Serenity nodded.“Yeah, I got something.Viktor said this went back three years.I found something that went back five years and she didn’t reach out to him, he reached out to her.I found an email track on the dark web and he definitely reached out to her.”
“Show me.”Sergi growled his demand.
She swung her screen around and showed him email after email, dating back five years.
Sergi read the first three then nodded.“I want them printed out, so we have them as evidence.The High Council are going to need to read them.”Shaking his head he admitted, “Although the man doesn’t have as much power as he’d like, he does have some pull and we have to present irrefutable evidence he’s in this plot right up to his neck or the Council won’t act.I want to see him in chains facing a firing squad for what he’s done.Etot sukin syn.”
Serenity glanced at Nicky and translated the slur Sergi used three times already to describe this man as she mouthed, “Sonofabitch.” They both smirked.He only did name calling this much when someone truly pissed him off.
Sergi went on, “We’ve worked too hard to go on the straight and narrow to be blindsided like this, especially by one of our own.In the old days, the Bratva meant nothing but pain for the people of Russia.They charged a good amount of money just for the people to be able to work or just live.Me and other leaders like me had to fight the corrupt system just to make the changes we needed to rebuild the trust of the people.We have that now but this could just destroy all the progress we’ve made in the last ten years.So we are going to need everything we can find to combat the treachery this one man is guilty of.”
Serenity nodded as the SOB slur made more sense now and went back to her computer.
Sergi now added to his rant, “Make sure you note his IP address.I want proof beyond a shadow of a doubt that he wrote those emails and that they came from his email address.I don’t want him to claim they aren’t his.”
She gave him another nod.
Yuri snorted.“Would he be stupid enough to claim he didn’t write them?”
Sergi shook his head.“I don’t want to give him the chance.If he’s caught, he knows exactly what the punishment is for treason against the Bratva.If he’s convicted of treason, he knows he’ll face a firing squad.”
Kosta looked up and cleared his throat to inform Sergi, “LaDonna is on her feet and walking around the cell.”
Sergi moved quickly and when he got to where Kosta’s screen was he sneered.“I knew it...Get a video of this.”
“It’s already running,” Kosta assured him.
Everyone gathered behind Sergi and they all watched.
LaDonna was pacing the cell.She seemed to be arguing with herself as she paced back and forth, walking the entire length of her cell.Then she paused and looked around the area.
Sergi wondered out loud, “What is she looking for?”
LaDonna then went over to her chair and reached underneath it and pulled off a small bag.
Kosta reached out and flipped a switch.He looked up and shrugged.“I initiated a jammer.Now, she can’t reach out and touch anyone outside that room.It doesn’t affect the cameras but it does cut off any outside power.If there’s a phone in that bag she won’t get a call through.”
Sergi smiled faintly as he watched her open the bag and bring out a cell phone.It appeared to be a phone you could buy anywhere but he knew if she got the call out she would or could set up an ambush that might end up freeing her.
They all watched as she powered the phone up and tapped a number.Suddenly, she stopped, pulling the phone away from her ear.She redialed then brought the phone to her ear.Again, she didn’t hear anything.LaDonna looked around the room and quickly put the phone away.She slipped it under her chair again.Sitting down on the cot, she looked down at the floor.She wrapped her arms around herself and just sat there.
After a few minutes, she reached for the blanket at the end of the cot and quickly wrapped it around her shoulders.Then she scooted back and laid her back against the wall behind the bed.Her expression looked desperate but she never called out, instead she just stared at the floor.
Sergi looked at Yuri and the other brothers.“I think she’s finally beginning to understand who and what she’s up against.”
Yuri shook his head.“I don’t think she’s ever faced herself before.She’s always had three brothers at her back if she ever needed them and now she knows they are gone and there’s no one out there she can call to storm in and rescue her.”
“Da, she doesn’t know yet,” Kosta added as he watched her begin to shrink.“That the men she left behind are being rounded up and put in a place where they can’t reach her.She was hoping they would be right behind her.That they would bust in here and get her out before she had to face us.”He looked up at Sergi and smirked.“You think we should tell her nobody is coming to help her?”
Sergi snorted.“I think she’s beginning to realize that.The hard way I might add.”
Serenity snapped her head up and whispered, “Oh my god, we might have a problem.”
Sergi also snapped his head up.“What do you mean?”he asked her.
