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I tell him the name of the street and the name of the cross streets, designating the length I’ll need.
The neighborhood is a lot like mine. The blocks, if they can be called that, are long. And mercifully straight. So my plan should work.
“What’ll you do for me?” he asks.
“How about I kill Mikhail?” I keep my voice even.
The fed laughs. “Considering the address you just gave me, I have a feeling you’re gonna do that anyway.”
“Then I’ll owe you one.”
He sighs. “I don’t want a war in my backyard, Nero. I can’t brush that off.”
“There isn’t going to be a war.”
“No?”
“This is an extermination.”
He’s quiet for a moment. “What happened?”
My mouth opens, and I have to swallow before I can get the words out. “He has my woman.”
“Fuck,” the fed curses. “Alright, fine. I’ll jam shit on my end, keep my boys off your back. But twenty is all I can buy you.” I can hear him typing on a keyboard. “When is this starting?”
I look at my GPS and the now stationary dot of Payton’s tracker. “I’ll land in thirty.”
“Land? What the fuck are––”
I hang up.
Hang on, Baby. I’m almost there.
CHAPTER78
Payton
The restof the ride was spent in silent torture.
I tried to figure out a way to free my hands, but there was no way to do it quietly. Possibly no way to do it at all. At least not for me.
We’ve been driving slower for the last few minutes, and when the car comes to a near stop to make a sharp right turn that has to be a driveway, I close my eyes.
We’re here.
Wherever here is.
The car rolls to a stop and when the doors up front start opening, I work on slowing my breath.
I don’t have any weapons. I don’t have any idea how to defend myself, not against men like this. So, my big plan is to pretend I’m still knocked out. Maybe if they think I’m unconscious, they’ll just set me down somewhere and leave me alone.
I have no grand delusions of escape. But I’d rather wait for Nero by myself, playing possum, then have to talk to, or interact with, whoever is responsible for this.
They don’t want me dead. If that was the goal, they’d have just blown up both vehicles.
No, they want me as bait. They’re trying to lure Nero in.
And it’s going to work.
