His Dangerous Love On Ice Novel - Chapter 159

Chapter 159 20 10 vouchers. know I'm good at this kind of thing. Better than those amateurs you have working for you." "No." The word came out sharper than I intended. "You don't get to be involved in this. I'm already working on it with people I trust." Nikolai chuckled, that dark sound that meant he was getting annoyed with me. "But I could find his killer faster than these pussies you have on your beck and call," he said, his Russian accent getting thicker the way it always did when he was irritated. "Much faster.

You know this." My eyes glinted dangerously and my hands clenched into fists, the rag falling to the floor. "I'll tell you when you get involved or not," I said, my voice dropping to something cold and final as I walked toward the table where a bottle of water was sitting. "This isn't up for discussion." "Oh, like not involving me in Operation Resonance?" I stopped dead in my tracks, slowly turning around to face him, my eyes narrowed into dangerous slits. I slowly shook my head, not even remotely surprised that he would know about Operation Resonance despite all my efforts to keep it buried.

I'd tried so hard to keep that particular part of my past away from Nikolai, had gone to extreme lengths to make sure he never found out about what happened during those years. Because I knew exactly what type of person Nikolai was-had known since the day we met. He was never the type to make things clean and quiet. While I preferred calm, calculated jobs that left no trace except maybe a signature move that people would recognize as mine, Nikolai loved them bloody and messy, leaving trails that deliberately led back to him like he was daring people to come after him for what he'd done.

And that was intentional, part of his reputation, part of what made him so feared. But whatever was going on right now with Judy Byron's murder and Alonso, didn't need Nikolai's particular brand of chaos-it needed precision and control and absolutely no unnecessary attention. "Back off from Operation Resonance," I warned, my voice tightening as I stared him down. "I'm serious, Nikolai. Stay the fuck away from it." I was about to add more when my phone started ringing, the sound cutting through the tension in the garage.

I glared at Nikolai one more time before pulling my phone out of my pocket, and when I saw JT's name on the screen, I knew this was the call I'd been waiting for. JT was the closest person I had to tracking down what happened to the man my woman had dinner with before his unfortunate death, and if he was calling now, it meant he'd found something significant. I pressed answer and brought the phone to my ear, very aware of Nikolai's icy stare boring into my back, that look that said he wanted to be involved whether I liked it or not.