Reunion Under Fire by Geri Krotow

Author:Geri Krotow [Krotow, Geri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-05-01T18:46:19+00:00

Chapter 10

“The women are someplace nearby. Maybe not Silver Valley but definitely in the county. No farther than Lancaster.” Kit spoke with certainty as she sat again at the store’s project table. She’d come in after one of her college classes, and fortunately no other customers had been in the store. Shivers raced down Annie’s spine as Kit spelled out what they all knew was coming. A reckoning with the deadliest organized crime ring in existence: ROC.

“How do you know this?” The whole time she spoke to Kit, Annie watched the cars that drove by the shop, making sure none made repeat passes. She’d been unable to shake the overwhelming sense of danger surrounding them since she’d spoken to Kit. Since Kit left the shelter, in truth.

“I saw his GPS, on his phone. I couldn’t make out the town, but he’d put someplace in it that said it was thirty-three minutes away.”

That wasn’t enough to go on, but Annie would pass the information to Josh, whom she hadn’t seen since they’d met in the café, and their texts had been completely professional. She shouldn’t expect anything more—he was using his work phone, she assumed, to text her. It wouldn’t be upstanding to send sexy notes to her, would it?

“Kit, how many times has Vadim been drunk since you’ve gone back to him?”

Kit’s eyes narrowed. “Not at all. Why?”

“He’s probably due. And I want you to be prepared.” If it was up to her, she’d have Kit out of there the minute Valensky cracked open his vodka bottle.

Kit smiled. “Ah, but this is what I know for sure, Annie. He’ll not take one drop of vodka as this operation gets closer to happening. This is his typical pattern. He’s afraid to get sloppy and forget what he does in his blackouts. He’s always hit me in a blackout before. He never remembers it the next day, and his remorse is almost pitiable. Of course, I do not pity him. I will lock him up as quickly as his belt reaches my back.” Kit’s eyes were cold and her mouth a straight line.

“Kit, the idea isn’t for you to get any kind of physical revenge on Vadim. Let the law, and your testimony, do that. But you have to be able to give your testimony! If Vadim gets any hint that you know what’s going down, you’re dead. If ROC suspects you’re going to betray Vadim, you’re dead. They will save themselves above all else.” She saw the steel in Kit’s eyes and she got it; she had the fire in her belly to stop the bad guys, too. But she didn’t want to die, and didn’t want Kit to, either.

The shop bell sounded and they both jumped. Annie’s throat squeezed tight and she had to force herself to focus on the man who walked into her shop. At which point her heart thudded in dread.

The man closely resembled the photographs she’d seen in his police file. Vadim Valensky never took his eyes off Kit, his eyebrows drawn in a straight line.

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