Immortally Yours by Lynsay Sands

Author:Lynsay Sands [Sands, Lynsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: 2017-09-26T07:00:00+00:00

Eleven

“What think you?”

The whispered question made Beth glance to Kira. She noted the woman’s narrow-eyed gaze as she surveyed their surroundings, and then turned back to the barn in the clearing and commented, “It’s pretty quiet.”

Kira nodded. “Maybe they are sleeping, da?”

“Maybe,” Beth allowed, but didn’t move. Something didn’t feel right about the place. It looked like it had been abandoned for a while, which wasn’t what bothered her. Actually, that was the problem—she couldn’t quite put her finger on what was bothering her.

“Is dump,” Oksana, one of Kira’s bodyguards, growled, not bothering to keep her voice down. “Is perfect place for the disgusting rogues. Let us catch this dyatel and leave here.”

Beth didn’t respond, except to smile slightly at the use of the word dyatel. Kira had explained it meant woodpecker, and was considered a terrible insult. It seemed calling a Russian any kind of an animal was insulting. Whether it was osyol which meant donkey, or kosyol which meant billy goat. Russians did not care for being likened to animals.

“Da,” Nika, another bodyguard, agreed. “I do not like here.”

Turning on the pair, Kira hissed angrily, “Shhh. Would you let them all know we are coming?”

Oksana quickly hid a resentful scowl, and presented an unconcerned face, but her voice was quieter when she said, “Is okay that they know. I am not afraid of some rogue.”

“Perhaps not,” Beth said in a low voice. “But if they hear us, they could escape before we can catch them.”

Oksana shrugged. “Then we no catch them.”

Beth closed her eyes briefly and shook her head. “I really should have insisted the four of you went for training.”

“We are trained,” Oksana growled. “In Russia. Think you Athanasios would make us protectors to Kira if we were not the most skilled warriors? I could beat you in battle with any weapon. I could kill you with—”

“Enough,” Kira whispered furiously. “In future, you will keep shut the mouth, or I will send you back to Russia and tell Father you were unsatisfactory bodyguard.”

Oksana shielded her expression quickly, but not before Beth saw the flash of fury there. The woman was eventually going to be trouble.

Releasing a small breath, Beth turned to survey the barn again. A tip had been called in to the local police that children had found an empty coffin here. Mortimer kept tabs on all calls to the police, just in case anything came up that was immortal-related. If something suspicious did crop up, he sent Enforcers to check out the claim, as well as to ensure the tip was forgotten by the police. Beth and Kira had got stuck with investigating this claim.

This job was what Beth would’ve categorized as a joke job, something trainees were normally sent on. Mostly because these missions were a waste of time. They included things like checking on immortals who hadn’t been heard from for a while, and traveling to California to just make sure that one celebrity or another wasn’t really an immortal in hiding because “they hadn’t aged in years,” or single solitary coffins found in old abandoned barns.

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