Russian Enforcers Box Set 1 (Books 1-3) by Nic Saint

Author:Nic Saint
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Puss in Print Publications
Published: 2015-05-23T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

They’d been walking for what seemed like hours now, and Ariel’s feet were killing her. When Dimi had tugged at her arm and pulled her into a run, she hadn’t hesitated but had immediately fallen into step beside him, her short strides trying to match his longer ones, fear and excitement fueling her muscles, flushing her blood with adrenaline and driving her on in a mad dash for safety.

She’d seen it in Roman’s eyes. The killer instinct. He was going to kill her as soon as she’d fulfilled her part in the scheme he’d set up. It was as she had feared. He hated her. It wasn’t hard to imagine why. He hated her father, and that hatred automatically extended to her as well.

He wanted her dead, and the fact that Dimi stood in his way wouldn’t stop him. He would simply find another way to kill her.

“There isn’t anywhere we can go,” Dimi had told her the moment they briefly stopped running and came up for air. Darting anxious looks over his shoulder, he thought they’d shaken off his brother, though he couldn’t be certain.

“Won’t your parents help us?” she’d asked breathlessly, his hand enveloping hers in an iron grip, inducing her to keep up the pace.

“Those people weren’t my parents,” he scoffed. “They were merely actors hired by Roman to play a part. And to keep an eye on you in case you tried to escape.”

Shocked, she’d cried, “But they were so nice!”

He laughed. “They’re Gornakov flunkies, the woman a trained assassin, the man a common thief. They were well rewarded and did their best under the circumstances to put up a convincing display.”

Quickly recovering from the shock his confession had induced, she said, “What about your real parents? They must be able to help us.”

“My parents are dead,” he said in clipped tones. “They died a long time ago. Roman is the only family I’ve got.” He awarded her a sideways glance. “Though I’m his brother no longer, I’m afraid.”

As the truth hit home, her eyes widened in shock, the consequences of Dimi’s rash act coming home to her. “Why?” was all she could say. He took a firm grip on her shoulder and turned her, so they were facing each other. They’d arrived at a small park, and had sought the seclusion of a bench behind some shrubbery. “Isn’t it obvious, Ariel?

It wasn’t obvious to her. She didn’t understand the flush his face carried, nor the intense gaze he directed at her.

“You want to help me—but why? Why would you help a stranger?”

Disgusted, he turned away from her, shaking his head. “Do I really have to spell it out for you?”

“Perhaps you do.” She wasn’t usually this slow-witted, but failed to understand why a man like Dimitri would defy his brother’s command to help out some American girl he hardly knew.

“He was going to kill you,” he stated in a low, flat voice. “I could see it in his eyes. The moment the mission was over, or even before, he was going to end your life.

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