Chapter 42

[ADLER]

The note was a trick. Either that or they had been too late.

It read:

'TOO BAD THE OLDIES ARE GOING TO DIE BECAUSE OF HER."

XX RUSLAN.

That he was at the top of the concrete roof, looking around at the empty compound and seeing no signs of Ruslan or the Bratvas told him what he hated to come to terms with, He had been tricked.

He heard the footsteps behind him and turned to see Rune, holding another sealed envelope, waving it at him just as Kyra had done when she walked into his room that morning.

"He was here, Adler, left you another note."

He snatched the note from Rune's hold, but then he couldn't bring himself to open it just yet. Could it be that he underestimated Ruslan or whoever the fuck his name was?

He was no ordinary assassin; No assassin would take a job this personal. Adler dropped his hand to the side; the main question was, who was this Ruslan?

"I called the men at the shore, and there was nothing, no interference. The custom ha