he and Igor might have been up to?”
I closed my eyes and sighed, accepting her words at face value. Kirill was running some sort of business on the side that involved disappearing Celia Young. Now he had Nora, and he was going to kill her if we didn’t find him soon.
It was time to take the gloves off.
CHAPTERTHIRTY-ONE
NORA
My head was pounding, and my body was shaking. My awareness didn’t so much return as much as I had a growing awareness of myself and my surroundings. Like the sun slowly rising in the morning, spreading its light until all the shadows were gone, I slowly came to.
I tried to reach for my face and rub my eyes, and that’s how I realized I was handcuffed to a chair. My feet were also tied, but I was surprisingly neither blindfolded nor gagged. Thank heaven, because I suddenly felt quite nauseous. I suspected I might have a concussion.
I let my eyes scan the room slowly—what I could see of it. It was a warehouse very similar to the one we’d kept Igor in, except this one clearly wasn’t abandoned.
“Good. You’re awake.” A water bottle appeared in my line of sight. “Drink up.”
I looked up to see Kirill looking down at me, a grin on his face.
“You’ve been a pain in my ass, you know that? First, you push aside Jules, who was very good about passing on information about what went on between her and Alexei—she made a great spy, you know. And now it turns out you want to stir up a hornet’s nest that’snone of your fucking business.” He sneered at me.
“Where’s Celia? What did you do with my sister?” I thought I might as well ask since the jig was clearly up.
He looked away, pursing his lips. “All in good time. Right now you’re going to answer some questions for me and then we’ll get this show on the road, alright?”
“You mean, you’ll kill me.”
