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“Not possible? It’sverypossible, Jasha,” Nikolai warns. “Don’t mess around with her. Keep her contained on the train if you’re not sure, but if she’s with the Italians, you know what you need to do.”
“Hey, I’ve got this covered. Who’s the boss now?”
“You are. I’m just making sure you don’t get yourself killed. I know how reckless you can be.”
I laugh. “Yeah, says the guy who decided to take on the entire Mexican Cartel over some woman ten years ago.”
“That woman you’re referring to is my wife and the mother of my child,” he growls, “So watch your mouth.”
He’s always so defensive over that woman, and it’s the reason he resigned as the head of the Bratva. I took his place, but I’m terrified I’m going to fall into the same trap as he did.
A wife and kids?
Not in this lifetime.
Or perhaps much sooner than I think…
“I’m not trying to piss you off,” I say, switching my phone to the other ear. “I’m just telling you that I have this under control. You can leave the woman to me.”
“Gladly.”
I roll my eyes.
“Also, let me know where you are. If you didn’t stop the train for too long, you should be en route to Missouri, maybe two-hundred or so miles from the border.”
“We’re moving pretty fast. Probably closer to a hundred,” I say, pulling my phone away from my ear and putting it on speaker. I open my map application and wait for it to update with our current location. “I’m checking now. Give me a second.”
“One,” Nikolai counts.
I shake my phone as the location updates far from where it should be. “Come on… What’s this?”
“What?”
“It’s showing me the wrong location. I think I have a bad signal,” I say, closing the application and reopening it. “Still wrong.”
“I can hear you fine. I don’t think it’s a problem with the signal.”
My stomach sinks as I witness the little dot on the map move further east. Either the GPS on my phone has suddenly stopped working, or…
We’re going the wrong way.
“You know what? I’ll call you back in a second. I just need to check something,” I say, ending the phone call before Nikolai suggests that I’ve screwed something up. If anyone screwed anything up, it was Lola.
Dammit, I can’t trust that girl with anything. It’s like her sole purpose in life is to ruin mine.
I slide the door to the cabin open so hard that it bounces off the frame and nearly hits me as I step inside. I use my foot to close it, glaring at Lola as she shrinks into the corner by the window.
“You know what you’ve done,” I growl.
“I… I’m not sure what you’re –”
“Don’t play stupid with me! You took us in the wrong direction on purpose.” I tug at my collar as heat rises up my neck. I don’t like being made a fool of, especially not by a woman who thinks she’s untouchable because she’s supposedly carrying my baby.
And if that turns out to be false, I intend to give her hell.
“Maybe by accident,” Lola squeaks, trying to disappear into her seat. “I was nervous when I was setting the course, so it’s possible that I did something wrong.”
“You’re going to fix it,” I say, grabbing her wrist and pulling her to her feet. “Right now, and then you’re going to answer some questions.”
