Sasha came in through the suite door and paused at the table to tell Pride and Kirill, “Yuri and Sergi wants you both in the security room.Follow me.”
They all went down the hall then out to the main room.Then across the very large room, they entered another hallway.
Finally, they arrived and entered a room with 12 full monitors on video feed and computers.There were desks and chairs all over the large room and most were manned by huge men who were each staring at a computer monitor as if their lives depended on it.
Pride took a slow preview of the room and the equipment.“What the fuck is this, the war room?”
Kirill chuckled from beside him.“I suppose it could be called that.”He stepped over and patted his brother Felix's arm.The man never left Sergi, so it had been a couple of months since he last saw him.
Felix fist bumped him and gave him a grin.
“Da, it is that most of the time.”Yuri nodded at Pride as he stood from the monitor table.“As we are going to war, very soon.”
Serenity had set up her laptop at her own desk.
Sergi stood next to her chair.He glanced up at them and gave them a nod.
Serenity also looked up at Yuri, Kirill and Pride.“After your text just before we left New York City, I searched the dark web.Your LaDonna Rinc was hard to find but I did find her.”Shaking her head she said, “And let me tell you guys she’s something else.”
“What something would that be?”Pride asked.
“Well, the rotten apple doesn’t fall far in her rotten family tree.In some ways, her brothers were stupid but she is not.She is absolutely cunning.And the bad news is that she has been at this for a long time.Her goal might be to blackmail or threaten these people.I am unsure just yet, but it's smart.She may have been living off some of their money too for all these years. Like she thinks beyond the day and into the future.She waits and watches and then she plans.”
“What does all that mean for our group though?”Yuri asked her.
“I haven’t found any activity from her concerning the Bratva at all.Not yet anyway.You said that the SIM card was twenty years old, right?”she asked.
Yuri nodded.“Boo’s mom hid it in a toy when she was taking her to her father.She died before they reached Pride.”
“I think that was just her beginning,” Serenity told them.
Kosta went over and handed her a piece of paper.“I found this list of names and every name had its own file with a background of each man and their families.”He shrugged.“There really isn’t any information on what she was collecting or what she was going to use it for.”
Serenity nodded.“That makes sense to me though.These men were the ones she was watching, digging up information on them that she could use against them.”She looked at Sergi, “And that’s exactly what she’s been doing.I can trace her research right down to months ago.She may be careful but every time she does a search, I’ve been able to find her trail.And these names?”She held up the paper list.“It looks like these are the very names she traced on the dark net.”
Sergi thought for a moment then asked, “Have you run down her banking info yet?”
Serenity shook her head.“I can’t find her on any banking application.She’s not listed at any bank near here or around the city.”
“What about an LLC?Anything there?”Candyman asked with a shrug.“I mean one of our bank accounts is an LLC for the club.”
Pride looked over at him.“Good call, Candy.”
Serenity began typing commands into her computer.
No one said a word as she continued her search.
