The Boy Who Glowed in the Dark by Stelmach Orest

Author:Stelmach, Orest [Stelmach, Orest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, thriller, Adventure
ISBN: 9781477872840
Amazon: B00GYE9HSC
Goodreads: 21800656
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-12-02T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

THE CO-CAPTAIN OF the Gulfstream G550 emerged from the cockpit every half hour to see if Nadia needed anything. The sleek jet seated nineteen people, but she was the only passenger.

“Will we be stopping to refuel?” Nadia said.

The co-captain was an American in his fifties, with a gray crew cut and a lean physique. His military looks inspired confidence. He shook his head. “Nope. The G550 has a range of six thousand, seven hundred fifty nautical miles. The flight from Tokyo to Kyiv is about five thousand miles.”

Simmy had purposefully chartered a jet that could cover the distance non-stop. He didn’t want her to waste any time. Nadia pictured him telling his assistant—the condescending one with the sculpted cheekbones that she’d met on his yacht less than a month ago—to make sure she chartered a plane that met all of Nadia’s needs. A warmth spread over her body.

The co-captain said, “I’m guessing you didn’t make the charter yourself?”

“How can you tell?”

He chuckled. “The same way I can tell whoever chartered this plane is very fond of you. Kind of obvious.”

Nadia lowered her voice to make her next question sound more discreet. “How much for a jaunt like this?”

He shrugged. “Figure about ten thousand per thousand miles.”

“Fifty thousand?” Nadia swallowed. “That much?”

“Unless your friend is a good client. Then he has his own contract, his own rate. It’s negotiated.”

“My friend has his own plane. It just wasn’t in Tokyo.”

The co-captain smiled. “Good news then.”

“What’s that?”

“Your friend loves you. It was at least fifty grand.”

Nadia had called Simmy at precisely 5:00 p.m. Moscow time. It was his private mobile phone. Only his most trusted friends and associates had the number. He answered the phone without emotion, then turned enthusiastic as soon as he heard her voice.

Nadia explained the urgency of the situation. Bobby was in danger on a ferry headed to Vladivostok. Nadia needed to get to Kyiv to investigate some matters and get to Vladivostok before Bobby arrived. She had approximately fifty-seven hours before Bobby arrived and the clock was ticking. He’d offered to help her before. She hadn’t accepted. Now she needed his help. In the most grandiose, inappropriately expensive way imaginable.

It was a preposterous request. And yet Nadia was certain he would say yes. First, she’d saved him tens of millions of dollars with her analysis by preventing him from overpaying for a company whose books had been cooked. Second, fifty thousand dollars to him was the equivalent of fifty cents to her. It was a mercenary’s observation, but it was the truth. Third, he wanted her and Nadia knew it. A woman knew a man’s intentions based on the look in his eyes, his body language around her, his manner of speech. Whether she was an object of temporary fascination or something more serious, she had no idea.

But the prospect of either one thrilled her as much as telling a Russian oligarch about the existence of a formula scared her. Oligarchs became who they were because of their insatiable appetite for wealth.

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