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“Temur is a traditional prick.” Konstantin’s eyes narrow angrily. “He took after his sister demanding to know if it was hers.”
“Jesus!”
“My sister told me no she’d never seen it before,” Temur tells me. “But I was furious at that point because I knew there was something going on between the two of them that they weren’t telling me.”
“Temur basically raised Boris and Valentina,” Konstantin explains.
“Ah!” I nod in understanding. “But that’s still no reason to fly off the handle in the middle of a mission.”
“I thought it was nothing more than a babysitting mission,” Temur admits. “I didn’t think it was going to erupt into what it did.”
“Pavel tells me that the man who stabbed Valentina in the neck looked like he was actually targeting her,” Konstantin tells me. “I saw her fall and left my post keeping an eye on you two to get to her.”
“Someone tried to shoot Konstantin,” Temur tells me. “Not just someone…” he corrects himself, “a sniper.”
“And he was only targeting myself and Valentina,” Konstantin tells me. “I could’ve gotten her to the hospital and saved her but before Pavel could get to the roof to get the fucker he put a bullet through her head.”
“Fuck!” Now I’m feeling bad for the iceman. “Did Pavel get him?”
“Yes,” Temur tells me. “But before he could ask the fucker anything the man bit down on a cyanide pill.”
“What the fuck!” That’s like old school shit.
“We found out that he was ex-military and very much indebted to the Velvet Cigar Lounge,” Konstantin tells me and my blood chills.
“The commander was in pain and furious when he heard a shout coming from the front of your building,” Temur says. “By the time we’d plowed through three of the men that had been sent to attack you and Lev, we didn’t see the second hit.”
“Second hit?”
“Yeah,” Konstantin nods. “We’d just thinned the alarming number of men sent to attack you, Lev, and Stacy when two masked men appeared from nowhere. One grabbed Lev as Stacy arrived and she accidentally sprayed you in the face with NeuroVeil.”
“That bitch sprayed me in the face!”
“She saved your life,” Temur snaps. “The men thought you were dead and turned their attention to her and kicked her brutally.”
“While Temur was trying to get to Stacy, I couldn’t get to Lev in time as the man who grabbed him shoved a knife into his side and the second man kicked him in the spine.” Konstantin tells me. “I managed to kill the man who held and stabbed him but the other one took off and disappeared.”
“That’s a lot!” I tell him. “Fuck me. I’m still trying to get it through my brain that you actually performed a thoracostomy right there on the sidewalk.” I run a hand over my face and snort. “Fuck I nearly killed you for saving Lev.”
“People have tried to kill me for less,” he jokes.
Before I can reply, Temur tells us we’re landing. The helicopter touches down, and we wait for the blades to slow to a stop, before we climb out.
I look around feeling like I’ve stepped into the set of a post-apocalyptic movie near an old abandoned building. “What is this place?”
“An abandoned mall project,” Temur tells me. “It’s as close as I could get us to the lodge.”
“How far is the lodge?”
“Approximately five miles that way.” Temur points, pulling out a few backpacks and weapons, which he distributes between us.
“Are we hiking?”
“No.” Konstantin shakes his head, and we walk toward where a large dark green tarp has draped over an object. “A contact of ours close by dropped a vehicle off for us.”
Temur pulls the cover off to reveal an old fashioned green Military Jeep
“Oh, nice!” Temur grins.
