Chapter 42: Konstantin, Leonid

Monday. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. Washington, DC.

KONSTANTIN COULD BARELY BELIEVE he was about to see his father. The man he'd spent the last decade doing everything in his power to steer clear from. And now he'd gone off and asked the old man to meet up.

What was he supposed to say? Do? Why was he even here?

He found an out of the way spot to wait and watch. Would he even know his old man on sight?

Growing up, Konstantin had been afraid of his father. He remembered being little and hiding behind the sofa from his laugh. He hadn't understood the things his father said, but he knew they weren't nice things.

And then his mother had vanished and the rumors were easy to believe.

Where was Haley?

"Can you hear me?" he said softly.

"Yes. Don't start talking to yourself. It's weird."

He smiled to himself.

They'd left Zasha and Ivana at the condo for this meet. Haley was somewhere dressed as a jogger. They'd bought some earbuds that doubled as wireless earpiece