Twilight Tears by Naomi West

Author:Naomi West [West, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

36

YAKOV

“Pavel is like a ghost.” Savva shrugs his meaty shoulders. “I've done everything I can. I don’t know what to tell you.”

“What you should tell me is that you have a plan for how the fuck you’re going to track him down,” I grit out. “Because Pavel isn’t a ghost. He’s a fucking teenager playing pakhan and if you can’t track him down, then you don’t deserve your job.”

Savva’s eyes widen, but he nods.

I believe he’s doing everything he can. But that clearly isn’t enough. When my family is on the line, everyone has to go above and beyond.

I turn to Kuzma. “What’s the status of checking the security footage? Has there been any sign of how they got inside to deliver the necklace?”

Kuzma glances at Savva and then me before his eyes hit the floor. “The footage is clean. The Gustev lieutenant we took out the other night is the last time I saw anything suspicious on the cameras. As far as my intel goes, we aren’t under any threat.”

Nothing. Fucking nothing.

“I didn’t send my sister and the mother of my children away because there isn’t a threat.”

“I didn’t mean there isn’t a threat. There is. But⁠—”

“Then find it!” I roar. “I can’t bring my family home until I know they are safe, and I can’t know they are safe until you do your fucking jobs! Do you have a single useful thing to tell me?”

Kuzma’s mouth twists nervously before he adds, “I have been looking into Budimir. A property he owns sold last week, but I didn’t lay eyes on him. I don’t know if he’s⁠—”

“You don’t know if he’s in the city. You don’t know if he’s even alive! For fuck’s sake.” I swipe the Budimir file off my desk and let the papers scatter across the floor. “Have you added the security cameras we discussed?”

“Yes!” Savva says, eager to tell me he’s done at least one thing right. “Yes. I finished the install this afternoon. It took longer than expected because…”

I frown. “Because?”

He sighs. “Your mother didn’t like the look of the cameras around the fenceline. She thought it was… cluttered. She asked the groundskeepers to take them down after we finished, so they had to be reinstalled.”

I stand up and storm to the door before he can even finish. “This meeting is over. Go do your fucking jobs and come back with better news to tell me tomorrow.”

I don’t see them leave my office because I’m already throwing open the patio doors and stepping outside.

My mother is at the table, a cup of tea and an open magazine in front of her.

“You can’t command my staff around, Mother.”

“You’re telling me!” She snorts. “Things are way too lax around here, Yakov. It’s impossible to get anyone to do any work. I make the most basic requests and they can’t manage to follow through.”

“I haven’t had any complaints until you arrived.”

She turns to me, eyebrow arched. “That’s because you don’t have an eye for this kind of thing.

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