Assassins in Love: Assassins Guild

Author:DeLake, Kris [DeLake, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2012-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Misha hunkered in the apartment two and a half blocks away from Rikki’s. He couldn’t believe she had such a glamorous hiding spot. Not that hiding spot was the right word. Nothing about that apartment hid. It was on the top floor of an elegant building in a relatively upscale neighborhood.

Although he suspected the neighborhood hadn’t been upscale not too long ago, considering the place he was sitting in. This apartment had ruined walls, a carpet that smelled like pee, and windows so filthy he wasn’t even sure they would work for his nefarious purposes.

He managed to clean the windows, though, with some kind of nanosolution—he didn’t need to hire exterior robot cleaners after all—and then he had set up.

He was going to spy on her for a few days and figure out what she was doing.

He realized he had set up this surveillance the way he would set up a hit, and somehow that disturbed him. He liked to think he was setting up this way because that was the only way he knew, but he also realized that wasn’t true. He had other ways of conducting business.

Hell, he could just grab Rikki’s arm and pull her into one of the many restaurants that overlooked the lake, have a conversation, and get it all over with.

Except that he didn’t believe a single conversation would solve anything.

He had tracked her relatively easily, and that wasn’t her fault. She was more than cautious enough. No one who had just started looking for her would find this particular hiding place.

He had to admit, she was very good about concealing herself and her identity.

Her big mistake, after stealing that lifeship, was going back to the ship rental on Oyal. She had returned the ship, gotten her deposit back (which had shocked her and him both; he wondered if it had happened because the owner knew that Misha had enquired about her), and then had traveled to Nety.

She seemed to sense him, and she looked over her shoulder more than once. But he used a variety of ways to track her, sometimes renting his own ship to trail a transport she was on.

She took an amazing number of transports, and a lesser assassin would have lost her. He had come close a couple of times. But he kept telling himself that it didn’t matter, because he had access to her real name and several of her aliases. And he had yet another piece of information: He knew how to send her money—or at least one way to do so.

That conversation with Liora had bothered him, though. Not because Liora had shown up on Oyal (which bothered him in a different way) but because of her mention of the Rovers. Then he learned that Rikki had gone to Krell, of all places.

Everything the Guild had on a rogue organization of assassins called the Rovers said that they often used Krell as a base for their operations. So she had been reporting in to someone.

And that had made Misha angry.

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