Madness (Revenge Series Book 3) by M.S. Brannon

Author:M.S. Brannon [Brannon, M.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: M.S. Brannon Book LLC
Published: 2016-09-07T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Nikolai

August 21, 2015 4:00 a.m.

Cubby and I watch from my car as the three scouts descend on the service entrance of Hotel Grozny. Cubby called an underground opportunist he still has contact with the moment we decided to allow Josslyn to be captured. The contact tipped off the scouts, and they found their way into the hotel. We now sit and wait for them to bring her out. Then we will follow them to wherever they plan on going.

Cubby’s contact told us the auction is tomorrow night in Bangladesh. The trek there will be an extensive journey. Driving will take too long, and there are too many roadblocks along the way. Commercial flights from Grozny to Bangladesh are few and far between and, for obvious reasons, out of the question when transporting human cargo. Cubby did say there is private airspace available to men in our line of work in or around the city of Grozny, but he’s not sure if any can accommodate larger aircraft, which would be needed to fly the distance to Bangladesh. Our best guess is the scouts will stop halfway in Kabul, Afghanistan where there is a strong trafficking connection.

“I suppose you’ve been sitting there, thinking of the best way to follow them undetected,” Cubby cuts into my thoughts, reading them perfectly.

I don’t acknowledge him. He knows he’s right.

“Are you thinking what I am?”

I turn my head to see a small smile perk up at the corner of his mouth. I can’t help feeling a sense of nostalgia when I look at Cubby. We have spent many days doing this very thing—observing and planning our next course of action. Years have passed, yet it still feels like yesterday.

“Stow away,” I answer, and Cubby huffs an agreement.

It’s cramped and uncomfortable, but it’s the best way to keep in step with the man you are tailing. More often than not, no one checks the cargo holds after they initially board the plane. Cubby and I can sneak in just before the aircraft takes off. It’s not an easy task, but being the professionals we are, we’ll be able to make it seem like it is.

Light from the service door entrance slips through the crack as a man’s head peeks out from just inside. It’s one of the scouts. When he has determined the coast is clear, he holds the door open for the other scout to walk out with Josslyn slung over his shoulder. She’s not moving, so I assume she has been knocked out.

“She’s a fighter,” Cubby says as he motions to the blood covering the first man’s shirt.

I inwardly smile, knowing how tough she really is.

“The third man is missing,” I point out.

“Yep, your girl’s a fighter, all right.”

My chest unpredictably twinges a little at Cubby’s reference to my girl. I never once thought of her as mine in that sense. Of course, she is mine when it comes to the game of revenge. She’s my pawn, but never in a sense that justifies my reaction.

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