perfect disaster - Raya Arona (classic romance novels txt) 📗

the other man sits still beside while his arms crossing over his chest watching

What they are doing

My curiosity got the best of me, I can't stop myself so I walk in their direction, Fox was too busy to look at me but I know he is aware of me in the scene, he has a big ears, on the other side I was greeted by a big smile from the new guy

I smiled back, he seems like a good man, but I can't tell if even this time I will be wrong like every time I had, maybe that's not my fault maybe his friends are a bunch of creeps

"is everything okay," I asked, pulling my attention to Fox, "the usual," the man commented, his words catch my attention, is that supposed to mean that he knows Fox

 god is he friend too

I had enough from that friend reunion

"your man very skeptical", and that's the difference between hearing and listening, I listened to him but all I heard is your man, he must play his couple story even he enjoys it

Huh even in elementary school, the boys knew they had to ask if they wanted a girl to "go" with them. as I learned in elementary, boys are stupid.

Fox my man 

No freaking way, not even in hell 

"oh no, he is-" I was cut by a big noise, He closed the hood with his eyes to me. Daring me to finish my words, and they go down with my saliva.

Undercover my butt.

 "good, no bomb," he said, his tone offhand as if it was an everyday thing.

"A what?"

"No worries, There isn't one."

Wow, that's marvelous should I clap or die happy, He grabbed his duffel bag and chucked it into the backseat

"Get in."

I looked puzzled at him, and at the new car, this is not the same car we came by, "this is not-", he cut me as always do

"we changing, so get in"

"No"

I stood there, still not moving. Fox sighed and marched back to the front of the vehicle. "This is the last time I ask you nicely," he threatened.

"You're insane if you think—", He snatched me up by my arm, opened the car door, and then manhandled me into the front passenger seat, slamming the door closed and shook his head as he walked back around to the driver's door

When he cranked the engine, I nearly jumped out of my seat, waiting for an explosion that didn't happen. Then he pulled out of the garage, and I slid down in my seat, By the time we got to the highway, again to the long way empty road

"Where we going now", it seems like I asked the wrong question because no answer came just a flare from his nose

I sighed, deepening my butt in the seat, it really getting numb from the longtime seating, but my mouth still fine

"Is that your friend too", it's like I hit this time because his eyes shifted to me still full of annoyance but who cares.

"I don't have friends," he said, while his eyes guiding his drive, if that so; then who was the man that  rested in the bathroom floor dead, someone hid something or don't want to talk about it

But I decided to play along... Play dumb

"Because."

Silence

"em, so generous with words, aren't you? Care to elaborate?"

Fox glanced over at me. still, calm "Nope."

Good, "Well, then at least tell me where we're going."

"Somewhere to hide."

Seriously? Like that a breaking news, in fact, that what we do from a few weeks ago Hiding

"And where's that?"

"with him"

I frowned, don't know what he meant by him, god is it the man in the phone, suddenly the car stopped and I turn to look, someone was already waiting on a bike in the middle of nowhere, his face was covered with a bandana

I sat in my place like an idiot, watching the man walking to us in my direction, without warning, I found myself clutching on Fox's arm and shaking like paper

"that's Ashton" Fox commented, I turn to look at Fox confused why Ashton here, and why we still in the middle of nowhere

Fox bend a little, well a little enough to make me smell his hair and roll down my window for Ashton, Well Ashton and I weren't exactly on speaking terms, this guy hates me as hell, we never exchange words

"Okay, let's go," Ashton said, looking at me then at Fox. I look at Fox puzzled waiting for an explanation

"Ashton will take you from here to the save house, the folk waiting there too"

"and you", his eyes turn like steel, I don't blame I was too surprised myself asking that question

"I have something to do", he pauses looking at Ashton, and he nodded, and open the door as a sign for us  to go

Ashton didn't say anything as he walks back to his bike, but Fox did and I wish he didn't

"Lock her in room and make sure there's no way out if she gets out of that door shot her" 

and he says he is my boyfriend... 

what an asshole boyfriend 

 

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chapter 25... The Bratva

 

 

 

 

 

Fox

 

"Anyway, like I was saying: the email address you have was sent from a computer that was hooked up to the internet, just like any email, so that means it's got a server associated with it."

I've already stopped paying attention, but I hummed again.

"So I can trace that server and bounce a signal off it and figure out where it's coming from, kind of like echolocation, but with internet signals. Does that make sense?"

