Crown: An Arranged Marriage Dark Mafia Romance by Michelle St. James

Author:Michelle St. James [James, Michelle St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackthorn Press
Published: 2022-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

23

Lyon waited at the entrance to the tunnel with Markus and Alek, listening to the retreating footsteps of the other men. The scent was familiar — moist concrete and lake water, mold and rat shit.

It made him think of Sergei Ivanov, of the slow circle he’d made around Lyon before he’d used his knife to slice Lyon’s chest.

That’s what he’d smelled on Vadim’s son: the tunnel leading to the water crib, the lake.

Something inside him — the part that still woke up at night in a cold sweat — wavered, and he forced himself to breathe through the panic that threatened to overwhelm him.

In a rare display of disagreement, Alek had argued about whether Lyon should be here at all. Lyon was weaker in body than he’d once been. It had only been two weeks since his rescue, and the damage that had been done to him by Vadim’s men and the fact that he’d been tied to a chair for over a month would take more than fourteen days of food and exercise to correct.

But Lyon wouldn’t leave this to the men. Not after all they’d already sacrificed for him. The organization was under assault because Vadim wanted Lyon out of the way.

Vadim was his enemy. He would risk his life along with his men to see the encroacher vanquished.

In the end, he and Alek had settled the issue when Alek had posed a question Lyon hadn’t wanted to answer: was Lyon strong enough that the men could count on him to save their lives if it came right down to it?

Lyon had been offended by the question, but honesty had quickly taken the place of indignation.

He didn’t know.

He’d been back in the gym, working to rebuild his strength, but he was not yet as physically strong as he’d been before his kidnapping and imprisonment.

Finally, he’d agreed to a compromise. The strongest men would pave the way through the tunnels and into the water crib. Lyon would follow with Markus and Alek when most of the way had been cleared.

Lyon hated it, but he wasn’t stupid, and he would not have the death of another soldier on his hands, especially not in an instance where he had the foresight to prevent it.

Lyon thought he heard the muffled thump of gunfire somewhere deep inside the tunnel. It forced him back to the present, the safest place for him to be.

“Update,” Lyon said to Alek.

Lyon had opted not to wear a comms earpiece. He didn’t want to hear every move the other men were making, every obstacle they had to overcome. This time, the details were a distraction he didn’t need. There was only one thing that mattered: isolating Vadim and his son in the water crib and killing them both.

Lyon didn’t need comms for that mission, not with Alek running interference.

Alek touched his earpiece, then looked at Lyon. “The boats are in position.”

Lyon nodded.

The youngest and weakest of the men had been assigned to approach the crib by boat, providing a distraction for the other men working their way through the tunnels.

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