“If the Gambinos find you, they will kill you.This is too much risk and I am not going to allow you to do that.”
“She has a point,” Jack said, who visibly flinched when Dmitriy looked his way.
“You don’t get to glare at him,” she said, putting a hand on Dmitriy’s arm.
“It’s too dangerous.”
“Right now, it’s all we’ve got.Otherwise, we’re in the dark,” Jack said.“We need to know if Gnesin had any kind of contact with someone who might be able to help us, because right now, all that will happen is you’ll be infiltrating a heavily guarded prison.”
Dmitriy shook his head.
“Look, I can do this,” Anastasia said.“All I have to do is stay behind, and the moment the coast is clear, I go looking for Nikolai.It’s easy.”
She tried not to wince at her own words, because the truth was, there was absolutely nothing easy about what she was going to attempt to do.
“This is our only shot.”
“And if that doesn’t work, you can go in all guns blazing, and I can direct you from here,” Jack said.
It looked good on paper.
“I need to think.”
Dmitriy didn’t say anything else as he turned on his heel and walked away.
She watched him leave, and sighed.“I’m sorry about this.”
“Nah, it’s all good.It’s nice to see Dmitriy has found someone he cares about.”
She turned to look at Jack.
Jack smiled.“You think I’m kidding?”
“I don’t know what to think.”
“Our ghost devil is not a guy known for feelings, and he certainly is not the kind of guy to allow anyone to live when an order is given.I mean, assuming that order is ...well, you know, the right one.”
She breathed out.“You know, I’ve been thinking about that, and I can’t help but wonder if my parents ...helped.”
Spending the last few days in Gnesin’s home, with all the guards breathing down her neck, it had made her wonder how they were able to get to Gnesin.
“What do you mean?”
“Gnesin is known for loyal followers, and they didn’t destroy my parents’ home.They made it like another port, or something.A hub?”She frowned.“What if my parents did this?”
Jack blew out a breath.“And you think they got killed because of it?”
“I don’t know, but it does mean that if we save Nikolai, he may demand that Dmitriy kill me.It seems only fair.My family nearly destroyed the Bratva.”
“That is assuming you’re correct,” he said.
She shrugged.“I don’t have any other explanation.”She ran fingers through her hair.
“Dmitriy won’t kill you,” Jack said.
“You don’t know that.”
Jack laughed.“You know, he could have already killed you.It was an order that, at the time, he assumed came from Nikolai, and he didn’t do it.You need to start figuring out why.”