Why the fuck I should care?

"Daniel, do you have a death wish?", I feel my head will shatter to a million pieces

"hehe, okay okay" he scoffs and go on, "even the most basically tech-savvy users who do so much as illegally downloading a movie or pornos I did something like that many times if you want, you know I -"

"Daniel", I roared for the million times. Oh god, this guy will literally kill me, but he's one of the most talented computer specialists I've ever seen, but he is with loose brakes

"okay well, he uses something that masks your IP address at least, or maybe a program that can bounce signals around to confuse people like me who might want to track 'em, but it looks like your guy was just sending an email from a building, plain as day. I could pull up the email here if I wanted."

"Mmhmm,I wanna the fucken address" I say with a nod, pretending to be following along but it's hard to keep up, and to be exact my mind now busy with Sergei more that Daniel's blabbing, I know that motherfucker is somewhere here, not in Russia

that's why he sends his dog, that's why he helped Mathew with the address to find us find her, he wanna mess around but he should mess with someone like him, as he has been a pain in my ass since I was kid since I know myself working for the Retrovich

When I read his threat before I wasn't taken by it because I know he is just a mouth, but after all these years he proofed that I am wrong and that mouth had choppers and it must be wiped

if he thinks I'm gonna let him go with his shit he is wrong. and I believe he heard about his man death, so I better find him before he disappears. I'm not taking any chance to go back to Russia even for this scumbag

"Anyway", Daniel voice tugs me out of my thought, and back to him "I triangulated the signal, and I've just about — Walla! Got an address for you."

"No shit," I say with an arched brow.

"yeah baby, and I'm not given it till I make sure I will get what I asked", I grunted in frustration wiping my face, I'm already exhausted from the long way driving and Daniel free me from any left energy

"Fine, I will get your fucken Brownies", suddenly I heard a noise.

Did he just whimper?

"A chocolate chunk fudges brownies"

"With peanut butter frosting"

"With a bullet in your head"

"Add some for my baby fighter"

"Stop calling her that"

"Jeez"

"Big baby"

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The apartment building in front of me is an upscale kind of place, not unusual for some of

the city's wealthier residents. The stone on the outside might have been white once, but it is now faded

As I step towards the door and swipe the card key, the glass doors open for me, and I make my way in swiftly, my weapon low at my side. this door is a trick for me, and I still know how to perform my trick perfectly

I pull my collar up and keep my gaze down as I make my way to the stairs leading below ground level. I have one stop to make before seeing to the main event for tonight

I can hear a television playing behind. Raising a fist, I pound on the door.

"What?" comes the manager's voice from within the room. I wait a moment before pounding on the door again, a little more demanding this time. I hear an angry groan from the other side before footsteps approach the door. 

"can wait for the morning?" he says as he opens the door, but his eyes widen at the sight of me for only an instant before I'm upon him with a cloth to his mouth and nose, his whole body seizing up as he draws a sharp breath before slipping into unconsciousness.

Closing the door behind me, I carry the limp body back to the chair he'd been sitting in. There stupid show playing on the television, giving me a backdrop while I shuffle through the man's belongings, I found the stupid key and I take it

before I leave I felt my phone buzzing, I rolled my eyes and pull it checking the name I grunted annoyed its Rider, I swept the screen and pull it to my ear

"what's in your fuckin mind, Fox, and don't even think to lie because I had enough time with you to know when you lie"

"it's them again," I said rubbing my face passing the room, I can hear his breaths but now words, he is shocked I can tell

"who?", he finally asked

"Sergei"

"Listen, These are The Bratva we are talking about. They're ruthless, they're dedicated, they won't give up without a fight, and you know that better than anyone"

"These are men from my past, Rider," I say in a low tone

"No, you can't be serious, Fox," he breathes. I give him my silent answer that tells him that I am every bit serious.

"I thought that part of my life was gone entirely, and now it's not about me only it's about her too", I paused tugging my hair in my fist

"Fox, I know this is too much. Okay-" he started this shit again,

"I know my enemy, and if I was mistaken then things are going to get ugly," I say calmly

"What if I don't hear back from you?" I stopped, absorbed by his words

"Then you don't know me very well, my friend."

"Fox listen-" I cut him, I know where this conversation going, "just keep her safe till I come, even if that takes your life to"

And the end, leaving the room as swiftly and silently as a phantom.

My footsteps make little noise as I ascend the staircase, key