Page 74 of The Bratva's Bounty

Sighing, Nicole leaned into me. "I just… It's a cramped car. Are you sure we can pull it off?" Her nervous eyes looked out the window, watching everyone scramble about to finish loading various vehicles for the move.

Before I could reply, the door by Nicole flew open, making me scowl. "So pathetic," Igor scoffed, reaching in and grabbing Nicole by her arm.

For a moment, the two of us glared at each other in a silent exchange of anger. "You know, I was going to takemy wifeback, but considering how your time with her is going to be limited, I'll take some mercy on you and let you enjoy what little time you have with her." If only he left it at that.

Damn bastard had the nerve to grab Nicole's face and plant a nasty one on her. Nicole's muffled scream shook at her thrashing body before a sharp slap rang through the air from Igor backhanding her. "Fucking bitch, you're lucky I don't gag you," he spat at Nicole with a deadly glare while holding his bleeding lip.

I couldn't help the proud and elated grin showing on my face as I watched Nicole spit his blood back in his face and tell him to fuck off in Vietnamese. "Enjoy your last moment with your rabid dog,wife." Igor seethed at Nicole before slamming the door in her face.

Spitting onto the floor, she wiped away the remainder of Igor from her mouth. "Fucking bastard, I swear, I'm going to gut him and stuff him full of bombs and make a bear chase him," she said with a determined glare out the window. "If he thinks I'm going to marry him, then he's got another thing coming for him. I'll fucking kill him in his sleep or slit my own throat if everything else fails."

Putting my bound arms around her, I held her close. "If only we can revive him to torture him over and over." I sighed disappointedly.

Honestly, there was so much I wanted to do to Igor, all ending in death. Too bad he only had one life and a set of body parts. "As long as you let me get my hands on him, I'd love to rip his puny dick off and make him choke on it while he runs for his pathetic life." I would much prefer to tear him limb from limb, like I said before, but Nicole had the final say after everything.

"I don't knowhow we're gonna pull off your plan with our hands cuffed." Nicole huffed, wiggling and gesturing at her bound wrists and mine.

Chuckling, I rolled my eyes and took her wrists into my hands. "Cuffs like these are easy to break." After a quick look to make sure no one was paying attention, I gave her a very fast crash course on breaking handcuffs. "But don't start until I tell you to. We don't know how many men are going to be in the vehicle quite yet. I just formulated the plan based on the hunch that there will be a driver and passenger, but if they decide to stick someone back here with us, then I'm gonna need a minute to adjust."

Thankfully, they didn't try to stick a guard into the back with us, so we had to deal with only the driver and passenger. The only shitty part of it all was that our car was more toward the front of the line, so we really had to punch it the moment the plan went into full swing.

I waited until we had driven out of the more remote parts of the woods before nudging Nicole and glancing down at her cuffs. Using my body to hide her attempts. It was probably risky to bank on their stupidity, but their lack of observational skills worked well in our favor. Honestly, all it would take for this whole plan to go bust was for one of them to look back and notice us acting strange. Luckily for us, they were too busy chatting about what they were going to do after payday.

Unlike Nicole, it didn't take me long to snap the links on my cuffs. Not that I was knocking at her skills or anything; I'd been trained to escape cuffs ever since I was a child back in Russia.

Carefully, I looked at Nicole and flashed my eyes at the driver before rubbing my left side to indicate the position of his weapon. Then, I waited for Nicole to nod in response before counting down from three on my fingers.

Nicole's nimble body shot out from the back, slipping up to the front through the space at the center. Ignoring the shouting passenger, she crawled into the driver's lap and fought with him for control over the steering wheel and pedals.

Meanwhile, I reached up and grabbed the passenger, taking his gun from him after he pulled it out and put a bullet through his head, splattering hisbrains all over the windows on the right side. Then, I turned the gun onto the driver, sending him to the afterlife with a shot to the temple.

Fucking hell.

I thought with a groan as I squeezed myself up to the front and pushed the passenger side door open, causing Nicole to swerve a little from the sudden rush of wind that threw the car off balance. "Shit! Damn it, Lev!" She hissed while jerking the wheel.

"Jerk it to the right," I told her with a grunt as I shoved at the dead body to get him out the door.

The car violently veered to the right, throwing the man fully out with the momentum. With the seat freed, I slipped into it and wrestled the door shut to stabilize the cabin again. "Holy shit! Drive! Drive! Drive!" I rushed Nicole when the sounds of bullets hitting the car echoed in my ear.

"Oh, no, I was thinking of cruising at five miles per hour and enjoying the scenery," Nicole snarked in a giddy and very sarcastic voice, her empty smile flashing at me for a second before her face dropped to a glaring scowl. "The fuck does it look like I'm doing!?"

Hanging onto the grab handle and the center console, I kept myself as steady as possible as Nicole drove like a madwoman down the road, sideswiping and straight-up bashing into any vehicle in our way.

A pained grunt strained out of me from a sudden hit that tilted the car and smashed my side in a little. "Shit!" I grunted again when the car next to us bashed us again.

"Motherfucker…" I seethed under my breath as I kicked the broken door off the car.

It probably wasn't a good idea to waste bullets like this, but like hell would I sit here and let this asshat bash my side in fully. Pressing my legs against the frame to steady myself, I aimed and shot at the driver of the other vehicle repeatedly until the bulletproof glass gave, and a shot went through to his body. The car's tires squealed as the vehicle spun out of control and into another behind us.

"Lev, don't waste your fucking bullets," Nicole told me before letting out a short scream when her side got hit by a vehicle.

"Fuck!" I hissed under my breath, quickly catching and bracing myself using the frame when my body was nearly thrown out from the hit.

Crawling into the back seat, I pulled the handle and kicked the back driver-side door open into the car hanging around Nicole's side. Grabbing onto the rail, I used the door to repeatedly bash the enemy's car until it spun out of the way.

Unfortunately, my makeshift door bat only survived that one car. Some speeding truck tore the thing off its hinges by driving straight into it. Luckily for me, the truck had its windows down because the passenger was trying to take a shot at me. At least I didn't have to waste any bullet to take him and the truck's driver out for the count.

"Lev!" Nicole's shrilling scream made my head snap back up front, where a man had hopped into the car through the doorless passenger side and struggled with Nicole.

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