I shake the thought away as my phone begins to ring again.
I ignore it.
I’ll have my people dig into him. Tear through everything, where he has been, what he has done these past months, whether he ever left Russia at all.
I start the engine and pull away fast.
As the mansion recedes in the rear view mirror, a sudden pain grips my chest.
And I don’t understand it.
I don’t hurt for anyone… anymore.
The only person who ever had that power over me is my girl.
So why the hell do I feel like this?
“Soon, my love,” I murmur into the empty car. “I’m getting closer to avenging you. And then I’m coming to you.”
We will reunite.
In the near future.
Chapter 69
Milo
The man in front of me is dead.
Or what remains of him.
There was something inside him, a device, a trigger, because the moment we began questioning him, and the first pain was inflicted, he detonated.
And he nearly took us with him.
The blast throws me backward. My head cracks against the concrete floor.
For a second, everything spins, my ears ring. The breath is knocked out of me.
I push myself to my feet and look at what’s left of him.
“Is someone playing with us?” I roar, my voice rips through the basement.
Ido doesn’t move.
His arms remain crossed as he leans against the wall. The man is a machine. He didn’t even flinch when the explosion went off. If it weren’t for the thin smear of soot across his face, you would think he hadn’t been here at all.
“Looks like it,” he says calmly.
I run a hand through my hair and begin pacing.
My thoughts keep circling back to Viktor, but I try to focus on the present. That was likely his intention, to rattle me further.
We stand there in silence for a moment, the air still thick with smoke.
“I’ll have my people dig deeper,” I say after a moment. “Because this goes beyond absurd.”
Isaak doesn’t merely look at me, he looks through me. And I know I won’t like what he says next.
