Mission Hindenburg by C. Alexander London

Author:C. Alexander London
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

“Merely reading this memo could make a person an Outcast,” Alek observed. He raised his eyebrows at Nellie and smirked. “I am willing to risk it, I think. You?”

“Why are you showing us this?” Nellie asked. “Is this one of those the-bad-guy-reveals-his-plans-before-he-kills-us moments? Because I should tell you, those sorts of things never end well for the bad guy.”

Alek cracked his neck to the left and then the right. He rolled his shoulders back, then stood. The calm of his face had transformed to a red-hot rage. “I am not the bad guy here, Nellie Gomez. You are.”

Nellie narrowed her eyes at him.

“If not for the lot of you, my sister, Irina, would still be alive,” he told her. His hand shook with anger.

“Irina died a hero!” Nellie told him. “She died saving Amy’s and Dan’s lives. She’d be disgusted to see what you’re doing now.”

Alek raised a hand as if to slap her. Nellie braced herself, but he regained his calm and let his hand fall again to his side. He straightened his shirt.

“And yet she is not here,” he said. “I had no desire to get involved with the Cahill family. That sort of intrigue never excited me like it did Irina. I worked for the KGB, of course, and did my duty to Mother Russia, but as for the Lucian branch? Pffft.” He waved his hand in the air like he was swatting flies. “I never had any interest … until the Outcast came to me and offered me a chance to avenge Irina’s death.”

“So you are going to kill us?” Nellie asked. She could feel Sammy shift in his chair beside her. But she had to focus on Alek. The more time he spent talking, the more chance there would be of escape. If he was talking, he wasn’t killing them, and the former was definitely preferable to the latter.

Alek flashed her an insincere smile. “Now, if you’ll please read this memo, I think all will become clear to you.”

He held up the file, and Nellie and Sammy leaned forward in unison to read. As they read, Nellie felt a chill rising up her spine. The more she read, the colder she got.

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