Page 149 of Devious Knight

“Your boy here did it,” Dmitri announces, pointing to Alek. He closes the door behind him, and the two continue toward me. “We got Nikoli right where we want him.”

“Thank fuck.” I straighten. Finally, some good news. And I’m glad I made the right move by involving Alek.

He smirks and looks from Dmitri to me. “It wasn’t that hard.”

“Hey, don’t make me look incompetent in front of the boss.” Dmitri throws a punch in his arm. “You have mad skills, man. You need to teach me some of that shit.”

“Don’t worry, I will.” Alek smiles and pulls up a chair.

Dmitri leans against the wall. “It took him less than an hour to figure shit out.”

“That’s not entirely true. I’ve been working on this for the last few days.”

“Tell me what you did.” I focus on Alek, intrigued to know what he’s done.

“I won’t bore you with the technical details, but basically, I’ve set things up to siphon a hundred million dollars from Nikoli’s accounts. Imagine a timer, so every day,, he’ll have a little bit less and less. Then in twenty-one days, everything will be gone. Poof, like smoke in the air.”

I laugh. “That’s fucking perfect. And that will give me time to prepare.” I have to step up my training with Thorne. I’m still not at the level I want to be, but I’ll make sure I get there.

“We were thinking that it should be us preparing,” Dmitri says. “Not just you.”

I shake my head. “No. It need to just be me. That was the final job we’ll do together.”

The two look at each other, exchanging worried glances.

“You may need backup,” Alek states. “We spoke about this the other night.”

“I know, and I’ve thought about it. I’m standing by my original idea. I just need to get to the next phase.” I don’t want their lives in my hands. This is one thing where I definitely have to go off on my own.

“Fine, then I suppose we’ll continue helping until you get to that next phase.”

Dmitri nods, agreeing.

“Alright.” I sigh. “But that’s it. Nikoli is going to be pissed as fuck by this little stunt of ours. I expect extreme violence. Where are you moving the money to?”

“An un-trackable, untraceable Swiss bank account. The only person with the details is me.” Alek gives himself a pat on the back. “I’ll forward you all the info.”

“Thanks. Can he track you here?”

“No. But because the Knights are on his radar, we still need to be careful. He’ll figure it out eventually, possibly before all the money is gone. In fact, I expect him to figure it out well before then. It is a hundred million.”

“Yeah. That’s serious money.”

Dmitri lifts his chin, motioning to the computer. “What are you looking at?”

“Stuff on Isabelle’s mother.”

“I thought the case was closed.”

“It is. I just wanted to go over some stuff.”

“What kind of stuff?”

“Something I wanted to look into further.”

Dmitri gives me a questioning stare. I understand the look. It’s because I’m deviating from the mission and the plan, and the reason is starting to become obvious to him and Logan. I haven’t shared anything about with to Alek, and I’m not going to. He doesn’t need to know those parts.

If it were up to me, Dmitri and Logan wouldn’t know either.

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