King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

Chapter Two Hundred Eighty

Adrik

Everyone else grabbed a cup after Andrei was the guinea pi g. I really didn’t need the caffeine boost, but I wasn’t going to turn it down either. It was another two hours before guys started returning to the apartment. The first ones back had no luck. Viktor marked off their areas on the map, further narrowing down where they were holding them.

Gus returned with Chen and Oscar. “We got them,” he said walking to the map, showing Viktor where they had picked up the signal from Sephie and Ivan’s earpieces.

Chen looked at me, saying, “I heard them, sir. They were speaking Russian, so I don’t know what they were talking about, but I heard both of them when the earpiece connected. I talked to Sephie very briefly. I wasn’t sure if she could speak English where they were, so I just asked her to clear her throat if they were okay. She did. I told her you’d be there soon to get her.”

The flood of relief that washed over me almost made me stumble to the ground. Chen grabbed my arm to help keep me steady. He looked sympathetic. “I understand, sir,” he said quietly.

“We have it narrowed down to two blocks and those two blocks don’t have quite as many abandoned buildings as the rest of the area,” Viktor said. “Andrei’s idea might work.”

“Is his idea to bl ow another building as a distraction, because that’s the kind of idea I fully support,” Oscar said. Andrei just nodded his head, a small smile on his face. Oscar clapped his hands once, rubbing his palms together. “Building demolition is. my love language. When can we get started?”

“We need to make sure the building we choose isn’t where they’re keeping them, first,” Viktor said, somewhat sternly.

“Of course, of course. Do you know how quickly I’d be dead if I harmed a hair on that woman’s head? I’m not that du mb. What do you guys need us to do?” Oscar said.

since it’s more populated, but it still won’t

on these two blocks? Somebody might’ve seen them bringing Sephie and Ivan to the building. If it’s Sal that took

took it out, reading the text message. His eyes went wide, then he walked to the map. He pointed

I asked urgently, walking to look at the map.

He left the house really early this morning, wouldn’t tell Keith where they were going, just gave him an address. He made Keith and Chris wait in the vehicle while he went in the building. Keith said he has a bad feeling about whatever Armando was doing,” Stephen said. “And for the record, Keith and Chris don’t know about Sephie

building he took Armando to was in between two occupied buildings. There was, however, another abandoned building at the end of the block. Andrei’s plan could work.

know if Armando is on to Keith and is feeding him information He might still be trying to play both sides,” |

then got an immediate reply. “He said Armando is scheduled to go back to the building tomorrow morning again, but again won’t tell

we make this happen? If we can catch Armando at the building, we can take care of

just need a few hours and Oscar’s help setting everything up.”

be ready by tonight,”

up either. I have a feeling Sal is behind this too,” Viktor said. “Maybe we can catch both of them at the building.”

have a good shot of taking Sal out, which means he should take

We called him to let him know the warehouses were taken care of. We told him they grabbed her. He said to tell you he’d do

my phone from my pocket. I walked to the bedroom to have a private conversation with Trino. Now that we had confirmation that Sephie was alive, I was quickly becoming overcome with emotion. My anger had receded to a manageable level, but I was now feeling every single other emotion all at once.

now.

me you found her,” Trino said when he picked up