“You know where he is?”
“Yes, I know, I tend to keep tabs on his rat’s ass. You’re not asking these questions out of the goodness of your heart, are you Deva?”
“I need to speak to him again, one on one. I need to stop Finch before a civil war starts or before that psycho takes over. I’m certain that my father knows what’s going on.”
“And would it be so bad for all the crooks in the city to kill each other?”
Patience, Deva told herself. She loved her cousin, but their backgrounds were so different that Sasha couldn’t possibly understand her point of view. As often she couldn’t understand hers.
“Because, and you know it better than anyone else, innocents would be caught in the crossfire. And even if you would dance on his grave in a red dress, you wouldn’t be able to live with the blood of bystanders on your conscience, Sasha.”
Her cousin groaned on the other end of the line. “I hate when you are right. Okay, you want to go and see him? From what I could gather, he’s in a secured area of a hospital. It seems that even a scum biker has enough money to get a room in that wing. Unless you have authorization from his doctor, I doubt you can gain access, especially since you are the one who put him there.”
“I doubt he told the authorities about me. It may be difficult to enter but what if I’m accompanying a visiting world-renowned doctor?”
Sasha hissed. “What are you up to, Deva?”
“I only want to get some answers. You, me, and two bodyguards.”
“Since when do you call your sexy Russian a bodyguard?”
There were many other things she could call Aleksei. “I don’t.”
“Don’t tell me you are bringing that insufferable British bearded asshole with you!”
“No, Lazarus is not coming with me, and if I have my way, both he and Aleksei won’t learn about it. You know this kind of man; he would go all overprotective and forbid us to do it. But I believe that I can get some answers, Sasha. With minimum risk.”
It took a moment, but when Deva heard Sasha exhale, she knew she had been convincing enough. “Okay. If all this can finally put an end to this, I’m in. But won’t your bodyguards forbid you from going there?”
Deva smiled. “I think that with some convincing, and a little lying on my part, as well as a lot of flirting from yours, we will have our way in the end. As we always do.”
