Eastern Shadows: Alex Thorne Book One (Alex Thorne Action Spy Adventures 1) by Somersby C.J

Author:Somersby, C.J. [Somersby, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Action Thriller
Publisher: C.J. Somersby
Published: 2016-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

PART FOUR

Double Cross

Chapter 10

The door opened with a squeal of metal that made Alex wince. She raised her head and tried to squint through two swollen, black eyes. The shaft of light from the doorway brought a welcome relief from the perpetual darkness of her cell. She did not know how long she had been tied to the chair, but it was long enough to have been beaten three times by three different soldiers with a brief pause in between. The soldiers had not appeared to speak English, so Alex had the feeling that she was being softened up.

A silhouette loomed in front of her, and a deep voice barked out in Russian. The room was suddenly flooded with light and she winced in pain, her eyes fighting to adjust after so long in the darkness. As her eyesight cleared, she looked up to see Nikolai's face staring down at her. “Not much of a reunion, is it?” she croaked, her dehydrated voice doing little to hide the sarcasm.

Nikolai's face was impassive, but Alex thought that she saw a twinge of regret in his eyes. He reached out with one hand and cradled Alex's face, his fingers gloved in soft leather. “The soldiers are being too harsh,” he said, examining her wounds. “I will speak to them.”

Alex started to laugh, but a pain in her chest turned the laugh into a hacking cough that caused her to double over as far as her restraints would allow. She spat blood onto the floor and looked up at Nikolai with a cynical grin. “So that's the plan, is it?” she asked, swallowing back another mouthful of blood as she spoke. “Your lackeys rough me up for a while before good old Uncle Nikolai arrives with a kind word and the solution to all of my problems.”

Nikolai's eyes flared with anger, and he tightened his grip on Alex's face, causing her to wince in pain. “You stupid child,” he spat. “Why did you have to get yourself involved in this?”

“What happened to my parents?” Alex snapped back, locking eyes with him. The two stared at each-other in silence for a long moment, before he released her and stalked away across the room. Alex watched him with a pained smirk. “Still tight-lipped about what happened, I see,” she remarked.

Nikolai turned his head slightly, regarding her over his shoulder without actually looking at her. “Your parents were good people,” he said, his voice suddenly quiet. “Their deaths were...unfortunate. I have nothing further to say about that.” Then he turned fully to face her, and his eyes were hard and uncompromising. “Why are you in Belarus?” he asked.

Alex pursed her lips. “Private sector work,” she replied, her tone as neutral as possible.

Nikolai smirked. He shook his head a couple of times and took a step closer. “No, myshka,” he said, using the old affectionate term he had given her as a child. “You were always too principled to get into the dirty end of mercenary work. Running protection rackets in the middle of a civil war is not your style.

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