26. Aleksandr
CHAPTER 26
Aleksandr
“ L ooks like your trouble has found you,” River says through the phone. The moment Cinita ended up in the hospital, I called on River for a favor. She wouldn’t give me the names of those who put her there, so I’ll use my own resources to find out.
His tracker’s name is Will, an Englishman who has a knack for finding people in hiding. He’d once found me in Russia. He was the only person to come close, and when he did, I put a bullet in his shoulder.
Now I’m paying double the price to have him discover the names of the people who hurt Cinita. I’d originally had him looking for her, but when she ended up in coma, I changed my focus to uncovering those who’d done it to her .
She was used as a toy for their amusement, and I won’t let that slide.
I look at my phone screen and see live footage of three men sitting in a car outside the hospital. “This is them?” I ask.
“Yes,” River says. “You better deal with this quickly. If Anya finds out you’re not yet done with the dancer, she’s going to gut both of us alive.”
“I didn’t take you for the type to be scared of my sister,” I say as I take in the mess that is Cinita’s hospital room. She’s sleeping at the moment after trying to destroy the room an hour before because she couldn’t get her next hit.
“If I wasn’t scared of your sister, she wouldn’t like me so much,” River replies, and I agree with him. Anya thrives off the power.
“Have Anya send Clay and Vance to look after Cinita while I’m gone,” I tell him, kicking off the wall. “I’m going to deal with these fuckers since they so kindly brought themselves to me.”
I hang up on River as I make my way downstairs. It’s late in the evening, and it makes sense that they’d come at this time. They most likely thought she’d be alone and jonesing for her next high, which means she’d go with them willingly.
Had I known I’d just have to wait it out, I wouldn’t have spent this past week fixated on trying to find them instead of being where I really wanted. And that was with Lena.
The mistake they made was bringing Cinita back to New York and stepping into Ivanov territory.
I didn’t need a deal to go wrong or any other excuse to execute them.
It’s just what I do.
And I do it very well.